Here's a #straturday in a minimal darkwave style. I've been neglecting my bass for a while so I decided to bring it out and what better genre to feature bass than darkwave. I also used my spectra drive bass pedal to push the signal a bit more than usual rather than try and push the signal digitally. Pedals usually sound way better than software and it turned out sounding really good on the bass. For the strat parts I used my axe fx 2 for the effects. The red strat has an eighth note delay on it so it will repeat one note 8 times which allows you to play very minimally but get an interesting sound that's a bit more elaborate. The partsocaster has an ambient array of effects on it that let it fade into the background as a wash. I also wanted to bring in some mangled sounding synth for the darkwave feel so I used my Akai mpk 3 and rapture as the synth to bring in a simple note progression in the second half of the song. I close out the song with my Stephen Carpenter ESP LTD as it has a longer scale that's easier for the higher up notes on the neck. I created a crazy effects chain in guitar rig 6 for that synthy sound on the guitar. That's all for now, thanks for listening :-)
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