Hi,
I'm not getting any answers in the bassists forum so I'm trying here. It's not totally irrelevant to this forum.
I really love the slap bass sound that Levi Seacer had circa 1987/1988 during the Sign of The Times and Lovesexy tours.
I'm talking particularly about the sound he gets when he pops/plucks as opposed to when he slaps/thumps. It's a really really fat pop sound even when he pops on the on the G string.
This is the slap sound I want most. I've uploaded a version of Alphabet Street from the Lovesexy rehearsals. There isn't much of the sound on this recording - I haven't had a chance to go through all the live recordings and find better examples yet - but you get the idea. At 0:31 you hear the sound I'm after.
The version of 'Head' I've included doesn't illustrate the fatness that well but it's a good example of the general tone.
I play a USA Fender passive jazz bass. I've played through various amps, cabs and gone direct in studios and I've always been able to get a nice jazz bass slap sound very easily but it's never been quite like Levi's sound. What are the ingredients of that tone? Is it to do with gain or EQ or what?
Thanks very much.
https://rapidshare.com/files/8728380...phabet_St..mp3 https://rapidshare.com/files/4055462...__02__Head.mp3
