Impact SoundWorks Shreddage 3 E-Upright

An electric upright bass with a smooth, round sound for nuanced, virtuosic soloing and enough weight and bite to get your groove on.

Shreddage 3 E-Upright's unique sound is ideal for anything requiring a clean bass: jazz, funk, lo-fi, chill, soul, R&B, neo-soul, and more.

Choose between a customizable direct input (DI) signal or a time-saving amped signal, or blend the two.

About the Library

ISW brings the art of cool to the renowned Shreddage line with a sleek electric upright bass featuring a beautifully diverse and expressive tone, captured in meticulous detail.

Whether you're dialing in bite and growl for a stand-out bass solo, or a warm round tone that sits in the pocket, Shreddage 3 E-Upright is the bass you've been looking for.

The electric upright is a unique bass choice and sets itself apart from the crowd by having the heart and soul of an upright acoustic bass, with all the detail and precision of modern electronics.

This unique symmetry allows the instrument to reproduce every nuance of your performance with the detail of a session player, without sacrificing the smooth feel and emotive style of a seasoned live performer.

For this distinctive instrument, ISW turned to the Soulful Traveling Spaceman Bassman, Carter Fox, and his Kydd Upright 34" 5-string bass.

They couldn't imagine a better artist to bring out the best from such a unique instrument, noteworthy for its sensitivity in harmonics and dynamic range.

ISW recorded it through an amp with Carter's preferred specs, alongside the DI (Direct Input) signal so you get access to Carter's signature sound as well as complete control of tone customization.

They knew that Carter would capture some magic with this instrument, but weren't prepared for just how diverse and flexible the final result would be.

The tone speaks for itself in genres ranging from modern funk pop to country and everything in between.

Shreddage 3 E-Upright boasts a 'sweet spot' bass tone smooth enough to sit in a mix and punchy enough to make a statement in any genre.

An Impeccable Performance on an Expressive Instrument

Why an electric upright bass? This remarkable instrument shares much of the same warm round tone and nuance of an acoustic upright bass, with several notable advantages.

First, it works much better for sampling due to the consistency of its DI sound, unlike an acoustic upright, which can have a wild frequency range and must contend with room reflection.

And because it's an amplified instrument, the signal can be taken in infinitely inspiring directions, without losing any expressiveness or sacrificing the richness of its natural harmonics.

In short, an electric upright has a similar character to an acoustic upright, but it's more usable, easier to fit in your mix, and far more flexible tone-wise.

We hope it will open up all-new avenues for creative inspiration, whether you're writing a virtuosic bass solo in a jazz ensemble or holding down traditional basslines with a different sound.

Plug, Play, or Create Your Own Sound

No need to tediously edit your performance or dive into complicated controls: Shreddage 3 E-Upright will perform realistically right out of the box, automatically moving around the fingerboard naturally the way a live player would.

However, if you'd like to dig in deeper, Shreddage 3 E-Upright comes with an abundance of powerful editing features and controls that make up the Shreddage 3.5 engine.

On the main page, the Performance Style and the Fretting and Picking modes let you dial in just the right playing style. Likewise, the Force String and Hand Position parameters give you even deeper control of tone and variation.

Use the signal control to choose the DI or amp signal, the tone knob to increase or decrease presence, and the bite dial to introduce some aggression into the performance.

Create your own unique sound from scratch by heading over to the Console page.

Build up your own signal chain for the DI, amp, and master channels with 30 effects, including cabinets, amps, dynamics, EQs, pedals, reverbs, phasing effects, and others.

If you're looking to see what other colors Shreddage 3 E-Upright is capable of - the 36 snapshots get you there fast, putting a remarkably various collection of tones at your fingertips.

You'll find everything from clean variations to ethereal and ambient to high-passed retro sounds for the funkiest funk to dirty, overdriven sounds for metal, rock, and punk.

Features

• Over 11,000 pristine 24-bit samples
• Includes sculpted amp tone as well as DI (direct in)
• Meticulously recorded 5-string electric upright bass (B E A D G)
• Fingered sustains, legatos, long and short staccatos, tapping, harmonics, pitched and unpitched releases, and a generous set of up and down slides
• Every string sampled with up to 4x round robins per note and 4 dynamic layers
• 36 production-ready tone snapshots
• Cutting edge virtual bassist engine
• Poly input feature for realistic chords
• Total articulation control technology
• Console FX rack and mixer