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Old 01-28-2010, 03:16 PM
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Which Metal bassist(s) has the best sound?

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In your opinion. Which album, what band?
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Old 01-28-2010, 03:19 PM
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I like Ryan Martinie's tone, i dunno why but Lost and Found is good =)
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Old 01-28-2010, 03:21 PM
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i really don´t listen to a lot of metal, but i really dig the sound of sean malone in the cynic album focus.
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Blasko. With Rob Zombie and Ozzy.
I also like Marco Hietala's tone. With Nightwish and Tarot.
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Old 01-28-2010, 03:30 PM
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Jeroen Paul Thesseling, Ryan Martinie, Dan Briggs, Sean Malone.
Those are my favorite's for tone at least, they all have quite different tones.
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I call dibs on the first Cliff Burton. His otne is so dark on Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, it just osunds evil with the way he plays and how it was mixed/mastered.

On Kill 'Em All it was fairly generic, but he still made it great, and it's mixed just right.
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Al Cisneros, Geezer Butler, Pol Macamlaigh (from Primordial, great sound especially on the last album), Cliff Burton, Jason Newsted. Those are the ones I think of as having awesome sounds.
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i really don´t listen to a lot of metal, but i really dig the sound of sean malone in the cynic album focus.
I do listen to a lot of metal, but I still totally agree with this one. Also, I would say that Troy from Mastodon on Crack the Skye.
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David Ellefson on Rust In Peace...Tasty!!
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Rex's tone in Pantera is really metal.
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Murderface!!!!

Seriously, the Dethklok albums have great bass tone.
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al cisneros on Sleep's Holy Mountain for sure.


Troy Saunders on Leviathan and Blood Mountain, that fuzz he gets is sick

i don't know what his actual name is, but the bass player on the newest Goblin Cock record has a really awesome tone too. Nice and bright.
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Tony Choy from Atheist (Element) and Sean Malone from Cynic (Focus).
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Old 01-28-2010, 03:56 PM
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Dave Pegg on Crest of a Knave by Jethro Tull.
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Geezer Butler, Dave Ellefson, and Steve DiGiorgio(who does death metal with a fretless?!)
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Jason Newsted on The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited and Metallica

Dave Ellefson on Rust in Peace

Ian Hill on Jugulator and Angel of Retribution

"Jay Jay" Brown on War of Words

Rex Brown on anything really
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Martin Eric Ain On Celtic Frost's final album "Monotheist".
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Old 01-28-2010, 06:12 PM
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Maybe not so much metal, but Liam Wilson from The Dillinger Escape Plan has some sweet tone.
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Nate from converge. Done.
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Jason Newsted.
I gotta say, I love his tone on Metallica through Re-Load, but it's just, ick, on ...And Justice For All.
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