Yeah, but it was obviously a bit impactful. The cool thing with music is it can create cherished moments in just an instant of life!
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Ok, I lied, found one last one, but itās seriously it. Ummmā¦there is our singers dog who gets excited and likes to sing a bit with us in one part lol. This was spur of the moment improv of Knocking on Heavens doorā¦but a funk version. It was pretty fun, surprised we didnāt revisit it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/179P2Qepn3TYefhaePrCjQPQUOHNapJ1E/view?usp=drivesdk
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hey @JerryP , thatās great, not boring at all. you were very much locked in the groove, and you were driving the song exactly as a bass player is supposed to do. also I like the tone of this bass more and more.
nice cover too @T_dub ! I have this record somewhere and I used to listen to it everytime when I was a teen. Your cover works well, with a nice and very appropriate punchy tone, and a great energy in your playing.
@Sp33dSnakr you finally managed to upload your cover 
SoundClound is really the worst host for this kind of thing. YouTube is a little bit more permissive. About the cover, the bass line sounds good (those soapbar HB can be fat !) and is well played but there are big differences in volume during the song. not sure if itās a bass setting issue (maybe a string sounds louder than the other ones ?), the playing or the mix. a compressor could be useful in this case at least to avoid overloading the DAI. anyway itās not a big issue, it sounds nice overall !
a nice full-band cover @kerushlow , I like the cajon and the record on phone does not sound bad ! the rehersal version sure sounds more ācompleteā but the acoustic jam vibe is still quite cool
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Thanks Joe!
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Thanks Howard! Yeah, the Travel Bass has been a pleasant surprise with these covers.
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Nice job Toby, @T_dub,
Great to have you back doing coversš
I donāt know the song, the bass sounded pretty good, the only thing I noticed was the notes in some bits seemed to be tonely light, maybe itās string plucking across stringsš¤
Looking forward to some more 
Cheers Brian
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Nice work @Sp33dSnakr,
You are already aware of the areas that need work.
I reckon if you do this again in 6 months you will be amazed at how much improvements you have madeā:+1:
I have listened to some of my early covers and personally know how I played them then and how I would play them now, there would be no comparison.
Great to see you putting yourself out there, keep pushing 
Cheers Brian
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Good job Toby! You rocked it!
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Great job and a good choice for a cover!
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Thank you Laurent @Terb Brian @TNKA36 and Jery @JerryP
I did really enjoy this one. Not just cuz I love this song, it was such a statement of my younger life. Yes I was a huge asshole and cared mostly for myself. Song is kind of an anthem for me in that way. Thanked I grew up and can see past the end of my own nose now , and have flipped it 180 to where I care so much about others that I pride myself to be one that will go out of the way to help someone in need.
That said, I still love the song, and until now, I knew the words, and the structure of the song. I just had do pick out the bass line. First learning it on a medical YT channel, this guy covers a lot of cool songs from a wide range od genre and bands. From his site alone, I have my next 10 or so songs that I plan to cover.
Hint - spoiler alert
1-more Sex Pistols
2 the Cult
3 Danzig
4 - (This is gonna be a great surprise, please donāt anyone beat me to it).
4 will be DEVO. It may not be last, it may not be next, but it will be.
But I learned something huge with this last cover here.
I learned to play the song with the song. I wasnāt playing a bass line. I did not separate me from the tune, Iput myself into the tune, the way music is meany to be played.
It can be challenging to get to that point. When you first approach it, you spend so much time and focus on learning the bass part of the song. Then you get so locked into playing it 4/4 at 126 bpm, and thatās it.
But when you put the music on, you listen to the music for your ques, and for your lead in Nd out.
Saying it, it makes so much sense, but getting to where you can do it, takes a lot of work.
If anybody out there feels like you struggle to become one with the song, donāt give up on it, it will come. Pick songs you love, that you could sing karaoke to, and nail all the singing part. Pick songs that are at or not far past your current level. A little challenge is nice, but if you canāt get in the song, step back the technical difficulty and go to another song you love that is a little easier. There you go, you will find the magic when you can play the part and play with the song. And it feels great once you do it. And then you know how to do that more and more, and getting more technical as you go. But always back down a notch if you canāt get in the song you are working on. HTH
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Fugazi - Blueprint
I love this song. Itās the 5th track of Fugaziās first album, called Repeater and released in 1990. I was 10 at the time and Iāve known about Fugazi years later. Founded by Ian MacKaye, former singer and guitarist of Minor Threat which has been a very influent punk hardcore band, Fugazi has also been very influent.
Greenie tuned in EADG, straight into the POD X3. Iām impressed by this preamp. I just tried the Ampeg SVT model and set everything very fast. I find that the X3 behaves a bit like the Bass Floor POD (sounds agressive with a lot of gain ; here Iām only at 45%) but with a better sound quality and infinitly more possibilities.
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Sanctuary?
Mongoloid?
Love DEVO, looking forward to what you pick.
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Nice. Fugazi is great. I probably knew them most from Waiting Room and Arpeggiator.
Greenieās got the perfect tone for this. And yeah the SVT sim is doing well there.
Just watched it again, I really like the chorus part of the bassline. Cool bassline overall.
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yeah I like this song but itās not very well recorded and mixed, so itās not easy to make something really clean and polished. but, clean and polished, thatās not what Fugazi is.
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Hey Toby @T_dub , Iām not a fan of the Sex Pistols (Not that I dislike them), but I enjoyed listening to this. You did a very good job of developing your own baseline and performing it.
I like your story also.
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The only ācomplainā I have is that your bass is too low in that mix, try mixing it with 3db difference from original track, otherwise good job.
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A new recording attempt, covering one of my favourite bands, Biffy Clyro (who Iāll hopefully be seeing live this year if covid cases drop low enough).
I didnāt struggle with playing this too much (although it took a while to wrap my head around the rhythm in a few places), but actually recording and editing it was a bit of a challenge. I couldnāt find a good version with the bassline removed, so I tried to do it myself by messing around the EQ in Studio One. Cutting the bass entirely made the whole thing sound way too tinny. So Iāve settled on a compromise that got rid of most of the original bass. It still sounds a bit tinny, but not as bad as it could be.
Also not sure about the mix volume at various points. Think the bass comes through too loud in some sections and too quiet in others. Iāll probably mess around with it more in future, but for now I decided not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good and just get something finished.
Anyway, hereās A Girl And His Cat by Biffy Clyro.
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Thatās some good bass playing there @Liffguard. Iām not familiar with that song (or the artist), so I canāt comment on the quality of the mixing. However, it seemed okay to me.
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hey @Liffguard, nice bass playing, thatās well played and the timing is good. about the mix, if it can help : you cut way too much lows on the original track. itās much a notch at a precise frequency (usually around 200 to 300 Hz) than really cutting all the lows. the goal is to remove a maximum of the bass spectrum without destroying the other instrument tracks. beware of the kick especially, which is usually not far from the bass. Also on this song your tone and register are more focused in the medium than in the low, thatās important to take this into consideration because the goal of EQing the original track is to make room for your new line, so you really have to focus on this frequency range. hope it helps
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