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Getting that early 70s Stevie Wonder sound

Thought to bump this thread given the new gear that has come out since, especially the EH stuff, to see if anything shy of a MIDI solution would make that sound better than Octave box combinations for the Stevie thing.

I now realize that a key component of this is good tracking below the A on E, while it can be faked by playing an octave higher, but if we could get say all the notes on a -string B string, that would be killer.

Here are some clips, the bass only tracks actually sound like my SYB-3.


 
Thought to bump this thread given the new gear that has come out since, especially the EH stuff, to see if anything shy of a MIDI solution would make that sound better than Octave box combinations for the Stevie thing.

I now realize that a key component of this is good tracking below the A on E, while it can be faked by playing an octave higher, but if we could get say all the notes on a -string B string, that would be killer.

Here are some clips, the bass only tracks actually sound like my SYB-3.



Admittedly I'm a fan boy but the Future Impact tracks well down to a low B.
 
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