Show your videos on YouTube

Quote: Jay, I'm gonna be straight up with you… you need to bring the song you're covering down and bring your bass up in the audio mix. I can't hear your playing over the song.So for that matter, you can just be going through the motions on these songs and it looks right, but I can't hear your tone.I'm not criticising, I want to hear your bass more and the music less. First of all, I like to create a balanced mix. I always start with removing the original bassline as far as the mix allows. Then I mix my recorded bass track with the remaining track. If you listen to the original Fraek Out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlvnKgqijmw, You'll hear the difference in tone and playing style. On my YT channel you'll find numerous covers where I played a different bassline, or with a different tone. Good speakers or full size headphones help a lot of course. Above all, we all have our personal preferences, which is a good thing. Here's a video that explains my way of working:Have a nice weekend,Jay

Many original songs are mixed with the bass at a pretty low level. In most cases my bass is just a bit louder than the original. I guess it's my preference to keep the composition rather balanced. I'm not criticizing others, but I just don't see why I should overplay a song. After all, making music is fun, not a contest.

Thing I hate most about doing covers is that sometimes my tone is exactly the same as the recording so it's hard to tell what's mine or what's the original recording, does that occasionally happen to anyone else?

Quote: Thing I hate most about doing covers is that sometimes my tone is exactly the same as the recording so it's hard to tell what's mine or what's the original recording, does that occasionally happen to anyone else? I wish. My tone is often a far cry from the one in production.