Gonna make a trip into the studio this week, first time at a studio in Berkeley, CA. Planning on taking my T3 with me, plugging in either direct or through my Alembic F-2B preamp. It’s not the first time I’ll be recording the T3 direct, but the only other time I was using it for a higher-octave sound. This time I’ll be using it for BASS! I’m going to be playing bass (and bass pedals) and my usual partner in crime Greg DeGuglielmo on drums, mainly improvising, with plans to overdub stuff later if necessary.
Unrelated to your query but was curious: do you play an Alembic Bass? If not, what drew you to their Preamp, how do you like it, and what Amp do you normally mate that with?
Hope to order a custom fretless next year and their stuff looks really nice. Will be on the West coast in October and was considering driving up to Santa Rosa for a look.
I love the Alembic preamp! I actually have two - one for the east coast and one for the west coast. I usually record my bass direct - due to the circumstances that I usually record under, I don’t have the luxury of cranking an amp and mic’ing it. But I have no complaints, I love the direct sound.
If possible, I might split the Taurus output with a splitter box and record one direct into the board and one through a channel of the F-2B for comparison.
Very cool! I also have found myself wearing more narrow-toed shoes these days. Which MoogerFooger is that? I was just wondering which MF would best complement the Taurus…
Nope, it’s a CP-251! Oh, you mean the one on the left? That’s the MF-101. And neither is connected to the Taurus, they’re for my bass!
Those shoes didn’t work at all! Too big and too wide - my toe kept slipping off the pedal, even though the shoe was still on it. I have a pair of Aldo pointy-toed shoes that I somehow remembered to bring into the studio and they worked great!
Got a lot of stuff recorded, it’s going to take a little while to sift through and mix but I should be able to get a few samples up.
This time the only moogerfooger is the MF-104 analog delay, added to the bass after the fact. I also ran the bass into the Alembic SF-2 Superfilter afterwards, to get more bite.
I ended up running the Taurus into one side of the Alembic F-2B preamp. You need either good speakers or headphones to get the full effect…
One thing I realized is that it can be a real mind-twister playing bass and bass pedals at the same time! Well, I already knew that, but I guess the insight I had is that it can be confusing when you play a stringed instrument and a keyboard instrument at the same time!
Thanks everyone! We were really warmed up by the time we slipped into this. It was just me and Greg on drums, improvising away. We actually played much longer - around 12 minutes I think. But it morphed into something else that I am still mixing. It’s called “Nova Aldo” and I hope to get it together at some point.
Speaking of playing with each other, it might be interesting to record a part and then have someone else add an instrument and keep building it up. One version I participated in a long time ago had each person adding 4-8 bars with multiple instruments, but it could start from a set basic track with stuff added on top. But that’s for another thread!
Nope, it’s a CP-251! Oh, you mean the one on the left? That’s the MF-101. And neither is connected to the Taurus, they’re for my bass!
You don’t know the kind of auto-modulated filtered bliss that come from the T3 when using the MF-101’s Env Out CV to the Filter CV of the T3 and have your drummer’s mix, or even just their kick and snare, run through the Mf-101. You are missing out! It’s pretty cool when the drum beat modulates the filter on the T3. As soon as I figure out how to change the format of this, I will post an example that I did last night using two RC-20 loop pedals, my T3, Nord Electro2, and rhythm from Korg Kaossilator Pro, and some Grain Shifter effects from a Korg KP3.
