Respect your bass player

These last few days I tried to get to know my new toy, the TonePort interface, to learn it, to play with it, etc. In order to test it, I also took the bass guitar at home, to see how it sounds recorded through my new toy. I have found one great bass tone, a rock tone, full and sharp and I had the time of my life playing the bass in front of my computer.

But! Cause there is always a but, isn’t it? I am a guitar player, used to press light strings against small frets, my guitar is kind of a juwelry, small and nice, easy to use and easy to play (with). Now, the bass guitar isn’t anything close to this, isn’t it? Large frets, heavy strings, larger and heavier than a regular electric guitar!

I have always had fun playing the other instruments in the room, don’t you dare tell me you have never played drumms while at the rehearsal studio to everybody’s dispair! Or bass! I know we had a lot of jam sessions where we switched instruments and this is always a great moment! But when trying to record something, this is not always the easiest thing to do, since you need to be accurate and play every single note as clear as possible. While with the guitar this should not be a problem, while playing the bass, it suddenly becomes one because sooner or later something goes wrong! For example, I have observed that my pinky doesn’t quite want to behave when playing bass, after all, the low E string is almost half of my pinky so I guess it has it’s reasons to missbehave! 

The fact is that after trying and after a bit of rehearsal, my small home recording session went fine but really made me think about my buddy and bass player in my band and man, and all I can say is…

…RESPECT! 

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