Introducing Pluto Crevé, a french punk band based on the Reunion Island.
Pluto Crevé - Attaque et tue
Pluto Crevé plays in the punk crust/d-beat registry. The bass player happens to be a very good friend of mine, we met in high school et are still friends 20 years after. When I told him I wanted to cover this song from their first album, he was very excited and wrote a tab just for me. That’s cool and pretty comfortable 
The original bass line is played with an old BC Rich bass and a SansAmp preamp. This bass line is not very easy to play on light strings (Greenie is strung in 40/100), because the low D string (it’s drop-D) is very flubby near the 12th fret. I had to use a softer pick than usual to make the pick slide more easily. I modified some very small parts of the bass line to fit a bit more my playing style, but that’s very minor and I don’t think anyone could really notice, except of course my friend who created the original bass line.
Sound-wise it’s the first time I record with my “new” Bass POD Pro, I’m not very familiar with it yet. I used the BDI21 in front of the '74 Ampeg SVT-VR model with the '79 Ampeg 8x10 cab model. The BDI21 is set almost flat : the goal is only to add a pretty transparent overdrive but the tone shaping and character comes mainly from the POD. I still have a few hours to spend because the settings on such a preamp are really not simple : there are so much possibilites that it’s pretty quickly overhelming and we get easily lost between the different amps models and settings.
Also this time I didn’t use my beloved DOD FX84 compressor, I used the POD’s integrated compressor instead. It models a LA-2A tube studio compressor, which sounds pretty good. This thing has a fixed relatively low ratio (3.3:1) and it gives a nice warm punch in the midrange when set around 3 to 5. It’s not very transparent but that’s not a problem for me.