"My Little Green Sea" Solo Bass Looping Piece

A nice little melodic solo fretless piece, recorded at 4am (hence the pajamas). I used my fretless Elrick singlecut six-string bass, Looperlative looper, and a flanger patch on my Boss VF-1. My A string is tuned to G for anyone curious.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Elrick
• singlecut
• Talkbass
• Bryan
• Tyler
• Boss
• VF-1
• flanger
• ERB
• looping
• solo
• melodic
• fretless
• bass
• guitar
• Looperlative

[h4723d]

when you run effects do you chain in front of the amp or do you run through the amps loop?

[bryanrtyler]

Depends. On this one, I had my Boss VF-1 multi running before the amp- it can switch between instrument level and line level, so running it before made it a little simpler to hook up. All my pedal effects always go in front.

[h4723d]

ok, that makes sense, Its one or the other though right? you can't have pedal chain and an effects loop can you? You have convinced me though that I NEED the six string bass.

[bryanrtyler]

Sure you can- nearly all pedals are meant to be run in front of an amp, and nearly all rack effects are meant to be run in your effects loop, and there's no issue with using both simultaneously (a lot of guitarists run through both simultaneously nearly all of the time).

[bryanrtyler]

Thanks guys :)

[scarred2112]

Bryan, your sense of pure melodic ideas is second to none. Nothing crazy-fast or complicated, but the *perfect* phrase simply repeated in a different octave works so much better in a piece of music like this. It very much reminds me of Sean Malone's ("Gordian Knot") song "Grace", which is a Chapman Stick looped piece.

...plus, you might have just done a major part in curing my longstanding hatred of flanging. ;-)

~Ian

[bryanrtyler]

I don't like flanger most of the time either :D I love phaser much more, but when you want that watery sound, flanger takes the cake. I never realized Grace was a Stick piece- I'll have to listen to it again (overplayed Emergent so much that I haven't listened to it in a couple years). Thanks for checking out this one as well :)

[toddhamby]

Just a big ol' Wow! that was really beautiful.

[toddhamby]

Just a big ol' Wow! that was really beautiful.

[h4723d]

Thats cool! You just gave me some ideas! That's good stuff to know. Thanks. I am in the process of upgrading gear, Just got a bunch of new EHX stuff. Great style in all your original stuff here.

[blindwhitey70]

Tastefully done. Nice phrasing for sure. Nice job.

[iamn0thing]

Fantastic job sir! Cheers from another TB'er!

-Zomb13-