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Originally Posted by Brad McGowan
I don't want huge or fat bass...I already have that. heh I need punchy.
i gotta say, this is a strange conversation. this is your band, you are the engineer, and the notion of retracking with a sound that works better, and even more critically a part that works better, is the one notion you are not open to. but i promise you, any other solution you implement will be marginally satisfactory at best, and while you can employ trickery to impart motion, you will never get long sustained notes to be punchy.
and i say this as a guy who prides himself on encouraging and supporting people.
punch happens on the front end of a sound, it is literally like the action of punching: the attack hits fast and immediately pulls back. a sound that is punchy needs to have an envelope like this, but a punchy sound is useless without an arrangement that exploits its attributes. to that end, the bass needs to hit with some kind of repetition and rhythm to have any meaningful impact.
bass is such a critical element in music, it is the heart of the deep emotional center and, when done well, the primary source of drive, outstripping the mighty drums. if long buzzing droning notes are not exciting you, and i can understand why they're not, there is a very good reason for that and you have my word it's not the tone of the note. whatever resistance you have to rewriting and retracking, i urge you to push into it, deal with the egos involved, and get back to the business of making the music everything it can possibly be and more, starting at the beginning: a sweet part, played on the right instrument, delivered with a moving performance.
to do any less feels like... well, it feels like what you've been dealing with.
gregoire
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