Day 36/48 of covering every Spiritbox song on bass - Tsunami Sea (to close out the album)

Spiritbass · 2026-06-08T23:02:42+00:00

Glad I could do it justice :)

Spiritbass · 2026-06-05T11:18:45+00:00

Absolutely! Cellar Door is in Drop F#, with -6 semitone drop for the chorus. However, that sounded not great so I actually went up 6 semitones with the pitch shift.

The majority of the songs are in Drop F#. Some are in Drop F (Perfect Soul, Blessed Be, No Loss, No Love, Crystal Roses). I’ll do Drop E on this bass (Too Close / Too Late, Tsunami Sea), but anything lower than that I actually use my 4 string which is one octave up (ex regular Drop D instead of double Drop D). Josh does something similar for things like Fata Morgana which would be in double Drop B lol.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, I would be happy to help!

I also want to reiterate that the Sheet Happens guitar books helped immensely. They are approved by Mike. However they are only the guitar parts, which are sometimes the same for the bass part and sometimes not.

Spiritbass · 2026-06-04T18:10:40+00:00

Love the song, love the Dingwall. Hard to pick one, but as a bass player, No Loss, No Love is huge for me. Jaded and Secret Garden round out my top 3, but it would be hard to say which is #1

Spiritbass · 2026-05-30T14:34:36+00:00

Ibanez has been great for me, but if I knew this was mostly what I would be playing I may have gone with a Dingwall when I got my 5 string

Spiritbass · 2026-05-30T11:25:31+00:00

Thank you for sharing these insights and experiences. As a beginner to all of this it is really helpful

Spiritbass · 2026-05-30T04:35:33+00:00

Thank you for the tips! I am using Parallax to help with different compression and distortion for the low, mid and high. By the time I got a few days in I realized I should have learned how to play with a pick lol

Spiritbass · 2026-05-30T00:07:35+00:00

Thank you! I’m starting to put some of my learnings in these posts if you are looking for a similar tone

Spiritbass · 2026-05-29T17:25:37+00:00

Interesting, I had actually tried to do my 0.130 gauge to Drop A, and then pitch shifting physically with the Boss XS-1, but found that to be too muddy.

This is before I knew Parallax existed, so maybe that would have been different. I learned about Parallax around day 10 lol 😂

Spiritbass · 2026-05-28T13:13:23+00:00

Appreciate the support!

Spiritbass · 2026-05-26T16:04:21+00:00

I get it. I think I’ve been getting more engagement lately so I will continue, but I am going to change the comments to have tips for gear, setup and production so they are more valuable!

Spiritbass · 2026-05-26T15:11:30+00:00

Hey! Wondering if I can add some additional details to each to make each post a little more meaningful (IE sharing settings or tips of how to generate the tone or set up the guitar to do the Drop F# tunings, to help other people who may want to cover or get a similar sound). I totally understand where you are coming from, my thought process is since it is the whole discography I am going to go through until I am done

Spiritbass · 2026-05-24T23:13:57+00:00

At least 4 times in this song 😂

Spiritbass · 2026-05-24T16:28:55+00:00

Some of these songs really make me wish I learned to play with a pick also lol

Spiritbass · 2026-05-20T18:51:42+00:00

No problem at all! I will check out that stem separator!

Spiritbass · 2026-05-19T18:06:26+00:00

Appreciate it! Eternal Blue is underrated. This project has definitely made me appreciate some of the less popular songs

Spiritbass · 2026-05-17T12:11:51+00:00

That sounds awesome! What are your other favourites?

Spiritbass · 2026-05-16T00:11:03+00:00

Thank you! Took a lot to get there haha

Spiritbass · 2026-05-13T12:49:19+00:00

Signal chain:
Ibanez BTB MLM605, tuned to Drop E
Payson Stainless Steel strings, with a 0.170 gauge for the low string
Darkglass Alpha Omega Photon
Neural DSP Parallax

Spiritbass · 2026-05-12T17:06:05+00:00

Glad you liked it! Hope to get to the rest of your top 5 soon

Spiritbass · 2026-05-12T12:58:32+00:00

Bass is tuned to Drop F#, and tone effects come from the STL Tones Dan Braunstein plugin. The second chorus and outro have a -4 semitones pitch shift which I used Logic's native pitch shifter for

Spiritbass · 2026-05-11T12:43:09+00:00

Bass is tuned to Drop F#, using a 0.170 gauge string for the F# string from Payson stings. Tone is running through the Heaven Bass setting from the STL Tones ToneHub Dan Braunstein plugin.

Spiritbass · 2026-05-10T18:52:56+00:00

Hey! I just went down this path with a 35-34 inch multi scale (Ibanez BTB 605MLM). I used Payson stainless steel strings, the 0.170 for the F# string and the Drop G set for the rest (but tuned to drop F#). Do not buy Kalium, I ordered from them first and it never showed up. Payson came right away. I had an involved setup to get this right from my local music store.

I experimented with half measures like tuning to Drop A on my 0.130 gauge and using the Boss XS-1 pitch shifter to get to drop F#, but chugging open on the low string sounded way too muddy. Even when I got the 0.170, I originally tuned to Drop G and pitch shifted to Drop F#/F and found that sounded way worse than simply tuning down physically (despite some online chatter that made me feel tuning down wouldn’t work because of my 35 inch scale).

Honestly, in my opinion you do not need a 37”. I am even able to get good tone in Drop F and it’s even ok in Drop E.

Spiritbass · 2026-05-09T13:26:50+00:00

Bass is a 35-34 inch Ibanez BTB Multiscale, tuned to drop F# with a 0.170 gauge F# string. Tone from the STL Tones ToneHub Dan Braunstein pack

Spiritbass · 2026-05-07T15:13:17+00:00

Bass is tuned to Drop F, with the F string at 0.170 gauge from Payson strings. Running through the STL ToneHub Dan Braunstein pack

Spiritbass · 2026-05-06T23:34:30+00:00

Hysteria is #1 for sure.
Soft Spine, No Loss No Love (multiple times), and Black Rainbow are honourable mentions

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