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#61
hmmm...
Scott Thunes - ultimate muddy Precision sound; in his own words "moronic" :D
Jaco's fretless stuff is perfect.
Flea's slap tone - especially on Uplift Mofo and Mother's Milk (he never does that annoying mid-rangey cheesey slap sound) also his tone on One Hot Minute.
JPJ's tone on Zeppelin II (I HATE playing like that - but he does it so well :p )
Also Chris Wolstenholme from Muse has a killer tone... as does Mr Claypool on the Hallucino-genetics DVD.
And I started with a Zappa guy, so I'll finish with one... Patrick O'Hearn. Great fretless sound, nice bit of treble, slight envelope.
 
#62
Jaco's tone is pretty much perfect IMO.
Marcus Miller has the coolest slap sound ever, I love the way the lows are reeeaallly low sounding, and the highs are kinda wobbly, know what I mean?
Vic Wooten. I was just watching my BassDay 98 DVD, I forgot how great his bass sounds. Basically exactly how I want my bass to sound.
 
#63
PilbaraBass said:
ooohhh...Mike Porcaro...wow...nice one...

he doesn't get much mention here, but definitely a rock solid performer with a sweet sweet sound. His brother, Jeff, was a drum idol of mine...no one did the 4/4 shuffle like Jeff Porcaro.
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Yeah, the porcaro brothers are my influences. Jeff even said that Mike had better time than he.... now THAT is a bass player :D
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#64
MikeyFingers said:
Vic Wooten. I was just watching my BassDay 98 DVD, I forgot how great his bass sounds. Basically exactly how I want my bass to sound.
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ive only got the jam part of that...and well, i think rocco was sounding the best, pity you cant hear him very well......i cant watch oteil and wooten play on that though, well, with oteil i just cant stand it being a big george benson fan, and vic turns me off all the time anyway


after just watchin SRV at the el mocambo just then tommy shannon has great p-bass with flats tone
 
#68
Okay let's see... A bit long, but those are my favorite tones (bassist with albums you can hear the tone I prefer on, mostly)

Jeff Caxide - Pretty much anything ISIS, and also Red Sparrowes.
Duncan Patterson - Especially Eternity and Alternative 4 by Anathema.
Eddie Casillas - Bruce Dickinson's Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding. Also his work with Tribe of Gypsies.
John Paul Jones - The Zeppelin years are awesome. Also, the 8 string work on the collaboration album with Diamanda Galas.
Sean Malone - Gordian Knot's Emergent.
Tony Levin - Pretty much anything he recorded :P
Luis Mariutti - On Angra's Holy land and Fireworks.
Martin Mendez - All the recent Opeth albums, especially starting with Blackwater Park until now.
Kristoffer Gildenlow - Especially on Pain of Salvation's The Perfect Element pt.1.
Collin Edwin - Tasty tone on Porcupine Tree's In Absentia and Deadwing.
Chi Cheng - Deftone's White Pony remains my fave by Chi.
Dave Edwardson - Neurosis' A Sun that Never Sets has really nice warm tones.
Duff McKagan - My first experience with bass playing, and still a favorite. Pretty much anything Guns and Roses, and of course Velvet Revolver.
Mike Inez - On pretty much all of Alice in Chains' material, and Slash's Snakepit's It's Five O'Clock Somewhere.
Hugh Stephen James Mingay - Especially on Ulver's Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Arcturus' La Mascarade Infernale.

Heh, could almost have been a list of my favorite players too, if you look at it that way ;)
 
#71
Dr. PhunkyPants said:
all good ones.

One of my FAV rock bass tones was Eddie Jackson from Queensryche. Talk about punch and grind. Check out "Eyes of a Stranger" or "Della Brown", sometime.

He and Scott Rockenfeld were one of the great underrated rythm sections in old-school metal. And they're still doing it.
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+1 for Jackson.
I'd say Steve Harris' tone on the "Iron Maiden" and "Killers" albums.
 
#74
It's time for an update.

Timmy C: He's kind of the tone God in my opinion. He's kinda psycho, but it's good.
Justin Chancellor: So melodic, and so strange, but it's awesome.
Paul D'amour: The best Ric with a Pick tone ever. End of story.
John Myung: So tight and crisp, especially on the B string.
Les Claypool on Hallucino-Genetics: It seriously sounds like a fart.
Tony Levin: I don't know how to describe it, it's just good stuff.
Geddy Lee on Rio: Probably one of the best overdriven tones ever.
 

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