easier than what I had been doing. But I would
get panic attacks a little bit when I had to read
bass cleft, it would be way easier in treble cleft.
I just have this muscle memory of treble cleft,
but it was a good learning experience to be
able to know both.
[WM] DC, in your webinar you also talked
about how you used the sustain pedal to cover
the transitions from keys back to bass. Can you
talk about that?
[DC] I wish I actually had my sustain pedals for
the webinar. But it all started out, when I was
using the Moog Sub Phatty, at first I didn’t use
a sustain pedal. There was always this little gap
between releasing the note I was playing and
switching to bass, and there would be a beat
or two with no bass because I was switching.
And I really didn’t want to do that, I wanted a
seamless thing, so I got a sustain pedal. One of
the inputs on the Moog you can use as sustain
or expression, so if I’m playing a song and I’m
holding at a G on the Moog, I can just hit the
sustain and that G will last as long as my foot is
on it, and then that gives me time to switch over
to electric. Once I release my foot from that
sustain the Moog sound is cut off. Sometimes
if I’m holding out a note on the Moog I’ll kind of
being ready. But not being a slave to it is huge, exactly what to do. But you’ve got Korg’s Bass swell in on the electric bass on the same note
and even though it’s an intricate system with Station, which is an iteration of essentially the so that when I release the note the electric bass
Ableton, you can still be ready for anything, same thing, a low frequency keyboard that is already there. So it makes it a seamless thing,
because that’s the most important thing. can get a good texture. I think, especially with and sustain pedals are super cheap and way
modern worship music and instrumentation, easier than trying to time out the release of the
[WM] So DC, I loved your webinar this past you can use it more and more now than the note.
weekend on your setup, including how you years before.
integrate the Sub Phatty into your live setup.
Can you recap some of that for us?
[DC] In case you don’t know what we’re
[WM] You guys are both top-level touring
[WM] The first time you started integrating a musicians, but you also play at church. With the
bass keyboard into your rig, did you have any addition of all this gear, how do you approach
‘holy cow’ panic attack moments? being prepared to bring everything with you so
talking about, the Sub Phatty really is just a
you don’t show up on a Sunday and find you
Moog sub bass, that’s just a specific brand of [DC] I think back when I was first starting to forgot a DI or something because you were
bass keyboard essentially. It’s in the same vein play at church, the church that I was a part of practicing or something the night before?
as why a drummer might use a Roland pad, to was more of a choir and orchestra where we give it a different texture. You can do different read sheet music and rhythm charts, so I kind [DC] Even yesterday I played at church, and
things on it that you might not be able to do of went into that spectrum first. So when I got what’s nice about the church setting is you
with your electric bass. There are so many into the modern setting I felt like it was super can prepare ahead of time. For the most part,
different brands out there, I just picked Moog easy to use just the chord charts with the lyrics I know what the songs are going to be for that
because I loved the interface of it and I know and then the chord on top, I felt like it was way week, so I can know ahead of time what I need
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