Bass on Buddy Guy "Baby Please Don't Leave Me" ...

[lopxtc]

Does anyone happen to know what kind of effects Davey Faragher is using on his bass signal for the bass line on Buddy Guy's "Baby Please Don't Leave Me" ....

Love that song and the bass line, but cannot for the life of me figure out what effects he is using to get that sound.

Thanks ....

Aaron

[superbassman2000]

its an overdrive...my guess is just the natural overdrive from turning up the gain knob on an old ampeg SVT through a big ole 810


that is one powerful song!

[NoHomework81]

Funny you brought this up, I've been wondering the very same thing over the last couple of weeks! I was able to get pretty close with a Barber Linden EQ with the bass boosted way up going into a Fulltone Bassdrive. It wasn't quite it, though. This has sent me on a quest to find a good overdrive pedal that doesn't loose low end.

Although I'm sure an SVT would nail it, any way to get this tone sans SVT?

Great song... check it out!

[Rant] whoever says the Fulltone Bassdrive doesn't lose low-end is out of their mind [/Rant]

[SmokeyB]

I think part of the effect is that the rhythm guitar is thrashing the same chords.
In any case it's a killer. An angry T. Rex caught in a tar pit.

[superbassman2000]

I also think a big part of what makes that bass so deep sounding is the mic placement--it sounds to me that there is some distance between the cab and the mic...the way that song sounds to me, I wouldn't be surprised if there were only a few room mics, rather than putting the mics right next to the amps--It sounds like a song that was recorded with everyone in one room with a few mics around the room, and one on Buddy's amp

[NoHomework81]

After listening through headphones a few times, I hear what you're talking about. You can definitely hear the room on the bass. Man that thing must have been loud! I checked out the Sweet Tea studios website, and they've got an extra long hall (25 feet long). I wonder if they stuck a fridge down at the end and cranked it...

[superbassman2000]

a cranked fridge down a hall could have been it--to my ears i hear drums being the most distant, then the bass, then the rhythm guitar, then lead guitar, then the vocals in front.

The fridge was probably cranked, but i wonder exactly where the distortion comes in, because the bass doesn't thin out at all. Another suggestion could be that the mic has a tube preamp and they cranked the gain of the preamp and that's the mic preamp distorting, rather than the amp/cab. That would go along with the recording in the hall with the rest of the band with a few mics around the room--they might have had the mic gains cranked to give that raw sound.

[GeoffByrne]

Originally Posted by NoHomework81

This has sent me on a quest to find a good overdrive pedal that doesn't loose low end.

Have you looked at/tried the Marshall Guv'nor II pedal with the 4 band EQ?