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04-17-2009, 02:33 PM
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So I just found a MUSE b-side that decidedly isn't your typical Chris Sovtek Big Muff/Deep Impact tone, and I'm highly curious about it. Anyone want to take a shot?
And yes, I'm familiar with his gear page, but this doesn't really sound like a tone that any of those pedals (or any combination of said pedals) would produce. |
04-17-2009, 02:37 PM
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04-17-2009, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassenstien  sounds like synthy fuzz to me | Yeah, I agree, but it also doesn't sound like a sound that I'm used to hearing from him.
Of course, it could be that it is that very combination of pedals, and I'm just insufferably stupid.  |
04-17-2009, 02:41 PM
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04-17-2009, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Western New York, USA | | | It seems like all MUSE b sides have the best bass tracks. Like: Eternally missed, Jimmy Kane, The groove (one of my favorites), Dead Star, In your World, Nishe, Futruism (AWESOME bassline), Man Of mystery, crying shame, Fury. I HIGHLY recommend you check these out. |
04-17-2009, 03:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rhode Island, USA | | | Allow me to pile on with your thread. I always wanted to know this one: is Plug In Baby just the deep impact? Doesn't sound like it has a fuzz on it, just straight synth. Or maybe I'm nuts. |
04-17-2009, 03:09 PM
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04-17-2009, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by twisty4678 It seems like all MUSE b sides have the best bass tracks. Like: Eternally missed, Jimmy Kane, The groove (one of my favorites), Dead Star, In your World, Nishe, Futruism (AWESOME bassline), Man Of mystery, crying shame, Fury. I HIGHLY recommend you check these out. | I've actually performed the Groove, Futurism and Dead Star live, and I know about even the most obscure of their tracks. This one, however, is new to me, as I didn't see most of the b-sides from BH&R, so I was pleasantly surprised when I heard this.
So, is the general consensus that I'm an idiot who wants to believe that Chris doesn't use the same setup of pedals constantly, or that he's actually using something different? |
04-17-2009, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by twisty4678 I Play PIB with fuzz and slight octave, it sounds great! | Except that there is a quite obvious resonant filter sweep going on there, too. That's what makes me think DI |
04-17-2009, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Western New York, USA | | | Nice! How amazing is The groove? Did you get the Newton Abbot Demo? Also, some clips of muse in a battle of the bands from 1994 just surfaced on youtube, it's hilarious!
As for The OP, sounds like fuzz to me. |
04-17-2009, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by bigchiefbc Allow me to pile on with your thread. I always wanted to know this one: is Plug In Baby just the deep impact? Doesn't sound like it has a fuzz on it, just straight synth. Or maybe I'm nuts. | You know, I think you may be right. I know he was experimenting quite a bit with his FM4 back in that day, it's possible that he used a patch from that and his Akai, but a lot of things are possible with him. |
04-17-2009, 10:00 PM
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04-17-2009, 10:17 PM
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04-17-2009, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by TheMutt I'd love to know what he was using in City of Delusion. Awesome sounding fuzz and then there's this formant filter tone to it. | He used both his FM4 and BSW during verse 2/break for that song, with an expression pedal on the FM4. |
04-17-2009, 11:15 PM
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04-17-2009, 11:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Singapore | | i haven't heard this one... when i saw "muse b-side" i thought i was 'glorious'
but i'm sure the muse experts here have heard that one 
i don't believe chris plays a clean blended muff. instead he stacks 2 russian muffs, and always has |
04-18-2009, 12:02 AM
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I'd say it'd help it being in the studio, he might have used something in the studio in combination with his stuff. If anyone finds out share it round.
Here's a pretty good bass cover with a pretty accurate tone [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvZ1IZnBbw]/url]
he has a GT-6B and a big muff russian.
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04-18-2009, 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by shinobi i haven't heard this one... when i saw "muse b-side" i thought i was 'glorious'
but i'm sure the muse experts here have heard that one
i don't believe chris plays a clean blended muff. instead he stacks 2 russian muffs, and always has | Mind enlightening me as to where you heard that?
I ask only because stacking two muffs sounds like mush.
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04-18-2009, 01:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | I don't think he does use 2 muffs normally, but there was a video on Youtube filming the making of Absolution where he looks at the camera in disbelief and says "2 Big Muffs!". |
04-18-2009, 03:16 AM
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