Help with bass effect for cover song.

[Pirate Captain]

I'm going to recommend this (or something like it)...and second the "pick"

...pretty sure this is what Failure used on their cover of "Enjoy the Silence"

 

[GrizzleTone]

It sounds like there are two tones, one dry and one with a triggered, short, downward envelope sweep. I think you should be able to get close to that sound with the EHX BMS. Mix in some sub and some dirt, and you'll be fairly close. A slow chorus or phasor may help approximate the overlapping tones.

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Hey Everyone.

So the drummer of my band is turning 40 in a couple of weeks. For his birthday show, he wanted to do a cover of "She's an Angel" by They Might Be Giants.

I'm not too familiar when it comes to pedals and what not, and was wondering if anyone could help steer me in the right direction in regards to getting the synth-type bass heard in the song. While I don't own any pedals or effects, I have access to an EHX Bass Micro Synth and was wondering if the bass sound heard on the track is obtainable with this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Well, that is clearly a keyboard... but I'd suggest just an octave pedal. Don't spend a ton on something that you'll use once.

 

[Danhedonia]

John and John were, at one time or another, both my baby sitters. It's funny that someone called that first record a 'great HS album,' because that's where a lot of it was written. In fact, their initial publishing company was named after our legendarily semi-senile earth science teacher at the local regional HS.

FWIW, the album title "Lincoln" is named after the small suburban town where we're all from, which seems an oddly lesser-known fact in this day of the interwebz. The pic on the front of the album is of a model of the First Parish Church. I assumed the model was some sort of nod to John Flansburgh's father Earl, who went to Cornell with my folks and was a fairly famous architect.

OK wayback machine put back in closet.

 

[ERW]

Awesome stuff guys.

I appreciate all the recommendations. I'm gonna work with the MBS a bit and go from there and see where I end up.

 

[moles]

BMS should do fine - you just need a pinch of chorus after it in the effect chain.

 

[JimmyM]

I wouldn't worry about getting an exact match, and I'd just use what I could get out of the BMS that sounds reasonably close.

 

[ERW]

Try this setting.
It has the sub octave, a goodly amount of square wave, and enough of a sweep to give you that swell without being too synthy.

Thank You!!

This has definitely gotten me into the ballpark.

The only issue I'm having with the BMS is that the low E sounds like dog poo, but from what I've read on TB that's pretty much unavoidable.

A few tweaks here and there once I'm with the band and all should be good to go.

Thanks again for all the help and responses, guys.