Home studio bass tracks

Just a few things I did in the home studio a few years back as bass "feature" pieces.


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Midnight Mood

As always, thoughts/constructive criticism welcome.

Well, I made these recordings a few years years back, so there's no V-Bass on 'em, tho I'm planning to do some recording with that as well. The fretless was a 5 string Jazz with a Carvin neck, ebony FB.

As for gear, over the years I have purchased a fair amount of stuff for the home studio. Got lots of drum/percussion loop CD's, and I used a Korg Wavestation for most of the synth stuff. Basses were recorded direct with a SansAmp DI into a Mackie board into a MOTU 828 interface with Digital Performer. The octave higher part on "Cascade" was just copying my lead track in DP, and doubling it transposed with DP; plus a distortion plug-in. I used a Lexicon LXP-15 for reverb.

As for jamming with a band, it was years ago in my past life in Miami, but THESE guys kicked my butt:

http://www.bigworldmusic.com/othello.html

Here in Branson, every so often I get to do a jazz trio gig with the MD from the Andy Williams show. A guy named Joe Gallante who is a MUTHA FU*KA pianist. He used to teach jazz improv at Eastman; very humbling to blow over "Joy Spring" after him, lemme tell ya.

Feda said:

So the drums on Cascade are all samples? If so, could you lead me to some good sample cd's? I'm using Reason but the sounds that come with it sound too flat..

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All the sound clips use sampled loops, sometimes with extra hits thrown in. I used and still do use this one a lot...GREAT stuff. Well recorded and just plain kicks. I can't BELIEVE it's going for as cheap as it is, but I guess it's 10 years old by now. But, a good sounding acoustic drum kit is a timeless sound that is never dated.

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Wow...found this in a pile of stuff. Haven't heard it in a long time. This is a board tape made in September 1990 at a jazz club called the Greenwich Tavern in Cincinnatti. It was the keyboardist's first night, IIRC.

Man, seems like another lifetime ago...

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Personel:
Othello Molineaux: Steel Pans
Eugene Goss: Vocals, percussion
Abel Pabon: Keyboards
Me: Bass
Johnathan Josephs: Drums

It sure was a pleasure working with these guys. Hope you like it. Be kind, I hadn't been playing that long at the time. Check out Eugene; he's an amazing singer...I think he's still around in Ohio.

DWBass said:

Great playing! Is Othello Molineaux still making music? I remember when He and Andy Narrell came onto the scene!

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He's still around. Haven't talked to him in several years, but I've seen him pop up on various CD's now and then. I have a Carlos Benavente (the muthafu*ka bassist who played with Chick on "Again and again" and "Touchstone") CD that Othello is on. It was a really cool gig. There was a falling out with Eugene, which I won't go into, but it's a shame because he did not end up on Othello's debut CD, and he had been part of the band up until then. We used to do a great rendition of "Somewhere over the rainbow" that Eugene sung the sh*t out of. I hear that Johnathan played with Sanborn for a while, and I know Abel is busy in the Miami scene to this day.

Whafrodamus said:

You suck at sucking. Start sucking better.

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Crap...any way I slice it, I suck.

Thanks, dude.

Thanks for the kind words; I dig the stuff you did. In general, I don't care for bass-only recordings, because I like to hear it in context with other instruments, but it's cool sometimes as well.

As for sounding too much like Jaco...well, it's a fretless Jazz with an epoxied board and mostly bridge pickup, so....

I certainly wouldn't take that as an insult; there are worse to be compared to. Worked with his steel drummer for 3 1/2 years, and I lived in south Florida at the time so perhaps some influence wore off over the years.