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11-10-2010, 01:44 PM
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I see plenty of recommendations for rock rigs jazz rigs ect but never for a funk rig. iv looked at rocos rig and what have you but not really sure what any modern funk players use, paul turner has an ace tone by using the aguilar db751 into the aguilar db412. im currently running a 60s jazz bass into a soundcity b200 plus through a ampeg 412hlf. not ideal for funk 
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11-10-2010, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: UK | | | 4x10 hlf i meant and surely someone other than me is interested in funk playing on this forum other than me |
11-10-2010, 03:34 PM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | Thing is that you can play funk through a variety of rigs...
I don't consider myself a guru of bass, but I do play in a funk band.
I'm playing a Genz Benz head through a BFM Omni10 cab, or sometimes an Omni10 and Omni10.5 (310 vertical stack). Sounds great. I may switch to a fEarful 15/6/1 cab.
I want plenty of bottom, sizzle on top when I slap, and strong mids. I don't like a scooped sound, though there's plenty of people who do.
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11-10-2010, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Long Beach, CA | | I play a lot of funk. If you consider James Brown funk.
I'm using an old Ampeg V4-B with a 2 X 12 cab. I love it.
And it is true, a variety of rigs will do.  |
11-10-2010, 03:52 PM
|  | THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER! | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA; Mitchellville, Maryland | | | There are LOADS of rigs that'll work... Personally, I think this whole rig for this, rig for that mentality is more than a little off. If you have decent gear and play well, you'll be able to cop a decent tone for pretty much any genre.
I have a Markbass F500 and Bergantino AE410, before that a Ibanez Promethean P500H and Hartke HyDrive cabs, before that a Markbass LMII and Epifani PS112. Each one could do pretty much any tone I wanted for any genre. The only reason I even changed rigs in the first place was to get something louder, lol.
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11-10-2010, 04:08 PM
| | | | I think funk is more about an approach, than a "tone", given the incredibly wide array of that which is considered funk. I was going to mention the possibility to just mention amps/cabs/rigs you can't play funk on, and I can't think of many, if any. Even the 15 watt 1x8 Fender combo could be funky, but surely quietly funky...
You dig?
I mean you've got MMW, Parliament, Stanley Clarke, Level 42, Jamiroquai, RHCP, Marcus Miller, Tower of Power, and so many purveyors of funk of all kinds. Funk rigs? Probably anything.
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11-10-2010, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by 60jbass91 surely someone other than me is interested in funk playing on this forum other than me | I know I am!
I can DIG it!
Nuff said.
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11-10-2010, 04:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | | Played through a GBE1200 -> Accugroove El Wappo once and that thing had big fat bottom for days. |
11-10-2010, 04:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Depends on the "Funk", methinks. For old school Motown, you want a big warm sound with punch; For '80s funk ala Marcus Miller, you want something hi-fi...
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11-10-2010, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jackcheez I play a lot of funk. If you consider James Brown funk.
| Dude...they don't call him the Godfather for nothin'!
Check out how funky he got with his bad self right around 1965.
I can DIG it!
Nuff said.
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11-10-2010, 04:37 PM
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hey, you can play funk on any rig. if you can't, it ain't the rig's fault.
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11-10-2010, 04:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: UK | | | jimmym that is the one of the best things iv ever seen written about bass playing |
11-10-2010, 05:00 PM
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