News! J-Fingered 1 - demo song uploaded!

[SCARBEE]

J-Fingered 1 - demo song uploaded!!

A new demosong from Scarbee J-Fingered has been uploaded today!

The J-Fingered 1 demo - bridge-pick-up solo -Stone-Age-Fusion and bass solo with reverb.

As usual you can also listen to the bass track solo too.

The next demoes will be combi-demoes using both J-Fingered and J-Slap + the Expansion Packs.


cheers
Scarbee

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[Munsie]

Thanks for more demos. It\'s nice to see at least one person is getting good use from your libraries. http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif

[Simon Ravn]

Muhahahhhahahaha http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif)

[SCARBEE]

I started to play bass when I was 17 - a bit late... Just after highschool I got a slave-job at the national TV where my dad worked. He was very proud of me and told everybody that I was a great bassist - and that I could read scores and everything! (I was not - I had only played for 1-2 years)

One day a girl came to me, who played trombone in the Big Band for the emploeyees of the TV Station. (Many of these used to be pro\'s...) The bass player was sick and they needed a stand-in for him as they had to rehearse for a gig. She had heard rumours about me and my father had convinced her that I was the man! Confused and flattered I said yes.(At that time it would take me most of a day just to look at a jazz score for bass...)

I came to the rehearsal and pluged in my bass in the amplifier and was handed a thick book with songs. On the book it said \"Mads Winding\" (he is a world class bassist in jazz) I then heard \"We take number 256! then a few seconds later: \"1,2 - 1,2,3,4....

Well, well well... fortunately I had not turned the volume much up and I just played \"black\"! After the song the leader said: \"Cool swing, but we couldn\'t hear the notes! Can you turn up a bit?. After a short break my nightmare was over.

Now this demo was originally (1984) someting I played solo over - I have cut out 3-4 chords as they were too weird - even in this song.

Playing solo over this wasn\'t fun either - I remember..But that was the eighties right?

cheers

Thomas

PS: I was fun making this demo - my wife HATE it so much...

[This message has been edited by SCARBEE (edited 10-30-2001).]

[SCARBEE]

Munsie,

It has gone to manufacturing so it will be out soon. (have I said this before? http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/blush.gif)

cheers

Thomas

[SCARBEE]

Hi Simon,

Is it the demo or Munsie\'s comment (Which IS very funny...) that makes you laugh. Could be both though.

Thomas

[SCARBEE]

I have uploaded a new version - with more detailed drums...

cheers

Scarbee

[Simon Ravn]

Nono your demo is great as usual. It was Munsie... http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif

[SCARBEE]

Whew... Simon,

Good. It\'s no fun making a bad demo - even if this is 1980-retro-stuff.

I\'ll sleep better now...

[Matt Ragan]

Scarbee, you\'ve taken this sampling stuff to such an unbelievably high level - upon listening to this demo my jaw hit the floor and my socks blew off somewhere into the next county! I don\'t even think it would\'ve occurred to me that this was sampled bass if I didn\'t know already. I certainly would\'ve thought it was an amazingly hot player, though.

Man, YOU ROCK!

[KBub]

First: the demos are stunning.

Second: the libraries are stunninger (well J-Slap anyway... http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/wink.gif). I can attest to the fact that you can get as much out of the library as Scarbee does in the demos. The quality of the samples and the great programming make it a joy to program awesome bass parts. (This also depresses me since I play bass and it\'s getting harder for me to justify recording real bass).

Third: Scarbee, what are those drums on the stone-age-fusion demo? Did you spend a lot of time processing them or do they sound like that out of the box?

KB

[SCARBEE]

Hi KBub:

This is the best thing you could ever say - that it is possible to do cool stuff with the libraries! One of my friends does a lot of very cool bass-lines on these libraries - today he played a fingered-bass line for me done pn the J-Fingered (He is a beta-tester)... I thought: \"Damn! Why didn\'t I think about that.\"

About the drums: Realistic drums are always a big problem. This drumset is a mix of many libraries:

Kick: Groove Masters drums (Akai/Audio)
Snare: Real Megadrums: JMSNR04 (Akai)
Hihat: Ross Garfield: The drumdoctor\'s drums 2: Zildjian 14
Toms: Groove Masters drums
Crash Cymbals: Groove Masters drums
Ride Cymbals: Drum tools.

All the gigs are homemade except Real Megadrums which is a conversion.
I have added a bit reverb to the kit to make it sound like one kit.

[SCARBEE]

Hi Matt:

It\'s great hearing from you! Thanks a lot for your comments - will you come up with something new soon too?

cheers

Thomas