From tonysounds@yahoo.com Thu Dec 25 11:59:36 2003
Subject:Re: Bass on keys....

As a bassplayer/keyboardist, I had come to my own solution to this. A band I was in a few years ago found me playing elec bass as well as keyboards in a trio format. Certain sounds I would happily use even though they didn't sound like a Fender, and as long as I didn't treat them as such, it was fine. But for other songs, I really wanted my elec bass sound, so....

I had a Roland S550 sampler (and you can find these for less than $300 now), and I would do patch maps for each song. I sampled my own bass, and ran all the bass sounds from the S550 through one output, and into an A/B box (along with my bass) which then ran into my bass rig. When playing bass, I stepped on the box for signal A, and when playing keyboards, I stepped on the box for signal B. For me, what REALLY made the key difference was that my sampled basses were still pumping through my bass rig, moving air, and still providing the drummer that solid bed of sound. And the non-musicians in the crowd thought we used tape because they couldn't figure out why the bass still sounded the same.

This is probably farther than you want to go with this, but whichever route you choose, running a dedicated bassrig is really a must.

T

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