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01-28-2010, 03:16 PM
| | | | Which Metal bassist(s) has the best sound?
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In your opinion. Which album, what band? | 
01-28-2010, 03:19 PM
| | | | I like Ryan Martinie's tone, i dunno why but Lost and Found is good =)
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01-28-2010, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NYC | | | i really don´t listen to a lot of metal, but i really dig the sound of sean malone in the cynic album focus. | 
01-28-2010, 03:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth | | | Blasko. With Rob Zombie and Ozzy.
I also like Marco Hietala's tone. With Nightwish and Tarot.
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01-28-2010, 03:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada | | | 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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01-28-2010, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Baltimore, Maryland | | | 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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01-28-2010, 03:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA | | | 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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01-28-2010, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bloomingdale,IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by camiloochoa 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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01-28-2010, 03:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: England | | | David Ellefson on Rust In Peace...Tasty!!
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01-28-2010, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Just South of Chicago | | | Rex's tone in Pantera is really metal.
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01-28-2010, 03:38 PM
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Seriously, the Dethklok albums have great bass tone.
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01-28-2010, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Spokane/Seattle, WA | | | 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. | 
01-28-2010, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Breakeyville (Québec) | | | Tony Choy from Atheist (Element) and Sean Malone from Cynic (Focus). | 
01-28-2010, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Lancaster, PA | | | Dave Pegg on Crest of a Knave by Jethro Tull. | 
01-28-2010, 06:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | Geezer Butler, Dave Ellefson, and Steve DiGiorgio(who does death metal with a fretless?!  )
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01-28-2010, 06:09 PM
| | Registered User Master Luthier: Ironclad Bass Guitars | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan | | | 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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01-28-2010, 06:10 PM
| | | | Martin Eric Ain On Celtic Frost's final album "Monotheist".
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01-28-2010, 06:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK | | | Maybe not so much metal, but Liam Wilson from The Dillinger Escape Plan has some sweet tone. | 
01-28-2010, 06:15 PM
| | | | Nate from converge. Done. | 
01-28-2010, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Sartori 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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