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Blown away by the bass tone

#106
Mel Schacher on Grand Funk Railroad's 'On Time' and their self-titled album

Geddy on '2112', 'A Farewell to Kings', and 'Hemispheres' (everything else, too, but those are the biggies)

Geezer Butler on the first four Sabbath albums

Jack Bruce on everything Cream ever recorded

Flea on 'Mother's Milk' and 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik'

Every bass tone I ever recall hearing on a Zappa record

Stefan Lessard on Dave Matthews Band's 'Crash' and 'Before These Crowded Streets'

Mike Watt on, well, everything, but especially Minutemen's 'Double Nickels on the Dime'

Tony Kanal with No Doubt, almost always sounded more or less the same, always awesome

Eric Wilson on, well, everything, but especially Sublime's 'Robbin the Hood' and '40 Oz. To Freedom'

Phil Lesh's live tone, from the beginning all the way to the last time I saw him (last summer)

Every Justin Chancellor TOOL album

Tim Commerford on Rage Against the Machine's self-titled album and 'Evil Empire'

Most of what Tony Levin has recorded with Peter Gabriel

Effing MINGUS.
 
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Basshappi said:
Roger Waters - Pink Floyd - Needs no introduction of course and neither does David Gilmore so let's just leave it at that. Many great bass tones across many great albums. But this has always been one of my favorite "Precision with a pick" sounds and I still love it (really starts at 6:25 on the video)
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Hear, HEAR!
 
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McTred said:
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.
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Copy? No. OP asked which specific tones really impressed us, and we're just answering.
 
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#112
lucas303 said:
His tone has varied throughout his career. My favorite era of his tone is 73-74. If you compare that to his tone in the 90s, for example, it's very different (all good, but I just prefer the 73-74 tone).
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'76-'78 for me, but that might just be because in my mind that was when the band were at their very best and I've convinced myself of it, haha!
 
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Basshappi said:
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.
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Oh, hell yeah! Editing my post, haha!
 
#118
I love almost every P Bass tone played with a pick through a tube amb.

I like Mike Dirnt's tone and playing on "Dookie" and Duff McKaggan's on "Appetite for Destruction"

I like fingerstyle P bass tones too and Tommy Shanon's tone on "Soul To Soul" is amazing

But some other tones simply take me to another level:

When I heard for first time Nightwish album "Century Child" I heard Marko Hiettala's bass tone for first time : Warwick Infinity through a cranked up Sansamp. One of the reasons I bought a Sansamp,honestly. There's a bass fill in the song "End of all hope",after the guitar solo.. I've never heard a tone like that.

Jason Newsted's tone on "My friend of misery" and "The god that failed"

Billy Shehaan's tone on every single record he plays. It's unmistakable

More recently, Nolly's tone on "Absolom"..the guy who started all this Dingwall+Darkglass combination trend..

and finally , Lemmy's tone screams "rebellion" and "attitude"
 
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what is it with the you tube contagion...its odd but once someone posts a youtube clip all of sudden now you get almost entire pages of clips..some posting multiple vids on the same post. I understand that people seem to want everyone to hear a song or whatever featuring like in this thread a tone. I wonder how many people actually stop and listen to any of them..if you did it would take hours to get through one thread...

Interestingly, on a thread with someone asking about bass rigs or cabs..no you tube at all...lol.

also the same thing happens with pics...once someone posts a pic..then all of sudden its a feeding frenzy of pics...lol
meh just a thought...
 
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