Bass VI + Mel9 = A nice pairing

We recently did some improvised music using the Tascam Portastudio 2488neo. After recording a layer of rhythmic content involving the Roland MC-707 and a Squier Jazz Bass, we decided to add some melodic content on top. One band member used the Roland V-Synth and the other one used the Squier Bass VI.

The Bass VI has recently sounded rather noisy, but we still wanted to use on this performance since it's essentially our third member—all our songs have featured it. To that end, we brought out the EHX Mel9 pedal and made the effect cover up most of the Bass VI tonalities (and the whiny output noise). We went for the High Choir setting, one of the unit's more infrequently used Mellotron colorations. The signal chain also involved using the NUX Atlantic for both delay and reverb.

We made a video of the improvisation and just uploaded it to YouTube https://youtu.be/uvabhcrciFU, if anyone's interested.