Released in 1999 by Finnish Hip Hop group, Bomfunk MC's, 'Freestyler' was a pretty hot tune on MTV and the airwaves.

As a 17 year old teenager at the time, 'Freestyler' was one of those tunes I either heard in the ice skating rink or in night spots that I passed. The groove and arrangement was always catchy to me, but I only recently realised that the song also had a killer synth bassline.

I don't have a synth pedal, so I've tried to emulate the tone with my fretless Yamaha BB235


Equipment used:
Bass:
Defretted Yamaha BB235
Nordstrand Power Blade neck pickup (100%)
Nordstrand Warm and Wooly J Blade bridge pickup (50%)
500K Dunlop Super Pots
0.068uf Tone Capacitor (wide open)
Schaller machine heads
Elixir coated nickel plated roundwound strings (0.045 to 0.130)

Audio:
Boss GT-1B used as audio interface
Markbass amp sim with organic cab sim
Fat Compressor patch
Edited in Reaper

Video:
iPhone 7
Edited in Davinci Resolve 16