Ghettho Bass ?!

[theblackmoon]

I see many people use Whammy as ghetto bass

How you make it work?

My setup:

Kramer emg 85 -> whammy -> Podxt -> DAW

Some Amplitube, and Channel Strip...

Anybody wanna share Ghetto Bass setups?

 

[LynchpiN]

By ghetto bass do you mean using a guitar pitched down to achieve a bass sound?

 

[cobhc]

yes he does, and blackmoon, all you do is use a clean patch on your pod, and set your whammy so it shifts the signal down one octave, and then you have a ghetto bass

 

[LynchpiN]

Ok, thanks.

I'd compress a lot and low pass it. Try using some low frequency compression, maybe with a plugin such as Waves RBass. Be careful with the playing, you don't want it to sound like a guitar, so no floyd rose or harmonics, lol

 

[cobhc]

artificial harmonics on a bass

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

artificial harmonics on a bass

^This^ isn't actually that hard. With a bit of practise you can do two strings at once too

I got my bass new for less than you can buy a Whammy secondhand because some gimp had dropped it in the shop and cracked the finish, so no Ghetto bass for me.

Steve

 

[Razorjack]

Ok, thanks.

I'd compress a lot and low pass it. Try using some low frequency compression, maybe with a plugin such as Waves RBass.

RBass is an envelope following sub-harmonic generator plug-in, there is very little by way of compression involved in it's processing.

 

[LynchpiN]

RBass is an envelope following sub-harmonic generator plug-in, there is very little by way of compression involved in it's processing.

Ok, whatever

 

[moose209]

dudes - harmonics be them artificial, natural, accidental or fake capo'd (using your first finger as a nut and your others as a moving 3rd to 7th fret) are a piece of piss on bass and sound awesome - I've been rinsing that shit for years - hearing a harmonic on the low B string with vibrato is wicked if nothing more than a trick. Check out Victor Wooten or the late Jaco Pastorius, or alot of Primus, sounds great huge wide sound and not a cheesey squeal like most axes. Moose the resident bully bass player! Get a Warwick and a mesa and your firing like a howitzer.

 

[cobhc]

moose dude, wtf is that kid doing in your avatar?

 

[theblackmoon]

How about guitar sounds?
Do you guys use Whammy to track guitars as well?
I know Jack Owen used on The Wretched Spawn, but don´t know where exactly, maybe some leads.

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

dudes - harmonics be them artificial, natural, accidental or fake capo'd (using your first finger as a nut and your others as a moving 3rd to 7th fret) are a piece of piss on bass and sound awesome

Hey, I said this like three posts up! Git!

Seeing Victor Wooten play Amazing Grace in harmonics still makes me giggle like a loon

Steve

 

[Exocaster]

Anybody wanna share Ghetto Bass setups?

sequencer --> Alesis QS6 --> maybe rough it up a bit with a Pod XT