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Audio Slave bassist

#4
miccheck1516 said:
Your joking right? :confused:
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No - I'm not joking in the least. I am a reletively new bassist and I've dedicated my time to learning the instrument, not to identifying the tone of basses I don't own. Were you born knowing what a P or a J sounds like on the radio, or did you learn this by hearing a sound and finding out what was making that sound?
I like his tone - I don't know what type if bass he plays. So, could somebody please enlighten me?

P.S. - If I were joking, where would the humor be in this joke? :confused:
 
#7
miccheck1516 said:
Your joking right? :confused:
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Is there something wrong with that? :hmm:

I doubt that I could tell what kind of bass it is from listening to a recording of a bass line. Even with my own instruments, my Hoyt/Warmoth with EMGs is a lot brighter than my MIM Deluxe Active J5 but I don't think I could listen to a recording of someone else playing them and identify the tone as coming from the same kind of bass that I own.

No, I'm not deaf and I'm not a Noob...I guess I just listen differently.
 
#8
Matthew Bryson said:
No - I'm not joking in the least. I am a reletively new bassist and I've dedicated my time to learning the instrument, not to identifying the tone of basses I don't own. Were you born knowing what a P or a J sounds like on the radio, or did you learn this by hearing a sound and finding out what was making that sound?
I like his tone - I don't know what type if bass he plays. So, could somebody please enlighten me?

P.S. - If I were joking, where would the humor be in this joke? :confused:
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Excellent rebuttal! Get 'em! :hyper:

As I understand it, he uses a Jazz bass through various Ampeg heads and cabs. There's some more detailed stuff on here somewhere; try a seach.
 
#9
basstriaxis said:
Excellent rebuttal! Get 'em! :hyper:

As I understand it, he uses a Jazz bass through various Ampeg heads and cabs. There's some more detailed stuff on here somewhere; try a seach.
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I'll do that search. I'm also thinking that I'm hearing some tube overdrive in his sound, but as stated before - I'm not so good at ID'ing how the tone I'm hearing is being created. Off to search.
 
#11
He said in a recent interview that he relies on his Ashdown 500RC EVO for his distortion now, he said that it is "Hot-rodded" and his VU meter stays in the red the whole time hes riffing through it. In Rage he used to use a Marshall Guv'Nor stompbox for distortion, but he's being really secretive about his pedal arrangement these days.
This interview can be seen in the March '04 Bass Gear mag.
 
#12
I just had an image in my head that you were one of the more knowledgeble(sp) guys round here, especially with a post count as big as yours.

Didnt mean to offend you....

Anyway, like everyone else has said, he uses jazz basses, i read in BP that he took the pickups apart and re-wound them himself.

In the early days of RATM he was using a stingray.
 
#14
Jazz bass with tweaked pickups, several distortion pedals, and three amps-- one set for mondo distortion, one for medium overdrive, and one clean. with RATM he used standard and dro D tunings, with Audioslave he uses BEAD.

The "secrecy' thing is a joke because the Bass Player mag interview with him last year made much of how paranoid he was of people imitating him.
 
#18
He's definately got the "Bass Distortion" sound nailed in my book. His tone on the Audioslave album is amazing. In the Bass Player article it said he now uses Fender Jazz basses with P necks instead of J necks to hold the BEAD tuning better..I understand that but I still don't see how he uses the Badass II bridge with that tuning. I just don't see how it's possible to string anything larger than a .110 through the bridge. :hmm:
The above post about using 3 rigs (dirty, mid, clean) is what I remember hearing last about him, I remember him saying his Ashdown was mod'ed for full-on distortion but I also remember him saying something about the Mesa's having the best clean tone he'd ever heard.
Anyone heard/seen him playing anything with Audioslave other than a J?
 
#19
Razor said:
He's definately got the "Bass Distortion" sound nailed in my book. His tone on the Audioslave album is amazing. In the Bass Player article it said he now uses Fender Jazz basses with P necks instead of J necks to hold the BEAD tuning better..I understand that but I still don't see how he uses the Badass II bridge with that tuning. I just don't see how it's possible to string anything larger than a .110 through the bridge. :hmm:
The above post about using 3 rigs (dirty, mid, clean) is what I remember hearing last about him, I remember him saying his Ashdown was mod'ed for full-on distortion but I also remember him saying something about the Mesa's having the best clean tone he'd ever heard.
Anyone heard/seen him playing anything with Audioslave other than a J?
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Mesa M-pulse or M2000's clean, SVT II is medium, ashdown EVO is disto. the BP article also mentioned how he'd started with the Mesa in order to help the B sound better. Actually, the bass he's seen with most these days (including the BP cover) has the new Hipshot trem bridge, not the Bad Ass II, even though the article mentined his "main bass" was the other one.
 
#20
I believe I read somewhere that Timmy C actually used a Sadowsky NYC 4 tuned BEAD for the recording of this album. What's even more intrigueing about the Sadowsky in question is that apparently, it was never paid for. I guess it was used for recordings and then returned to Sadowsky to be sold. To me, if you're recording at that level, either you or the record label should be paying for the instruments being used. Just my MO, I still like Tim's stuff!
 

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