6 Dec
2007
6 Dec
'07
8:12 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:17:48PM -1000, david wrote:
Miguel M wrote:
I agree. I played a couple gigs with a jazz combo as a "keyboard bassist", and
it's just not the same.
Here's what that sounded like:
http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/169/0/morning-bell-jam-2007-0…
We played Saturday night using our new, real bassist, and it sounded a lot better.
I have video clips around that I need to edit and post, but haven't yet.
I think that's about as realistic to a real
sounding bass as you can
get.
It was workable enough for them.
A midi controlled bass instrument will not give
you the same sound as a
real guitar. (Hammer Ons, Pull Offs, Mutes, etc) Of course this
wouldn't be done for professional audio, but it could be used to have a
nice practice session.
Definitely. I play keyboards in my church's band, and for a long while
we didn't have a bassist. So I played bass using the keyboard, using one
of the keyboard's bass voices. The tone was good enough, you might think
it was a real bass player who was at the level of knowing the scales and
a bit of rhythm - but it wasn't anywhere like a real bassist. I love
playing with real bassists! :-)
The Doors used a keyboard bass in live performances. Ray Manzarek played
it, using a separate small 1-2 octave keyboard. It sounded fine to me,
but the Doors didn't do a lot of fancy bass playing.
Actually what Manzarek used, was a Fender Piano Bass, which is basically the 2 lower
octaves of a Fender Rhodes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_bass
-ken