When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the basses you hear today.
Quotes about basses (6 Quotes)
If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.
The voice has a limited frequency range, ... So, to make it beneficial for singers, we had to dampen the basses by using softer, more flexible surfaces for the side walls. You'd never do that in a symphony hall - people love to hear the deep bottom of the bass section.
Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
We're still working on it. We've just been on a mammoth hunt for a singer. Because of the singers the three of us have had in the past, it's sort of a big thing to measure anybody by. As for the music itself, it's a really weird cross between northern soul, reggae, New Order, Stones Roses and the Smiths. The three basses work together on a few tracks, which I was delighted about, because everyone was laughing at us for wanting to do it.
I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it.