From sevush@rcn.com Fri Jan 11 10:05:00 2002
Subject:Re: Organ bass

I find that unless I'm doing pads with my left hand, I'll usually keep it off the keyboard when there's a bass player. Since I find it very hard to not use both hands, I'll just "play" on the deck of the keyboard so my timing feels right.

It took me a while to realize that almost anything I was doing was getting in the way, so unless I had some thinnish pads going, I'd stay out of the way.

> Great discussion on clone bass and "what's the best". I have a
> Yamaha S-80, using the drawbar elements and running it through the
> H&K Roto to a Mackie ART 200AM. Sounds pretty good and I've learned
> to live with the weighted action (builds up my chops anyway!).
>
> At times, though, playing bass octaves left hand with chords or
> soloing right hand, the bass sounds a little "much", sometimes
> conflicting with our bass player--it even sounded that way when I was
> playing through a Roland KC-500, which has a 15" instead of the
> Mackie 12" I got now. If I try to EQ some of the bass out onboard
> the S-80, it loses some of the fullness.
>
> I'm thinking of doing a split on the S-80, with some type of bass for
> the lower, oh, 35% of the keyboard, and organ for the rest. Slap,
> acoustic, fretless, etc.--many great basses to choose from. Problem
> is, I'm going to be running that through the Roto too.
>
> Has anybody run into this type of problem and solved it easily?