How does the bass player for Green Day get that growly twang in When I Come Around? Picking by the bridge just doesn't get it. Thinking round wounds thru a cranked SVT? I'm playing a passive Jazz with ground wounds on a SS amp w/8 10's. Any suggestions?
Wire your jazz pickups for parallel,(or is it series?) it gives more of a p bass sound. A parametric EQ would probably help as well, for more focused mids. I'm pretty sure he was playing a P bass, but he might have been playing a Gibson Ripper as well.
I get more grit out of my Jazz basses with stainless steel strings also.
You'll just never get a P-bass with roundwounds sound on a J-bass with groundwounds.
Mike Dirnt sounds like he always has new strings, With your jazz, your best bet is to put on a set of roundwounds and play with your neck pickup. It won't sound like a P-bass but in a band setting it should be close enough.
His sound is very difficult to get down, I was in a Green Day cover band in my early days of bass and have played some of their stuff here and their ever since. In the era of 'When I Come Around' and 'Basket Case' he gets a similar sound on a lot of the songs. With just the bridge pickup, all the basses I've tried sound to twangy and not throaty enough.
The closest I've gotten is neck pickup on full with tone open and just enough bridge pickup balanced in to get a bit of a brighter sound. Then for eq, cut the lows around 50 hz a little and boost 400- 650 hz some. Leave the high mids flat and roll of highs above 10k hz to kill the fret buzz and such not.
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