How to Turn your bass INTO A SYNTH!

In this lesson, Ian Allison takes his bass tone to another level!

You'll also learn which bass fx you need to get this sound out of your bass.

As always, see you in the shed...

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[johncrafton]

What about a compressor? To sound like a synth - especially an older synth - squash the dynamics with compression.

[bassplayer]

Octave is essential. So is the envelope filter. If you use a mod pedal keep the rate slow. Fuzz is always cool when used minimally.

[Vinyl_B]

You have no idea how much I've been searching for a video like this. Thank you, Ian

[IanMartinAllison]

Great place to start: 4 elements in this order - Octave / Fuzz / Envelope / Chorus

[TechIlliterate]

Mr. Allison. Been waiting for the next podcast. I have to say you are one of the best podcast hosts/interviewers I have ever listened to. Your questions are poignant and the dynamic between yourself and Scott is palpable. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to your content.

[ryananthony]

Great choices, chorus was big time for bringing synths to life

[wolfwarren]

What I love is that you described my pedalboard with 100% accuracy, and I didn’t even watch this video when I built my board! Outstanding!

[stringz.]

sounds better than any boutique synth I’ve heard or tried

[HermelJaworski]

another tip : run an octave pedal before the fuzz, max out the low frequencies. If you turn the gain up and use a noise gate, you can get squared synth tones

[TheJordiguardia]

I abolutely love what you do in 0:46 !!!

[bassismath]

I know we will never get that sound...but atleast we will start working to get closer to it..

[sicilianmammalian]

Great video saved to my bass tones folder

[Sergey]

Guitars that look like that always have the best sound.

[nnln]

Shades of Minimoog! The chorus is the magic. The envelope filter makes it sound like a late 70s Stevie Wonder cover band. (grin)

[nayarlopez]

Thanks for the tip. Those tones sounded great!

[suppmydiff]

Cool tip for this I learned from the Snarky Puppy bassist

You can play the fundamental of a bass note while cutting out most of the high overtones and getting a really smooth yet powerful synth-y tone by plucking every note 12 frets up. Combine this with a bit of distortion and you can get a similar sound without needing pedals


So if I wanted to play the 3rd fret C note on my A string: my plucking finger has to be plucking the string on the 15th fret of the C string. It works on a similar principal to artificial harmonics

[KevinOMalleyisonlysmallreally]

Damn that envelope really really hits hard doesn't it?

[realobama]

I perfer to octave my fuzz over fuzz my octave

[Kevinsoteloabarca]

Dude that is super nice video ! Thanks for that men

[hank]

great for playing Funkadelic- knee deep ! Pure fun !