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04-11-2008, 06:42 PM
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I love the sound of the bass used in the band Tokyo Police Club. How can I get that tone? I have a fender jazz american standard and a peavy bass amp.
Would a pedal do the trick? Or something simpler? Anyone know what the bassist in TPC uses?
A somewhat similar tone is used in "Hang Me Up To Dry" by the Cold War Kids, but I prefer Tokyo Police Club's tone. They seem to always use the same tone which can most easily be heard in "Nature of the Experiment". |
04-11-2008, 07:22 PM
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04-11-2008, 07:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario | | | P-bass + Pick + Sansamp with a decent amount of Drive / SVT-alike turned up fairly high. |
04-11-2008, 08:00 PM
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04-11-2008, 08:01 PM
| | | | what kind of sansamp? will that work good with a jazz? |
04-11-2008, 08:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | | Just about any Tubescreamer style OD will do it, also.
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04-11-2008, 09:45 PM
| | | | How about the Boss ODB-3?
Do you guys know of any specific tubescreamers? theres so many options, lol |
04-11-2008, 10:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | Well, let's see...
Fulltone Bassdrive Mosfet
Fulltone Fulldrive
Keeley Baked Mod or Mod+
Analogman TS-9 DX Mod
Hell, even just a standard TS-9 will do it. 
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04-13-2008, 07:22 AM
| | | | I've got an American Big Muff, but I can't get that tone out of it.
The TS9 seems pretty good to me but I can't find any bass samples of it. |
04-13-2008, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Dustgunner  I've got an American Big Muff, but I can't get that tone out of it.
The TS9 seems pretty good to me but I can't find any bass samples of it. | You won't get that sound out of a big muff because they are completely different effects. The Big Muff is a fuzz, a mid scooped one, that is far higher gain that a the typical tube screamer mid heavy overdrive. The important thing to note is that the tone you are looking to mimic is low/medium gain overdrive, and you can't get that with a fuzz pedal.
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04-13-2008, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by icarussmicarus You won't get that sound out of a big muff because they are completely different effects. The Big Muff is a fuzz, a mid scooped one, that is far higher gain that a the typical tube screamer mid heavy overdrive. The important thing to note is that the tone you are looking to mimic is low/medium gain overdrive, and you can't get that with a fuzz pedal. | And you think the TS9 would do the trick? |
04-13-2008, 02:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | Digitech Bad Monkey, especially the Humphrey modified one (which I have) can get that knida sound. It's really cheap too and has a better bass response than most tubescreamer pedals. Other tubesceamer clones I know of that work well no bass are the BBE Green Screamer and Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive (which also has a nice blend control). |
04-13-2008, 03:11 PM
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04-13-2008, 03:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick Kay P-bass + Pick + Sansamp with a decent amount of Drive / SVT-alike turned up fairly high. | I don't think the SansAmp will produce that type of drive/distortion. The SansAmp is more furry and warm. That distortion is more edgy.
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04-13-2008, 04:49 PM
| | | | I think the real challenge here isn't getting that sound but getting it with a J-bass, not a P-bass. |
04-13-2008, 06:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: New Jersey | | | I second the Bad Monkey notion.
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04-13-2008, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Dustgunner I think the real challenge here isn't getting that sound but getting it with a J-bass, not a P-bass. | Yeah, that too! 
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04-14-2008, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Québec city ,Canada | | | Neck pick-up, any good overdrive box and a tube amp.
If I use my ebs multidrive in front of my svt-cl with a p-bass it sounds exaclly like that. With a J-bass you'll never get that sound but using the neck pickup, you'll be close enough for live applications. |
04-14-2008, 03:49 PM
| | | | I don't really know anything about pickups or amps to be honest. I'm a newbie when it comes to equipment.
I know someone who's willing to sell me a digitech BP200, would that work? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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