BARDSTOWN AUDIO ANNOUNCES NEW ACOUSTIC UPRIGHT BASS!

[Bardstown Audio]

Bardstown Audio is most pleased to announce our new Acoustic Upright Bass, titled "THE BASS."

Here are links to a couple of demos featuring "THE BASS" and the Bardstown Audio "Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Model 290."

http://www.bardstownaudio.com/mp3/bass01.mp3

http://www.bardstownaudio.com/mp3/tunisia.mp3

Listen to these demos and go to our web site in order to read the complete details about "THE BASS," in order to see and hear why this new acoustic upright bass from Bardstown Audio is many giant steps ahead of any other sampled acoustic upright bass that is available.

Kip McGinnis
Bardstown Audio
www.bardstownaudio.com

[Alan Lastufka]

Kip,

It sounds great - best of luck with the new library! :)

Glad you went with the Bmm Bmm Bmm Bmm Bmm instead of the BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

[sbkp]

Or the

dow dow da dow da da DOWWWW dow dow dow dow dow dow.

Though that would be pretty cool, on a scale from one to awesome.

- Stefan

[Bardstown Audio]

Alan, your sampled instruments sound wonderful as well, and best wishes to you and your business!

Kip McGinnis
Bardstown Audio
www.bardstownaudio.com

[Alan Lastufka]

Alan, your sampled instruments sound wonderful as well, and best wishes to you and your business!
Thanks Kip.

Have you tried any Mingus with your new bass? I know you wouldn't be able to post it publicly, but maybe post your impressions of how well it would handle his playing? I've been looking for the Charlie Mingus sound for a while.

[Journeyman]

Or do what you did with "Tunisia". Do something similar to a Mingus tune, but deviate enough to avoid lawsuit... ;)

[sporter]

Very nice indeed! Fits in great with your other **exceptionally** great sample libraries.

[Bardstown Audio]

Alan, this new acoustic upright bass is extremely well suited for Charlie Mingus style music. Personally I play many forms of jazz music, in addition to many other music styles as well, and the Mingus style is among those forms of jazz music that I love to play.

I had a selfish motive in producing "THE BASS" because I wanted an acoustic upright bass to perfectly fit the sound I like to hear on a bass with gut strings rather than steel strings. No other sampled acoustic upright basses that are available have the right sound. I am extremely well pleased with the sound of THE BASS from Bardstown Audio because it definitely has the precise sound for all jazz music where an acoustic bass is appropriate. Personally I play piano, vibes, marimba, acoustic and electric archtop jazz guitar, classical guitar, accordion, drum set, and percussion instruments. Acoustic bass is one instrument that I have not mastered, so I am extremely pleased to have this new 24 bit 96k sampled acoustic upright bass in my collection of instruments. It most definitely has the holy grail sound for an acoustic upright bass.

"The Bass" from Bardstown Audio is extremely well suited for all jazz music (including Mingus) where an acoustic upright bass is appropriate, swing, latin, rockabilly, pop, western swing, country, bluegrass, ethnic, and 60's style folk music.

Kip McGinnis
Bardstown Audio
www.bardstownaudio.com

[Bardstown Audio]

Very nice indeed! Fits in great with your other **exceptionally** great sample libraries.

Sporter, thanks so much for your compliments!

Kip McGinnis
Bardstown Audio
www.bardstownaudio.com

[Bardstown Audio]

Sharmy, thanks so much for your compliments and wishes!

A friend of mine in Louisville (John Bizianes) played and sequenced Tunisia. The other demo was from a "canned" midi sequence from PG Music's "Jazz Pianist."

There are no articulations such as slides on THE BASS. The reason I don't sample such things is because the user would have to have the precise tempo in their music that these articulations were sample recorded at in order for such articulations to sound acceptable, and at best these type of articulations tend to sound rather cheesy. The musician in me when doing my own personal music does not like to have to mess around with such articulations and technical things on sampled instruments such as key switching, etc. I like to be able to sit down at a keyboard and just play music without having to get technical. I designed and programmed THE BASS to be most playable and realistic just by playing straight from the keyboard controller.

