The Wilkinson-equipped Vintage range of electric and bass guitars are widely recognised as offering a quality and specification generally only found in far more expensive guitars. This is a solid-bodied (alder) bass guitar with a single pickup, modelled on a Musicman Stingray. The double coil pickup gives it a powerful tone, well suited to rock and pop music. Tone control takes the form of simple filters to remove the treble. Consequently, the preset was recorded with full treble response, as it is an easy matter to emulate other tone settings by using a low pass filter. A fingered type playing style was used - the most common method of playing the bass in contemporary music.
As with the electric guitars presets, the samples were recorded by DI (direct into the console), so it is necessary to add either an amp simulation or some type of tone shaping to achieve best results. There are links to some excellent FREE amp simulations on the software page of this site.
The 32 bit version is 290MB.
Most acoustic bass guitars are little larger than a standard acoustic guitar and therefore sound a bit thin...... but not so the Harley Benton. This solid-topped acoustic bass, made in the same factory as the highly regarded Washburn range, is a monster with a tone to match! The sound is close enough to an upright bass to be used in the same situations, yet it has sufficient extra edge to work in rock and pop as well.
The preset was recorded using a stereo pair of large diaphragm Rode condenser microphones. The result is a detailed, huge and expansive sound. However, it is an easy matter to render to audio in mono if this works better in the mix.
The 32 bit version is 264MB.
Bass Demo - Vintage Bass plus Amplitube, compressor and reverb.
Folkrock - Demo of Vintage Bass in normal use.
Jazz Swing Bass - Harley Benton with gentle compression but no EQ.
Jazz Ballad - Harley Benton in normal use.
The following demos also used my bass guitars:
Favourable, Tender - Harley Benton.
When You're Away - Vintage 5 String.