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04-29-2008, 07:53 PM
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Looking for noel reddings tone in this video http://youtube.com/watch?v=s2TSpusRV-8http://
I think he is using a fuzz pedal. Anyone know how I can get this tone? |
04-29-2008, 10:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | Don't know how to get that tone if it's not a fuzz pedal, but I fixed the link for you: http://youtube.com/watch?v=s2TSpusRV-8
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04-30-2008, 12:25 AM
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04-30-2008, 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by worker201 So sad. That song is below all three of them. | Baloney.
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04-30-2008, 02:31 AM
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04-30-2008, 03:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | | I never heard of Noel using a fuzz either (doesn't mean he never did). It's probably the sound of 12" Celestions about to die. |
04-30-2008, 03:37 AM
| | | | I think that's idd just an overdriven tube amp.
I don't like it actually, way to boomy and lacks definition.
But hey, if it suits you.
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04-30-2008, 05:37 PM
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05-01-2008, 07:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: conditional upon harmonic Hz | | | Exactly, its all in the amp and drivers. NO ONE used a fuzz pedal back then, we made our fuzz au naturiel. Now a days, its all faux.
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05-01-2008, 07:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | For another great natural fuzz bassist check out Hugh Hopper of early 70's Soft Machine. |
05-01-2008, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by BuffaloBass Exactly, its all in the amp and drivers. NO ONE used a fuzz pedal back then, we made our fuzz au naturiel. Now a days, its all faux. | The first fuzz bass on record I remember is "Dance to the Music" by Sly and the Family Stone. I've always thought it was a fuzzed bass, might have been a keyboard though.
Around '62 Gibson came out with the EB-0F, an EB-0 with a built-in fuzz. Don't know of any recordings with it. |
05-02-2008, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by bassist15 For another great natural fuzz bassist check out Hugh Hopper of early 70's Soft Machine. | If he was so natural (i.e. not using a fuzz box) how come he switched so easily between clean and insanely fuzzed out? Almost like the flick of a switch.... I would bet Hopper had a fuzz box.
To the user that said nobody used fuzz boxes back then, how about McCartney in 1965!
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05-02-2008, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by GlennW The first fuzz bass on record I remember is "Dance to the Music" by Sly and the Family Stone. I've always thought it was a fuzzed bass, might have been a keyboard though.
Around '62 Gibson came out with the EB-0F, an EB-0 with a built-in fuzz. Don't know of any recordings with it. | Again, Paul on Rubber Soul...
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05-02-2008, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by GlennW I never heard of Noel using a fuzz either (doesn't mean he never did). It's probably the sound of 12" Celestions about to die. | I agree. Incidentally it's an orgasmically cool tone  |
05-02-2008, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Sneckumhaw If he was so natural (i.e. not using a fuzz box) how come he switched so easily between clean and insanely fuzzed out? Almost like the flick of a switch.... I would bet Hopper had a fuzz box.
To the user that said nobody used fuzz boxes back then, how about McCartney in 1965! |
Notice how he's playing his bass like a guitar? (no surprise, since he was a guitar player).
Switching between full strum style chorded parts to very light sound, single string parts would 'switch' you from the dirt to clean.
Like other said, that's just the sound of the amp cranked to 10 - probably not by want, but by need - the need to be heard at all.
I often wonder why guitar amps became a crucial part of guitar sound, thanks to the 60's and 70's, yet bass didn't go that way as well? There were just as many clean guitar players as dirty ones, but the dirty guitar caught on, whereas the dirty bass did not.
Imagine if people though DI'd bass sounded as awful today as DI'd guitar! |
05-02-2008, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | | I was here (took picture) for eight songs and only heard the bass on one song; there was one note in "Red House" that rang out, that's the only bass I heard. I only heard the drums during "Fire" and at the beginning of "I don't Live Today". I heard the guitar very well. Jimi had two pedals, Mitch had three, Noel had none.
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05-02-2008, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by megadan Notice how he's playing his bass like a guitar? (no surprise, since he was a guitar player).
Switching between full strum style chorded parts to very light sound, single string parts would 'switch' you from the dirt to clean.
Like other said, that's just the sound of the amp cranked to 10 - probably not by want, but by need - the need to be heard at all. | I'm talking about Hopper, not Redding. See which post I responded to? He had a far more exaggerated and less natural sounding fuzz than Noel. In fact I'm quite sure he used a fuzz pedal, and so did the organist in Soft Machine, Mr. Mike Ratledge.
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05-02-2008, 05:32 PM
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Soft Machine is a great band though. |
05-02-2008, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by megadan My mistake!
Soft Machine is a great band though. | Agreed! I can't get into anything they did after Ratledge left, but that still accounts for a lot of really terrific albums.
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