Kip McGinnis
Bardstown Audio
www.bardstownaudio.com

[Alan Russell]

Kip,

I just downloaded and listened to the first demo of this marvelous acoustic bass As a Jazz pianist having a supportive, rich and clean sounding bass is essential for blowing the choruses and chomping the chords. This bass is so convincing. I know It will inspire many keyboard players to go the extra mile in their playing.

Congratulations Kip in producing another superb Bardstown sample for the virtual community!!

Alan Russell

[Bardstown Audio]

Alan, many thanks for your compliments, which are very much appreciated.

Kip McGinnis
Bardstown Audio
www.bardstownaudio.com

[dpasdernick]

There are no articulations such as slides on THE BASS. The reason I don't sample such things is because the user would have to have the precise tempo in their music that these articulations were sample recorded at in order for such articulations to sound acceptable, and at best these type of articulations tend to sound rather cheesy. The musician in me when doing my own personal music does not like to have to mess around with such articulations and technical things on sampled instruments such as key switching, etc. I like to be able to sit down at a keyboard and just play music without having to get technical. I designed and programmed THE BASS to be most playable and realistic just by playing straight from the keyboard controller.

Kip McGinnis
Bardstown Audio
www.bardstownaudio.com

Kip,

The tone of the bass is beautiful. Nice and warm and rich. I do wish you had included velocity controlled bends and a few slides though. I respect your reasoning for not doing this but I like to have those options in my sound sets. I don't care to much for key switching because it seems to interrupt my playing, but velocity and mod wheel articulations are always welcome. Trilogy's Acoustic Bass has a nice bend sound the harder you play and IMHO it sounds pretty cool. However, hard core bass does the same thing to the extent that some of the sounds are hard to play. You have to play so lightly to not trigger any of the bends and slides that it's hard to get any volume out of the patch.

With all of this said, your bass has such a warm, beautiful tone. Well done!

All the very best,

Darren

[Bardstown Audio]

Darren,

Thanks so much for you compliments, which are very much appreciated!

You can certainly select the pitch bend controller in you software sampler and have pitch bending with the pitch wheel on your controller. There are four velocity layers of sustained notes on this bass, plus there are release note off samples which capture the sound of the finger coming off of the finger board. These release note off samples add a great deal of character to this instrument, though they are subtle and not over bearing. In the various software samplers you can adjust the volume and responses of these release note off samples as well.

Kip McGinnis
Bardstown Audio
www.bardstownaudio.com

[Alan Russell]

Kip,

The tone of the bass is beautiful. Nice and warm and rich. I do wish you had included velocity controlled bends and a few slides though. I respect your reasoning for not doing this but I like to have those options in my sound sets. I don't care to much for key switching because it seems to interrupt my playing, but velocity and mod wheel articulations are always welcome. Trilogy's Acoustic Bass has a nice bend sound the harder you play and IMHO it sounds pretty cool. However, hard core bass does the same thing to the extent that some of the sounds are hard to play. You have to play so lightly to not trigger any of the bends and slides that it's hard to get any volume out of the patch.

With all of this said, your bass has such a warm, beautiful tone. Well done!

All the very best,

Darren


Hi Darren,

the warm tone for sure was certainly acheived by Kip here. As far as the bends goes, ones controller can take of that virtually. This is what I've normally used with other Bass Samples in a Jazz Trio (Piano, Bass & Drums) in prior demos.

Alan Russell

[Alan Russell]

Very nice indeed! Fits in great with your other **exceptionally** great sample libraries.


Sporter,

I have a strong feeling that the combos between the Bardstown Bose, Archtop guitars and this new Bass is going to be some good trip for many.
I'd bet one could create some terrific virtual Jazz quartet scores with a lounge type of atmosphere feel.

What do you think?

Alan Russell