Bass: Pt. 1

If rhythm guitars are the dull part, recording the bass must be the most fun part in the process. Just do your best Geddy Lee impersonation and take a few takes and you're done! Seriously. No offence to any real bass player, but I think bass is the easiest instrument to end up sounding good and lively without having a tremendously good playing technique. What I have learnt during past sessions is that the more you try to do fancy stuff and the more you just have fun, the better the end result sounds.

My original idea was to try LSTR fuzz with SansAmp Classic and try to find a kind of N.I.B. sound for the album. However, half-way in the process I accidentally dialled in a sound that reminded a lot of Steve Harris' sound, and after a few tests I decided that that's the way to go. So now I'm playing all the Iron Maiden licks that I can think of!

The only difficulties so far have been related to tuning. I'm using the drop c tuning (all strings full note down, and the lowest two full notes down), and with relatively loose strings it makes the tuning and intonation a bit iffy to say at least. I can not trust the meter, I just have to tune by ear, and sometimes even riff basis.

The bass I am playing is a Fender jazz bass copy hand built by myself from the parts that I gathered around the Internet.

4/7 songs done.