So I have cobbled together a little supergroup comprised of me and the bassist for the band we both got kicked out of/quit years ago. It has really been going well. Me, him, and a Roland TR-707.

Problem/issue: there are two songs we are working on in which he adopts a non-bass instrument called a six-string electric guitar. We would like to have a bassline in the song.

Don't ask: no, a friend will not play bass. No, we will not add another guitarist.

I'm looking for a way to record the bass prior to an occasion such as a show or massive stadium concert onto something that allows a sort of start/stop capability, without spending a lot of money.

So I'm asking:

A) How can you mock up a bass live with the capacity to start and stop it (in other words, without pushing play on a cassette machine)?

B) Anybody do this?

Feel free to kerble, I had no idea how to search for a question such as this one.

sampler? I have started doing this shit on my MPC.

Record the bass track and import into a sampler....example is the MPC.

guitar+octave pedal+loop pedal.

Is the 707 MIDI capable? To sync the bass and drums up properly you probably need some kind of little sequencer or something that you can run the drum machine from.

Loop pedal can store bass lines. Hit the button and it plays. Mine can store like 7, and I can cycle through them on the fly for changes.
Problem solved.

Marsupialized wrote:Loop pedal can store bass lines. Hit the button and it plays. Mine can store like 7, and I can cycle through them on the fly for changes.
Problem solved.

don't we have the same one? the b ig boss one? can't it store more than that? i haven't checked, i don't store things on it.

that damned fly wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Loop pedal can store bass lines. Hit the button and it plays. Mine can store like 7, and I can cycle through them on the fly for changes.
Problem solved.

don't we have the same one? the b ig boss one? can't it store more than that? i haven't checked, i don't store things on it.

Mine is the double one not the huge expensive one
I bought the extra footswitch so I can cycle through the saved loops

i've used an iPod with the bass in one channel and a click in the other. i route the bass to a DI and the click to a mixer which i plug some headphones into. works great. done dozens of gigs like this.

Synthetic, or recorded bass? The TR-707 can do MIDI, so of you want synthetic bass, you could use a synth and a sequencer.

Marsupialized wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Loop pedal can store bass lines. Hit the button and it plays. Mine can store like 7, and I can cycle through them on the fly for changes.
Problem solved.

don't we have the same one? the b ig boss one? can't it store more than that? i haven't checked, i don't store things on it.

Mine is the double one not the huge expensive one
I bought the extra footswitch so I can cycle through the saved loops

i have two of those double ones. i need to buy a footswitch for at least one of them.