A life in the road, eh? My job frequently takes me away from home, but this time the bass came with me. Tonight’s ‘studio’ is a crappy hotel room in a lacklustre hotel, just off the M6 motorway in the U.K.
This is a cover of a Duran Duran song from the Big Thing era, Do You Believe In Shame. About the loss of a friend, I think it beautiful. It’s also the first song I actually learnt on the bass, in one of my many moments of distraction from the B2B course. The song also has resonance. The reason I picked up the bass and decided to learn last summer was due to the untimely deaths of two people I knew, one a colleague and the second a client. Both were of a similar age to me, both were married and both had children.
Life is short, life is precious and we really do only get one shot at it.
Duran Duran - Do You Believe In Shame
The Steinberger was plugged directly into the Scarlett Solo, then into GarageBand. I played the bass track twice and added the Phase Tripper effect to one track and High Drive effect to the second. In addition, I added high compression to both tracks and pulled them forward in the mix - you can’t miss it! So while the end result sounds pretty heavily processed, I like it 