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Seth

Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 05:11 pm:

Hi Folks,

Two of the tracks on Burning Spear's Garvey's Ghost 100th Anniversary have a mildly distorted bass: "Farther East of Jack" and "Reggaelation." It almost sounds like the bass is overdriving the mixer. So I'm curious, can anyone identify the distortion, and is there a way to reproduce it with an outboard effect?

Thanks,
Seth Deysher

KoCha

Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 03:39 pm:

I think you need an old analog mixer to achieve this so beautiful sound...

Perhaps an outboard effect can do, but not same... just imitation..

Jah Bless
KoCha
www.Almighty-Dub.com

interruptor

Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 05:33 pm:

Hi Seth,

Just listened to Farther East of Jack..

You may be right it could really be the input gain stage of the mixer (in that case they must have used the channel EQ to filter away the harsh high frequencies that usually appear when overdriving a mixer input stage). Another possibility would be that they have just overdriven the tape while recording the bass line (tape saturation).

I recently got quite pleasing results when i slightly distorted a played bassline using a free plugin called "blockfish" from digital fishphones

Seth

Posted on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 11:05 pm:

Thank you both for responding. Interruptor, you put into words what's I like so much about that bass tone: distortion without the harshness. Do you have a soundclip of your blockfish-ed bass?

interruptor

Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 10:38 am:

a clip of the tune will be available on this site in some weeks.. in the meantime just try out the blockfish, it's free.

Seth

Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 11:32 pm:

The only audio program on my computer is Reason. Digital Performer (and a new Mac to run it) may be in the not too distant future. I have been eyeing a non-virtual, tube compressor for my bass rig though. . .

Johny Bravonqx

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