tiz
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Post by tiz on May 16, 2019 22:02:28 GMT -8
Trying to settle a bet with a flatmate. Steep in Swirly Termination - the bass is a fretless bass or a synth? I believe it is fretless but he thinks otherwise.
Someone settle this!
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Post by yiannis on May 16, 2019 23:36:48 GMT -8
I'd go for fretless bass, he played some of that on Ping on The Floor... so it would make sense.
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Post by etherealise on May 17, 2019 1:01:52 GMT -8
Trying to settle a bet with a flatmate. Steep in Swirly Termination - the bass is a fretless bass or a synth? I believe it is fretless but he thinks otherwise. Someone settle this! It doesn't sound like a real fretless to me. I'd say it's almost certainly samples played/programmed on a keyboard.
The giveaway is some of the subtle pitch changes (e.g. @0:15-16) you can hear that there is pitch wheel action. It's not obvious, just a very slight flick of the pitch wheel which is a technique few keyboard players use, but Ed is one of them.
The sound of the bass on Ping on the other hand is different, IMHO.
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Post by yiannis on May 17, 2019 1:33:28 GMT -8
If I were you tiz I'd take etherealise's word over mine, he's a musician with vast synth experience and I'm not.
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Post by etherealise on May 22, 2019 17:24:18 GMT -8
Trying to settle a bet with a flatmate. Steep in Swirly Termination - the bass is a fretless bass or a synth? I believe it is fretless but he thinks otherwise. Someone settle this! So did your bet get settled in the end? |
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Post by garlicmick on May 31, 2019 6:40:31 GMT -8
agrees with etherialise
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tiz
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Post by tiz on Jul 20, 2019 13:24:43 GMT -8
Trying to settle a bet with a flatmate. Steep in Swirly Termination - the bass is a fretless bass or a synth? I believe it is fretless but he thinks otherwise. Someone settle this! So did your bet get settled in the end? yep haha I ended up asking Ed and he said it was a synth and after listening to steep I can definitely hear it, but I appreciate everyone's input! Conclusion: I lost the bet, but it prompted me to try and figure out how to make a synth sound like a fretless bass  |
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