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One man band

jkramer5

jkramer5

Jul 14, 2008
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Fairfield, CA
www.jndkramer.com
#1
Hi, I've been around the forum since summer and I've goten up the guts to upload one of my recordings of a cover tune.

I'm 44, have been playing music since I was 12, and this last summer had the opportunity to get a bass again. I've since become totally hooked and have grown my collection from 1 to 4 since July.

I don't really have the opportunity to play with other musicians so I do a lot of practicing and playing with mp3's

I also have a small home studio and do some recording.

This is an example of my playing.

The main track is a midi file I found on the internet. I Import it to cubase, sdisolve it to get the sepearate parts, assign those parts virtual instruments and then play my bass along with it.

I did this one yesterday with my new SX P/J

Sing A Song by Earth wind & Fire (not a note for note bass line, just my interpretation)
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For those that are interested the equipment and VST's used are below:

Bass - SX SPJ 62 into Sansamp BDDI into Presonus Firebox - Sweetened a little with "classic compressor" from kjaerhusaudio.com

Horns - Trumpet Section - Sax - Trombone from Native Instruments Kontakt 3

Rhodes - NI elektric Piano

Guitar - funk guitar from Kontakt3

Drums - Superior Drummer

Output channel has a little reverb from a hall setting on kjaerhusaudio.com;s classic reverb

Hope ya like it.
 
#2
I'm surprised no one has replied. That was very good bass playing IMO. That SX sounds better than I expected. Any modification to it? Just curious.

I have a Peavey Millennium BXP that's nice, but in my opinion doesn't sound as good as your SX.

Well done.
 
#5
harlon said:
I'm surprised no one has replied. That was very good bass playing IMO. That SX sounds better than I expected. Any modification to it? Just curious.

I have a Peavey Millennium BXP that's nice, but in my opinion doesn't sound as good as your SX.

Well done.
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thanks for the comments.

About the bass , nope no mods at all. Just replaced the strings with Carvin Nickle .045-.105 @ 3 sets for 30 bux lol.

It sounds pretty decent alone but the Sansamp BDDI is making it sound the way it does.
 
#9
harlon said:
What are your settings? Also, what are your settings on the bass?


Thanks!
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Oh man, I have no idea, I pretty much start with the BDDI set like the manual shows for "SVT Style" and for the bass is full on for the P Pickup and maybe 1/2 on on the Jazz pup. tone knob is full off then back up about 1/3 turn or so , untill I start to hear a little high end definition.

Sorry I can't be more specific but I'm constantly twiddling.

there's also some compresion in cubase from the plugin I listed in the first post.

as far as writing any originals, lol I can't play anything but the bass. I'm self taught and play by ear. I don't know an A chord from a lamp chord.
 

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