Flea's tone on readymade

Sharpie555 · #1 03-29-2010, 02:47 AM

Hey, i really hope this is the right forum, if not i apologize.

Simply put, i want to know how to get this tone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-zYsJ_y0M

Is he using some sort of effect or is it done with eq settings and technique?

Any input is appreciated and thanks in advance.

spaz21387 · #2 03-29-2010, 03:06 AM

sounds to me like its no effects just ampeg svt tube grit, and bass around like 5 low mids and high treble

BassInUrFace · #3 03-29-2010, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by spaz21387

sounds to me like its no effects just ampeg svt tube grit, and bass around like 5 low mids and high treble

1+

u need a VT bass

bassmasta117 · #4 03-29-2010, 07:24 AM

and he's using a 1962 fender jazz bass on that song

Jared Lash · #5 03-29-2010, 09:13 AM

I don't hear SVT at all.

I hear the sound of a Jazz bass with GHS flats being played with a heavy touch near the bridge into a GK rig.

And since Rick Rubin (not to mention Flea) take a minimalist approach to recording I'm guessing that's a direct out from his rig to the board with no mic'd cabs or double tracking.

ColinGWood · #6 03-29-2010, 01:22 PM

Isn't Flea a GK player?

Then again, back in the day he very well could have played an SVT

JimmyM · #7 03-29-2010, 02:31 PM

who really cares what he was using? seriously. it's a clean bass with a lot of string rattle. you can get that sound with practically anything.

Jared Lash · #8 03-29-2010, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmyM

who really cares what he was using? seriously. it's a clean bass with a lot of string rattle. you can get that sound with practically anything.

That was pretty much the message of my post. Yes, he's using flats, but it's just a clean sound (from the GK) and a hard attack and nothing more.

tigerbass · #9 03-29-2010, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Jared Lash

I don't hear SVT at all.

I hear the sound of a Jazz bass with GHS flats being played with a heavy touch near the bridge into a GK rig.

And since Rick Rubin (not to mention Flea) take a minimalist approach to recording I'm guessing that's a direct out from his rig to the board with no mic'd cabs or double tracking.

That's all folks!

rockstarbassist · #10 03-29-2010, 03:20 PM

Yeah I blend 100% to the J p'up on my Spector, attack hard, and there ya go.

SVT tone? Lol...

SoonerMatt · #11 03-29-2010, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ColinGWood

Isn't Flea a GK player?

Then again, back in the day he very well could have played an SVT

He played an Ampeg rig at the BCS national championship game....

JimmyM · #12 03-29-2010, 04:23 PM

ya, he's played ampegs off and on...i recently saw him using a 610hlf and a 4 pro on something. still, that's not a difficult sound to duplicate on anything. just dig in hard enough to get string rattle.

Pearl_jammin · #13 03-29-2010, 04:47 PM

I hear a Deep Impact going into an original Brassmaster, with a harmony setting from a Bass Whammy going through a Jet Phaser...

But that's just me.

*insertcoolname · #14 03-29-2010, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Pearl_jammin

I hear a Deep Impact going into an original Brassmaster, with a harmony setting from a Bass Whammy going through a Jet Phaser...

But that's just me.

I can't believe you didn't notice the original Mutron on top of those...

BassInUrFace · #15 03-29-2010, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ColinGWood

Isn't Flea a GK player?

Then again, back in the day he very well could have played an SVT

im not sure what he used back then but he has been using GK for a few years now. and they won't always use the amps they are endorcing in recordings, just like they don't always use there normal bass.

liquid-dream-ex · #16 03-30-2010, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by *insertcoolname

I can't believe you didn't notice the original Mutron on top of those...

Yes, literally stacked on top of the other pedals.

ryker888 · #17 03-30-2010, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by SoonerMatt

He played an Ampeg rig at the BCS national championship game....

I was there, I forgot who he was even playing with, but yes I just looked through my pictures I took and from far away it looks like an ampeg

Deluge Of Sound · #18 03-30-2010, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by liquid-dream-ex

Yes, literally stacked on top of the other pedals.

Where do you think the term "tone stack" came from?

rr5025 · #19 03-30-2010, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Pearl_jammin

I hear a Deep Impact going into an original Brassmaster, with a harmony setting from a Bass Whammy going through a Jet Phaser...

But that's just me.

You forgot the Human Gear Animato, UK Marshall Guvnor and a Foxx Fuzz

Jared Lash · #20 03-30-2010, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by BassInUrFace

im not sure what he used back then but he has been using GK for a few years now. and they won't always use the amps they are endorcing in recordings, just like they don't always use there normal bass.

He's used a million different basses: Cutlass, Stingray, Wal, Alembic, Modulus, Jazz Bass his new Flea Bass, even a P-Bass but Flea has pretty much always used GK rigs for gigging and recording when it is left up to him. The BCS game and working with Mars Volta are two notable exceptions.