How to Turn your bass INTO A SYNTH!
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2021
- In this lesson, Ian Allison takes his bass tone to another level!
You'll also learn which bass fx you need to get this sound out of your bass.
As always, see you in the shed...
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What about a compressor? To sound like a synth - especially an older synth - squash the dynamics with compression.
fuzz or distortion essentially compresses the signal by clipping the wave form. Same as you can drive a compressor to distort the signal.
@@M2Mil7er exactly what I was going to say. One of my favorites is the SFT from Catalinbread, because it’s a drive that cleans a little when the dinamics is low, but compresses a lot with a little more expressive volume. You can control just by your fingers emulating this old synths. Other tip is use a expression pedal in some models like moogerfooger filter to expand the controls. Behaves like a knob on a minimoog for instance.
That's interesting, I've got the opposite issue. I'm an analog synth boi and the main reason I want to get a bass is because of the dynamics. You can do a lot of crazy shit on synth but one of the hardest things to do is get anywhere close to the kind of physical interactivity of a bass or guitar.
@@TayTayMakesBeats Slides, bends, muting, use of different parts of the pick (or different parts of your fingers or thumb), being more passive or more aggressive - all of these things (and more) can create some great dynamics when playing bass.
I also use a volume pedal for swells and for killing the attack, and I use an expression pedal for EQ sweeps.
@@TayTayMakesBeats That's exactly why you should play the bass. The idea isn't to literally sound like a synth, you just wanna add syth to your bass, not become a machine, that defeats the purpose, as you are saying. You've got it right, I don't personally think compression has anything to do with it
Octave is essential. So is the envelope filter. If you use a mod pedal keep the rate slow. Fuzz is always cool when used minimally.
Thanks
@@mihailmilev9909 I forgot I wrote this. 👍🏼
Yes-I like the Octapussy - fuzz and octave pedal from Catalinbread.
You have no idea how much I've been searching for a video like this. Thank you, Ian
if you haven't already, check out his video "10 greatest synth bass lines through history (and how to get the sounds)
Well congrats lol
@@stephenshoihet2590oh thanks!
Great place to start: 4 elements in this order - Octave / Fuzz / Envelope / Chorus
A phaser works nicely as well.
Thanks
@@MrClassicmetalare they not kinda the same? Or was that Flanger?
I know we will never get that sound...but atleast we will start working to get closer to it..
Mr. Allison. Been waiting for the next podcast. I have to say you are one of the best podcast hosts/interviewers I have ever listened to. Your questions are poignant and the dynamic between yourself and Scott is palpable. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to your content.
another tip : run an octave pedal before the fuzz, max out the low frequencies. If you turn the gain up and use a noise gate, you can get squared synth tones
Damn that envelope really really hits hard doesn't it?
Hell yeah I was thinking the same thing, gooey as fuck. Like not just the aeiou but with the sometimes Y too
sounds better than any boutique synth I’ve heard or tried
Great video saved to my bass tones folder
What I love is that you described my pedalboard with 100% accuracy, and I didn’t even watch this video when I built my board! Outstanding!
Shades of Minimoog! The chorus is the magic. The envelope filter makes it sound like a late 70s Stevie Wonder cover band. (grin)
Great choices, chorus was big time for bringing synths to life
Where do you generally set the rate and depth for synth bass tones?
Thanks for the tip. Those tones sounded great!
great for playing Funkadelic- knee deep ! Pure fun !
I abolutely love what you do in 0:46 !!!
OMFG, this is beyond awesome!
I perfer to octave my fuzz over fuzz my octave
"Glitching" the octaver with a clipped(fuzzy/distorted/crunchy...etc) signal can sometimes add its own kinda chorus/hammond effect in the high frequencies.
Very cool stuff.
Always experiment.
Yea that’s what this brotha said too. Octave then fuzz. No right or wrong but without a doubt there’s a good amount of low-end loss if/when placing fuzz before an octave in the chain.
So i took this advice and holy crap it is fun. I used a phaser and it was sweet
Dank as hell.
Cool tip for this I learned from the Snarky Puppy bassist
You can play the fundamental of a bass note while cutting out most of the high overtones and getting a really smooth yet powerful synth-y tone by plucking every note 12 frets up. Combine this with a bit of distortion and you can get a similar sound without needing pedals
So if I wanted to play the 3rd fret C note on my A string: my plucking finger has to be plucking the string on the 15th fret of the C string. It works on a similar principal to artificial harmonics
The modulation sounded like the intro to "We The People" - Tribe Called Quest 🖤
INCREDIBLE!
Great sounds
Thats badass.
Thank you Ian!
Idk why but that first riff(idk if this is the right word, I just woke up in the middle of the night) sounds like staying alive
You just created the duck pedal.
