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bass tone on rapper's delight
hi, i'm looking for insight from people experienced in getting a good
bass tone. i consider rapper's delight by the sugarhill gang to be a good tone. on my last album i just couldn't get the punchy bass i wanted. instead it ended up muddy and punchless, not what i was going for. now i have read quite a bit about bass recording. i've tried going direct, compressing, and eq. now i'm wondering if its the intrament (i have a fender jazz bass, it cost about 400. i don't know if that means it was made in the US or mexico). or how i play it. or where i play it. or the string age (they look good, low milage, but are old). do i need to go through a DI, or a good amp? much thanks |
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"cporro" wrote: hi, i'm looking for insight from people experienced in getting a good bass tone. i consider rapper's delight by the sugarhill gang to be a good tone. on my last album i just couldn't get the punchy bass i wanted. instead it ended up muddy and punchless, not what i was going for. now i have read quite a bit about bass recording. i've tried going direct, compressing, and eq. now i'm wondering if its the intrament (i have a fender jazz bass, it cost about 400. i don't know if that means it was made in the US or mexico). or how i play it. or where i play it. or the string age (they look good, low milage, but are old). do i need to go through a DI, or a good amp? much thanks Maybe you could find Doug Wimbish on myspace or something like that and ask him how it was recorded. He did all those Sugarhill recordings. In the early 90s, I also met the drummer, but sadly he was living on the streets of Hartford Ct and offering to help us load our gear out of a club on a rainy night at 2AM. I gave him $10 and told him to just kick back. I guess he hadn't managed his income that well. Edwin |
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Edwin Hurwitz wrote: In article . com, "cporro" wrote: hi, i'm looking for insight from people experienced in getting a good bass tone. i consider rapper's delight by the sugarhill gang to be a good tone. on my last album i just couldn't get the punchy bass i wanted. instead it ended up muddy and punchless, not what i was going for. now i have read quite a bit about bass recording. i've tried going direct, compressing, and eq. now i'm wondering if its the intrament (i have a fender jazz bass, it cost about 400. i don't know if that means it was made in the US or mexico). or how i play it. or where i play it. or the string age (they look good, low milage, but are old). do i need to go through a DI, or a good amp? much thanks Maybe you could find Doug Wimbish on myspace or something like that and ask him how it was recorded. He did all those Sugarhill recordings. Except that this has been recorded by Bernard Edwards, the bass player of Chic. It's their track "Good Times" that has been used on that Sugar Hill track. Both players had totally different styles anyway... and they used different gear. Doug Wimbish was way into Spector basses, whereas Edwards used either Fender Jazz Basses or occasionally the Gibson Grabber. I can get the "Good Times" sound on my Gibson G3 with ease. RS |
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"Richard Smol" wrote: Edwin Hurwitz wrote: In article . com, "cporro" wrote: hi, i'm looking for insight from people experienced in getting a good bass tone. i consider rapper's delight by the sugarhill gang to be a good tone. on my last album i just couldn't get the punchy bass i wanted. instead it ended up muddy and punchless, not what i was going for. now i have read quite a bit about bass recording. i've tried going direct, compressing, and eq. now i'm wondering if its the intrament (i have a fender jazz bass, it cost about 400. i don't know if that means it was made in the US or mexico). or how i play it. or where i play it. or the string age (they look good, low milage, but are old). do i need to go through a DI, or a good amp? much thanks Maybe you could find Doug Wimbish on myspace or something like that and ask him how it was recorded. He did all those Sugarhill recordings. Except that this has been recorded by Bernard Edwards, the bass player of Chic. It's their track "Good Times" that has been used on that Sugar Hill track. Both players had totally different styles anyway... and they used different gear. Doug Wimbish was way into Spector basses, whereas Edwards used either Fender Jazz Basses or occasionally the Gibson Grabber. I can get the "Good Times" sound on my Gibson G3 with ease. RS Actually, I did some research and it's neither. Apparently it was recorded with a different rhythm section. I think the bass line was copied but not sampled, so someone else played on it. Edwin |
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bass tone on rapper's delight
T'was a Precision.
From Marcus Miller's site http://www.marcusmiller.com/faq.html...d=105&color=20 "Yeah, Bernard was a friend of mine. We would run into each other in studios, in the street. He would give me advice about a lot of things. He told me not to move to LA (I didn't listen :-) I remember, around 1978, I saw Bernard on a Chic album cover with a BC Rich bass. It was white with this unusally shaped body. Anyway, the song "Good Times" was on this album and I thought it sounded so good, I ran out and bought a white BC Rich. I got it home and started playing Good Times...I'm saying to myself, "This don't sound like the record........." I met Bernard shortly after and told him I bought the BC Rich but couldn't get that cool sound. He said, "Man I didn't play a BC Rich on that album. I played my Fender Precision!" I said, "But you have the BC Rich on the album cover." He said, "Yeah, well the BC Rich looks good, so I take pictures with it!" God rest his soul...... " |
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