Post your covers! (2019-2022)

[Shane_Landen]

Thank you, both. Always nice to hear the work is paying off.

[JerryP]

Nice job on both covers @Shane_Landen!

[howard]

Lots of info in this thread, a lot more here:

Recording Hardware "Beginner" Setup

Hi! I know there are some threads about recording, but what I am kind of missing is the review like “best beginner bass amp” and “best beginner bass”. There are videos like that, but they tend to get all technical and rarely anything costs less than 100$. It might just be that this is the case, but what components do I need for a good “clean” recording and how much money do I have to put in before it makes any sense to put any money in at all? A reference point for information would be okay too…

few other places too.

[PamPurrs]

@terb I’m curious… do you use OBS for your cover recordings?

[howard]

I needed something quick on Windows recently and found OpenShot, which is free and seems good.

[PamPurrs]

@howard

recently and found OpenShot,

Does OpenShot use the computer camera like OBS does? Or is just more for post production stuff?

[howard]

OpenShot is just a video editor and transcoder.

[terb]

@PamPurrs

@terb I’m curious… do you use OBS for your cover recordings?

not sure what OBS is exactly, I believe it’s some sort of video prouction software ? I don’t use this. I record the video part with the front camera of my smartphone (with Open Camera on Android), which is kinda primitive. the audio part is recorded with Reaper on the computer.

then I have to sync the audio and video parts, and for this I use VideoPad. probably not the best video editing software but it’s very simple. I’m downloading OpenShot right now, I’ll give it a try.

[PamPurrs]

@terb

not sure what OBS is exactly

OBS is a free, open source camera software for Mac or PC. You can use the built in camera on the laptop, or an external camera connected to the computer. It shoots the video and records the audio simultaneously, so you can then take the finished video to your editing software (VideoPad, Premier Pro, etc) for post production without need for syncing audio and video. I have used it for my past few video covers.
Here’s my shooting setup. Notice, the laptop in the foreground is the camera, using OBS.

[terb]

that’s a pretty serious setup @PamPurrs ! mine is way cheaper … a smartphone on a tripod, and an old couch

[PamPurrs]

@terb

that’s a pretty serious setup

Being married to a photographer helps …

[JDDaniel]

Good job @Mao! I gotta admit I have become a big fan of the La Bella’s (got them on my P & J now).

[JDDaniel]

Nice @terb! Love that “Greenie;” first time I have seen you with it.

[terb]

that’s by far my #1 bass, you can see dozens of covers with Greenie on my site : https://basse.laurentberta.com

[JDDaniel]

Cool, I will check them out soon! Thanks.

[Shane_Landen]

Thank you for the information. I’ll start getting into the production side more now that I’m getting a lot more serious about playing.

[Shane_Landen]

BandLab: Make Music Online

A cover of Like A Stone by Audioslave. The audio isn’t perfect so I apologize.

[terb]

no need for apologies ! and I like Audioslave, we used to cover Show Me How To Live with a previous band

in the case of your cover, it’s hard to comment because the track is really not easy to listen to clearly. I hear a lot of small timing issues but with Audioslave I’d say it’s pretty normal, in my memories those lines are really “timing-sensitive” and not easy at all on this point.

anyway, a cover is always a good thing , so congratulations to you !

[JerryP]

Nice job @Shane_Landen! I’m not familiar with the band/song but it sounded good to me.

[terb]

Some progressive doom from a very recent album :

Sun Of Grey - Disease

Sun Of Grey - Disease [Bass cover]

I really enjoyed this album and wanted to cover the last song with the Ply-bass. I had big issues with the tone, and more precisely with the pickup which really sounds like sh*t. Definitly not one of my best covers, and I must confess that I hesitated to share it. But I always say that there is no minimum level required to post on this thread, so here it is.

Jim Harley Plywood P-thing (BEAD), modded ODB-3, Bass POD Pro without the LA-2A (the pickup behaves very strangely to dynamics so there is no compression at all in the signal chain).