Some time ago, I recorded a line for an original track by a band of an acquaintance of mine, who had asked me to play as a sub since they were bass-less...
Anyhow, a riff at the end of the song sounded great with effects, and I wanted to record the effected riff (with distortion and octavers and wah wahs on etc.) over the clean one. The engineer wouldn't hear it, said he couldn't think of any track in history where two bass lines ever sounded good. I was kinda stumped to hear that, the line I had recorded was kinda crap anyway (but hey, I was doing it for free and you get what you pay for, right?) so I didn't really feel in a position to question anything, and while I could name some good bands bands that had 2 bass players and sounded great, they were more onto the metal/noise rock side of things. I couldn't think of "popular" or "commercial" or whatever songs that had more than one bass track.
Then I found out Every breath you take has two or three tracks - electrics and DB. I've just read a thread here on TB about Walk on the wild side, Herbie Flowers said (and I feel kinda stupid for not noticing) that the slide thing is done by tracking an electric a tenth above the DB slide. Black or white has some synth bass mixed with the electric for all those slidey sounds.
So we've got already two major international hits with two, or more, bass tracks.
I wonder how many others are there?
Anyhow, a riff at the end of the song sounded great with effects, and I wanted to record the effected riff (with distortion and octavers and wah wahs on etc.) over the clean one. The engineer wouldn't hear it, said he couldn't think of any track in history where two bass lines ever sounded good. I was kinda stumped to hear that, the line I had recorded was kinda crap anyway (but hey, I was doing it for free and you get what you pay for, right?) so I didn't really feel in a position to question anything, and while I could name some good bands bands that had 2 bass players and sounded great, they were more onto the metal/noise rock side of things. I couldn't think of "popular" or "commercial" or whatever songs that had more than one bass track.
Then I found out Every breath you take has two or three tracks - electrics and DB. I've just read a thread here on TB about Walk on the wild side, Herbie Flowers said (and I feel kinda stupid for not noticing) that the slide thing is done by tracking an electric a tenth above the DB slide. Black or white has some synth bass mixed with the electric for all those slidey sounds.
So we've got already two major international hits with two, or more, bass tracks.
I wonder how many others are there?
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