As The World Falls Down
Another Fretless tune this week, and also a trip back to the 1980s. Coincidence? This one’s from the 1985 film Labyrinth, you know the one. It’s the film where David Bowie’s leggings should have been up for a best supporting actor award. Anyway, its a cracker of a tune so grab your fretless and let’s have a look.
It’s in A major so plenty of chance to use those open strings. When playing fretless I use open strings as often as possible, it’s a trick I learned from double bass players. It allows you to check your tuning/intonation and to skip any difficult position changes. This tune features a lot of slides up to and down from notes. It adds a lot of character to the part so try to get them in if you can. T
I recorded this on my home constructed fretless bass with Seymour Duncan Steve Bailey pickups and Thomastik-Infeld flatwounds. I went into my Diamond Bass Compressor with a good whack of compression and EQ knob at around 2:45 on the 900 setting. I added some spring reverb with my Mooer Shimverb. I Di’d out of my Tech 21 VT BASS DI with the character knob more towards the B15 setting, the drive at around 10 o’clock and a decent treble boost. I added some compression in Logic for any peaks using the vintage FET setting.
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Till next week.
Jonathan Proud 