[LAU] (double) bass samples for Linuxsampler

[Ken Restivo]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 07:03:31AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:40 AM, rosea grammostola
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I'm searching for bass giga samples, electric but especially Jazz double
> > bass. Tips?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > \r
> 
> I own one of Scarbee's libraries. (Now Native Instruments.) It's
> pretty good. Not cheap but not grossly expensive.
> 
> http://www.scarbee.com/
> 

I saw Soulive a few weeks ago (doing research, since I am now a left-hand-keyboard-bass-player). He was playing a Mac laptop running something called Trillian (not the IM client). It sounded like a bass. But he rolled off all the highs and high-mids, probably a habit formed early in his career when the bass samples available weren't that great, and which is kind of his signature sound.

I just did an entire live show last night, in fact, as a bass player, running a Pedulla gigastudio sample I found for free on the intertubes. I had to edit a bit (I didn't like where the velocity cutoff points were), but it worked out well. It locks up periodically on my EEE when I run Beatrix too, but I got to  play a real B3 so I killed beatrix, and I had no issues running LinuxSampler along with MonoSynth, CAPS plugins, Fons's autowah, CALF tape echo, etc.

Now I am learning how to EQ a bass for a live room. I was told (halfway through the set, unfortunately) that I needed to scoop out 250-500Hz on my amp to avoid creating an awful muddy mess. It worked. Onward and upward.

-ken