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12-21-2004, 05:51 AM
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God, I know I'm terrible, I'm postig another tune - I can't help myself OK...!
I just put some new strings on my fretless 5 and since I've been practicing my slap on fretless, I went a little nuts and knocked down this solo bass piece - it's a mish mash of Wooten and Claypool - and my own fave variations on both - I hope you dig some of it, apologies for losing it in parts.
<a href=http://www.munkio.com/music/Victor/fretlessSlapEDIT.mp3>Fretless Slap Solo</a>
Cheers
Happy Holdays
Mike
Last edited by urb_munki : 12-21-2004 at 11:22 AM.
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12-21-2004, 08:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England | | | Nice one man, ******* Brilliant. |
12-21-2004, 08:31 AM
| | Workin' up a black sweat. | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Andover, MA | | Noo! Mike strikes again! 
Bah, I'd totally listen to it but Im at school and there are no speakers. But once I get home tonight, expect a less useless reply.
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12-21-2004, 08:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The cold part of California | | | You're quite the master of muting |
12-21-2004, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England | | | Hey mike, what pedal's/effects did you use in that recording?, to achieve the delay/echo of the playing? |
12-21-2004, 11:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brixton, South London | | | I recorded it direct via my Tascam US122 USB interface and and it sounded really nice without any effects on it at all - I use Sound Forge which is a good bit of software if you don't want to multi-track, plus it comes with a tonne of plug-in effects. But I thought I'd give it a little sheen with a touch of chorus and a tiny bit of reverb - the last harmonic chord is just a tap-delay that is panned left to right - really basic stuff.
I trimmed about a minute out of this because I just improvised it and wasn't really thinking too much about the 'shape' of it, but it's all based in D minor - hence the low notes on the 5 string - I really want to refine d=some of these ideas - but over-all I like the vibe of a slapped fretless five - sounds pretty raw and wild - but with some added mwahs...
Glad you like it
M |
12-21-2004, 11:25 AM
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12-21-2004, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: London, UK | |  Very impressive stuff! |
12-21-2004, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by urb_munki I recorded it direct via my Tascam US122 USB interface and and it sounded really nice without any effects on it at all - I use Sound Forge which is a good bit of software if you don't want to multi-track, plus it comes with a tonne of plug-in effects. | I see, well if i wanted to get that same .. echo/reverb effect, what pedal would do that same thing? |
12-21-2004, 01:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brixton, South London | | | A good stomp box (Boss) delay or a rack-mount multi-effects unit - I'm not really an expert on these things - do a search in the 'Effects' forum. I don't normally use that many effects, apart from my EBS IQ and Multi-Comp - but I like getting weird sounds on recordings, though I have yet to get very experimental with them, which I plan to.
Hope that helps a little
M |
12-21-2004, 01:17 PM
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sweet!
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12-21-2004, 02:20 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Dude, very nice! I'd like to hear you do something like that with a rhythm track of some sort as it really has the potential to be a toe tapper!! I've also not heard much, if any, slapping on a fretless. I like the way it sounds! Good work as usual!! |
12-22-2004, 02:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brixton, South London | | Thanks DW - I'll be getting some beats going soon - I have to do some recording over the holidays, aside from eating and watching TV 
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12-22-2004, 11:38 AM
| | | | It does sound very good, but like, when I think of fretless slap mastery, the ideal, I think of michael manring, and he just does it so amazingly well that anything else just doesn't compare ya know? Unfortunate that I had to have that in my mind as listening, because it was a cool clip.
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12-23-2004, 02:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brixton, South London | | | Hey Robot,
I completely agree with you - having seen Manring a month or so ago here in London his slapping on his Hyper-Bass was incredible - he used a very, very light touch indeed - and in many ways this clip was inspired by seeing and hearing Michael do that; he played an amazing version of 'Monley Business Man' which floored us all! The fact you're even comparing what I did to him is quite flattering but to be honest I'm only just getting this stuff together on fretless so it's early days yet.
Thanks again for listening
M |
12-23-2004, 09:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Montreal QC CA | | I HATE YOU MIKE MUNKIO! 
Happy Holidays mate! You continue to amaze me with this stuff. |
12-23-2004, 09:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma City, OK | | | I'm very much diggin' that man. I can't get enough fretless stuff. |
12-24-2004, 04:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brixton, South London | | | Cheers Dill - I'm really getting into slapping my fretless now cos I really sucked at it when I first got the bass - it's sounding lovely now - I bought a little Baby Baby Blue SWR amp two days ago and both my basses sound gorgeous now!!! Christmas came early in the Munki house...
have a great holiday guys
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12-24-2004, 06:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Byesville, Ohio, USA | | | Nice clip. I've liked everything I've heard from ya. By the way, off topic, how do you like that Baby Baby Blue? I about bought one of the heads the other day and decided I couldn't afford it...
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12-24-2004, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brixton, South London | | Man, my SWR BBB is lovely - I really, really love it - I have wanted a small high-quality combo for so long and it's really sounding great (I'm so glad I wnet for this over the GK MB150- which I think are good but to my ears sound a bit 'flat').
I haven't owned any SWR gear before but I am seriously warming to the sound I get - and I haven't even cranked it yet, I know it will be loud enough for the small gigs I hope to be doing in the new year - i.e. jazz trio stuff etc - both basses sound just great - slapping the B string on my 5 is really cool too  ...cheers for checking my playing out.
BTW - as you're a fellow Warwick user/fan - I tried an awesome NT Thumb 5 yesterday - it really restored my faith in the brand as it were - it sounded beautiful and if it was set up for my style I know it would be a really great bass to own - it was going for 2210 GBP - which is about $4000 US...
M
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