Sunday 23 August 2015

Why I only produce bass for Rocksmith Customs

The reason I am only producing bass parts for Rocksmith customs is that I can't play, and don't currently have, a guitar.

The tabs for songs available on the web are very hit and miss. Some are perfect reproductions, others build your hopes up until you're halfway through the custom creation process, and you realise that it would be easier to start from scratch.

Being a bass player, I can correct the flaws in any bass tabs, but if I were to include guitar parts, I'm 100% reliant on the guys at the Classic Rock Coalition on CustomsForge to test out my tabs. I'm really not keen on asking them to test a guitar part which could be utter rubbish - I don't want to waste their time. I'd rather concentrate on producing the best bass CDLC which I can.

This may sound selfish but on CustomsForge, there are many guitar-only customs which I'd love to play bass to. I've contacted a couple of the creators only to be told that they either may do it at some point or after uploading the custom, they were sick to death of the track.

There is a bass emulation mode on Rocksmith, so the guitarists don't really have an excuse to not supply the bass track for every custom. Bassists aren't so lucky unfortunately as there's no guitar emulation mode for bass.

Until I can get hold of a guitar, all my CDLC will be bass-only. I've been disappointed by some customs where the bass has been very poorly written - I don't want any guitarists to feel the same about my work.


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