foomanfat wrote:I don't get the culture of "praise and worship boards," but then I don't care for the notion of having to have a certain pedal to play a certain style in any case, be it doom, post-rock, etc. I use what I like and what I think sounds good in the context. This is coming from someone who does play regularly at a church.
That said, I think you see a lot of really similar setups because, in most cases, these players are simply recreating a tone that is very common in the style of music.
Bingo. I've played in church bands since I started playing bass (actually, it was a worship pastor who taught me to play) and it's basically that. A good overdrive, a distortion for lead lines, and a delay and some simple modulation for guitar. Delays play a big part of most of the songs, my buddy uses a Timeline and actually programs his delay times into his presets for each service. Like any type of music, "praise and worship" music has a kind of formula, but it's always what the band makes of it.
Depending on the size of the church, there is a pretty high production value. It's kind of what's expected at certain size churches, for better or worse. As a bassist, I kept a constant overdrive and a bit of delay or reverb to fill space. I also would use fuzz and filter to fill in for synth, if the song called for it. I was never paid, but some musicians in our church were.
This isn't me on bass in this song, but I did play in this band from time to time. My wife is actually one of the vocalists on this recording, she's on the far right:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za_3uBrCvoc[/youtube]
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