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01-10-2002, 09:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Québec city ,Canada | |  how to get that tone
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Right now i'm really into nofx and I am really in love with fat mike's tone especially on the so long an thanks for all the shoes cd. if you want a good sample of his sound listen to the track dad's bad news
my question is: Ireally want to get that tone, how can I acheive that.
I think that on this record he used an American Deluxe P-bass with ernie ball strings.
Is there any solution other than buying that bass.
Do you think that changing my strings to ernie ball could help.
thanks in advance.
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01-20-2002, 10:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Scotia, NY | | | Well to get his exact tone you'd have to buy the Fender American Deluxe Precision Bass with the ernie ball's but, he has more recently used [because of back problems] a black, Danelectro Ho-Dad (active) & a Danelectro DC bass. Cheaper. I tried the whole wanna have Fat Mike tone. The Ernie Balls do give your bass a slight 'nofx-ish' sound but not exact tone. you can't get even close without active pickups because that's where it all comes from. Yeh I'm probably of no help but ugh. . . yeh
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01-24-2002, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Australia | | | When I saw NOFX play recently he used a Danelectro Hodad (wood finsish with white pickguard) and An Ampeg 8x10 Anniversary edition cabinet. I didnt see what head he was using though. |
02-01-2002, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Music City, USA | | | that tone...
Remember that even with NOFX's actual instruments you may not be able to sound the same. A lot of a person's tone comes from how they play--their technique, touch, right hand placement, etc. Also keep in mind that playing through an amp at home and playing through multi-thousand-dollar preamps, compressors, fx, and EQ in the studio are going to sound totally different.
try to get YOUR sound.
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02-01-2002, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Los Angeles, CA. | | | Re: that tone...
Quote: Originally posted by TheGeneral
Remember that even with NOFX's actual instruments you may not be able to sound the same. A lot of a person's tone comes from how they play--their technique, touch, right hand placement, etc. Also keep in mind that playing through an amp at home and playing through multi-thousand-dollar preamps, compressors, fx, and EQ in the studio are going to sound totally different.
try to get YOUR sound.
G | BOOYAH!!!.....my thoughts exactly. The world doesn't need another Fat Mike...whoever he is.
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02-01-2002, 09:39 PM
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The world doesn't need another Fat Mike...whoever he is.
| The world needs more talented bassists, and Fat Mike is fairly talented (he plays some complicated stuff at times, sings, writes songs for bass, guitar, drums, trumpet (which he doesnt play), and melody lines. |
02-02-2002, 11:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Milwaukee, WI | | | BOOYAH!!!
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02-03-2002, 06:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Canada | | | B OO YAH
I believe I win the award for best booyah |
02-03-2002, 07:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Milwaukee, WI | | | That was a fine booyah...
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Human beings are not machines and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. Missing from such histories are the small actions of unknown people that led up to those great moments. When we understand this, we can see that the tiniest act of protest in witch we engage may become the visible roots of social change.
-Howard Zinn
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