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ndrly
10-15-2007, 08:43 PM
My guitar teacher told me that the distorted sound on Blur's song 2 was on bass guitar. Is this true? And if so, what distortion would Alex James have used?

Wasim
10-15-2007, 11:34 PM
It is played on bass. Don't know about what kind of distortion, try looking up Alex James.

Depth_Charge
10-17-2007, 06:26 AM
I did a looksie on the net.

He used a Marshall Shreadmaster bass distortion pedal through a 300W Ampeg SVT2 valve head...as quoted on this blog site at least:

http://www.suw.org.uk/music-journalism/view-from-the-crew-blur-live/

Cheers,

D_C

guy n. cognito
10-17-2007, 07:34 AM
The bass is distorted on Song 2. I just use by EBS Multidrive in Tube mode. Works just fine.