My Guitar is a Bass!

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So recently I used a classical guitar in one of my recordings and heatmiser said he thought it was a bass at first. That got me thinking to actually using it as a bass.

Just applied compression and a low-pass filter.

Here it is by itself:



And here it is in the mix:




Whatchya think? :D I think it sounds pretty deep and full. It certainly can't be used for every song, though.


Thanks, heat, for finding me a good bass.
 
What did you use to create the bass effect? Sounds pretty cool, I'll use a bass amp sim plug-in to do the same with guitar tracks every now and then. Definitely gets a unique sound!
 
I pretty much just used compression and EQ to knock out a little of the highs and bumped the lows.


Oh, I would say it also depends on mic placement. I had a condenser mic 2 feet away but RIGHT in front of the sound-hole. The gave me a little bit of a boomy effect to work with.
 
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Whatever works. The third note in the chord sequence is ringing pretty heavily. Id find that freq and cut it 6 to 8 db with a tight Q.
 
It'll do as a novelty once in a while, Crow, but you need a bass ! You should get one because you have the fingers, technique and musical mind for it.
On a couple of songs I've used a guitar {both 6 and 12 string} as a bass. Interesting effect but as a bass player, I knew there was no chance of a serious takeover bid !
 
Right, I know this will not work all the time, not even for much of the time, probably for a little amount. It'll do, though, until I get the real thing. I think I may get myself a real thing for my B-day coming up.

Thanks for listening everyone!
 
Crows.... it sort of works in the song, but as Grim says... you need a bass. It's clearly a guitar note with bass frequencies enhanced - you can't get around that it's a much higher note than an actual bass will play. Now that you've got the track, try finding a pitch shifting VST and see if you can successfully drop it an octave...

The other thing I'd say, nicely, is that just following the root note does bass playing make - it becomes more obvious it is what it is because that's pretty much what you're doing. Try walking through the chord changes a bit... not sure if that's the correct term... as a bass player, I'm a pretty good guitarist... ;) but I've never regretted having a real bass at my disposal, absolute PITA though they can be to track DI at times... (no bass ampl!).

Nice experiment and good out of the box thinking though. Nice tune too BTW... :thumbs up:
 
I had a comment on one of my tracks a while back that the bass was a bit boomy but it was just the top string of the classical guitar plonking along throughout the song.

Some good tones to be found in unusual places :thumbs up:
 
Mr Clean said:
I had a comment on one of my tracks a while back that the bass was a bit boomy but it was just the top string of the classical guitar plonking along throughout the song.

Some good tones to be found in unusual places :thumbs up:
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Yeah, if you get too close to the sound-hole, the thud of a classical guitar can be incredibly prominent.
 
I have a laptop based remote recording rig set up for writing when it isn't on the road, and the electric guitar runs thru an EBS Octabass octave divider on the way into a Boss ME-70. Click...guitar sounds enough like a bass to keep the groove going and lay down a scratch track. Click...back to electric guitar. You're not going to fool anyone, and it tracks too slow for really fast passages, but it fills the gap more than well enough when the ideas are flying.
 
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