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12-23-2010, 09:59 AM
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the opening is amusing, but if you haven't heard the magic band's "diddy wah diddy" and you're a fuzz bass freak, you've gotta dig jerry handley's over-the-top and up-front-in-the-mix fuzzthump. It's a rare example of a well-recorded fuzz on bass from the mid 60s. |
12-23-2010, 10:25 AM
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12-23-2010, 10:52 AM
| | | | Check out Ashtray Heart from their performance on SNL. So raw...so righteous.
R.I.P. Captain - you'll be missed
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12-23-2010, 10:56 AM
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Beta Tester: Source Audio. Hacker: Heavy Drone FX | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Spokane, WA. | | | That sounds great. Does anyone know how that sound was achieved? (Clipped board? Early Fuzz Pedal?)
Lastly,...was there ever a time when white people could dance? |
12-23-2010, 11:33 AM
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12-23-2010, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bassbrad  Brassmaster? | not in 1965-6!
Last edited by RCCollins : 12-23-2010 at 01:14 PM.
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12-23-2010, 12:07 PM
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Beta Tester: Source Audio. Hacker: Heavy Drone FX | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Spokane, WA. | | | I wondered Brassmaster myself,...but I don't know if that was in production at the time this was recorded (song was released in 1966 according to wiki). |
12-23-2010, 12:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Deaf | | Quote:
Originally Posted by warwick.hoy Does anyone know how that sound was achieved? | Um... by turning up the bass amp?
I imagine the phrases "clean headroom" and "bass amp" didn't really cross paths much back in those days. Inefficient cabs and 30-60 watt amps were the norm... At that point bassists were just happy to be heard at all. |
12-23-2010, 12:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fu22ba55 Um... by turning up the bass amp?
I imagine the phrases "clean headroom" and "bass amp" didn't really cross paths much back in those days. Inefficient cabs and 30-60 watt amps were the norm... At that point bassists were just happy to be heard at all. | maybe... but there'd be a lot of bass loss that way, and "diddy wah" has low end to spare! |
12-23-2010, 12:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I think I remember it being a super fuzz pedal, where they in production yet
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12-23-2010, 12:45 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: London, England | | | great tune, great tone, it does sound a little like a brassmaster
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12-23-2010, 01:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | can't be a brassmaster or superfuzz. COULD be a fuzzrite, which is my guess. second guess would be a maestro. |
12-23-2010, 09:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario | | | Great tune!!!
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12-24-2010, 12:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Humboldt County | | | +1 on the maestro, definitely not a lot to choose from in the 60s.
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12-26-2010, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy That sounds great. Does anyone know how that sound was achieved? | VT Bass.
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12-27-2010, 03:34 AM
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Originally Posted by nad VT Bass. |   |
12-27-2010, 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by nad VT Bass. | I hope nobody really thinks that would be a good choice for this type of sound  |
12-27-2010, 06:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Davenport, IA | | | I have had a moog maestro fuzz for 5 or so years now and it has been on about every board I've ever put together. |
12-27-2010, 06:46 AM
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Originally Posted by ampegfuzz I have had a moog maestro fuzz for 5 or so years now and it has been on about every board I've ever put together. | not the Maestro FZ-1 we're talking about... but i listened to your clip and that fuzz sounds awesome! You got yourself a rare bird there | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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