Here's my attempt at covering Stefan Lessard's bass part on the Dave Matthews Band song, "American Baby." Go easy on me, I'm a longtime guitar player that just started messing around on bass in the past couple of weeks. Working on my finger style technique which feels a bit strange still, so there are some timing issues here and there.

I noticed something strange with the tuning on this song. It seems that either Stefan's G string was slightly out of tune or he was bending it out of tune (or the intonation on his bass was out slightly) during the moving bass part in the bridge. My bass was tuned dead-on with perfect intonation (based on two different tuners) and every time I hit the D flat in that run, it was out of tune. I even played the fretted D flat on that string through two tuners and it was dead on. Quite odd, and I couldn't figure out how to fix the issue.

Here's the recording rundown (in signal path order):

-Ibanez SR500 bass with Rotosound Nexus Bass strings (slight bass rolloff, mids boosted, highs rolled off about 60%)
-Samson C-valve preamp
-Line 6 TonePort KB37
-POD Farm (Vetta Compressor and Eden Traveler WT-300 amp model)
-Ableton Live
-Waves C1 Noise Gate
-Waves API 2500 compressor

I threw the Waves API 550B EQ on the song and cut all bass frequencies from 200Hz down -6dB. This did a great job of making the original bass track inaudible. So the bass you're hearing is all me.

Drop a comment, let me know what you think. Thanks for watching!