Blown away by the bass tone

[Basshappi]

Tony Kanal - No Doubt - In my opinion Tony Kanal is a very underrated bass player. He was absolutely perfect for the band he was in. Not only great lines and interesting tones, he was also one of the handful of bass players that really got how to combine bass guitar and bass synthesizer and yet keep the identity of both instruments.


Another great line that changes through multiple very cool tones.

 

[jaco944]

I always love the bass tone on Foghats "Fool for the City" album.

Yes!!! You beat me to it. So much of the mid '70s rock had great bass tone.

 

[lazarusdoom]

I've always loved the tone in this song

 

[lucas303]

Two bass players have influenced my playing for the last 20+ years and still till this amaze me
Davide Gentile


Craig Setari


Live these guys reproduced their tones damn near exact.

Orange 9mm is a blast from the past! I remember the bass player didn't use a vocal mic and he'd just yell like a madman between songs if he wanted to say something to the audience.

 

[s_wood]

Johnny Colt of the Black Crowes tone on "Sting Me" and "Remedy."
John Entwistle of The Who on "The Real Me" and "The Punk vs. The Godfather."
Dave Schools of Widespread Panic on any of their live stuff.
Tom Fowler with Frank Zappa on the "Roxy and Elsewhere" live album.

 

[JW56789]

I'd posit that the recording studio is a far different place than a live situation, and after a performance is recorded then mastered then pressed then played as a CD, LP, or download, you're then subject to whatever those processes added or subtracted, and then accuracy of whatever you're using to play it back it to you (or listening to it over the radio) makes it highly questionable you're getting any kind of real sense of the original as it was laid down.

By the time it gets to me after all those steps, how would I know WHAT it orginally sounded like ? Add in that it may have been recorded only with a direct box straight into the board, NOW what amp did you want me to buy ?

And then you take what you THINK you heard and go online or to a local store and tell the guy, 'I want to sound just like ________________' .

Really ? ? ? ?

I have been, indeed, been blown away by the way this or that sounded, but I'd suggest there is an awful lot of unintended filters between there . . . . and here.

 

[kev451]

Orange 9mm is a blast from the past! I remember the bass player didn't use a vocal mic and he'd just yell like a madman between songs if he wanted to say something to the audience.

Yup loved watching them with Davide. The guy who replaced him Chris V. Was also a BEAST.

 

[smogg]

Normally I would lean towards Robert Deleo's tone on Wicked Garden


or Tom Hamilton's tone on Walk This Way


But lately, BOC's Danny Miranda's tone on Dance on Stilts is really pushing all the right buttons for me.

 

[funkinbottom]

Chuck Rainey

 

[fourstringdrums]

Bruce Thomas' tone on this album and honestly on everything he recorded with EC.

 

[Tim Skaggs]

Old school muted with a pick;


This may not be for everyone, but at least listen from 2:00 - 5:10 for a lesson in how to make a two chord segment interesting with accents and tone

 

[Bruiser Stone]

JJ Burnel


And +1 for Mars Cowling. He's what I want to sound like when I magically wake up one day with loads of talent.

 

[Ace Of Bass]

I always loved Paul Turner's tone here...that's generally what I shoot for most of the time, I guess..

 

[David McIntire]

One of the things that has surprised me the most about music since looking things up online and finding sites like this is the way people want to copy or celebrate a certain tone.

I've spent my whole musical life trying to decide what I want my tone to be. It never occurred to me to try to copy someone else.

To each his own I say.

I talked bout this in another thread, too. I don't think we can ever sound like another. I think we always sound like ourselves. It just took me longer than some to realize it. I wish I'd figured it out earlier. My early career may have gone different. Glad for you, man. Truly. But I bet even you heard tones that at least made you wanna pick up yer bass and play it. Every time I hear a good tune wit good tone, makes me wanna play! This thread had me playin all day!

 

[12Toes]

Tony Kanal - No Doubt - In my opinion Tony Kanal is a very underrated bass player. He was absolutely perfect for the band he was in. Not only great lines and interesting tones, he was also one of the handful of bass players that really got how to combine bass guitar and bass synthesizer and yet keep the identity of both instruments.


Another great line that changes through multiple very cool tones.

Big Plus 1 on Tony. That was his band for sure and the bass effort was always strong. My fav Tony from their catalog is Simple Kind of Life. Vulnerable, brave song writing and Toni's bass to me served as the second voice duet behind Gwen.

 

[gelinas666]

Dusty Hill's.. Pretty much every album.. Great tones..

 

[MDBass]

More recently, the 'synthy' P bass tone of Charlie Puth's - Attention, which is not dissimilar to Dua Lipa's - Don't Start Now, is a tone I'd happily use widely!

The great bass tone on that Charlie Puth tune is actually from a synth plug-in called "Trilian", not a real bass.

Great vibe though!

 

[singlemalt]

Terry Jackson's bass work on Thomas Dolby's Aliens Ate My Buick.

He had a long list of credits with top level acts. Killed in a plane crash 1991.

Remembering Terry, Kirk and Tony - Webster Journal



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[Tim Skaggs]

I always loved Paul Turner's tone here...that's generally what I shoot for most of the time, I guess..

Fantastic...


Just one more, Pino!

 

[jwoiton]

Peter Hook's hook of a bassline on Love Will Tear Us Apart has always held my interest.