I don’t have much time now, but here is at least a new cover 
and I have a lot to say about it !
Brassy - Nervous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu-FWVyLfi8
so :
- This song has a great meaning to me as it was one of the two covers we played, about 15 years ago, with a band called Kernel Panic. I played the guitar in this band and we played original songs, but we found it could be funny to swap our instruments during the concerts. That’s why we added two covers, including this song, and I even found an old picture showing me and my long hair playing this song live ! and you can also see my friend Mathieu, who was the bass player of the band, playing my yellow Telecaster
fun fact also, the girl with the blue shirt in the first row of the public was my girlfriend at this time.
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The original mix is very dirty, very sticky I’d say : everything is saturated, everything overlaps on every frequency. It’s a big garage/punk mess. I tried to remaster the track to make it sound a little bit less … messy.
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For the first time on this thread, I did not use an amp model. What you ear is a 100% analog bass tone. The preamp is my modded BDI21, pluged into the power section of my Ampeg BA115-HPT. I built a special cable to bypass the amp’s preamp and use only the BDI21. Then the sound is recorded with a Sennheiser e906 hanging in front of the speaker. I even did not use the DOD compressor this time, but I added a subtle compression in the mix to manage the dynamic range of the amp (which is not at all the same thing as using an analog comp in front of the signal chain). Anyway the effect is pretty light on the mix, and I even did not EQed the track, it’s the raw EQ recorded by the microphone. Here is the special cable :
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by the way, when I was setting up my bass tone for this cover and its messy mix, I realized that my contour mod on the BDI21 is too sensitive. so, I will have to mod the mod
and hopefully one day release a clean mod with instructions, so everyone would be able to mod his/her BDI21 ! -
@JoshFossgreen will be proud of me, seeing that I can use my pinky and place my thumb behind the neck when needed !
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@Lanny had a good idea by creating a website for his covers, so I did the same
nothing serious, it’s just a place to store all my covers neatly. I think it’s a good idea because when I’ll be searching for a band, I will be able to show the guys what I recorded with only one link, it seems to be pretty convenient. not really interesting here because I will keep posting my covers on this thread, obviously, but here is the site : https://basse.laurentberta.com/