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Taking a shot at posting something here. It's just a track I was hired to do for a Johnny Cash tribute band I play for here in Vegas so they can do this song on their duet shows as well (using this as tracks w/o the vocals) Rick cntent is the bass. My '08 4003 PFB (pretty freakin' black). Both volume pickups cranked, both tone knobs all the way down (to be more country), and the aluminum Hipshot bridge. Running the bass through nothing more than a Great River preamp. Just a rough and incomplete mix at this point.

Thanks for listening!

http://www.brucealan.com/projects/carpe ... 31109a.mp3

Nice one, Bruce. Great voices featured here - the woman's got a nice feel & good grit when she feels like it! Her male counter-part sounds like a genuine baritone. The sound production is top-notch. Thanks for posting!

Thank you! I have been remiss in not hanging in this particular forum. I think I have a new regular stop on my morning rounds. Hearing a lot of good stuff in here and some inspiring ideas.

I did another mix of this song for them today. I normally play this song on a non-Rick 5 string for the low D in a few places. But I wanted the Rick on the recording just because. Which means no low D.

Until I thought of Melodyne somewhere in the middle of the night.

I know, evil tuning software. But it was kind of fun proving I could move a note an octave away on the bass and still sound good. So not only is the 4 string 4003 doing low D's now, I also made the last note of the song an even lower A.

Ruuuuuuuuumble.

Bruce, just getting around to posting on this. One of my fave Cash tunes and you rendition is cool! vocals sound neat.. for the bass and D you might try tuning down? Sometimes you can get away with a D on regular strings depending on what you have on the instrument -setup and all (wouldn't do the A thou).... anyhow thanks for posting.

Detuning would certainly work for the low D. Or grab one of the other 5ers in the rack. But I wanted to not do the latter just because I like pulling out a Rick where it's not usually thought of (i.e., country music). And fiddling with the tuning software is just something that hit me. It created a bit of a fretless effect at the end of the first verse going from the low D to the A. Kind of whacked the slight slide from one note to the other into something bigger and cooler at that one point.

I know Ric basses don't have a country music reputation, but I do recall seeing them in a couple of country bands in my younger days... Actually, because of their wide tonal range I would think they could work in just about any genera.

Agreed. I like using it a lot in the country band in which I play. It gets odd looks and covers any tone I want with them.