In days of the old, musical composers would often write a piece on piano and then re-write the song for an orchestra. I recently did the same thing but on bass.
Here is the bass file. I jammed the song with a phrase sampler, and I recorded it with my laptops onboard mic. It sounds like crap, but you get the idea. The point is that I had created a role for every instrument (even drums) with just bass.
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Now here is the finished version:
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I used a lot of piano and synth at first, but at the end I bring back all of the tracks on bass (except for the strings and a drums). I had to use a highpass filter to prevent all of the bass tracks from getting muddy, but it ended up better than I had expected. I also used the Ampeg Sub-Blaster octave filter to recreate the Sub-Synth line at the end (which was also the line that I had been palm muting in my first recording).
What do you guys think? Pretty cool, eh?
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