The "fake bass" i did today.

[-Gavin-]

So, i was wanting to experiment with a few soloing ideas but at the same time, didn't wanna program basslines and i didn't have a bass so for shits and giggles i recorded the bassline on my EMG loaded Jackson RR on clean, pitchshifted down an octave, ran through IK Multimedia's ampeg VST and some compression/eqing, BAM, pretty good bass sound.

It's no obvious substitution for a real bass but beats the hell out of programming a bassline especially if you're in a hurry.



Anyone else do this or am i mad?

 

[Sweetnothing]

I do sometimes, when I believe the idea of the song is worth it ( that's a 15% of the times roughly )...but, thanks to my horrid soundcard, sounds even worse
What I find harder to get is the "fullness" of the big bass strings, no matter how much I eq it.

 

[ScottCash]

I'm pretty sure Black Neon Bob does that on his stuff and his stuff sounds frickin amazing!

 

[cobhc]

I'm pretty sure Black Neon Bob does that on his stuff and his stuff sounds frickin amazing!

He used to, he uses a Distorted Bass Patch in Reason now. I'm pretty sure elephant-audio still uses this technique on his recordings on his soundclick site.

 

[TheStoryteller]

I did this once.... while mixing a few demo tracks for a friend, I discovered that there was no real bass recorded; just a down pitched clean guitar. I spent some time with it, and made it sound ok-ish. Listen here:

http://fredrikgroth.com/track1.mp3

http://fredrikgroth.com/track2.mp3

edit: fixed the links... both urls were linked to track 1.

 

[-Gavin-]

Who is that band? They're fucking awesome!

And great work man!

 

[TheStoryteller]

Who is that band? They're fucking awesome!

And great work man!

Thanks!

No real band... just Per Nilsson from Scar Symmetry (who wrote the songs and played everything) and L-G Persson from my own band The Storyteller on vocals.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Yeah, I often do this when demoing a song in hurry or if I'm being plain lazy. It works ok if the song hasn't got any parts where the bass should stick out, but with my lack of skills I can't get it sound anywhere near the real deal when listened carefully. Fills the low end nicely, tho'.