"Sultans of Swing" - bass cover - by DoobieBrother

Goofing around again on my new 6-atring bass and did a video cover of the bass part to "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits.
Made my typical number of errors, & embellishments, but it was minimal.
The next post will be of the bong tokes I took at the begining of each attempt to record it all the way through without a horrible mistake.
Enjoy!

[video=youtube_share;C1pXkW-5N5E]http://youtu.be/C1pXkW-5N5E[/video]

Here is "The Making of 'Sultans of Swing' Bass Cover Video":

[video=youtube_share;UgJQ6EcHF54]http://youtu.be/UgJQ6EcHF54[/video]

hey awesome videos
what is that thing that you use to cap your cone?

Thanks for the kind words.

The cap is just an old medicine bottle cap that happened to fit around the rim of the bowl. But I had to remove the paper gasket before using it as a bowl capper.
I call it: The MBBC-5000 mk-II™ (formerly known as the "Medicine Bottle Bowl Capper 1.0™", and then there was the military-only version called the "Superheterodyne Phallangecally Applied Combustion Cessation Device #420™".
There have been many prototypes, too, ranging from aluminum foil, to coins of the realm, and the ill-marketed "Hydrogen Balloon Bowl Capper" that, unfortunately did NOT go over with the "bang" that we thought it would, if you catch my meaning.
*cough*nuclearholocaust*cough*.
Those poor bastards in Philly never knew what hit them...
In the name of "Research", they will not be forgotten...

nice cover! I'm a bassist too, but don't own a sixer. cuts through well. what's the brand?

Thanks, my fellow bassican!
It's an Ibanez GSR206, their entry level 6-string bass, but it's not a bad instrument for the price.
I run mine through a Boss GT-10B bass fx processor into a small Behringer mixer and into my computer (Windows Vista, using an M-audio "Delta Audiophile 2496" sound card).
I currently live in a tiny apartment, so I only use the headphones (Audio-technica M50s), but the wife & I are about 6 weeks from moving into a house, so I can finally go back to playing through my amp again!
To cut through the original mix I process the song in Ableton Suite 8.2.8 using an 8-band EQ to drop out most of the bass guitar frequencies. I record that by itself as a .WAV file, then use that to play along to and fill the bass part back in on a separate track.
Then record the two tracks back together and run it through a Dynamic Processor plug-in and a Mastering utility to boost the gain back up towards 0dB (all native Ableton tools).
Still working on dialing it in, but have made progress over the course a number of cover vids (some had HORRIBLE sound).
Anywho, thanks for spending the time to check out the vid!
Will be posting more & more vids after moving and will always post link here in the music thread.
Peace!