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04-05-2007, 02:31 PM
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anyone really know how he did it to achieve those real high pitch screams? |
04-05-2007, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Harmonics probably, that and a wah with a wide sweep can get really high endy.
Any specific examples of "real high pitched screams?"
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04-05-2007, 04:20 PM
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04-05-2007, 05:00 PM
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04-05-2007, 05:15 PM
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Being endowed with godly bass powers from birth like cliff wouldnt hurt either 
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04-05-2007, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ARCtrooper225  yea, fuzz (sovtek muff) morley PWB (has a huge sweep) and harmonics (or just high notes sometimes)...
Being endowed with godly bass powers from birth like cliff wouldnt hurt either | The man....was a God. There will never be another quite like him. Ive got an old Sovtek muff like his, had to fork over 400 for it but it was completely worth it.
Im curious, any idea on what happened to his Ric after he passed? Rumour is Hetfield has it.
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With six strings, I used to think I was the baddest bassist on the block. That is untill these "Extended Range" guys stole my thunder.
Screw you Conklin.
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04-05-2007, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by SexFuneral The man....was a God. There will never be another quite like him. Ive got an old Sovtek muff like his, had to fork over 400 for it but it was completely worth it. | weird...I hardly find mine worth the $20 I paid for mine. |
04-05-2007, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: fairfield | | | ive got a ri russian big muff and a ri morley power wah but i still cant get that harsh screech cliff had, like the chords in the begining of anesthesia after the triplet intro.
should i tinker with the l.e.d. on the wah or something? it kinda sounds like a screaming duck rather than cliff burtons screeching sound.
i heard he used his fingernails to help get this. dunno. |
04-06-2007, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Ryan Smith weird...I hardly find mine worth the $20 I paid for mine. | uh...yeah I neglected to mention that I got ripped off. It happens right?
Still, I do really love that thing. You?
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With six strings, I used to think I was the baddest bassist on the block. That is untill these "Extended Range" guys stole my thunder.
Screw you Conklin.
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04-07-2007, 08:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New York | | | He used really high notes with a lot of wah. I didn't know he used harmonics though, can anyone tell me the songs he used harmonics in? |
04-08-2007, 01:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: southwest iowa | | | getting those high pitched screams
ok the way you do it is you have to have your bass eq set right with enough high end in it and when you play a chord strum it or rake it with your fingernails and at the same time press you wah pedal full on treble it takes feeling and practice to get all those sounds out of the bass but just keep fooling around with it. i have found that another good way to get the screams is when i play a bass chord i actually like open palmed hit the strings with my fingers |
04-10-2007, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete C He used really high notes with a lot of wah. I didn't know he used harmonics though, can anyone tell me the songs he used harmonics in? | I'm pretty sure there are some harmonics in Anesthesia. |
04-10-2007, 07:19 PM
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04-11-2007, 08:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | No big bad chuck its not achieved by just using a wah. what he does is called "pinched harmonics" search around here and you'll get tons of threads about them, Billy Sheehan uses them a lot. |
04-11-2007, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London, England | | I thought the fingernail stuff was the string scraping at the end... Although I suppose the 'howling panther' screams earlier on are downward strums so that's probably his fingernails too. 
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04-11-2007, 01:37 PM
| | | | I think Cliff actually pressed the strings against the polepices of the pickups.
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04-12-2007, 03:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | He also used tapped harmonics, do a search on those... There a vid on youtube of cliff playing anesthasia, and u can see himd o tapped and pinched harmonics. |
04-12-2007, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by imChinOaChicken ive got a ri russian big muff and a ri morley power wah but i still cant get that harsh screech cliff had, like the chords in the begining of anesthesia after the triplet intro.
should i tinker with the l.e.d. on the wah or something? it kinda sounds like a screaming duck rather than cliff burtons screeching sound.
i heard he used his fingernails to help get this. dunno. |
Have you got the chain as:
Bass > Muff > Wah > Amp?
That gives a screaming duck sound, swap the Muff with the Wah. |
05-27-2007, 12:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nova Scotia | | | Cliff strummed with his fingernails holding his index finger/thumb together and down-strokes with his index and up with his thumb (Cliff 'Em All, the solo before Whiplash). He also used a few pinch harmonics (only time I have heard him use them is in his versionn of Star Spangled Banner). He did tapped harmonics a lot, usually at the end of a solo.
Hans, the tapping on the polepieces that you are talking about is that annoying screaching sound at the end of Anesthesia (after the fingernail scraping). He also open hand finger slapped the strings sometimes (Cliff 'Em All- For Whom The Bell Tolls, and his solo's) | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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