Ben Kennedy wrote:
On 28 4 2004 at 12:34 pm -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
(I'll still need to track down more samples to build "ethnic/world" kits, but that's do-able.)
If and when you do, please share!! :)
I would sure like to -- the difficulty is that most of the reasonable sources for WAV samples I've found are commericial (even if cheap!) and copyright technically forbids re-distribution as samples :P even if use in composition is allowable. I could, of course, always pass thing "under the virtual table" ;) And there's the "recipe" idea ... All I've got so far is a list of sources and occasionally an email from someone in admin or sales assuring me that their purchase-for-download package contains multiple samples of the same insturment at different velocities and such. (Sample vendors seem bizarrely reluctant to reveal the details of what they want you to cough up for!). I was listening to a CD by this guy called Cabas, though, and he has a few tracks with pretty rocking guitars and a pile of Latin percussion. Sounded different and pretty cool. I think I can get part-way there with the DB library Djembe kit in combination with a rock kit that has woodblocks and cowbells, though. Hmm, what would dbsong format get like with multiple kits? I guess really it's sort of like two dbsong files glued together, of necessity sharing the same time signature(s) and tempo(s) throughout .... Ben Kennedy wrote:
On 28 4 2004 at 11:09 am -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
getting a halfway decent bass sound without demolishing buildings seems to be a real bitch! For me, anyway ....)
I've gotten some fat-sounding bass in the past by putting it through a good old Electroharmonix Big Muff pedal with the tone turned most of the way down.
Oh, yeah, I've got an Sovtek Big Muff reissuey thing, though alas stuck in the US at the moment. Hadn't tried it on bass, I have to admit!
Having said that, I've generally been using my Nobels Bass Overdrive pedal with my guitar lately (tone turned most of the way up) since I find it to sound more "organically crunchier" than the Muff...
I get good live results when running through my DOD "bass grunge" into an amp, but it sounded buzzy as hell when I was recording direct at home. I could really crank the pedal for a very trashy early-80s Lemmy sound :) but then I gave up and went back to twiddling with the VS-1680's built-in amp sims to get something more like what I wanted. Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/