Red Planet slap bass

[jdavidb]

Bass guitar mixed in relatively louder than other songs, but it works. It doesn't clip unless you make it clip. Red Planet mp3 It is 2 mins 33 seconds.

I did it in Adobe Audition. There's no compression on anything. No reverb. I didn't even use a compressor to record bass. No post-recording EQ was used on tracks or the mixdown. There's only a normalize to -1 on the final mixdown.

If you would also like to see the video of it, I used this same mp3's wav counterpart as the audio track in this video Red Planet video on Youtube

 

[turtlishous]

thats some heela nice slap! i've been playin' bass for years and havn't managed to get some of those moves.....nice

 

[whyseye]

....sweet!

 

[myhatbroke]

Awesome slap bass! This song is kinda weird, it sounds old school and it feels spaceish and planetish. The bass is taking alot of the low end and therefore I can see why your drums are so low but if that's what your going for then there is nothing wrong as far as I know.

 

[turtlishous]

Awesome slap bass! This song is kinda weird, it sounds old school and it feels spaceish and planetish. The bass is taking alot of the low end and therefore I can see why your drums are so low but if that's what your going for then there is nothing wrong as far as I know.

dude your an idiot....the song is called RED PLANET

have you heard this lately?

 

[jdavidb]

thanks for the replies so far. I'm here readin' and everything. I thought I subscribed so I'd know when replies happen quicker.

I understood what you were saying, myhatbroke. You were saying it's supposed to sound spacey and planetlike since its title is Red Planet I know what you mean. That's what I was going for.

Too bad I didn't come up with more lyrics, but while I was recording it, it was making me feel like I should let it have that long instrumental tail on it without any more than 1 verse and 1 pseudo-chorus.

 

[Bulls Hit]

Great groove, cool video.

I really like that slap bass Stanley Clark type style. The bass is forward but it deserves it. Funkadelic, very nice

 

[Fade]

Nice. I'd love to hear a better produced version.

 

[rayc]

Bass is good after the intro - there seem to be hurried notes or mistimings when at the beginning.
I no fan of slap but you do it very nicely indeed & it does belong where it is in the mix.
Well done.