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02-27-2005, 04:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | What bass was used for the seinfeld theme?
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I started playing bass 8 months ago because of the seinfeld theme song. but does anybody know what bass the musician used? it sounds absolutely incredible, maybe too good for a 'real' bass. thanks guys  |
02-27-2005, 04:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: australia | | | i heard it was a synth bass |
02-27-2005, 04:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: South Africa | | | It is a synth. Sorry to let you down, but try it out on bass see how close you can get yours to sound. |
02-27-2005, 04:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Melbourne, Aus | | | Yeah, it's keyboard/synth. |
02-27-2005, 05:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | damn!! 
i can get it to sound fairly close though. i found it was the best excersise for slapping and popping. |
02-27-2005, 06:16 AM
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Originally Posted by ras1983 I started playing bass 8 months ago because of the seinfeld theme song. but does anybody know what bass the musician used? it sounds absolutely incredible, maybe too good for a 'real' bass. thanks guys | I think it was Fieldy playing a Cirrus.
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02-27-2005, 07:05 AM
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02-27-2005, 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted by ras1983 maybe too good for a 'real' bass. thanks guys | Yeah, ain't that the truth. |
02-27-2005, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by LA I think it was Fieldy playing a Cirrus. | DON'T SAY THAT!!!!
(it's OK baby, he was just kidding)
{hugs his Cirrus}  
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02-27-2005, 11:49 AM
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02-27-2005, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago, Illinois | | Keyboardist's left hand with slap bass module.  |
02-27-2005, 12:14 PM
| | Guest | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Toronto ON | | | A guy named Jonathon Wolff was the composer and musician on that track. He's also done the work on Caroline In The City, Married With Children, Who's The Boss, and Will & Grace among others. |
02-27-2005, 12:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Pimlico, UK | | just sounds like a stingray to me...am i the only one who thinks slap bass is rubbish?  |
02-27-2005, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by pil just sounds like a stingray to me...am i the only one who thinks slap bass is rubbish? | Ummmm, that'd be a "yes" from me. 
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02-27-2005, 02:43 PM
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02-27-2005, 02:50 PM
|  | Jazz Chicken | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ennui, IN USA | | | I was me a on a fretted 3-string Wishbass...
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02-27-2005, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by pil just sounds like a stingray to me...am i the only one who thinks slap bass is rubbish? | You sure are. |
02-27-2005, 05:45 PM
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The bass used was a Roland SoundCanvas, in General MIDI Mode. 
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02-27-2005, 05:51 PM
| | | | I was listening to that the other day, already knowing it was keyboard, it really doesn't sound authentic when you are aware. Those crazy people trying to fake the funk. |
02-27-2005, 06:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Slap bass just isn't my style. That's what my DX7 is for 
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