Fretless fun with sliding harmonics, double stops, heavy fingerstyle, palm muting and other groovy stuff on my Cortex bass. To slide a fretless harmonic you just have to push it down and let your fingers and imagination go, so much fun! I’m digging in hard at parts to make the bass rattle, love that natural gain of just strings and wood vibrating without frets. Going a bit wild towards the end with some improv and palm muting, my videos are realtime performances without edits so what you see is what you get. I pick out the take with most feel and attitude above a flawless one, expression is key. No plugins were used, just bass, amp and pedals. Some volume leveling is done in mixing, I also added a few drum crashes and fills after the performance since I always improvise a bit on these pieces, besides that, I aim to keep things as pure and transparent as possible.
This fretless Cortex bass has a flamed maple fingerboard, chocolate maple neck, walnut body and spalted maple top. It’s loaded with a Nordstrand Dual Coil pickup with 2-band Glockenklang preamp and is strung up with Ernie Ball Super Slinkys. The fingerboard has a thin layer of epoxy and compound radius, the wing reaches the 28th position, that’s a high b. I used 3 pedals: a Darkglass Hyper Luminal compressor, a Rodenberg 707b clean booster and an Ebs Multicomp, no digital post-processing. The signal was recorded with the DI from my Eich T-1000 amp with a Focusrite Scarlett into my laptop in Cubase. Drums are made with Addictive Drums, mastering was done with Ozone. More funky tunes in the works, thanks for watching!
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