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Bass EQ
Sept 3, 2013 19:04:18 GMT -6
Post by popmann on Sept 3, 2013 19:04:18 GMT -6
Fingers. All over. Picks are only good for really specific sounds. It's a combination of technique, how it's recorded, EQ'd, and compressed that gets you your final sound regardless of using a pick or fingers. Carol Kaye has always recorded with a pick and she sounds great regardless. Regards, Frank Well, right....that's ONE sound. Add to it the rockers that roll with a bunch of dirt much more evenly and "guitar sounding" than fingers would be and you have the two I can come up with off the top of my head. But, I tend to think there's a lot more in the fingers...there CAN be at least...and the axe itself. That IS your EQ and dynamics. The other stuff is just to make it well heard in the mix, IMO. I mean, we've all had to mix things that were....umm....transformations....but, let's not aspire to that. you know? If you're as a rule having to do a bunch of EQ and sublimate the bass attack into a wall of low end...and then what ride the fader to for some faux implied dynamics? There's something greater wrong with the picture. |
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Bass EQ
Sept 3, 2013 19:08:49 GMT -6
Post by Johnkenn on Sept 3, 2013 19:08:49 GMT -6
I get spoiled mixing demo's from studio guys here in Nashville. Not much to do to a track from Michael Rhoades (or any number of others) - other than screw it up...
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Bass EQ
Sept 3, 2013 19:16:34 GMT -6
Post by tonycamphd on Sept 3, 2013 19:16:34 GMT -6
i think there are a ton of different feels and sounds to be had from fingers and picks, some simply not attainable from the other, that being said, given an either or gun to my head situation, i'd take fingers over a pick without a doubt, gives you more options overall IMO
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Bass EQ
Sept 3, 2013 23:06:40 GMT -6
Post by popmann on Sept 3, 2013 23:06:40 GMT -6
I get spoiled mixing demo's from studio guys here in Nashville. Not much to do to a track from Michael Rhoades (or any number of others) - other than screw it up... Amen. Great player. I bow.... |
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