Making Wait Up’s funky bass and guitar grooves

Roosevelt’s sound is chock-full of real instruments that give it an authentic, organic feel…

01 > Marius played Wait Up’s bassline on a Höfner short scale bass guitar. The audio is processed with Logic’s built-in effects: it’s warmed up with Bass Amp Designer, lightly compressed with Compressor, tonally tweaked with Channel EQ and distorted with Clip Distortion.

02 > Soloed, the bass sounds surprisingly distorted. “I always put more drive on the bass, just to make sure that it’s noticeable in the mix,” Marius explains. Another technique that helps the bass stand out in the mix is that it’s doubled with guitar parts panned hard left and right.

03 > These parts are run through Logic’s Pedalboard and different Amp Designer settings are used on the left and right channels to create a wide stereo sound. Small sections where the guitar parts are delayed are overdubbed over the main tracks. The Pedalboard’s Delay effect stomp box is used to get this effect.

04 The delay levels are automated to rapidly drop in volume once the effect is over, effectively working like a manual gate. During the verse Marius adds some pitch-bent ‘twangs’ created by bending his guitar’s neck to add some flavour to the proceedings.