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Chapter 13 Sculpture 314
Emulate a vintage at wound pick bass
1 Load the Pick Bass Half Muted setting.
2 Drag the Material Pad ball upward and the sound becomes more mued.
3 Increase the Object 3 Strength parameter to 0.70. The result is a muted pick bass with at
wound strings.
Tip: If you turn o Object 3, you’ll hear a sound that is reminiscent of a 1970s Fender
Precision Bass.
4 Save this setting as Flatwound Pick Damped.
Emulate a Bert Kaempfert-style percussive bass
1 Turn Object 3 back on.
2 Move both pickups a little to the left (position 0.08).
3 Move the virtual pick (Object 1) a little farther to the outside (position 0.10).
4 Enhance the sound with the Body EQ by turning the Low knob to its maximum value (1.00).
5 To remove the smacking in the attack phase, use the graphical display to choose a value of 0.48
for the Body EQ Mid frequency, then use the knob to increase this value to 0.51. Option-click the
Body EQ High parameter to set it to a value of 0.00.
6 Save this setting as Easy Listening Pick Bass.