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03-04-2009, 01:08 AM
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Hey guys, new to the forums here, thanks to everyone for all the amazing knowledge!
I'm in search of the perfect distortion pedal/setup, and if I could achieve a bass sound like the one at about 4:40 of this video, I could die a happy man (you can certainly go right to the time i mentioned and get the feel, but if you have the inclination, listen to the whole buildup. Talk about tension and release...holy s**t). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ
Any ideas on how to get that? Right now I play an ASAT through an RB400 into an Aguilar 112 and 212.
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03-04-2009, 01:19 AM
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03-04-2009, 02:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Adelaide, Australia | | all I heard was distorted noise over the original bass line.... perhaps youtube quality audio wasn't the best representation? 
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03-04-2009, 04:48 AM
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They have a lot of studio magic. Some songs have two basses. Some even use a bow on the strings.
I'd write to the 18 Seconds site to inquire there... |
03-04-2009, 04:53 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | Or you could just ask Vegas to get a picture of his pedalboard  |
03-04-2009, 04:56 AM
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03-04-2009, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound  Or you could just ask Vegas to get a picture of his pedalboard | Ha, ha, ha...bee-itches.
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03-04-2009, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | I would imagine studio magic; it sounds a lot like Mogwai distortion to me, which I know much more about. They love to use the old Dano distortion (the metal space ship shaped one) for that wall of noise type distortion.
I'd try to find a live video if you can, that might help us pin point it.
Sigur Ros is a great band, but IIRC his bass setup is fairly simple; P's and J's, looks like he's using an Ampeg in the studio, and probably uses an SVT rig live: http://www.sigur-ros.info/dat/band/george/george_05.JPG
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03-04-2009, 09:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | I can say that according to one site, there is a Thermionic Culture Culture Vulture Distortion used also. 
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03-04-2009, 11:08 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | So I googled the Vulture...  |
03-04-2009, 12:03 PM
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03-04-2009, 12:09 PM
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I JUST got that...
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03-04-2009, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Brussels, Belgium | | | great, youtube tells me: this video is not available in your country, what the hell do we have all those ### free trade agreements for?
anyway, which sigur ros song are we talking about?
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03-04-2009, 07:31 PM
| | | | Thanks everybody! Megadan, do you know which Dano model they use? I can totally see the Mogwai comparison, and that could be a great start.
Luther, the song is Glósóli. Epic.
The Culture Vulture looks redonkulous. Someday... |
03-04-2009, 08:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia | | | I thought I read something about him using an EBS Fafner. |
03-04-2009, 11:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: cincinnati | | | thats (XII XI XII) some HEAVILY scooped tone with the 800-3khz range set to grind.
its like the tone i have in my head exaggerated by a couple thousand percent haha.
pretty good band though
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03-05-2009, 12:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Slovenija (Europe) | | | in my long search trouhg the realms of efx... best distortion on bass is IBANEZ fat cat... even when the tone knob is all the way on the treble side the ground is still shaking!!!
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03-05-2009, 01:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Northern VA | | | I'm more interested in the tone in the beginning. That really bottomy yet finger-on-string tone, it's killer! |
03-05-2009, 01:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kansas | | | It sounds like an over driven SVT tube head to me.... could be wrong | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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