Linus27

To be honest I really don't know as I haven't tried, I've only ever double tracked in a studio setting but I don't think you are far wrong with what you are thinking and splitting the channel.

An absolutely fantastic track. I'm not really a Prince fan but I love this track (Simple Minds also do an awesome cover) as well as the Purple Rain album, Girls and Boys, If I was Your Girlfriend and Sexy MF, all brilliant tracks.

I have thickened my sound up in the past by adding a smidge of Octave and a smidge of drive. It doesn't need much, otherwise it sounds affected but just a bit of each will thicken the sound. Its also a very common recording technique to double track the bass and leave one clean and the second with a bit of drive to make a lovely warm, thick tone. I was shown this back in the late 90's by Mark Wallis who recorded It Bites, Travis, U2, Primitives albums etc. and have recorded this way ever since. Sting also did it in the Police but he doubled up with an electric bass and a double bass. More recently, I recorded with a fretless Precision with flats and then double tracked with a fretless Jazz with rounds. Created a nice kind of cello sound. So a smidge of Octave and a smidge of drive will add a nice thickness to your tone.

Any fretless bass that has a lined fretboard Rickenbacker's Single Cut Basses Danelectro Longhorn Fan Fretted Basses Anything pointy like Jackson's, Hamer etc.

Just don't get a fretless, it's so much more prone and noticeable on a fretless. My fretless Fender Precision and Stingray both have it but my fretless Jazz and maple neck Precision don't. Interesting that the two necks that don't were both custom made necks by Jon Shuker. A fretless Ibanez Musician that I'm borrowing also doesn't.

Something I got send a while back which does have some truth about it. "In 100 years, say 2124, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, or preferably in the hands of an unknown collector. Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father? After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories. If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was. If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people. Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy. And we waste it day after day with greed, greed and intolerance."

We played a special gig in Camden last year. Very much out of our area and not something we would normally do but our singer worked in London, he booked a back room in a pub, put on a few other acts and made a special night of it as a lot of his work colleagues said they are interested in the band and would love to come and see him play. Guess how many turned up? Just 1. Sadly, as we all get older, people get other commitments like jobs, mortgages, holidays, kids etc. so everyone has less time, money or energy or even interest to leave the house.

Wow, absolutely stunning and so very special. I didn't even know that Stingray's came with binding either but it certainly adds to the look. Do you run it with flats or rounds?

With Blur it's pretty much most songs. I don't think Damon Albarn can hold a tune and the music sounds like a 6th form student band. Alex James is a great bassist though. As for the rest then yes, you are right about those songs but I have heard other songs by all of those groups/artist and was equally unimpressed.

Meatloaf. Blur Royal Blood The Kaiser Chiefs The White Stripes Artic Monkey The Strokes

Nickleback I get but Keane????

I see you bought @obbm one. Dave's a great guy and you'll get an awesome little head that will have been well looked after. Enjoy and let us know how you get on.

I'm using a Warwick Gnome through a TC Electronic BC208 with my Ibanez EUB and it sounds great.

Not a huge Incognito fan but I do like a handful of track. This is definitely one of them and that Jazz bass tone is phenomenal.

What sort of time period are we talking about and what sort of genre? Was it a song in the charts or a Jazz record etc.?