#248 - Our Wildly Different Bass Philosophies (Pt1)

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9d ago 25:43

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We didn’t mean to go this deep—but here we are.
This week, we cracked open the bass rabbit hole and just kept falling. What started as a casual chat about tracking techniques quickly turned into a full-on audio archaeology dig. Fingerstyle vs. pick. Flatwounds vs. roundwounds. Phase issues. Amp sims. DI regrets. When to tune your bass like it’s a vocal. And why the right bass might be a $300 violin-shaped Epiphone that makes your P-Bass sound like a string bean.
This is Part 1. Next week, we’ll take all this nerdy goodness and show you how it interacts with everything else in the mix—drums, vocals, space, sub, punch, width, grit.
Discover:

Why we sometimes tune bass like it’s a vocal
The $300 Epiphone that destroyed a Fender P-Bass in a shootout
How adding chorus to bass can actually make it sound tighter
The reason your 808s keep disappearing—and how to fix it
Fingerstyle, pick, thumb, palm mute: how your hand technique makes the biggest difference

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