Yesterday I was doing some basic tracking...I tend to record: bass>Sansamp BDDI>Boss BR-600 eight-track and then my bass stuff gets circulated, guitars arrive, we mix in Audition and so on.
My Thunderbird is pretty shagged at the moment; a couple of very sweaty midweek rehearsals has resulted in dead strings and it just felt [i]icky[/i], so I used an Aria ProII Primary bass; effectively a 1978 Precision copy out of the Matsumoko factory. Aside from the machine heads, it's 100% stock and this is what came out:
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This is straight no-frills playing with a pick, it's just the early stage of a song (no vocals), all downstrokes, but dammit, I may well leave my part as it is I'm so pleased with the tone. I'm not looking for criticism or anything, I just wanted to blow my own trumpet from a tone perspective and get over how pleased I was with the sound. This is the tone I've been searching for since I started out.
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