Dodge Dart commercial: Rolling bass sound: How done?
I love the bass sound in the Dodge Dart commercial, but how is the musician playing the bass, with a slide? With effects pedals? It's such an innovative sound.
I am a former musician and I'm fascinated by the sound of what seems to be a bass guitar played by someone with real chops.
I stopped liking cars a number of years ago after seeing so many people die or suffer horrible injuries due to collisions, I don't romanticise motor vehicles any longer, but when I was about 19 I had a Dodge Charger, and it was, well, very fast and I drove it to its limits, but back then I was, erm, invincible (well, I thought so). I am still a Mopar man I suppose, but no longer desire muscle cars and limitless gasoline, I just want to get where I need to go without any harm.
It's probabaly synthesized, but if it is a real bass being played, it's probably a fretless (possibly a 5 string) with some effects like a little distortion and a flanger or phase shifter.
I was thinking flanger too. But I failed to think of it being a precision bass (fretless), that definitly makes sense. It's so darned cool sounding. If it is part of a song, I want the song!
Totally electronic the bass ( actually about an octave high for a bass ) line, they been doing that for decades, you can tell as each lick is identical, just like a drum machine.
Most of this has been available since the early 80's, now with a PC and a decent sound application, you can make any sound imaginable, no need for musicians .. or instruments