Bass rig
Tuff
A whole bass rig in one window.
- Drag to reorder
- Clean / dirt split
- 5 amps + NAM
- 29 presets
Demo audio is a stand-in until our recorded playing is in
Tuff is a bass rig made of blocks. Drag drives, amps, synths, cabinets and effects into the order you want, then split the signal so a clean low end runs underneath the dirt. Modern growl, vintage thump, synth bass and dub echo are all in one window.
- 16
- blocks to arrange
- 2
- parallel lanes with a blend
- 5
- bass amps, plus NAM
- 29
- presets in seven groups
The whole window
Click or tap to see it full size.
What it does
Drag the chain
Drag tiles to reorder them, double-click to switch one on or off, right-click to move it to the other lane. + ADD BLOCK puts a new block where it usually belongs: drives before the amp, the cabinet after it.
Clean under dirty
The split sends your bass down two lanes. Blend sets how much of each you hear, and Clean Lows keeps only the bottom of the clean lane. The lanes are lined up in time automatically, so blending never thins the low end.
Five amps
BASALT is a big all-tube 70s rock rig. FLINT is a round, woody vintage tube combo. PUMICE is a fast, punchy solid-state head. SCORIA is a cranked British head with raw upper mids. ONYX is a modern hybrid with a clean, tight low end.
Three drives
Grind is modern growl and clank blended with your clean lows, with a 4-band EQ. Warm is vintage tube overdrive with an Era control. Fuzz morphs between thick and smooth and gated and splatty.
Synth and filter
An analog-style octaver (one and two down, one up), a pitch-tracking bass synth with a filter sweep, an envelope filter and a pitch shifter up to two octaves either way.
NAM, cabs and space
Load any .nam capture as a block. Five cabinets with a DI blend or your own IR, an 8-band EQ, then chorus, delay and reverb, each with a low cut so the bottom end stays dry.
Signal chain
- Gate
- GrindComp
- AmpEQ
- Cab
The Parallel Wall preset: Grind and the amp in lane A, a compressor and EQ in lane B, blended before the cabinet. Every block can move.
29 presets
GROWL
- Modern Growl
- Clank & Snarl
- Djent Bass
- Doom Fuzz
- Parallel Wall
ROCK
- Classic Rock Stack
- Pick Punk
- Deep Switch Rock
- Fuzz Riff Machine
CLEAN & VINTAGE
- Sixties Soul
- Studio DI + Mic
- Hi-Fi Slap
- Warm Tube Push
- Sub Octave Clean
MODERN
- Onyx Tight
- Wide Grind Chorus
SYNTH & FILTER
- Auto-Wah Funk
- Sub Synth
- Acid Squelch
- Octave Fuzz Synth
- Down Sweep
SPACE
- Chorus Fretless
- Post-Punk Lead Bass
- Jet Flanger
- Dub Echo
- Shimmer Chords
- Fuzz Wash
NAM
- Default
- NAM Starter
Specs
| Type | Audio effect, mono until the first chorus, delay or reverb, then stereo |
|---|---|
| Put it on | A bass DI track |
| Latency | Under 1 ms |
| Quality | Oversampling setting in the header |
| Window | Resizable, 60% to 160% |
| System | Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. VST3 plugin and standalone app. Mac version planned. |
| Licence | One key for everything on your order, checked offline. No iLok, no account. |
Tuff
$20Yours to keep, on every computer you own. Try the free demo first: everything works, with a short gap every 45 seconds until you add a key.
Or get all nine for $79. Need help? Read the Tuff manual or support.