Hi guys
I am at the studio making some funky grooves with my brother (drums) and some ape on guitars/keys/brass. Here are a few clips of the unfinished tunes so you can hear the bass quite well. I am playing my Vigier fretted as usual and broke out the fretless twin for the last track. My brother is playing his Vdrums (td12) and the guitarist uses a pod X3 to desk - we are all in stereo so in total we send ALL the grooves to the desk through the sum total of 6 cables!! Amazing. Only last year we were spending hours micing up drums, cabs and all sorts. I am amazed with the results, the Vdrums are especially awesome - check the drum sound in the sort of soloiish bit below!
This track was all about locking in with the drums, based on a groove we played with last time but never fully developed. The part at the end where the bass follows the 'vocal' kind of keyboard part was fun - I used a back pickup bias for that bit on a jazz bass model on the Vbass. The rest is clean Vigier with no messin'
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/US...20Situation.mp3
This one was also from the 'lock into the bass drum' school and features some Spanish sounding horns in the middle! We spent the best part of an hour trying to match a keys sound I heard on a Bernie Worrell track but ended up liking what we have here.
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/US...%27s%20Wrap.mp3
Here is a good demonstration of the great sound of the Vdrums.
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/US...mergency%29.mp3
And here is the last track which is a chilled piece with some rather subtle fretless.
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/85432/US...0my%20Wagon.mp3
Cheers and let me know what you think - these are unfinished and unmixed, literally a lead taken from the computer to mine and recorded so they aren't perfect quality, but the parts I have selected should drown out the hiss.
ped
