Here, we have the perfect choice.
I wanted one of these so bad when I first saw it, but then I saw the price tag.
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What's the Best Bass for Hyperpop?
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I wanted one of these so bad when I first saw it, but then I saw the price tag.
I briefly played a Kala U-bass in a hip hop band. It sounded great and turned a lot of heads. One promoter even stopped our set to ask what I was playing!
Yeah, for pretty much all of this, I'm assuming there's going to be some heavy effects usage, if it's even played live. I'm thinking the studio would have a lot more bass playing than a live performance.
Whatever Les Claypool would use. A weird out front sounding bass made to do anything but blend.
This might be a good time for me to invest in a little crystal meth.
Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure Abasi Concepts would be great for Hyperpop if they had a bass. Check out his new models from NAMM this year; dope.
Not sure that's the drug of choice here, but that would be very fun crowd to watch.
Looks like a Strandberg Boden.Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure Abasi Concepts would be great for Hyperpop if they had a bass. Check out his new models from NAMM this year; dope.
I thought the same thing, but not headless obviously. I'm not a big fan of single cut on guitars, so I was pretty hyped to see they did a double cut.
I hadn't heard of Hyperpop until this thread. Some interesting clips and some bands I'm going to have to check out.
That as a 6 string bass would be awesome, especially headless.Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure Abasi Concepts would be great for Hyperpop if they had a bass. Check out his new models from NAMM this year; dope.
Yeah, I haven't seen either with a live band. I imagine that's a budget issue.
Nonetheless there's a lot of true effects nerds on here, so I'd for sure search through the effect forum.
Ian Martin Allison has also done some how-tos on getting tones from Charli songs that are worth looking up. Good primers on aggressive synth tones on bass.
Tbh, the only reason I'm making this thread is that the genre of Hyperpop has never been mentioned on this site (look it up, 0 results). Seeing as it is one of the newest genre's of music with growing popularity, it seems like a good idea to get TB to start thinking about how the bass guitar is and can be incorporated, starting with what gear to use.
For those of you who don't know, which is apparently everybody based on the search results;
"Hyperpop is a loosely-defined music movement and microgenre, characterized by a maximalist or exaggerated take on pop music"
Some of the bigger artists in the scene would be 100 Gecs, Bladee, SOPHIE (r.i.p), Charli XCX, and Slayyyter for reference.
Even though the genre is heavily steeped in electronic music, there's still a role for the bass. Recently 100 Gecs released the song Doritos and Fritos which contains a very prominent bass line.
So in classic Talkbass fashion, I'd like to begin by asking the question that will definitely be well received with an objective answer we all agree on; what's the best bass for Hyperpop?
It's surprisingly catchy....
There was a lot of that coming out in the 2010s
Fun as crap, what’s not to like if it makes you smile?
Fun as crap, what’s not to like if it makes you smile?
I passed gas in the vocal booth yesterday and inadvertently invented Fartcore.....where's my Wiki entry?There's not enough genres already?
SOPHIE was a genius. We're going to be hearing her influence for years, and her death at such an early and promising point in her career is a loss to music whose significance we'll never fully understand. The first time I heard "Faceshopping" I thought, this is some amazing, cutting-edge experimental music. Then when I found out she was producing for Rihanna, Madonna, and Charlie XCX, I was like, oh wait, this is pop.
I don't know if she's hyperpop in the same way that 100 gecs or Hannah Diamond or GFOTY are, where those artists take pop production cliches like autotune, brickwall limiting, sampling, vapid lyrics, and pounding, distorted drum machines and push them to a completely absurd degree. For every "Doritos and Fritos", which might use a live J-Bass with rounds, or a bass guitar VST, or a sample, you have "Money Machine", which is probably a synth generating a square wave with generous sub-bass, limiting, gating, reverb and other FX. I think SOPHIE built her tones (including bass) from the ground up, with an Elektron Monomachine and Ableton. Basically anything is fair game.
If I were gearing up to play this kind of music live, I'd want the most versatile bass I could get, so probably not a tort P-Bass with flats. Maybe a G&L L2500, with a giant pedalboard, or a worthy multifx processor like a Line 6 HX or an Eventide H9. I'd also want a synth. I'd have to do a lot of programming in advance, generating presets that I could quickly find and assign them to specific songs. I would also find a way to sidechain the kickdrum to the rest of the band. The basslines themselves might be simple but the sound design would take a lot of thought and patience. I bet it would kill live though.
I don't know if she's hyperpop in the same way that 100 gecs or Hannah Diamond or GFOTY are, where those artists take pop production cliches like autotune, brickwall limiting, sampling, vapid lyrics, and pounding, distorted drum machines and push them to a completely absurd degree. For every "Doritos and Fritos", which might use a live J-Bass with rounds, or a bass guitar VST, or a sample, you have "Money Machine", which is probably a synth generating a square wave with generous sub-bass, limiting, gating, reverb and other FX. I think SOPHIE built her tones (including bass) from the ground up, with an Elektron Monomachine and Ableton. Basically anything is fair game.
If I were gearing up to play this kind of music live, I'd want the most versatile bass I could get, so probably not a tort P-Bass with flats. Maybe a G&L L2500, with a giant pedalboard, or a worthy multifx processor like a Line 6 HX or an Eventide H9. I'd also want a synth. I'd have to do a lot of programming in advance, generating presets that I could quickly find and assign them to specific songs. I would also find a way to sidechain the kickdrum to the rest of the band. The basslines themselves might be simple but the sound design would take a lot of thought and patience. I bet it would kill live though.
