Me playing chinese way on the bongo bass

[greyparrot]

i had a dam good bash at this one today, quite hard to nail this mother of a bass line.....did me best. Once again the bongo bass and im useing a berhinger bass v amp for the flage effect

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2uF80kXG9c"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2uF80kXG9c[/url]

Edited December 22, 2010 by greyparrot

[Chris2112]

Good effort, as that is a rock hard tune! Getting the bassline right on top of the beat like Mark has it is tough, especially with all the little flourishes he does! I'd love to hear it with a clean bass tone as the Bongo sound is a little "watery" sounding there!

[greyparrot]

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1068016' date='Dec 23 2010, 05:45 PM']Good effort, as that is a rock hard tune! Getting the bassline right on top of the beat like Mark has it is tough, especially with all the little flourishes he does! I'd love to hear it with a clean bass tone as the Bongo sound is a little "watery" sounding there![/quote]


Thanks, im quite pleased with it. I tried it with a dry sound but it sort of sat up too much in the mix. I think M.K must have had a chours and a flanger and compression and a touch of reverb to get that effect. I used my flanger up fairly high to give it that kind of sound. As you say very very hard bass line to nail, and keeping the timing like clockwork is pretty hard with all the right hand tech needed to get those notes out. :-) Im pleased.

[Chris2112]

I remember CrazyKiwi did a good version of it on his Alembic, sounded about right. It's a tricky one to get because you need to be pushing it on top of the beat, but I've heard covers that go too far and sound cold and mechanical. Not one I'd want to try singing along with either!

[greyparrot]

i guess if i had more patience id sit there and do it till its 100% right, but im wondoring just how mechanical that could sound? i did a take before this one dry, and it sounded like a bloody click track. I had it on the cans and it was sending me to sleep! just to robotic. ! hehe