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10-07-2012, 03:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: Hermosillo | | | Describe your bass tone!
How wold you describe your tone? and what are some of the key factors to get it?
I go first, I'll define my tone:
Very articulate and mostly scooped out of the midrange, with prominent lows and highs.
The low end is warm, deep and tight and the highs are very bright and zingy.
I think most of the tone comes from my stainless strings, solid state amp and active electronics.
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10-07-2012, 03:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | I work to sound like Bruce Thomas from those early Elvis Costello recordings: Accidents Will Happen, Lipstick Vogue, Pump It Up.
Just using MIA Precisions, a Hartke LH1000, LDS 2 x 10 cabs.
Not hard to get but, it's never tiresome and always seems to fit in with the music I am playing.
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Fender Precision club member #63. LDS Cabinet Owner #17, Hartke Club Member #86
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10-07-2012, 03:59 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | | Part McCartney, part Chris Squire, part Geddy Lee, part John Whetton, and the rest me.
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Clubs - 5 String, Black and Maple, Rickenbacker
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I went to Bass pro shop and to my surprise they didn't have a single bass guitar.
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10-07-2012, 03:59 PM
|  | Psst. It's "Squier" | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Philly suburbs | | | Loud. |
10-07-2012, 04:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | been kind of into a post punk/gothic rock tone like jesus and mary chain or marilyn manson recently, wmd geiger counter bitcrushed tubey od voice into a vintage dr q envelope filter, a little synthy and processed i suppose, compared to my overdriven d180 |
10-07-2012, 04:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Wimberley,Texas | | | Punchy, hollow, thump....but a very pronounced overdriven grind.
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MiM Fender Jazz with Badass Bridge
J bass metal club #2112 Prog Rock Bass Club #113
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10-07-2012, 04:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: USA, Washington | | | Overpowering in every frequency range |
10-07-2012, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: phoenix az | | | louder then god. I try to make people sick from volume / bass.
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bluebeard ->1968 sunn 200s
rat -> 1972 ampeg V2
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10-07-2012, 04:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Houston, TX | | | Heavy on the mids. If I'm on a P I'll play at the neck to accent the woodiness for that old Headhunters kind of sound (not that I can play anything like that) and expression. Used to play at the bridge all the time because I like that tone better but hard to be as expressive there. My recorded tones are all over from dark dark P to bright plucked lipstick to the classic jazz (and Jazz) sounds. |
10-07-2012, 04:29 PM
|  | As a matter of fact....I am your Queen!
Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Seattle Washington | | | Big Angry Piano |
10-07-2012, 04:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Logan,W.V.(not up some holler) | | | KICK-ASS!!!!!!! |
10-07-2012, 04:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Willow Street, PA | | | I'm using a P-bass with flats. We all know what that sounds like. |
10-07-2012, 04:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: St. Marys, Ohio | | | An iceberg. Cuts thru just enough so you know it's there, but underneath it will sink ships.
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Basses are like boobs, I want to play with all of them, some longer than others.
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10-07-2012, 04:49 PM
|  | **** | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: west coast | | | Assertive, lot's of sack and booty.
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So even though the sky is the limit, there are limits to what we'll call "sky".
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10-07-2012, 04:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Maryland | | | Marcus Miller meets Bootsy Collins!
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Different results require different actions!
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10-07-2012, 04:54 PM
| | | | Mid-Range in your F@$kin' Face!!!! |
10-07-2012, 04:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Texarkana, Tx | | Twangy and Clangy 
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"Keep it on tha one."
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10-07-2012, 04:58 PM
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I have three tone I try to get.
1- P-Bass / Flats the "Pino" John Mayer Trio tone.
2- Jazz-Bass "Jaco" bridge-pickup tone.
3- Wal Mk1 fretless "Mick Karn" tone. |
10-07-2012, 04:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | raw and nasty, simple and spontaneous. |
10-07-2012, 05:01 PM
| | | | i have no one specific tone. it's pretty much an amalgam of all the players that have had an influence on me as a player.
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