Doug Haywood's bass tone on 'Walking Slow'

[FromTheBassMent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X3Cl-WS5Fg

So, effects experts, how does Mr. Haywood make his bass sound like it's blowing a raspberry on this track?

I typically don't like really grindy distortion... come to think of it, I don't care much for distortion at all. But I've always thought this sound was really interesting and almost comical. Do you think it is actually the bass, or something that was layered on as an afterthought?

If I could do this with a stompbox, I'd buy one.

[bongomania]

Listening to it a couple times, I'm fairly sure it was added on as an overdub. The bass is totally clean throughout the whole track, and you can hear the clean bass playing at the same time as those few raspberries, and they're not playing the same line. It's just in the first 30 seconds there are a few raspberries added on top.

There are a lot of grindy distortion pedals that can do this. He probably miked a cranked tube amp in-studio for the sound; it sounds kinda like the sample clips posted of Tech21's Hiwatt-emulating pedal.

[FromTheBassMent]

Thanks Bongo... that's kinda the way I've always heard it too. One of the things I dislike about most distorted bass tones is that they lack heft, and this recording definitely does not. I've often thought that they either split his bass signal to two amps (or direct and amp, or an amp and a stompbox or whatever), or that the "raspberry tone" was a separate take and track.

I guess I'd have to find a box that not only gets that farty sound but also has a dry/effect blend. Some effects I like really wet (chorus, phase), but with fuzz or distortion I want some clean signal as well.