Bassist With Best Distortion Tone

[Gubna]

that dude from Tool.

 

[cjmodulus]

I'd say that chris wolstenhomme (don't think I spelled that right) has a pretty good distortion tone. Tim commerford and lemmy are great as well.

 

[bommer]

CLIFF BURTON

 

[AcidFripp]

That guy from Death From Above 1979.
He's got massive distortion. So much that it's just him and a drummer and they don't use a guitarist. Sounds good too.
That level of distortion, however, wouldn't be suitable for most other music, I think.

 

[zachoff]

I'm a big enthusiast of distortion, not sure why, and I was just wondering who you guys think uses it best. My vote goes to Geezer Butler.

Yup, it's awesome. Troy Sanders and Jeff Matz also kill it for more recent examples.

 

[Space-Man]

Yup, it's awesome. Troy Sanders and Jeff Matz also kill it for more recent examples.

Totaly, love both them bands.

 

[SonourBrum]

Paul Raven.... Killing Joke. RIP

 

[millsbass5]

I'm not big on F/X. At all. And it's only because of my lack of experience with'em. I'm certainly not against a good,gritty,grinding tone,for sure.
As a matter of fact,I'd love to score a nice pedal. I just don't have any idea where to start. Listen to me,I'm sounding like a greenhorn on here.lol.
I've always dug Eddie Jackson's (Queensryche) tone on their album titled,"EMPIRE". I just l-o-v-e that tone.

 

[rockstarbassist]

Billy Gould, Troy Sanders are mah faves.

 

[Buslady7803]

Not sure if you guys can see this clip...I love this sound

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(this is one of Zac Hietala's clips, i can't remember if he's got them locked down to friends only or not)

 

[Buslady7803]

I must quote Zac about Marco's bass:

"Surely it sounds like hell..."

hehe....

He posted a clip of Marco's soundcheck...amazing sound.

 

[kranahan]

Tim Commerford and Nick Beard of Circa Survive

 

[maturanesa]

Muse bassist

 

[SJLee]

Julie Slick

 

[rick0link]

Dick Lovgren - Meshuggah

i agree 100%

 

[Simorchid]

Another vote for Jeff Metz. The new HOF album rocks. On the opposite end of the music spectrum there are some great bass distortion/ fuzz tones on the latest album by the Temper Trap.

 

[Jonyak]

nick oliveri - used to play with queens of the stone age.

 

[ridgeback]

local danish band "nephew"
bass player Kasper Toustrup gets a really nice sound with his p bass

maybe not your thing but i like it..

 

[KLEIN]

LEMMEY!

 

[benjammin420]

Jack Bruce, a little too distorted for my tastes, but hey, who am I to complain?