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07-19-2011, 04:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Planet Earth | | | Flat wounds for heavy hard rock with od/fuzz...?
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is that a go? yes? sounds good? with a Jazz Bass or what i'm thinking of playing for a project here is...a Squier CV 60's P Bass with flat wounds...it's heavy hard music and kinda cartoony in a way...with over drive and Big Muff...will flats sound good like that? or rounds? i'm hoping flats will be killier...but if you guys think not, i'll consider rounds...
oh...any good examples of flats with fuzz/over drive? any recordings or bands you can refer me to for examples of this kinda sound? |
07-19-2011, 05:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | Ask Steve Harris. They suit him fine. So much so he has a signature set.
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07-19-2011, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by hover  Ask Steve Harris. They suit him fine. So much so he has a signature set. | That's what I was thinking.
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07-19-2011, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | Also, take a listen to the band Dub Trio. Stu Brooks uses an Atelier Jazz bass, with flatwounds and PLENTY of distortion. Try the tune "not for nothing"....amazing tone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWCoD6hYdQU
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07-19-2011, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by hover | Whoa, thank you so much for posting that. I'm sure I'll be spinning all their albums constantly for awhile.
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07-20-2011, 02:35 AM
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Drives hard enough to mention.
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07-20-2011, 06:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | Stu is one of my faves  I have all of their released stuff, and his basslines are epic. It's my understanding that they tune really low, like C or C sharp. He uses the Labella Jamerson set and says those strings are a big part of his sound. |
07-20-2011, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by hover | Man, that is an incredibly grindy, cutting distortion. I also feel compelled to write lyrics to that song.
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07-20-2011, 12:18 PM
| | | | The new Fender 9050CL set 45-60-80-105 has great playability and consistency, are rather inexpensive, and growl nicely. I use them, and I think they sound great. Since flats by their nature have a little less high end to them, IMO they drive fx better so the character of the fx comes through and not just an overload of high end fizzy. |
07-20-2011, 12:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Atlanta, Ga. | | | I use a Fender P with chromes through a VT Deluxe into a GK 1001RB II through an Ampeg 810E and get a simular tone to what was in the video......
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07-20-2011, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Fredericton, NB | | | Steve Harris Rotosounds are awesome! I use 'em with fuzz, OD, drop "C" and they shine.
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07-20-2011, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | | I do not agree about the Rotos. Steve does not use fuzz/overdrive and for a reason..it doesnt sound good. I would go for rounds.
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07-20-2011, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by erigod23 Steve Harris Rotosounds are awesome! I use 'em with fuzz, OD, drop "C" and they shine. | +1
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07-21-2011, 12:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Seattle | | | It can sound good but you're gonna need A LOT of midrange.
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07-21-2011, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by odin70 I do not agree about the Rotos. Steve does not use fuzz/overdrive and for a reason..it doesnt sound good. I would go for rounds. | You don't like a fuzz driven bass tone? Did you listen to the link I attached? That is a great bass tone. To each their own, but I could almost guarantee Harris has used fuzz from time to time.
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