Thanks for all the comments everyone. I will hopefully get some stuff to get the nux running soon through pc and bass. and work something out with that. but i have a long way to go before i get Billy jean down pat! But seriously. thanks a lot for the feedback. Maybe after i rebuild the peavey ill try something more down to earth on it for my next one.
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I love the tone on the Mayones!
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hey @Mao, thatās a nice triplet you just made 
very good fast-chugging technique on the first Volbeat song, and some early attacks on the Clutch one.
The tone and mix are OK considering how you recorded ! there are some strange audio artifacts, I suppose they come from the phone. Anyway itās OK, as long as we ear clearly the song and the bass. the P with the green perloid pickguard seems to sound pretty good especially.
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Not my music either, @Mao, but indeed some nice chugging there! Andā¦ Volbeat is Danish, so a big thumbs up there as well
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Hehe, sounds like a good strategy, @Lanny, but she kinda knows how expensive this bass has already been, and she probably would be slightly irked at the sight of a big old 2x12 cabinet suddenly standing somewhere in the houseā¦ mentioning a āfretlessā might work though 
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First off thanks for having some mixing skillsā¦sooo many times you canāt hear the bass cause they over crank the backing track. Second thanks for playing a green bassā¦and thanks for horrors of horrors playing with a pick.
Not sure what your worries about production are. Like I said so may people canāt find any semblance of proper balance between what they are playing ( which in this instance should at least to me be a bit louder than maybe a final mixā¦SO YOU CAN HEAR WHAT IS BEING SOLD as in the flipping bass playerā¦ first rule of marketing donāt make the buyer work at hearing your pitch.
I worked for years in radioā¦yeah I was on air but my strong point was production. I was the guy that wrote and produced the killer spots (ads) I was the dork who spent HOURS making a spec spot (this is what we can do for you, demo commercial) ā¦I had a better home studio than many/most of the stations I worked atā¦yeah I only had a 4 track studio at home but only one well two if you count her sister station had multi track and that was eight tracks, anyway many people donāt do demos right and donāt jump my case here. Most people lose track of what they are selling ā¦If you were selling the bass player than you were way more on the mark than you were off, if you were selling the song than you missed there mark more than you sold the bass player. Iāve played the part of music director, production director and program director in radioā¦Iāve had to at various times sell in various parametersā¦since you werenāt selling an MTV video and you werenāt selling the band you were real damned close to selling just exactly what you wanted to sell ā¦THE BASS PLAYER
I left the Biz just before the digital craze, Iām getting back in as a player rather than an engineerā¦I still think in analog, but selling never changes
Donāt over think demosā¦push what you are selling and forget the rest
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Strangely enough the way you do tracking in DAW software is similar to multitrack work with an analog multitrack tape mixer - youāll be surprised 
basically, the tools have just gotten more awesome.
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Guess Iām a bit confused with this @rt66azā¦ Donāt know about anyone else, but Iām not sure anyoneās trying to sell anything here - just having some fun making and posting musicā¦
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yeah, same, I havenāt understood anything ā¦ 
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OK,ā¦ Time to have some FUN!! This song had no bass line, but it really needed one!!
Enjoy!!
Keep On Thumpinā!
Lanny
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Great cover Bill, @Lanny, enjoyed the video, great production as usual, and the fact that āGriffā was really tuned in laying on the couch behind youš¤£
The bass line you made really worked nicely with the song, and I agree the original could have used your bass line to enhance itās position on the chartsš
Cheers Brian
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funny @Lanny ! what I learned is that root-5ths are always a good way to start writing a country bass line 
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What I meant by sell is not sell as in sell, but sell as in showcase. In other words push your playing more to the frontā¦donāt worry about the final mix just make it easy to listen to what you are doing.
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Such a nice āhomageā to your best little buddy there - awesome, Lanny! And, musically, it sounds like that was the bass line that was always supposed to go with that song!!
Nowā¦ the reason Griffin is eyeballing your drink might just be that he is slightly appalled that you have ice cubes there in your single maltā¦ I have some thoughts too, but we might have to start another threadā¦ 
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Being a Scotsman I concur. 
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Thanks @TNKA36 Brianā¦ I keep a bully stick in my music/reloading room for him to chew on when heās in there with me. The shitbird will do anything I want as long as I give him something to eatā¦
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So true @terb Laurentā¦ When I work on anything country I will always just start out with just playing the root on each chord throughout the song until I learn the changes. Once I get that down pat I will throw in the fifth and run through several times until I can find the right groove. From there I will typically add another note or two - in this case I added a two after the fifth. Basically a 1; 5; 2; 1 progression. Throwing the 2 note in helped develop a groove that rolled the melody back to the root a bit and allowed for a bit of lag between notes giving it more of a laid back country feel - kind of like creating a groove that sort of resembled a lazy dog pr something. Was a fun project though!
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Thanks for the explanation @rt66azā¦. Makes sense nowā¦
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Thanks @joergkutter Joergā¦ Itās always fun to find a song that needs a bass line.
Now as for the ice cubes in my single maltā¦ During the heat of the day I find it a bit refreshing to have a nice cold sip of single malt (Iām not too much of a beer drinker). In the evenings however, I do enjoy my single malt āneatā - especially on a cool evening sitting around a warm fireā¦ Heaven!
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Love it @macā¦
ā¦ For me being Irish, Iāve never been one for following rules - especially when it comes to drinkingā¦
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