by Malcolm Boyce » Mon May 02, 2011 2:12 pm
So, something unusual came my way with a bass player using what we ended up calling the "Electric Sponge"®. On an upright bass, he has a condenser element of some sort, mounted inside a sponge, covered in an old drumhead. It is mounted up high on the body, and with his right hand he plays it with a drum brush, while plucking the bass. It is essentially providing that "snare" on the backbeat kinda sound, but that is way oversimplifying what he does with it. The technique is ingenious.
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