Hi everyone. Back with another Rush cover after quite some time! I had wanted to redo a better video/playthrough for 'The Big Money' from Power Windows, as it is probably my top Geddy bassline along with YYZ and I thought it would be fun to do some synth stuff for it too. This one took quite a lot of work and that's partly why it took so long for me to find enough time to get it all done until this past week. Hopefully it is worth the wait!
I have made several additions/changes to my rig since I last recorded a video, so this is the first cover featuring my Sansamp PSA-1, and my Neural DSP Quad Cortex which I added quite recently. Now that I am fairly settled on my setup, I will do a video soon going through how I use all my equipment together to get the different elements of my sound. Basically, this video is the PSA-1 for my distorted sound, the GED-2112 for a clean DI bass sound (with most of the low end) and my Trace Elliot for the higher slappy and twangy sounds all brought together in the Quad Cortex where I can tweak the various components with eq and compression etc.
The synth parts are all made and recorded with my Groovesynthesis 3rd Wave. That industrial 'ping' sound in the middle section was always a really interesting one to me, so I had a lot of fun making the patch for that one. It's also a great demonstration of how well the synth does virtual analog sounds with the brass parts of the intro! There are a couple more layers of synths I recorded but didn't film - mainly a lower level choir pad that I have going through the brass intro/outro sections, and some brass swells during the chords. I couldn't work out how to get the choir patch exactly how it sounds on Power Windows, but I think it ended up being quite a nice sound anyway so I was pleased with the result. I also didn't attempt doing my own versions of some of the sounds which Rush just sampled and triggered, just the parts that were more like 'traditional synth parts'. It was already a lot of work as it is :D
I recorded two angles for my bass playthrough to mix and match, but the lighting for the front on camera was quite poor and it didn't come out well. I decided to just use it as a mini cam in the corner and have them both running at once to save myself having to re-record everything again. I hope it's not annoying to have 2 videos going at the same time!
I have some recordings from my tribute bands first gig which I will upload as soon as I finish editing them, so expect those soon.
Hope you enjoy this one! A top 5 Rush song in my books
Hemi
Gear used:
Fender Jazz bass (Geddy Signature) with Rotosound Swingbass66 strings
Groovesynthesis 3rd Wave
Sansamp PSA-1 through a Palmer PDI-05
GED-2112
Trace Elliot GP12X
Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Roland PK-5 Midi pedals
I used clips from the music video for the song which I will link here: • Rush - The Big Money (...
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