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- Hey guys, this is Will Yip,
producer here at Studio Four,
in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
And I'm checking in to re-amp some turnover bass.
Re-amping has really kinda helped play a very integral role
in the last few months during this crazy, crazy pandemic era
helping us kind of refine a connectivity
in finding guitar tones.
You know, like a lot of artists around the world,
you know, everyone's kind of trying to collaborate remotely
and to write and the mix kind of sending stems back
and forth.
So I think re-amping it is a very valuable tool
to kind of these virtual collaborative sessions nowadays.
And I'm lucky enough to work
with such an awesome company offender
where I've been able to use
a lot of awesome fender tools to help me with my re-amping.
Turnover is one of my favorite bands to work with.
They're one of the most musically inspiring for me too,
because they, they never liked staying creatively stagnant
and they never wanna make the same record twice.
They never wanna do the same bass lines twice even.
And yeah they're just so inspiring that way,
that they're always trying to elevate themselves.
And one very, very special part of their sound
or their songs are the bass lines and the bass tones.
And so getting...
Being able to recreate, or kinda re-imagine a bass tone
using some of this fender stuff
for one of my favorite turnover songs.
It's really cool.
It's really special to me.
Yeah, this song is one of the earliest ones we worked on all
for the last record all together and it's called "Parties"
and it's awesome.
It's one of the coolest bass lines bass grooves
that I recorded in a long time.
And the pedals we're using is the fender downtown express
which is, has this a lot, has a lot.
Is kinda the perfect bass pedal has an EQ,
has a compressor, has a overdrive
along with a tremolo reverb.
I love just adding a bit of space,
a bit of like a plate vibe to a lot of my bass tracks.
So in the tremor verb there is a plate verb setting
that I really love, especially on bass
and we're running into my favorite bass amp
in the world just to fender super basement.
So with the downtown express, I love the compressor in this
'cause it's just very, very slight.
This is it's not too aggressive.
It's just kinda kisses it in a very smooth way.
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The EQ is great.
Just like the EQ, and some of their overdrive pedals
and some of the fender overdrive pedals.
It's very moldable.
You can sculpt it
but yet there's still so much character to the bands.
There's a lot of depth and texture to the EQ section.
And that just allows us for you
just get the bass tone telling you
you need to sit into the mix very easily.
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The verbs so nice is because it's very slight.
It doesn't take over.
It just adds a bit of vibe.
And that's what I love about play verbs.
I use play verbs from most of the instruments I track,
just because it just gives you an earthy tone
that doesn't give you a larger than world type of tone.
And I think a band like Turnover,
their sound is just so it just touches the soul.
So you just want something that's just kinda earthy
and human and slight, but yet still very signature
and very kind of inspiring as own way without taking over.
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But the pressure is so sick,
'cause it just kinda evens things out,
Even things out without taking the life out of it.
It evens it out so that the notes are kinda just
sustaining for the right length of time.
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The downtown express, that could be my favorite EQ pedal
EQ effect for a bass guitar.
It reacts like the basement and reacts like the super bass.
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Just get funky.
The overdrive on this is pretty pretty bad-ass too
probably not the most appropriate sound for this song
but there's a lot of applications for that overdrive.
Again, it's very, very warm, rich and ready
without taking over the mix.
Even with the overdrive,
that bass will just still sits in the mix nice.
That's very creamy and warm.
This pedal is gonna inspire
a lot of cool bass performances in here.
I can tell just because it's very consistent.
It's dynamic while being consistent,
which just sounds like oxymoron,
but it's not because it allows
for a dynamic performance to still shine through.
But yeah, it's just edging off the bass up.
Just edging off the rough frequencies and kinda squashing it
in just a nice way with the compressor.
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