Super Bass Double Keytar Performance Video

Seamless · #1 06-18-2012, 01:51 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT2CZFzyCjc

Awhile ago I posted here with pictures and a recording of my setup with keyboards attached to my bass. This is a new bass, and also with a video of me actually playing it :]

Enjoy.

jamestown94west · #2 06-18-2012, 02:07 PM

that is f****** awesome. i happen to be in a band that has a "lead keytarist" whos leaving us soon to attend berkley in boston. im gonna show my band this video, theyll get a kick out of it.

id love to build a bass like that!

how did you attach the keyboards to the bass?

is the bass modified in any other way? you said its an sr506, but the upper bout looks funny and so does the middle pickup. that may be my eye sight though.

Seamless · #3 06-18-2012, 02:14 PM

well, the upper bit is broken. I have the strap setup like that because the original strap hook broke off along with the horn. I actually bought this bass like it is super cheap as a result. The pickups are the standard active Bartolini MK1s.

The keyboards are attached to a piece of wood via velcro and that wood is attached to another piece of wood that's screwed into the back of the bass at very carefully selected locations so as to avoid drilling into electronics. There's also a hole cut out of the wood to allow access to the battery.

The modification as a whole is really only attaching the keyboards to it. The keyboard signal is sent out via USB on their own and the bass is basically factory.

agreatheight · #4 06-18-2012, 02:22 PM

I can dig it!

jamestown94west · #5 06-18-2012, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seamless

well, the upper bit is broken. I have the strap setup like that because the original strap hook broke off along with the horn. I actually bought this bass like it is super cheap as a result. The pickups are the standard active Bartolini MK1s.

The keyboards are attached to a piece of wood via velcro and that wood is attached to another piece of wood that's screwed into the back of the bass at very carefully selected locations so as to avoid drilling into electronics. There's also a hole cut out of the wood to allow access to the battery.

The modification as a whole is really only attaching the keyboards to it. The keyboard signal is sent out via USB on their own and the bass is basically factory.

oh man, that is so freakin cool!!

pkstone · #6 06-18-2012, 02:36 PM

I love seeing this kind of innovation. Good on you.

Nev375 · #7 06-18-2012, 02:42 PM

BobaFret · #8 06-18-2012, 02:45 PM

Very nice, and people say there isn't anything original these days. Props to you sir.

Seamless · #9 06-19-2012, 11:45 AM

Glad you guys dig it

jamestown94west · #10 06-19-2012, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seamless

well, the upper bit is broken. I have the strap setup like that because the original strap hook broke off along with the horn. I actually bought this bass like it is super cheap as a result. The pickups are the standard active Bartolini MK1s.

The keyboards are attached to a piece of wood via velcro and that wood is attached to another piece of wood that's screwed into the back of the bass at very carefully selected locations so as to avoid drilling into electronics. There's also a hole cut out of the wood to allow access to the battery.

The modification as a whole is really only attaching the keyboards to it. The keyboard signal is sent out via USB on their own and the bass is basically factory.

oh man, that is so freakin cool!!

Roscoe East · #11 06-19-2012, 06:52 PM

fargin awesome! Y'know, this is one of those projects that could have come across as SO PRETENTIOUS...and yet kudos to you for keeping it real, having a sense of humor, and just making the whole thing really enjoyable for what it is.

Really entertaining, thanks.

JehuJava · #12 06-19-2012, 07:07 PM

A bit high on the KB volume, but none the less very interesting!!

russtolium · #13 06-22-2012, 11:49 AM

What are you doing to the bass signal in FL to get that tone? What kind of EQ setting are you using? As an owner of the same bass I've never coaxed that legitimate of a metal tone out of it. Very cool setup! Reminds me of Trevor Gordon Hall's acoustic guitar/kalimba frankenstein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo9kGHYn_bI

Emilym80 · #14 06-22-2012, 09:20 PM

I'll admit, I laughed when you first turned around... But that's actually awesome! Nice! You're shaping up to be a regular Geddy Lee if ever I saw one...

aseksysasquatch · #15 06-22-2012, 09:39 PM

i love this.

Seamless · #16 06-24-2012, 08:33 PM

There are two channels of bass happening in the setup. There's the main channel with a guitar rig bass preset tweaked to taste with an EQ over it boosting up 500 - 5k. The second channel is a distortion, one of my guitar distortion setups, with all but 500 to 5k cut off with a scoop at 2k.

Also there's super mega compression on the input. Like, the most compression. This is because I have to have as much sustain as possible when I do the tapping parts when I solo/whatever. In FL I used a Fruity Limiter with the compression ratio at 1:4 and the threshold all the way down. like -57 db or something. As far as itll go.