Review: Audio Assault Klank (with video sample)

 

Hello and welcome to this week's article!

Today we're reviewing a new bass amp simulator from Audio Assault: Klank!

Klunk is the simulation of a preamp pedal that looks very simlar to some of the Darkglass ones: it features 3 levels of eq (one with knobs and two graphic ones, one of which in the rack after the preamp), 2 types of distortion, 2 shaping flavors (vintage and modern), compressor, noise gate, tuner and a dual IR loader with many bass IRs by Seacow Cabs.
One thing to notice about the ir loader is also the fact that you can move freely the virtual microphone on the speaker not only with the bundled irs but with any ir! 

This simulator is the third one for bass, after Bassgrinder and Duality Bass Studio, and it's the first one to emulate a pedal preamp, and it's the most advanced of the 3, it has also a very nice resizable UI.

How does it sound? It's sounds quite good, as you can hear from the sample, but it sounds also very versatile, thanks to all the IRs and the eq capabilities, which makes this plugin very versatile in terms of tone shaping.

What would I improve in the future? Here's my suggestions to Audio Assault: I would ship the plugin (not only this but all of them, since it's a problem that I'm encountering often) with a leaflet in pdf that explains exactly what each knob and switch do, because without it we might be lacking or misunderstanding some function; I would also add some graphic representation of the compression (be it a vu meter with the needle, or with the '80s leds, or in any other form), because it would help when doing some fine tuning and would spare us the need of an external compressor.

All in all, when looking for a very quick metal tone I still prefer Bassgrinder, for its capability of separating the distorted part and the clean part and because it features a limiter, but if you're looking for versatility and tone shaping capabilities you can't go wrong with Klank!

Thumbs up!

 

Specs taken from the website:

- 2 distortion modes

- 2 shaping flavors

- Graphic EQ

- Double IR loader with custom bass amp IRs from Seacow Cabs

- Rack with 9 bands graphic equalizer and compressor

- tuner, noise gate

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