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See how Squarepusher uses Tokai Jazz Sound Fretless

Squarepusher

Bassist, Music Producer

Squarepusher & AFX

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Verified via The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music

In this June, 2021 interview with The Wire, Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, details the gear used on Feed Me Weird Things:

Tokai fretless Jazz Bass

Regarding the bass playing on “The Swifty”, I was trying to escape a little from assertive transients and lack of timbral variety, influenced by the textures jazz saxophonists and other wind players got from their instruments. To assist that, I accentuated the mid-range and rolled off some of the low frequencies on the Tokai bass, audible here with a worn fingerboard. It was recorded direct to DAT as I didn't have a multitrack recorder at this time, which meant I had to play the bass part from start to finish in a single take along to the live MIDI playback.

The sound at the beginning of “Windscale 2” is an effect I achieved by rapidly tapping the strings with a plectrum and then processing the result with varying amounts of reverb. Related to this is the cello-like sound, audible initially at 2:29 and heard more or less in isolation at 6:26. This was made by rubbing one of the strings with a 50 pence coin in an attempt to approximate bowing characteristics but with a more abrasive and metallic timbre.

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