Rhodes bass with Spectrasonics Keyscape

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are huge fans of the Fender Rhodes electric piano, and in MatingCall, one use for it was to add a thickening layer to the bass. Daniël: “We wanted a bit more body, and recently we bought this fantastic package: Keyscape from Spectrasonics. This one is like a really low Rhodes bassline. We took off the lows, because all the lows are in the Moog, and we didn’t want clutter.” Hans: “A lot of Afro tracks feature a lot of slightly detuned instruments. The top and Keyscape bass is detuned by about 20 cents. Combined, there’s a flowing feel.” Daniël: “The top bassline also goes to an aux channel with a spring reverb. It gives this vintage, echoey feel to it. It’s just on the top frequencies of the bassline. Then all the bass layers go to one aux channel with some warm tape distortion, just to glue it.”