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Monday March 10, 2008

How to fill in bass guitar live, without a bass player...

How to get some bass-like frequencies without a bass player when playing live

There's been some confusion in regards to us looking for a bass player. we haven't lost any members of Randall Flagg :-) rest assured. Let me explain what we do live as opposed to what we do in the studio and hopefully it will make more sense.

When you record in a studio, in case you aren't aware of this, you can record everything track by track, one at a time. So this could theoretically mean one person could record every single instrument for a recording. When we recorded this album, JJ laid down his drum tracks, then I layed down my bass guitar parts, then Ryan recorded his guitar parts, and I then again finally did my guitar parts and my backing vocal parts.

As you see, in the studio, I record both Bass parts and Guitar parts.

So heres what we've been doing live, now pay attention, here's the little trick.

What we've been doing live is me and Ryan both play guitar. However, I split my signal into 2 signals. One goes to my guitar amp and rig and the other signal goes to an octave shifter (quality and settings of the shifter of course matter alot) then to a bass rig. Now I can't play my bass parts exact because I'm basically playing my guitar parts live, but you get the sonority, that is the tonal sound of bass and bass frequencies and it works quite well! People are always like, "wait, you don;t have a bass player" after the show ahahah

This has been a technical moment with Bob :-D

02:52 PM - 4 Comments

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rsf1977

you can watch a video here http://youtube.com/watch?v =scoo-Ge8vGQ It's called "The Corinthian" or listen to a bunch of live songs from a live internet show did on jamnow.com http://www.jamnow.com/Memb ersProfile.aspx?UserId=754

(8 months ago)

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T_H_E_M

put one of your live songs on, i want to hear this bass alternative :) rly smart shiz, although im a bass player, i cant help but feel your missing out :I lol

(8 months ago)

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Scott Shot Scott

haha, thats crazy cool.

(8 months ago)

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rsf1977

bob your the best buitar player ever wont you reconsider where will we here get such great guibass tones again hahaha... seriously where are all the fucking bass players at are you guys on strike or something haha

(8 months ago)

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