First song on Sigor Ros's Takk--How?

comfortstarr · #1 02-27-2007, 02:10 PM

Any ideas about the bass sound on this song? It'd kind of genius. Just curious if anyone has any ideas about how it was achieved.

Matt Till · #2 02-27-2007, 02:33 PM

I think the first song is an intro, but I get what you're saying. I'm curious too, great tone.

gkbass13 · #3 02-27-2007, 02:34 PM

they are amazing. i have the first three albums....the one with the white cover is a great cd to sleep to.

Freaky Fender · #4 02-27-2007, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by gkbass13

they are amazing. i have the first three albums....the one with the white cover is a great cd to sleep to.

Why does everyone say that? Untitled #8 would keep me awake for HOURS, because I would replay that song over and over.

When I saw them live, the bassist was playing a standard Fender P-Bass. I think it's just him playing with his thumb and everyone turning to 11.

Matt Till · #5 02-27-2007, 08:42 PM

They are too dynamic for me to fall asleep to, but they are relaxing.

these_go211 · #6 02-28-2007, 01:47 PM

there's a discussion here on this with some other helpful links:
http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewt...highlight=takk

i like these guys a lot.

Yman · #7 02-28-2007, 01:51 PM

Maybe they just reversed the note signal? Understand i have no idea what im talking about, but on my delay pedal thats what it sounds like, and in the studio when you reverse notes (again, i dont know the terminology), it normally sounds like that.

anesthetist · #8 03-01-2007, 06:32 AM

"we spent a lot of time on georg's bass [usually a fender jazz, played through an EBA amp] this time, just to get it quite deep and quite juicy," adds thomas. "it's really important to get the bass out of the way. we ended up just sticking the amp outside and turning it up really loud. on the last album, because we had to do it really quickly, i just stuck a ****** little mic in front and compressed the **** of it. sometimes we'd use an eventide harmonizer low-pitched as well, just to give it some more substance."

sounds about right!

Matt Till · #9 03-01-2007, 07:21 AM

Actually, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the quote.

these_go211 · #10 03-01-2007, 09:13 AM

not to quibble, but i think that quote was pertaining to the bass sound on their "() release, not takk. but if it worked once they probably used it again.

hec86 · #11 03-01-2007, 03:21 PM

I've seen them a couple of times and when they do it live they push thet bass sound to it's limits...just before it starts to clip(I get the impression they care more about texturing a heavy bass sound in favour to a specific tone). So it has he effect of a heavy bass rumble behind the meloldies played on the other instruments.

comfortstarr · #12 03-02-2007, 08:43 AM

The song I'm talking about has a very specific tone/sound. It's different, in my opinion, than a lot of the bass on the rest of the CD or their other CDs (though, that might just be because it's practically solo'd in the mix on this one). It has a ton of presence in the bass sound. I think though, the notion that they were really cranking the amp and close micing a cab sounds right. Here's a link to a video for the song. It's a brilliant song on top of it all.

http://www.emichrysalis.co.uk/quickt...ndwidth=150000

these_go211 · #13 03-02-2007, 12:24 PM

that sound hit me too the first time i heard it. also sounds like a ton of compression.

**Thor** · #14 03-02-2007, 12:48 PM

Actually, when you play bass in Iceland, the outside air
is very compressed, creating a very unusual tone, and
since it was mic'ed outside, the moss absorbs the 2nd and
4th harmonics, giving it that special 'bass tone reflected off
damp green moss' quality we can't get around here.