MetallyGuitarded
He whom thou art not
Don't bass samples sound really odd when playing faster parts. I tried it before to try and save time and could not get it to sound good at all for the faster parts.
MetallyGuitared, I am sure someone you know or here or elsewhere could play the parts for you. I have a lot of guitar students that would most likely love to help out play the bass parts for nothing in return but their name in the credits. (I can get any guitar/bass I want from a local store. So really good sounds for sure.) This applies to anyone here who might need some bass work done. Just shoot me an email if you want me to check into it
Just thought I would throw that out there
I actually know 2 guys that will loan me a cheap bass but not long term. I just haven't been motivated or desperate enough to pursue that. I don't mind programming bass lines since Broomstick sounds so good but I am gonna try the pitched guitar thing soon. I kind of like programming the bass and keyboard stuff because I come up with WAY different stuff than if I were playing guitar but it is tedious.
I haven't done a whole lot with Broomstick in the death metal area but it has a Staccato articulation that's made just for the fast stuff and that combined with palm muting, etc has worked real well for me on mid-tempo stuff. I gotta say this again, the humanizing in Broomstick is awesome. I used one-shot samples of real basses for years in Fruity Loops and I know how un-natural that sounds. Broomstick isn't like that at all to me. Plus with Broomstick it has a cool interface that lets you choose the music/playing style and pair that with different basses like a Rick, Hagstrom, P-bass or Jazz bass, etc. Between the humanizing and the styles it really is about as good as bass samplers are gonna get without 4 hours of micro-tweaking velocities and articulations like some Hans Zimmer GigaStudio freak.
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