cliff burton growl

SiReZ · #1 09-03-2009, 01:09 PM

he has this sounds on some live stuff, anesthesia live especially, it looks like he slaps his bass & gets this mean nasty growl sound. anybody know how to do this & what exactly is it thats causing the noise??

makanudo · #2 09-03-2009, 01:11 PM

he has a very hard attack i believe

Sartori · #3 09-04-2009, 10:58 PM

Burton did indeed have a fairly percussive finger attack, and did often slap the strings especially live.

On solos he used a distortion box, his ensemble tone is basically just a tube amp turned up really high, generating a lot of growl.

tpmiller08 · #4 09-06-2009, 04:28 AM

From what I've learned about em when he solo'd and on a few songs, and figured out on my own, its a few things.

He did play hard, with alot of distortion, and a morley wah pedal. That'll give you something close to his sound, you just have to play around with the distortion and your rigs EQ's til you get it close enough.

I got some more things written down, but my notes aren't around. Theres a good amount of info out there on the google machine, just takes some searching.

-Troy

metdistortion · #5 09-06-2009, 04:56 AM

I think a lot of his growl had to do with the Rickenbacker he used

Sartori · #6 09-06-2009, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by metdistortion

I think a lot of his growl had to do with the Rickenbacker he used

And his amp as well. The first day I hooked my D-180 up and played through it, I was fiddling around with the settings and managed to get, basically by accident, the exact tone Burton had on live recordings I've heard of him from 85-86, and very similar to the tones from Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. It was interesting. That's not the tone I use, but it's a cool one.