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Author Topic: How would you approach this Song by Ginny Owens?  (Read 278 times)
Eddy
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« on: March 07, 2010, 06:57:38 AM »

We are playing Ginny Owens -If You Want Me To http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtNzOpKvPfw
in this morning's service.

How would you approach a song as delicate as this? What type of bass would you play? gear, effects whatever?
I'll tell you what I did after the service.
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Eddy
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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2010, 07:57:16 AM »

For me, the trick was trying to replicate that type of tone on a bass - or going another route altogether.

I first ran through it a few times on my Peavey TL-Five, the bass I was going to play for the rest of the P&W set. It would've worked, but the attack on each note really didn't feel right. I tried the fretless. As a band, we could've made this work, but it would've changed the feel of the tune, unless I just played it straight. In that case, I would've just played the fretted bass.

So, i went into the closet and pulled out a relic from 1984. Just as I suspected the batteries were dead and the memory was lost.
I grabbed my old box of manuals and found the the appropriate one. After that, I went to an old cassette case and found the audio cassette were I had dumped all of the programming. Connected up to a cassette deck - VIOLA!! It worked.
After a few tweaks on one of my old patches, I used a Korg Poly 800 synth bass, with a patch that is very close to that bass on the recording:
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CRBMoA
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2010, 05:26:47 PM »

I don't currently have my reverbs or delays built. I would have hit it with mildly compressed fretless.

If I had a reverb, I would hit it with heavily compressed 5-string and a long repeat.
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Eddy
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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2010, 07:00:19 AM »

I don't currently have my reverbs or delays built. I would have hit it with mildly compressed fretless.

If I had a reverb, I would hit it with heavily compressed 5-string and a long repeat.


Either one of those approaches could have worked.

I don't have a compressor on my board now. I've never had a delay or reverb pedal for my bass. I've got an old analog delay that hasn't seen the light of day in 20 years.  Lips sealed
I could've pulled some rack gear, but that'd harder to set up than pulling out an old synth and learning the part on keys.
I kinda' enjoyed playing that old Korg again. It reminded me of 1985 all over again.
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CRBMoA
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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2010, 11:56:16 AM »

We would get along well!
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