is it possible to make evil sounds with a bass?

pretaanluxis · #1 04-21-2004, 07:16 PM

Can anyone suggest some songs with evil sounding bass or give me tips on making it sound dark?

thanks

**Adam Barkley** · #2 04-21-2004, 07:41 PM

Phrasing and Note Selection.

Listen to Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, it doesn't get more sinister than that.

One time at a music store I played that on an upright (guesstimated positions) with a bow and it was especially eerie.

pretaanluxis · #3 04-21-2004, 07:59 PM

i already have an e-bow, extremely difficult to use but still better than breaking the hairs on a real bow

Aaron Saunders · #4 04-21-2004, 08:12 PM

Minor scale + good phrasing + bow = freaky stuff.

Also, some effects like phasers + distortion make for some weird, weird stuff.

Mike Money · #5 04-21-2004, 09:31 PM

root... diminished 5th... octave.

Ty McNeely · #6 04-21-2004, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Money

root... diminished 5th... octave.

Did Mike Money just say something........theoretical?

*looks for signs of Armaggedon*

Benjamin Strange · #7 04-21-2004, 10:32 PM

If you want "evil" bass, listen to Ministry.

StrudelBass · #8 04-21-2004, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by pretaanluxis

I'm a guitarist who is switching to playing bass, and it seems that it is very difficult to get evil/dark sounds out of a bass. Like if you listen to MM, Evanescence, Disturbed or Smashing Pumpkins none of the bass sounds really dark, it's mostly the guitars.
Can anyone suggest some songs with evil sounding bass or give me tips on making it sound dark?

thanks

No offense on your music taste or anything of the sort, but those bands you mentioned don't really have a dark sound to begin with either.

lbanks · #9 04-21-2004, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Ty McNeely

Did Mike Money just say something........theoretical?

*looks for signs of Armaggedon*

Yep!!

country_boy · #10 04-21-2004, 11:11 PM

some thing like that
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0-0-00-0-0-

Mike Money · #11 04-21-2004, 11:44 PM

I know theory... I'm just bored by it.

I can make the sounds... i really don't give a rats arse how or why that sound is made...

Eyescream · #12 04-21-2004, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by basstriaxis

If you want "evil" bass, listen to Ministry.

Yup.

It depends on what kind of evil you want, I guess. Audie Pitre from Acid Bath had what I thought was a really chunky, grinding, evil tone to his bass playing before he died. The other style I was gonna mention was already covered by abark and govithoy.

Also: If you want evil, you're not gonna hear it listening to Pop-metal and Smashing Pumpkins.

Benjamin Strange · #13 04-22-2004, 12:00 AM

Oh, you might want to check out the bass solo in the song in my signature. It may not be "evil" per se, but it is certainly twisted (well, the tone at least. Whether my playing is twisted is another matter etirely.)

Eyescream · #14 04-22-2004, 12:07 AM

Does that have the scripture stuff we talked about on AIM sampled into it?

I've got to hear that, but not tonight. I've got to get some sleep.

Bad Brains · #15 04-22-2004, 12:44 AM

i recon just follow something that sounds evil on guitar with the bass, that outta work.

Play "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath on bass with a little synth wah mixed in. Very sinister.

IAMERICCOCHRANE · #16 04-22-2004, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike Money

root... diminished 5th... octave.

pretaanluxis · #17 04-22-2004, 09:02 AM

thanks for the responses

I guess use of the word evil was a bit off, but it's close enough. Smashing Pumpkins songs like 'The End Is The Beginning' or Everlasting Gaze' are dark but I agree they arn't really that evil, just more gothic I suppose

Benjamin Strange · #18 04-22-2004, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Eyescream

Does that have the scripture stuff we talked about on AIM sampled into it?

I've got to hear that, but not tonight. I've got to get some sleep.

Yup, sure does. Lamentations 25 sung in Hebrew.

The Golden Boy · #19 04-22-2004, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by pretaanluxis

thanks for the responses

I guess use of the word evil was a bit off, but it's close enough. Smashing Pumpkins songs like 'The End Is The Beginning' or Everlasting Gaze' are dark but I agree they arn't really that evil, just more gothic I suppose

The 'Punkins' second album is a very big sound, especially for that time. "Quiet" freakin' rules... but then again 72 tracks has a tendency to do that...

jazzbo · #20 04-22-2004, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pretaanluxis

I'm a guitarist who is switching to playing bass, and it seems that it is very difficult to get evil/dark sounds out of a bass. Like if you listen to MM, Evanescence, Disturbed or Smashing Pumpkins none of the bass sounds really dark, it's mostly the guitars.
Can anyone suggest some songs with evil sounding bass or give me tips on making it sound dark?

thanks

Apparently you've never heard me play.