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Old 05-31-2008, 11:39 AM
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Ben Kenney's use of overdrive/distortion/fuzz

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After listening to A Crow Left of the Murder, and Light Grenades a little more (I used to only listen to older incubus), I really appreciate his use of overdrive/distortion/fuzz (he does use all of these). Here are a few songs that I think he uses them well:
Megalomaniac - http://youtube.com/watch?v=iFnnV595byE
Beware! Criminal - http://youtube.com/watch?v=DbVM2lsh81Q
Leech - http://youtube.com/watch?v=tXeCRBj9YBo&feature=related
Make a Move - http://youtube.com/watch?v=hi1lQlLU21U
A Kiss To Send Us Off - http://youtube.com/watch?v=VMBBQ5vt6KY
His overdrive comes from his Mesas, and Orange guitar amps on the recordings. He frequently palm-mutes with distortion, and can control the gain that way. After listening to these clips, does anyone recommend any pedals for these tones?
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Old 05-31-2008, 11:44 AM
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fulltone bass drive..i know thats what he uses..im trying to find out what he use in the warmth on the red rocks dvd when the time its starts at 3:10 http://youtube.com/watch?v=HnTgEm0SunE
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fulltone bass drive..i know thats what he uses..im trying to find out what he use in the warmth on the red rocks dvd when the time its starts at 3:10 http://youtube.com/watch?v=HnTgEm0SunE
Maybe a big muff? He said in an interview that he usually brings a fuzz and octave on tour.
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Old 05-31-2008, 12:55 PM
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on my look alive dvd he's using a bass drive
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on my look alive dvd he's using a bass drive
Can you clearly see it?
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Didn't they use a POD to do the whole record? You're probably hearing digital effects on the record.
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Didn't they use a POD to do the whole record? You're probably hearing digital effects on the record.
He did use a POD, but he also used Orange guitar amps and Mesas for his dirty sounds.
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Maybe a big muff? He said in an interview that he usually brings a fuzz and octave on tour.
so that was a fuzz he was using on that part of the video?
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Old 06-02-2008, 05:39 AM
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In the warmth you can clearly hear there's some sort of autowah with the fuzz, my guess is that he used somme effects from his pod with a FBV like he does on a couple of other tracks
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+1 to the Mesa

I am pretty sure he uses the BB750 from mesa either that or the titan. The Overdrive channel on that amp is really versatile and I think can get darn close to the distortion he is using. Combine that with bass and playing technique. There might be a few other effects in his overall repitoire, but the Big Block gets some really heavy od/distortion.
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i really dig his tone.. its nice and fat.. he uses flatwounds most of the time but he will sometimes use roundwounds to record with to get a brighter tone with some overdrive.
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i really dig his tone.. its nice and fat.. he uses flatwounds most of the time but he will sometimes use roundwounds to record with to get a brighter tone with some overdrive.
I read in a bass player article that he records with flatwounds 98% of the time.
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on the recent tour he used part of a bb 750 and part of a 4cabinet walkabout setup (2 combos and 2 extensions) , all the od He had was coming from the fulltone And I'm almost sure he uses it in compcut because it sounds like he's driving the mesas real hard
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The breakup from orange tube guitar amps when he recorded ACLOTM is a lot different than the breakup on the Bass-Drive. Any suggestions for a pedal that can get close to this? Leech and Megalomaniac would be good references for this tone. OLC makes a pedal called the orange peel, but I'm not sure if it can do low-gain.
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on the recent tour he used part of a bb 750 and part of a 4cabinet walkabout setup (2 combos and 2 extensions) , all the od He had was coming from the fulltone And I'm almost sure he uses it in compcut because it sounds like he's driving the mesas real hard
yeah he uses those now i know he used to use the m-pulse 600 with a 4x10 and 1x15
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Have any of you listened to the bass version of Drive off of Alive at Red Rocks, it's freakin awesome, dead easy to play but so effective and I love his use of modulation to get some real depth he makes me want to put flats on more of my basses
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Have any of you listened to the bass version of Drive off of Alive at Red Rocks, it's freakin awesome, dead easy to play but so effective and I love his use of modulation to get some real depth he makes me want to put flats on more of my basses
it was great! although... I like the old version too. its incubus though, I'm gonna like it whatever he does with it

definitely puts on a great show though. saw them last year with puggy and it was mind-blowing... Mike and Ben traded solos in the middle of 'sick sad little world' and it was hard to tell when the bass stopped and the guitar started... phenomenal playing, from both of them.
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hmm I didn't think Kenney recorded with them until Light Gernades...

but you all seam sure of yourselves, so I must have been wrong

I don't like the new stuff as much as the old so I never got into his playing. I love the old bass player though. I have no idea what is name is but he is pretty sweet
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