From Kumalo's perspective, fretless bass is all about tone first. “The first step, before you play a lot of fancy licks, is ...

If you were going to put one effect on your fretless bass in the 80s ... If you’re after slap bass, Apple provide a tutorial for creating a slap sound using Logic Pro X’s Sculpture modelling ...

The sound is simple, but it’s easy to see why it’s a popular ... Numerous DX7 presets were great for house bass, from the faux bass guitar sounds of the fretless bass presets through the ‘hollow’, ...

longer strings that produce a deeper sound. It’s not an electrified version of the double bass, as it’s played horizontally rather than upright and has frets - though some fretless bass ...

Decked out in wind synths and fretless bass, the L.A. trio’s debut album ... Back in its heyday, this was an expensive sound to create; Total Blue pay tribute to those studio bills of yore ...

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