Captain Bass

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='947091' date='Sep 6 2010, 12:20 PM']I'm more a fan of music than I am the bass guitar but each to their own.[/quote] You must have accidently logged into the wrong forum then mate

Here's my 2 pence worth: I think we should all be happy that there is gonna be a song in the charts with a loud, prominent and most importantly REAL bass line!!!!

Thanks I guess? I wouldn't usually mix guitars like that but I actually wanted to honour the sound of the original guitars, if you listen to the original and A/B them.

Bass is my first love and from that I have taught myself a few things on guitar as I did on the drums. Whilst all this was happening I got more and more interested in the recording side of things and started to piece together studio equiptment and learn more about recording techniques (in the background of being a serious bass player) So I wanted to test my skills as a producer / guitarist / programmer etc, so a friend of mine (who is a metal singer) suggested some covers to start off with. I chose a classic metal track by Lamb of God called Ruin, because it would be a bloody challenge! and it was! There are 2 tempo and time signature changes, not to mention a drum solo in the middle, and my first guitar solo ever!! (I usually get one of the more than able guitarist folk to do the solo's) I recorded and produced this all in Cubase 5, all the guitars are actually recorded DI/Clean through my Focusrite Channel Strip with Guitar Rig 4 (to get that metal sound) + a few other plugins to beef up GR4's sound. Bass was also DI'd through the Focusrite. Drums were midi programmed by myself -beat for beat in the matrix edit of cubase, including the drum solo!! (Good old youtube, I found a video of their actual drummer showing you how to play the solo, breaking the parts down) I used the midi to trigger Toontracks Superior Drummer 2.0 and then mixed and mixed and mixed and mixed until I got a close enough metal sound to the original. I didn't sing on the track (if you can call it singing ha ha) I hope you guys can appreciate the mix, I know a lot of you will hate metal music but I do like to imagine that many bass players are a lot more musically open minded than many other instrumentalists. [url="http://soundcloud.com/andy-c-saxton/lamb-of-god-ruin-cover"]http://soundcloud.com/andy-c-saxton/lamb-of-god-ruin-cover[/url] FREE DOWNLOAD - [url="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10002646/LAMB%20OF%20GOD%20%28COVER%29%20%27RUIN%27.mp3"]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10002646/LAMB%20OF...0%27RUIN%27.mp3[/url] Here is the original song just so you can see why my guitars are produced the way they are. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmB8lmoqCcg&feature=av2e"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmB8lmoqCcg&feature=av2e[/url]

[quote name='russmann' post='878387' date='Jun 26 2010, 08:11 PM']Just watched your Warwick Thumb 5 Ltd video on youtube and was blown away!! Did you write that tune?![/quote] Cheers mate! Yes I write all my solo bass pieces. Im in the process of recording that one properly. God bless youtube!! -I've been contacted via my youtube channel by the head of A&R in Europe for Warwick. They wanna endorse me and to start things off they have offered to pay for me to go over and visit them in Germany!! which includes Driver, Hotel & Meal!!

Here are all my videos so far, save you hunting around youtube. My first youtube vid - Tap Harmonic vid "Tom Thumb" vid Streamer Stage II NT vid "Tom Thumb" Complete Composition with Drums [url="http://www.mediafire.com/?ymmyjrmmodj"]Here[/url] is the above song as MP3 (3.18MB) I have uploaded it onto mediafire.com so every one can download it-

[quote name='aznbass' post='876837' date='Jun 24 2010, 08:57 PM']Ahh, the video was awesome, as was your cover, well done mate.[/quote] Ah cheers man, I spent F###ing ages on that cover!!! x

[quote name='paul h' post='876800' date='Jun 24 2010, 08:11 PM']Glad it went well Captain. Turns out we have a mutual friend. I saw some piccys of the gig on Maria's Fb page![/quote] Ah no way! I've known Maria for years she is great friends with my sister. Small world! Feel free to add me on FB

So I have put together a video with footage from the O2 Arena. I basically walked around all day with my sony handycam and filmed anything and everything! I got one of our guitar techs to record us soundchecking and then the show from the side of stage. To put into words the feelings and emotions that i felt that day would take forever, but it was an AMAZING day! The only bad thing I could say was that none of us got to meet John or the guys to say thankyou! We tried but we needed 2 extra passes to even get near his dressing room!! Besides he arrived 5mins before his soundcheck and left 5mins after their set! Here is the video, it also features a cover I recorded (I did everything apart from the solo and vocals) Hope you like Def Leppard Andy x