The Rutting Stagg 3/4 EDB - AndyR Original-ette

[AndyR]

A short jingle to test out my new Stagg 3/4 Electric Double Bass. A massive one minute's worth

I used the MBR for the whole thing.

The bassline was recorded first, pretty much ad hoc. I plugged the beast straight into the Guitar In socket and recorded it dry. I then ended up sticking a severely tweaked "Bass Clean" preset on it.

Then I twiddled my thumbs and looked at the ceiling for a bit...

I decided to stick a single guitar on it using my Godin archtop. Spent a moment learning the chords and then winged it. That was with the in-built mic with the "Only Limit" preset on the input.

Then I started playing various percussion instruments and moaning.

I'm amazed I can play this thing (the bass) in tune after only having it for two days... I've never really played a fretless instrument before, so I'm quite pleased with the results/potential... Pity I can't play it in time! (or the percussion for that matter...)

The Rutting Stagg 3/4 EDB

Music AndyR
Recorded on an MBR
Electric Double Bass, Guitar, Vocalisations, and assorted shakey rattley things - AndyR
Copyright (c) 2011 A A J Russe

[cuthbert]

Short and sweet! I picture a smokey café...

That bass sounds aces, Andy - any timing missteps didn't jump out at me.

[Oldrottenhead]

that bass sounds cxool as

[lg]

Sounds sweet Andy!!!!!
Santa was good to you....LOL

LG

[Bluesberry]

That bass sounds positively wickedly good. Great recording, it records very well.

[Gnasty]

That bass sounds sweet for looking like an umbrella . Great playing Andy.

The TOO short recording sounds amazing. More! More! More!

[Ferryman]

Sounds great Andy. The beauty of a fretless is that you can slide the notes to make any timing issues minimal and make it sound like you "really meant to do that". Certainly nothing jumped out at me and I agree with what you say in the other thread about the "organic" feel. The bass really carries the rhythm along.

It sounds great, you are clearly getting to grips with it. Is the tuning the same as a normal bass? More please!

Cheers,

Nigel

[stoman]

Pretty, Andy ... but I miss your voice on it!

Regards,
  Steffen

[Geir]

oh yeah ... 2011 will be a good year !!!

MORE MORE MORE !!!!!!!

[AndyR]

Yep, same tuning as an electric bass guitar. You can make it sound like a bass guitar rather easily (rather too easily when you're trying to get "upright" ), so I imagine this might get used a lot on things I wasn't expecting now... the missus loves it.

It's opened up a world of possibilities for a bunch of songs I wasn't going to bother recording yet. With the EQ on the BR1600, and adjusting my playing, I think I get it sounding more "acoustic" - but I don't want to fall into the trap of obsessing over that, it's not an acoustic bass, it's its own thing .

Anyway, rather than recording anything yesterday I was digging all these old songs out and rehearsing a bunch of them. In particular, there's one from '94 I never thought I'd touch. At the moment I imagine one bass, one guitar, and one voice for this one!! . The BR1600 project is set up for it, but no audio recorded yet. Could take a while to achieve though, what with rehearsing the guitar/vocal and writing/rehearsing the bass part. It's quite complex, and I'd like to do the guitar and bass parts both in one take, but that will take a lot of rehearsal...

In the meantime, I might even do a few "rough and ready" covers of some songs I want to do/post using this instumentation. Partly as a practice for the bass/singing and for the recording techniques that might be required to do it.

It's strange, we have a living room full of electric guitars, but everything I do keeps pushing me towards the acoustic stuff. I was just about to record a pop-rock song with full band, even knowing this bass was about to arrive... I just didn't realise how much I might take to it and how much it might push me straight back to all the stuff I wrote in the mid 90s!