| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1611.1 | Percussives | MFGMEM::DERRICO | | Fri Dec 29 1989 11:52 | 14 |
| If it was The Eagle older stuff, you might be talking about
a couple of things. One technique is playing at the neck
(where it joins the body), when you are doing normal fingering
you actually hit the neck with the string using your right hand
(if you're a rightie). It's sort of an informal way of tapping.
Another technique is to Pluck the string with your index finger
and thumb, this would also make the string slap against the neck.
A third thing is to use a pick, you would get a sharper attack and
might be similar to what you might be hearing.
An even further out idea is that the sound might actually be the
head of the kick drum, sort of a "Pat" sound.
John
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| 1611.2 | RICHO-SOUND | MPGS::MIKRUT | Don't you boys know any NICE songs? | Fri Dec 29 1989 11:57 | 4 |
| Rickenbacher bass guitars are characteristic of this type of sound
(i.e., Geddy Lea, etc.)
cheers/mike
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| 1611.3 | Tap Bar ??? | USEM::SEAWARD | | Fri Dec 29 1989 16:06 | 10 |
| Thanks for the suggestions - they give me something to try; and
yes I do recall a Rick providing this sound, which I thought
was being caused by low action.
For some reason I am recalling that a device called a tap bar
was/is used to produce this effect (similar to click organ),
and that the tap bar was in some way linked to one of the
pickups...
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| 1611.4 | Not Sure What Sound You're Looking For | AQUA::ROST | Everyone loves those dead presidents | Fri Dec 29 1989 16:17 | 7 |
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It might help if you could name a *specific* song with this sound.
Just playing with a pick makes the bass sound "clicky" to me.
Compression can make this more noticable as well.
Brian
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| 1611.5 | pickit! | HAMER::KRON | BILL-THE-WONDER-MUTANT | Tue Jan 02 1990 14:35 | 6 |
| playing with a pick and resting the heel of your hand on the
strings near the bridge will give you a great sounding click.....
I believe "hotel calif." has that sound....(not OLD eagles though!)
-Bill
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| 1611.6 | Bridge info ? | USEM::SEAWARD | | Thu Jan 04 1990 11:28 | 15 |
| re: .5
I'll guess that you also need to be using the bridge
pickup and enough high frequency EQ to pull out the
tap - I have been experimenting with bi-amping to
emphasize the highs.
Actually, I used to use a lot of right hand palm muting
until I noticed that I was decomposing the bridge; are
you using an industrial strength replacement bridge,
or can you make any suggestions about this type of
equipment - I see Badass advertised a lot ?
-Bill
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