Achieving a clean bass distortion

[blastjv]

You talking trash about ATARI!?!?!? Them's fightin' words!!!

-JV

PS - funny, my band just recorded and afterward found this weird digital sounding artifact in the background caused by our guitarist's delay pedal that sounds totally Atari and totally awesome.....and we could NEVER have planned for it...!!!

 

[Crystalman85]

i've been running a slow sample rate bass signal via my wmd geiger counter, with a slight sample rate adjustment you can get a nice full tone without the atari or nintendo tones

Nothing wrong with nintendo. I'm a big fan of nintendo. I'm also a fan of other old school video game systems like sega genesis, super nindendo, turbografx 16, etc. other than that, people do have personal taste in sound quality.

 

[Pilgrim]

"Achieving a clean bass distortion"

I believe that a "clean distortion" is an oxymoron.

 

[mpdd]

just to clear things up, i was viewing the more video game sounds as colored and or distorted and not clean/drivey i guess (like the op wanted), i like the intellivision bass fuzz sounds myself

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Clean Distortion.

Hmmmmmmmmm

 

[mpdd]

the tone i am getting definitely sounds like a pbass, yet more drivey, less woody, and more ringy

 

[xikbastard]

just bi-amp or do a blend. dry signal and a very trebly mid scooped distortion, it does not sound like an overdrive to me. it sounded more like a MT-2 or some sort of guitar type distortion box/amp type thingy with a good dose of EQ throw in. prolly has a noise gate to keep things tidy cos the distortion does sound very saturated.

sounded when he doing a solo its just wet signal and when the band kicks in theres definitely a blend. prolly recorded separate solos on a different track and the rest of the songs different tracks.

i do that a lot.

 

[doomdude]

I think the Source Audio Soundblox Multiwave bass distortion would be pretty good at getting a 'clean' overdrive...it's digital, so you'll probably be able to get a clinical-ish sound out of it.

And the intro to that track doesn't sound very distorted to me...it just sounds he's got a lot of high end clank to his tone...get some new strings and scoop out the mids!

 

[Eric Scholz]

I don't think anybody has thrown this out there yet, but it sounds to me like its being played through a guitar amp. When I use my guitarist's JCM800 in the studio it sounds like this.