Some sick J bass on this tune... is it real?

[EJWW]

Some smashing chunky bass playing on this tune I've been hearing on radio 1 lately. 

 

Sounds like a classic 5 string Jazz tone to me, compressed with a bit of chorus. Lush!

 

But I've been fooled in the past when it's turned out to be laptop software fakery.

 

 

[Linus27]

Wow, what a track. Hard to tell if a real bass as for most it does sound real but at time it does sound processed but there is a synth sub bass running under the whole track so that might be confusing it. Mega track though.

[Mykesbass]

Just looking at the album credits on Wikipedia and it looks like it is all programming and producers.

[BassAgent]

Well, it is not. There are actually two bass players credited, Andrew Wells (who also co-wrote and produced the song) and Matt Kirkwood and I think it is the latter that you hear playing. He uses 5-string Jazzes, according to his Instagram page.

 

EDIT: Just found an old IG story of Matt. It's his Marco bass.

Edited Sunday at 13:27 by BassAgent