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05-26-2011, 08:53 PM
| | | | Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer
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Does anyone know how you get this fine fine tone, I believe it's Tony Levin tearing it up.
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05-26-2011, 08:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NYC | | | He played a musicman stingray fretless. Not sure what year stingray (though I think it was a pre Ernie Ball yeear which would mean it had an ebony board instead of pao ferro like the ebmm ones), nor am I sure what amp he was playing. Suffice to say though that much of that tone is from Tony's hands. |
05-26-2011, 09:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Rutherford, NJ | | | playing with a pick and lots of processing...octaver, and chorus
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05-26-2011, 09:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Might be wrong but isn't this one of the tunes he used the funk fingers on? I seem to remember him using them on it the two times I've seen PG live.
Yeah I'm wrong, NM, checked the live DVD, it's a pick.
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05-26-2011, 09:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bristol, Connecticut, USA | | | I used to do this tune live with an octaver. I don't know how he gets that attack but the octaver does a lot of the work. Great stuff!
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05-26-2011, 09:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | Compression too...I think.
Regardless, that is one of THE coolest bass lines ever! |
05-26-2011, 10:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | Chorus, octaver, compression.
You will get close.
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05-26-2011, 10:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: New York, NY | | | It was his Music Man and He actually double tracked the baseline one octave up on a stratocaster on the studio recording. Live I'm sure he uses an octaver.
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05-27-2011, 10:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Wytheville, VA | | | He uses a pic and a fretless along with chorus, an octaver and literally one metric butt ton of compression.
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05-27-2011, 10:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Wytheville, VA | | | sorry roger you hit the fretless part. I didnt see that the first time.
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05-27-2011, 10:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BKBassDude  Might be wrong but isn't this one of the tunes he used the funk fingers on? I seem to remember him using them on it the two times I've seen PG live.
Yeah I'm wrong, NM, checked the live DVD, it's a pick. | He uses the funk fingers on Big Time around the :45 mark. |
05-27-2011, 10:50 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NYC | | | great tune - great bass line!! Been trying to persuade my singer to add this to our set list . . . |
05-27-2011, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by noahw1
He uses the funk fingers on Big Time around the :45 mark.
| It's Jerry marota playing drums on the bass.actually.
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05-27-2011, 12:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: NB, Canada | | | the slides on the fretless are what take it to the stratusphere for me ...so friggin cool! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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