God damn this is sick!
Got it already 😆 thanks love it
Bravo!
Oh wow!! That final sound i would mistake for a synth!!
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day
Love that envelope filter! This is awesome 👌
I just love that bass, regardless to the sound.
God what a beautiful guitar that is
Yes My Brother I Said The Same Thang! And Dat Stank Made It More Beautiful Bro,SHEEEET!
You just made all bassists, including me, cry and get convulsions on the floor
@@The_Copper_Element_ItselfIt is a recent phenomen that people have started to consider a bass guitar to not be a guitar. Tons of older bassists will refer to their instrument as a guitar.
Thank you for your knowledge
Yes!! I use my tech 21 Bass fly rig with the overdrive, octave and chorus. Thanks mate!
That sounds cool
Guitars that look like that always have the best sound.
Chorus kills everything
That is a beautiful bass 😍🎸
Great tone !
That's freaking cool!
Which fuzz and envelope filter are you using here? Sounds fantastic!!
3Leaf Doom2 and the Tron Up in the HX Stomp
The first element is money
Thank you! This helps.
FINALLLYYYY!!!!
if you don't want to play so far up the neck (because the boss and other octave pedals add the synth sound but shift down), you can add an octave up at the start of that chain. at this point you might just want to buy a bass synth pedal, seeing as that's what the bass octave pedals are anyways.
Greaaaat
I can smell that funk from here !!
Holy fuck…. THANK YOU!
A HX Stomp preset of this example would be interesting
Love it
I'll have all of those soon, I actually modded my Havalina Fuzz for bass and have an MXR Auto Q, a Compressore, and I'm getting an octave pedal in the mail this week
Gotta love the bass face
We have Scott at home
Scott at home:
Scott at home sure knows a lot though
Octave pedal plus a tube overdrive, chorus, and light reverb.
I used an octavator, chorus (heavy), a swell and distortion tto create a sound like a klaxton or a dark shimmering horn blast.
This is extremely helpful
no it isn't, try the sound out, it sounds nothing like a synth. just an out of tune bass with chorus and fuzz
That envelope filter 🔥
Great
The sauce of awesome, right here :)
That envelope filter might help me get close to the Bootsy sound.
🔥🔥🔥😭
Hell yea
Sounded badass before the chorus🎸💯
🧡🧡🧡
I'm sure Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted would agree;)
Wanna hear some good synth presets from HX stomp, people!
No Bassist needs that sounds !!!
I have an rc 1 synthesizer pedal 😊
Mind...blown...
That metal plate over the strings would drive me crazy.
Totally get that! The mute can be a bit of an adjustment, but it helps achieve that distinctive tone in certain styles of playing. It's all about finding what works best for your own sound and comfort. 🎵🎸👍
I did this for years. Until I got a Future Impact bass synth pedal. That's the ticket!
Stinky tone❤
Max Webster unlocked.
Sounds like the "lets groove" bassline
Boss makes a synthesizer pedal
That's crazy
The electro harmonix bass microsynth pedal does almost all of this in a single unit. No chorus though.
Ouu "you are in my sytem" vibes
I got a early 90's danelectro collecting dust
I think Hawkwind used something like this in the original recording of The Watcher
🔥
I feel kinda fly
Standing next to you
Wooooow
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Never knew any of this.
I have a zoom b1xfour that has a synth preset and it includes all 4 of these things but in a different order. So I might just swap them around and see what happens. 😂
Thundercat: Write that down, WRITE THST DOWN!
I'm looking for something to use with a digital piano with piano and Rhodes sounds to get a funky vibe going. I understand reverb and delay are the most basic things but I can't seem to understand the difference between all pedals. Your envelope filter made everything sound interesting. What do you recommend I get around $250 ?
Basically how to Thundercat
EHX Microsynth will do most of this stuff if you're after an all-in-one solution
Is that flatwound on jazz bass? sound awesome man
zoom multistomp ftw
All you need is a Ring mod and octave.
EVERY.
SINGLE.
" synth" pedal on the market, including most " 8 bit" type units are fundamentally based on these 2 effects.
See I run my envelope filter before my fuzz, simply because I feel like the fuzz limits the frequency sweep of the envelope filter if it’s put before it
Scott, silly question, but what is the purpose of the metal plate over the strings and does it get in the way?
It's design feature on older-style basses to protect the pickups. There is also a bridge guard which you typically see with these as well as a thumb rest sometimes. It does restrict where you pluck the string and people remove based on personal preference. That's Ian in the video btw.
@@cityslickerbass thank you and I meant Ian, my bad lol
No offense to Scott but I'm a big Ian fan
Which brand pedals are you using right here wow