Hi! I'm Przemek and I play the bass in Tides From Nebula band
I'll talk a bit about the gear I use
Let's begin with basses
This is Fender Jazz Bass American Standard I guess
I've had this guitar for about 1,5 years
I'm not going to swap it for another bass because it's Jazz bass
everything works fine, you know...
It's a 5 string bass
I've always been playing 5 string basses
My second bass guitar is Precision
Ok, this is my second bass, Squier P-Bass
I've had it for a short time
I never even used it live
I don't know if I'll play it live, beacuse this is my backup guitar
So in case something wents wrong with that guy (Jazz Bass)
I'll have this P-Bass
Despite it's a budget model, this P-Bass sounds nice
This is Squier, not Fender
I used it for some rehearsals and it sounds awesome
Maybe I'll play it live, because I got to like it so much
Now let's get back to my main guitar
Both basses are passive
I used to play active ones, but I wanted to change it by using passive pickups
Exhausted batteries were frustrating...
you have to remember to change them and think about it...
Now I have a passive guitar, I just plug it to the amp and I'm ready
That's all for guitars
Nothing special is going on...
Even nothing special will happen to the end of this video
I use Fender Super Bassman amp
It features 2 channels: overdrive and vintage
and that's all
It'a a really nice amplifier
I recorded our last album with this Super Bassman and Ampeg SVT Classic
This amp is way different than Ampeg
You can fall in love with this amp!
It's plugged into Fender 610 cab
with 6 x 10" speakers
This amp looks stylish
and matches Jazz Bass perfectly
Now let's move on to my effects
My pedalboard is quite simple
I don't know if it should be more complex
because for me, bass guitar is responsible...
for keeping the pulse and heaviness in our band
The whole burden is kept by rhythm section
So I don't experiment with pedals so much
Apart from tuner
I got overdrive
Now listen to my classic clean sound
Now overdrive sound with Fulltone Bass Drive with 2 overdrive levels
That was first level
Well, in general I use it all the time
apart from clean sounds for smoother parts
for example parts in 'Purr' track
or other soft tracks
Now overdrive with boost
For such parts I use pick quite often
The next pedal is Digitech JamMan Solo looper
I use it as a sampler, actually
I don't use it for playing parts but for ambient interludes live
These ambient parts are used to keep the dramaturgy live
This kind of sound goes through the whole pedalboard
You can save many sounds and presets
I think this looper is a nice solution
The next is Boss Volume Pedal
which I use for swells
I'll demonstrate swells from 'Now Run'
where I play the first part with swells
On 'Earthshine' album the half of bass sounds was played this way
and it sounds like this...
This yellow effect is Ibanez Flanger
This pedal joined my pedalboard this year
because of 'We are the Mirror' track from our last album
I used delay on this record for the first time
not for swells but I simply played bass with delay pedal
in a musical way
Now I have my Fulltone Bass Drive boosted, flanger and delay
And it sounds like this...
Flanger, delay and overdrive is on
and then I switch the delay and flanger off and play with the rest of pedals
Well, that's all for my gear and sounds
Thanks a lot!
