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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Bass Players |
| Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:13:54 -0500 |
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From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
> If you can't *hear* the bass in the song then it's been deliberately
> mixed that way. My complaint about modern producers is that bass
> parts are now relegated to merely a sonic tone on recordings. You
> can only hear the parts if you're listening to the CDs on stereo
> systems with booming sub-woofers. Gone are the days when the bass
> line carried the song ("Day Tripper" by the Beatles, "Money" by Pink
> Floyd.....or, gasp, "With Or Without You" by u2). Bass players have
> become kick drum enhancers....and not melody line creators. This may
> not be true of a lot of the power pop we listen to, but out there in
> the commercial world of knock-off major label production it is the
> norm.
Depends on the genre: ever since contemporary alt-rock bands
discovered Joy Division a few years ago, you get a lot of bass-forward
songs there these days. Interpol's big hit from a couple years ago,
"Evil" -- I don't think the guitar even comes in until the first
chorus. See also Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, that sort of
thing.
S
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