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7. To make your bass more woody, adjust Object1 pickup position toward the right (drag
the #1 slider in the Pickup section, which is at the left side of the interface). At extreme
positions (the left or right end), you’ll find that the bottom end of your bass is lost. Try
it out.
8. Adjust the position of PickupA and PickupB by dragging the horizontal sliders. As you’ll
hear, you can quickly recreate a picked acoustic or electric bass sound.
9. To instantly make the sound a hybrid (or full-on) synthesizer bass, click the Waveshaper
button (directly above the circular Material Pad and choose one of the types from the
Type pop-up menu above the button.
10. Choose Save Setting As from the Settings pop-up menu and save your settings with
new names as you go.
You’ll probably come up with several new sounds in just a few minutes. Each of these can
be used as is, or as templates for future bass sounds you create.
Create a guitar sound in Sculpture
Guitar, lute, mandolin, and other plucked-type instruments, including harps, can be created
from this basic setting.
1. In Logic Pro, load the #default (or your vanilla) setting file.
2. Set the Voices parameter to a value of 6—there are only six strings on a guitar.
Obviously, pick 7 for a banjo, or as many as possible for a harp.
3. Set Object1 type to Impulse, if not already chosen.
4. Activate Object2 and set its type to Pick.
5. Move PickupA position to the extreme right.
6. Move Object2 Pickup position to a value of 0.14.
7. Activate the BodyEQ, and select one of the Guitar models.
8. Adjust the various BodyEQ parameters. These have a major impact on the overall
brightness and tone of your guitar sound. (Try Model Guitar 2, Intensity 0.46, Shift 0.38,
and Stretch 0.20, for example.)
9. Set Fine Structure to a value of around 0.30 to 0.35—let your ears be the judge.
10. Drag the Spread Pickup semicircle vertically to increase the perception of stereo width
(a value around the 10 o’clock/2 o’clock mark is nice).
11. Activate the Filter, and select Lo Pass mode.
12. Adjust the Cutoff and Resonance parameters to taste (try both at 0.81).
13. Adjust the Tension Mod slider upward, and play the keyboard to see how the momentary
detuning effect caused by this parameter affects the sound. Set it to an appropriate
amount.
14. Set the Level Limiter mode to “both.”
15. Choose Save Setting As from the Settings pop-up menu and save the setting with a new
name.
You may notice that a different approach was taken in the creation of this setting. The
reason for this is the major impact that the BodyEQ model has on the sound. In some
cases, like this one, it may be better to work slightly out of sequence, rather than to strictly
follow the signal flow.