Yeah I bet - a lot of the bassline was up in the midrange, which makes removing it tough.
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Nice cover once again @TNKA36 . Seems like you really have got the hang of this recording malarkey.
Also thanks for putting the bass preamp settings up on your description. Interesting stuff
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Great job Brian! I left on comment on the website.
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Thanks Jerry @JerryP ,
Glad you liked it,
Cheers Brian
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Hey @TNKA36 , again a nice cover and a nice tone. Iām not a big fan of Warwick tones usually but this times it worked well with the song in my opinion.
I agree with @howard about the mix but itās more or less impossible to remove such a trebly bass line without cutting a lot of high frequencies.
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It was really unexpected for me!!
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Well @TNKA36 that was about as perfect as it gets, well done.
That would be a great tune for a fretless, and you made it sound like you played on one.
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Brian, you played this song nicely. This is one of the few Steve Miller songs I like (I generally donāt care much for SMB) and you did it justice.
Love the red strap too!
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Now I might get in trouble for posting this hereā¦ itās not a really a bassā¦ but it does have 4 stringsā¦ and without BassBuzz I wouldnāt have built itā¦ so really Josh is partially to blame. And at least it doesnāt sound like a guitar. 
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Interesting!
What more can I say?
It didnāt hurt my ears, and I enjoyed listening to it.
Nice jobā¦
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Any Nine Inch Nails cover is ok by me, even if youāre covering it by way of Johnny Cash.
Is that you singing it?
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I was wondering the same
I think the cover is really good. The singer does sound pretty much like Johnny Cash !
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I have yet to hear a bad version of that song. The original is awesome, Cashās cover is awesome, and every cover I have heard of either is great.
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Thanks guys! Yes that is me singing and playingā¦ all at the same time. lol
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Well done!
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This. Is. Awesome. @Korrigan
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Oh, if you guys are maybe thinking there was some multi-instrument/multi-track recording going onā¦ nope, itās a live recording that I added reverb and a 70s-esque filter to. The pipe organ sound comes from a patch I made accidentally when I was messing around my old Digitech RP150.
It works for bass too if anybody wants to try matching these settings with whatever multi-effects processor you haveā¦
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I was going to ask, actually. The effects sounded great.
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GreT Job @Ed . As a finger player myself, that looked like a lot of work to pick that somg.
Maybe I will start playing with a pick again, I did when I played guitar in the early 90ās.
Fortunately, the covers I have played thus far didnāt use pick in the original, so I was good there.
I take that back, the one I did recently didnāt play with a pick, so I was fine,
āFor Whom the Bell Tollsā, Cliff was a finger player
āSeasons in the Abyssā can go either way. Tom Arraya plays with a pick, but he plays half time to Kerry King and Jeff Hennaman, and they drown out his picking, so you can playit fingers and still cut thru.
If / when I do an Anthrax cover, I am still good, Frank Bello is a finger player.
Now, past covers, my Sublime ones were fine, Eric plays fingers, but Sex Pistols, probably a pick. Decendants, IDK, might be fingers.
Moving forward to a couple of my next covers, IronMan, Geezer defiantly a finger player (which reminds me I did a Paranoid cover long ago)
And if I get to any Maiden, fingers again.
So pick for me will be just to make me a more well rounded player at some point.
Also, after Ironman, I am gonna do āMouth For War. I have seen played with fingers (The Bass Channel) and I think Rex used a pick.(Although, I think he plays both pick and fingers, depending on the song) And personally, due to the breakdowns in that song, fingers sound better to me, but IDK what I will do yet, as I have not tried it with a pick.
I got picks so I could learn a NOFX song. I saw a video with Fat Mike and Johnny (bass player for Avenge Sevenfold) talking about how he played the intro to āThe Idiots are Taking Overā, and Mike showed him, and said it was a circular picking motion, starting with an up pick. Fat Mike said he might have made it up, cuz he never saw anybody else do it, and it worked for this one riff. And Johnny was blown away āyeah, I could never figure out how you played that, especially so fastā
So I got picks to learn it, and did the circular motion, and I was able to play the song.
I was stoked to be able to play it,
But
Spoiler alert
I then started figuring out a finger plucking pattern to replicate the circle picking motion, and guess what.
I can play it faster, and more defined, with way less pick and string noise with my fingers, absolutely, no problem.
Problem is, much of the song is alternate and fast picking on one note per bar, changing thru 6 bars of notes, then jumps back to that first, circular picking part.
I have not developed enough speed in my 2 plucking fingers to play the rest of the song at full speed.
A conundrum.
Maybe I will practice 3 finger plucking (even, not a gallop) and see if I can play it that way.
I might have to.
The end of IronMan, I cant play with 22 plucking fingers fast enough yet either.
Hmmmm. Work on 2 finger speed, or 3 finger non gallop plucking? Idk yet.
Sorry for the tangent @Ed you did a great job.
You too @TNKA36 Brian.
You too @Korrigan of what I saw of yours
Hope I didnt miss any.
Still without a computer, and browsing, typing on the Ipad just irritates me.
Getting a free Imac tomorrow, but its older. Hoping it already had GB on it, or I may have to move over to Cake or one of the other free or paid DAWs that still supports older versions.
Or just use the ipad to record. At least I will have the Imac to type and multi tSk and be a lot less frustrated with the whole thing.
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I hate virtual keyboards and spell un check.
Now I need to go back thru that last post and fix a million things.
Oh my new computer cant get here fast enough. Just hope it works well, it os a bit older
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