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Bass for metal

#122
ESP Tom Araya bass. THIS is THE metal bass. No sellout, all metal since day one. SLAYER! SLAYER! SLAYER!
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#124
Andersr123 said:
Thanks to the serious tips, I'm leaning towards an Aria Pro II SB1000, but the problem is that I have to pay 25% extra since there's no Arias to get inside of norway.
It was an exaggeration, but it's a 25% fee + shipping to buy anything outside of Norway so it gets a bit expensive.
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There are in Sweden, just get one with a car, across the border. People from Norway drives over the border to Sweden just because buying cheap booze. And if the booze is cheaper in Sweden, imagine Arias... Get your *ss down to Gothenburg with someone, see some great bands when they come around to play that arena, and shop the music shops. But maybe you live up in Narvik or Tromsö which can - of course - make matters a lot worse. Or even Svalbard.... :wacky: well, then it's not only Arias that is in short supply...
 
#127
Fingerpickingood said:
Not true. Diabolus in Musica was definitely a sellout to the nü metal scene.
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I respectfully disagree. Slayer has dabbled here and there with other flavors of metal but never sold out like Metallica and Megadeth did in the 90s with their soft ass sh*t! (for instance) they still kept it metal, still kept it heavy. Some stuff was better than others of course.
 
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#129
Make sure what you get is a neck-through and has dual humbuckers and active electronics. Get a Schecter, I have 2 and use them live for a Death/Grind band, they are awesome. Optimally if you could find a used Spector with those attributes in your price range that would be perfect (if possible).
 
#130
And don't go for the P bass or the J bass, they are great classics and all but much better concepts have come around since then. Great if you play classic rock or country music but...
 
#132
Ellery said:
Make sure what you get is a neck-through and has dual humbuckers and active electronics. Get a Schecter, I have 2 and use them live for a Death/Grind band, they are awesome. Optimally if you could find a used Spector with those attributes in your price range that would be perfect (if possible).
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Honestly I can usually hear the bassists who use Ps and Js (and Rickenbackers) better in metal mixes than when I see bands and the bassist is using some sort of active, dual humbucker bass. Though not always. A lot of it is down to amp EQ as well.
 
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#135
Korladis said:
Honestly I can usually hear the bassists who use Ps and Js (and Rickenbackers) better in metal mixes than when I see bands and the bassist is using some sort of active, dual humbucker bass. Though not always. A lot of it is down to amp EQ as well.
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Setting aside the romanticism for the good ol days, aren't those bolt on p & j basses kinda stone age?
 
#136
Korladis said:
Honestly I can usually hear the bassists who use Ps and Js (and Rickenbackers) better in metal mixes than when I see bands and the bassist is using some sort of active, dual humbucker bass. Though not always. A lot of it is down to amp EQ as well.
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Now that I think about it...I got my best sound when I turned the active tone pots down below boost and used only the neck pickup. Previously I thought I HAD to use the boost and both pups but when I got a better rig I started experimenting, it had never sounded better. But at least I have that treble boost for when I join a Duran Duran tribute band... ;)
 
#137
Ellery said:
Setting aside the romanticism for the good ol days, aren't those bolt on p & j basses kinda stone age?
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Sure. But if it works, why change it? Steve Harris has been using a P-bass for forty years. Geezer Butler used P-basses early on, then experimented with a bunch of different basses, and now is back to essentially superfender (Lakland in this case) PJ basses. Dave Edwardson uses old Ibanez basses... essentially P-basses and J-basses. Al Cisneros uses Rickenbackers. Just because something's newer doesn't mean that it's necessarily better at all jobs. In a dense mix, give me a passive bass.

Full disclosure, I don't use Fender Ps and Js. I use mainly Rickenbackers, a T-bird, and a modded Peavey P-bass that now has a big Rickenbacker pickup instead.

If I were to get a Fenderish bass, it would probably be a G&L L1000 or L1500.

Ellery said:
Now that I think about it...I got my best sound when I turned the active tone pots down below boost and used only the neck pickup. Previously I thought I HAD to use the boost and both pups but when I got a better rig I started experimenting, it had never sounded better. But at least I have that treble boost for when I join a Duran Duran tribute band... ;)
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My way of thinking is... I already have a tube preamp and a graphic EQ on my amp. I don't need a little 9 volt or 18 volt preamp in my bass.

For a different sound I just switch to the neck pickup (when playing my Rickenbackers I tend to use the bridge pickup only for all the loud bits). Just passive controls and pickup switching are way more useful to me than I've ever found active circuitry to be.
 
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