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11-25-2007, 12:36 AM
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Does anyone know of any metal bassists, besides Steve Digiorgio, that use a fretless regularly? What bass do they use? |
11-25-2007, 12:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Rocklin | | | Arthur Von Nagel- Cormorant, he plays a custom Greg Nelson called the "Leviathan" bass |
11-25-2007, 01:09 AM
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11-25-2007, 07:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | | i think the guy from opeth HAS used a fretless on several occasions....i could be wrong though |
11-25-2007, 07:30 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | I think the dude from Nile plays a fretless, but I don't know for sure. |
11-25-2007, 07:36 PM
| | | | Sean Malone of Cynic, Gordian Knot, and tons of side projects. He uses an Ibanez GWB1. The bassist of Warchitect then uses a 6 string fretless.
FWIW, I play metal, and I haven't touched a fretted bass in awhile. I have a couple of projects pending, so I'll have to update you when they come around.
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11-25-2007, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | Depends, what's your definition of metal these days? There are some power and prog metal bands that use them and it works. I've used mine in a death metal band (briefly) and didn't find it worked very well. I'll admit that handling the guitarist's low C tuning was too much of a stretch on my 35" scale wide 5, but the sound they wanted mixed with their sound totally consumed a lot of my fretless sound.
IMHO, it's hard to tell you're using a fretless in modern death metal, some thrash metal, and the various sects of modern hardcore. In a midscooped, detuned guitar and bass EQ coupled with a rapid double bass pedal and growling vocals, the things that make a fretless sound awesome are buried. |
11-26-2007, 01:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | Felipe Castro from Coprofago uses/used a fretless that sounds quite distinctive. |
11-26-2007, 01:21 AM
| | | | di giorgio comes to mind |
11-26-2007, 07:58 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by spade2you  In a midscooped, detuned guitar and bass EQ coupled with a rapid double bass pedal and growling vocals, the things that make a bass sound awesome are buried. | Fixed. |
11-26-2007, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hart | Tony Franlkin is exactly who came to mind when I saw this thread.
For Tony Franklin in a less 80's sound, check out Tony MacAlpine's CD called Premonition. It's shred, but it kicks ass.
You can check out samples here: http://www.tonymacalpine.com/discogr...aphy_solo.html (make sure to listen to Tower of London)
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11-26-2007, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hart |
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11-26-2007, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by jollygiantchris i think the guy from opeth HAS used a fretless on several occasions....i could be wrong though | One of the first bassists for Opeth, Johan DeFarfalla, played (I think) exclusively fretless bass, and he played on Morningrise and Orchid (I'm pretty sure). Also, the current one, Martin Mendez, has used it pretty sparingly, the only example I can think of off the top of my head is somewhere on Ghost Reveries. |
11-26-2007, 01:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: boston, ma | | | there was a local metal band i saw probably like 5 years ago call Rain Fell Within, i think they broke up soon after but the bass player had a 6 string fretless that i think was an F Bass if i remember correctly. |
11-26-2007, 08:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Satanstoenail Felipe Castro from Coprofago uses/used a fretless that sounds quite distinctive. | Distinctive when nobody else is playing. If you didn't know it was already a fretless, I'd be very hard pressed to tell if he were playing a fretless. That's the problemo. |
11-30-2007, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Hoover Fixed. | only if you can't mix properly |
12-03-2007, 12:43 PM
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12-03-2007, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Mayers Quo Vadis | That is DiGiorgio |
12-03-2007, 02:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Delafield, WI | | | Brian from Mudvayne used a pedulla pentabuzz fretless.
Justin Chancellor used a wal fretless for a verse in Lateralus. Though Tool cringes at the idea of being called "metal" I don't think they really can escape the fact. |
12-03-2007, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sydney | | | Lars K Norberg (Spiral Architect, Satyricon, System:Obscure), Erik Tiwaz AKA Tyr (Borknagar, Emperor), Sean Malone (as mentioned above), Oydind Haegeland (Lunaris), Rob Van der Loo (Sun Caged, solo) are all known to play fretless.
[edit] Randy Coven played fretless with Ark, if you consider that metal.
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