We released this today and I think it sounds pretty rad. I used a Stingray! Enjoy!
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Check out the new single from my band, Square Wave Jerks!
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that's just fun! and good! and very nice! 
tell the bass player he did great! 
tell the bass player he did great! 
Sounds great. Good songs and I LOVE the bass lines and bass tone. Thanks for sharing! Also, you guys have a ton of listens on Spotify. Well done.
I know I'm totally needing out here but what did you use to record the bass?
My guitar player, Gregg, gives me a cable and has me plug my bass in. I want to say it's a direct box + Sonar but I'm asking him, haha because I'm clueless when it comes to recording
Guitar player Gregg says:
"It's two channels. Fed by the same DI box. One goes through Helix native (modeling an ampeg SVT 400). This one is hipassed somewhere around 400 hz or so to give me some attack. Then the other DI is lo-passed around the same frequency for the bottom. But I also do a fairly aggressive hipass filter (sometimes up to 140Hz which lets you turn the bass track up to crazy levels without getting too flubby). The Q is not too steep, so there's still a lot happening below 140Hz, so it doesn't dominate. There's not much below 100Hz that is absolutely necessary. So you just carve a little space where the kick and bass don't step on each other too much. Honestly, a lot of that is improved due to (vocalist) Josh's mastering - multiband compression and so on."
Wow, we've had 500+ listens just since this morning, bringing it to 4,000. In my decades of playing in bands, I've never had a song get so many listens, lol!
Over 6,000 streams now AND Rod Stewart* liked our Facebook page. No big deal or anything.
*Totally the famous Rod Stewart... gotta be, right?
*Totally the famous Rod Stewart... gotta be, right?
I had some time to listen that track.
It's a very nicely crafted recording.
It's a song that could be easily heard on the Mix 96.5 Pop Music station in Houston.
It has the "flavor" of the (late) 90's - post-grunge pop-rock with clearly pronounced and catchy melody.
Like some track from The Wallflowers.
The song is flowing naturally,
and all musicians know the style, its requirements, and enjoy playing it.Kudos to the Vocalist.
A very professionally recorded track.
Now, about the bass-line.
N.B. Nothing wrong with it, I'm just kidding.
From the get-go, bass line reminded me of the guitar line (not the bass) in the song, "My Girl" - Temptations.
I like it.
The bass with its climbing arpeggiating melodious line provides a solid foundation for the melody.
I just have a question.
What was the reason for the bass guitar not(!) to accentuate the orchestral tutti (repetitious) on Beat 2 ( I used to love that kinds of tuttis) like around 1:10?
I had some time to listen that track.
It's a very nicely crafted recording.
It's a song that could be easily heard on the Mix 96.5 Pop Music station in Houston.
It has the "flavor" of the (late) 90's - post-grunge pop-rock with clearly pronounced and catchy melody.
Like some track from The Wallflowers.
The song is flowing naturally,
Kudos to the Vocalist.
A very professionally recorded track.
Now, about the bass-line.
N.B. Nothing wrong with it, I'm just kidding.
From the get-go, bass line reminded me of the guitar line (not the bass) in the song, "My Girl" - Temptations.
I like it.
The bass with its climbing arpeggiating melodious line provides a solid foundation for the melody.
I just have a question.
What was the reason for the bass guitar not(!) to accentuate the orchestral tutti (repetitious) on Beat 2 ( I used to love that kinds of tuttis) like around 1:10?
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you like it. Not sure exactly what happened around 1:10. I think maybe there was an edit or the drummer did a double-hit after the fact. We definitely did some drum edits but you're right, would have been cool if I had matched his kick drum evenly on bass
Can't believe we're over 7,500 streams on that song alone! Now if we could just execute it that well live, lol!
No wonder people are listening to the song. It is catchy - we don't have a lot of melodious songs currently (I'm trying to find anything interesting on Apple hits 100, Billboard 100, around the world, etc..)
The recording sounds very professionally. Why would it be difficult to play it live?
Our singer has asthma and a round of covid last year did some damage to his voice/lungs so it's hard for him to hit notes consistently, at least lately, unless he can hear himself perfectly (a tall order at most local level venues.) He nails recordings with very minimal pitch correction; it's just that venues are so inconsistent with stage monitors, etc., it can be a gamble.
Sorry to hear about your vocalist. The voice is the most demanding instrument and extremely "picky."
He has a very attractive and memorable voice.
Another question about the bass-line.
You have a nice 2-measure bass pattern in Verse.
My question is about the bass note length in Measure 2 on Beat 2.
Where do you want to stop the bass sound - before the snare hit, with the snare hit, or after the snare hit.
In Verse 1, the first time you let the bass go over the snare - Pattern 1.
The second time, you stop the bass before the snare hit - Pattern 2.
I prefer the Pattern 2.
Here are the clips from your track (just a little bit slower.)
Pattern 1.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...9/?temp_hash=c8ff65bf0b9e527d331f05375c768dad
Pattern 2.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...0/?temp_hash=c8ff65bf0b9e527d331f05375c768dad
Yeah, may have just been another edit or however I felt at the moment. I don't remember, honestly. I know my guitarist did a lot of drum edits which may have also resulted in bass edits to get the drummer and I to line up a bit better.
Wow, 8,641 streams on our most popular single. I'll be thrilled if it hits 10,000 by this weekend If we get to a million maybe I can buy a bass, lol
If we get to a million maybe I can buy a bass, lol
