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11-02-2010, 11:15 PM
|  | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | | What amp rig does this sound like?
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Here is a live YT vid of Crosby Stills & Nash playing Southern Cross. Please listen to the bass tone. What rig do you think the bassist is using? It sounds very warm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kopNfhvCkHU
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11-02-2010, 11:25 PM
|  | More Gear than Talent | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Billings, Montana USA | | | Cool tune, my guess is that you arn't hearing a rig but the bass. I would bet that they are all running direct and using wedges as monitors. It looked and sounds like a P-bass but could be a active jazz.
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11-02-2010, 11:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: New Mexico | | | Keep in mind that what you hear live and in the studio is usually a bass with a D.I. sent to the board. The amp onstage could also be combined with a mic. Most bass amps do have their own D.I. output and this send is usually switchable between pre or post EQ which affects the sound enormously. Nowadays I don't see bassist's using amps as much onstage anymore, they have the bass in their monitors.
Given that I would say it's not likely to recognize the bassist's amp in question by hearing a live recording.
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11-03-2010, 06:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: alberta canada | | | I thought i could see a brief shot of an svt behind him which would make sense for the time of that recording. I had to watch it a few times to be able to see it. |
11-03-2010, 07:32 AM
| | | | Sounds like a nice P Bass to me ( or j with flats possibly). Per the above, amp is probably not that important in a venue this size... possibly a mic on an SVT that is running relatively low volume and clean.
To the OP, the 15/6 you are getting does that vibe very nicely... fat, deep, but still articulate without boom nor sizzle. A nice warm amp head like a Markbass LMII and that cab, with the right bass would get you there completely with backline.... clean, but warm, fat, articulate, organic. Nice!
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11-03-2010, 02:15 PM
| | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by KJung  Sounds like a nice P Bass to me ( or j with flats possibly). Per the above, amp is probably not that important in a venue this size... possibly a mic on an SVT that is running relatively low volume and clean.
To the OP, the 15/6 you are getting does that vibe very nicely... fat, deep, but still articulate without boom nor sizzle. A nice warm amp head like a Markbass LMII and that cab, with the right bass would get you there completely with backline.... clean, but warm, fat, articulate, organic. Nice! | Thanks Ken! (and thanks to all other responders as well).
Yeah Ken, I'm really looking forward to receiving my pair of LDS fEarful-type 15/6's. I plan to drive them with my Kern tube preamp and QSC PLX3602 2-channel power amp which will provide each 8-ohm cab with around 750 watts. Funny you should mention the LMII head. I was at GC the other day (yeah, I know, but I was bored), and I plugged into a Markbass Jeff Berlin combo amp that has the LMII built in. What a nice warm tone!
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11-03-2010, 07:59 PM
| | | | I can tell you for a fact that's a P-bass. At the end of the video you get a good picture of it. Also looked like the bass cabs were in front of the drummer, which were either 2x15's or 2x12's. I could be wrong they could of been guitar cabs. |
11-03-2010, 08:03 PM
| | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | | I think what impressed me the most was the warmth of the tone. Tube-like warmth.
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11-04-2010, 04:19 AM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SactoBass I think what impressed me the most was the warmth of the tone. Tube-like warmth. | I completely agree.
That is some beautiful tone in that clip, really something, also makes me think P, flats and tubes instantly. |
11-04-2010, 06:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: CT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by One Drop I completely agree.
That is some beautiful tone in that clip, really something, also makes me think P, flats and tubes instantly. | +1 | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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