Your favorite tone from a metal bassist

[MisterWraith]

Paolo Pinto had great tone on several Sepultura albums. For the Darker side of things I really like Jonas Renske's tone on Bloodbath's Nightmare's Made Flesh. I am also a huge fan of Martin Mendez(sp?) and the tone's of other's who have worked with Opeth.. (nope not going to look those other guys up right now, but hard to find a bad bass tone on an Opeth album so far as I'm concerned)

[MisterWraith]

LOL Marial, we were both typing that at the same time!

[paganjack]

Originally Posted by K-ALEMAN

One of my favorites is Alex Webster.

Mine too!

[lowendgenerator]

I don't know if it's been said yet, but Mike D'Antonio from Killswitch Engage has KILLER tone! Ibanez into a BDDI into an Ampeg SVT rig. With a PICK.

[kleinenenten]

I second D.D. Verni! Also, gotta chime in for Magnus Olsfelt of The Crown (I think that's his name, can't remember right now). The Crown in general is highly underrated in my opinion.

[Hamlet7768]

Two of my favorites, with stems for audio aid and some more detail into their gear. The others I'd normally mention seem to have been covered in detail already.

John Myung: On the Backs of Angels bass track Currently uses a Bongo 6 HS, through various rackmount preamps*, along with an Eventide DSP-4000 Ultra-Harmonizer on the "Hyper Quad" setting for chorus. He plays with his fingers, near the neck, with heavy attack, as you can hear. He also does not use cabs; he runs the signal straight into the FOH mixer instead.


Cliff Burton: Ride the Lightning bass track For this recording (which for me is a better bass tone than on Puppets), he was using a modified Rickenbacker 4001, with both pickups replaced; the neck with a mudbucker and the bridge with a Jazz-style by DiMarzio. He also had a secret Seymour Duncan pickup under the bridge for extra treble. He played it through an Ibanez Tube Screamer, Boss CS-2 or CS-1 Compressors, EHX BassBalls, an EHX Big Muff (mostly during solo parts), and used a Morley Power Wah Fuzz for the signature "screaming" wah.

[DistortedBass]

I'm not a fan of a lot of metal bass tones lately for some reason. I do think the guy from LOG has a cool thing going on.
My vote goes to older Eddie Jackson, and DD Verni. Check the tune in my sig and you'll know that's what my ear leans to!

[Sartori]

In addition to the ones I mentioned before, Aaron Rieseberg from Yob has some pretty gnarly tone: Yob live at Hellfest

For this show it looks like he's playing a Gibson Thunderbird, going through an SVT and 810, though I have no idea what his pedalboard looks like. I've usually seen him use an older SVT and some Roller Sound cabs.

[NOT]

Rex brown. He sticks to active basses (Spector, Jackson, Charvel, Musicman) but, I'm able to achieve his sort of sound with my Gibson Thunderbird and GK setup.

[billgoodwin]

Jean-Yves "Blacky" Theriault of Voivod...and the infamous blower bass.

[dedpool1052]

jason newsted
david ellefson
rex brown
geezer butler
frank bello
al cisneros

[Pills Are Yummy]

Rex Mutherfkin Brown!

CFH/VDP era:
88 Charvel 3B
88 Charvel Fusion V
Stock charvel P/J's
Vintage Ampegs
Vintage Ampeg 8x10s
Pick

FBD/GST Era:

Low Action Spector Euro 5 string
Spector Rex 5 XL
EMG SSD pickups
Ampeg SVT IIP preamp
Ampeg 8x10HPC
Ampeg 4x12s
Rocktron Basix preamp (for compression and overdrive, I think this is is "big secret")
Crest 7001 power amp
Sansamp (for overdrive)
Morley blue monster wah (his tech claims he uses one, but I've never seen records that these even EXIST)
Pick

RTS/RMR era:

Spector euro 5
Spector REX 5 Xl
EMG SSD pickups
Ampeg SVT 4 PRO
Rocktron basix preamp
Ampeg 8x10HPC
Ampeg 4x12's
HBE hematoma
Morley blue monster wah
Sansamp BBDI
musician designs earthquake wah
Pick

Down era:
Custom Spector Euro 4LX
Spector ns-2
EMG P/J's
Ampeg svt 4 pro
Ampeg SVT 2 pro
Ampeg 8x10s
Ampeg 4x12s
Rocktron voodu valve preamp
Pick
HBE hematoma
Crapload of new effects(compression, MXR phaser)

Modern day:
Spector NS-2 (he really likes this white USA model, always uses it with KDH)
Ampeg SVT 2 PRO
Ampeg SVT 4 PRO
Rocktron Voodu valve preamp(idk if he uses it anymore, for some reason he keeps the basix's in his rack)
Ampeg 8x10s
Amped 4x12s
HBE hematoma
Boss chorus
Compression
Musician designs earthquake wah
Morley distortion plus wah
Crapload of effects
MXR blowtorch
Pick

Whew.

[Djentleman]

Adam Getgood (better known as Nolly) has some good tone that can be heard here
He uses a Dingwall Combustion with some circle k's, and a Darkglass b3k pedal running through Axe FX

[Pills Are Yummy]

Originally Posted by Djentleman

Adam Getgood (better known as Nolly) has some good tone that can be heard here
He uses a Dingwall Combustion with some circle k's, and a Darkglass b3k pedal running through Axe FX

Omg I LOVE his tone! I'm really curious if anyone has any experience with these particular pieces of gear, they're a bit obscure

[dedpool1052]

Originally Posted by Pills Are Yummy

Omg I LOVE his tone! I'm really curious if anyone has any experience with these particular pieces of gear, they're a bit obscure

go to the effects forum. the B3K's get quite a bit of love around here. as well as dingwall basses and circle-k strings.

[Pills Are Yummy]

Originally Posted by dedpool1052

go to the effects forum. the B3K's get quite a bit of love around here. as well as dingwall basses and circle-k strings.

I'm getting a b7k this week. I'll let you know how it goes

[El-Bob]

I've been listening to some of In Flames' live albums lately, to get myself psyched for an upcoming concert... whoever their bassist is, he gets some monstrous distortion sound on those albums. The Live version of 'Colony' is great.

[bongostealth]

My favorite is Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne. He uses Warwick amps and Warwick Thumb basses. His tone is just phenomenal!

[micgtr71]

Bob Daisley and his P-Bass wth Ozzy. Also, I really dig Geezer with a P as well. Vol 4!

[gene beauchamp]

Eddie Jackson of Queensryche and Steve harris need not say