What R U Practicing – Come and Get Your Love – Redbone

What are you practicing this lately…? “Come and Get Your Love” is a song by American rock band Redbone. The song was originally released as a promo track under the name “Hail” and was later featured on their fifth album, Wovoka (1973), under its current name. The song was released as the album’s first single Read More …

What R U Practicing – Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie – ABBA

What are you practicing this lately…? “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme!_Gimme!_Gimme!_(A_Man_After_Midnight)” is a song by Swedish band ABBA. It was recorded in August 1979 in order to help promote their North American and European tour of that year, and was released on ABBA’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 album as the brand new track. This song is a staple of Read More …

What R U Practicing – Shake Your Groove Thing – Peaches & Herb

What are you practicing this lately…? “Shake Your Groove Thing” is a song by disco duo Peaches & Herb. The single reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Billboard R&B Chart. It also reached No. 2 for four weeks on the Billboard Disco chart in 1978. The song Read More …

Time To Rebuild My Pedal Board

After a couple of years of neglect, I decided to sit down and finally rebuild my pedal board.  Most rehearsals I had just been bringing my tuner pedal, and not much else.  Only the Octave and Chorus pedal have been used in any show setting recently, but I have many more sound gizmos that I Read More …

More Bass Guitar Recording Tricks

Tune the bass.  Tune the bass.  Tune the bass.  Everything harmonically else in the song is going on top of the bass.  If it is a little bit our of tune, then the rest of your tracks are not going to sound right. I like to tune the bass just a little bit flat, so Read More …

EQ Tips :: Bass Guitar

These are Tips per se, more just my collection of notes for recording or mixing the bass guitar. Hope some of these help you! 2022-11-04 Yes of course you want the low end from the bass.  It is the instrument that most often glues the harmony together in the song. Around a 100Hz that will Read More …