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Blown away by the bass tone
- Thread starter Al Krow
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Always liked the bass tone on Dua Lipa's tracks.
Couldn't quite make what bass and multifx her bass player is using - love to find out!
Couldn't quite make what bass and multifx her bass player is using - love to find out!
I know for a fact that Attention's bass part is a patch from Spectrasonics Trillian bass plugin, and played by Charlie on a keyboard. He even talks about it in an interview. It IS sampled from a real bass, but the part isn't played by one!
The stuff off of Dua Lipa's album are suspiciously clean and tight at times too. I've learned a lot of the bass lines to the big hits, and they are definitely playable, but the sound on the record miiiiiight be programmed. I feel like perhaps a real bass player kinda wrote the lines, and then they were redone with programming for that hyper-real, too good to be true, pop kinda sound that has to make the dancey ear candy pump perfectly on every single beat of the song.
Funny story...Well, I think it is...
Several years ago I took the family to dinner at a local restaurant where a group I was in had previously played. While we were waiting for our meal something in the music they were piping in caught my ear. I remember thinking the bass sounded decent for the small speakers overhead.
Another song came on and again I thought the bass sounded decent but this time, also familiar. I suddenly realized it was me on bass with the same group I played with at that restaurant and I recognized it was the demo CD we were using at the time. Cool, the bartender was playing it over their system.
I told my family about it but they weren't the least bit interested.
Several years ago I took the family to dinner at a local restaurant where a group I was in had previously played. While we were waiting for our meal something in the music they were piping in caught my ear. I remember thinking the bass sounded decent for the small speakers overhead.
Another song came on and again I thought the bass sounded decent but this time, also familiar. I suddenly realized it was me on bass with the same group I played with at that restaurant and I recognized it was the demo CD we were using at the time. Cool, the bartender was playing it over their system.
I told my family about it but they weren't the least bit interested.
@mongo2 nice story and how crushing a response was that by the family! 
@mongo2 nice story and how crushing a response was that by the family!
Not crushed. They've heard/seen me play a lot. The band members I later mentioned it to liked it.
Be careful; if you ever go down the Scott rabbit hole, it can be a harrowing, but rewarding experience...
Every era was fascinating, but he got more challenging and astounding as he got older, not the usual trajectory. His 90's album, Tilt, is one of the scariest records ever made, and his final recording was done with drone band SunnO))). Always had great orchestrations...
Bowie owed him bigtime.
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The Walker Brothers were neither brothers or British, but were huge over there and Europe in '65-'67; Jimi Hendrix once opened for them. While they were a sort of Righteous Brothers on overdrive, his solo stuff, initially, was like Sinatra or Jack Jones on acid. He then discovered Belgian/French balladeer Jacques Brel, covered a lot of that material, while his own got more theatrial and esoteric. He disappeared for a while, but aside from the WB's 60's popularity, he found his biggest audience among the hipsters of the 80's, 90's, and oughts. A comparable(but not the same)artist would be France's Serge Gainsbourg...
The bassist on that track might have been the same as on "Old Man's...", or else Herbie Flowers. Then there's this...
..and of course...
Whatta playa.
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Swing on by, and hear it straight from the horses mouth :
Serge Gainsbourg - that Je t'aime bass sound (Again)
Any information on this one please? Looked it up and it doesn't mention the bass player. Really understated and classy with some lovely little Palladino style runs; he was working a lot around this time with 80s bands, so maybe?
