Heres a snippet of my uprising tone, recorded straight from the desk at a gig at the weekend
This is the subterranea into aftershock, simple as that!
This is the subterranea into aftershock, simple as that!
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Chris Wolstenholme: The Sticky Ver. 1
- Thread starter kaputsport
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- Apr 19, 2001
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- Beta tester Source Audio, demos/reviews of many others
No worries, sadly the recording didn't come out brilliant quality. Will try to record some more stuff soon though
For those that were wondering.. It doesn't sound anything like an Animato
Mine's unit 90 and it says something inside about the first 60 being the original run, and everything after that being made from updated parts or something (and different transistors reccommended by the maker's friend Ken Fischer from Trainwreck amps)
Thought I'd share the latest incarnation of my pedal board. Pretty much only used for the Muse songs in our setlist, and we're looking at doing a full blown Muse tribute in the near future. Nothing too unexpected here, but thought some might be interested.
I'll never understand wanting to copy someone else's entire rig - wouldn't you rather have your own tone?
It's usefull if you do covers of their songs or it's a tribute band.
It did a job for me... I now have a Black Russian as well and you can tell the difference. Tonally the Green is a lot less bright than the Black. It's great having both on my rig now though. Having taken inspiration from Honotron, I'm now running a rack set up, with the pedals going through a Voodoo Labs GCX, controlled by a Ground Control Pro. I'll try and post some photos and possibly some sound samples when I get home from work.
For the most part I do have my own tone. The band I'm in covers a lot of Muse tracks though and I actually like the challenge of trying to match Chris' bass sounds on a relatively low budget compared to the seemingly infinite amount he has!
Because there are many people who are in cover bands that want to sound as close as they can to a certain player tones. And some peoples setups can get very complex. Plus there are others who are very inspired by some players' tones and they want to know what they use to get in the same realm tonally. For instance, I'm heavily influenced by Justin Chancellor and Bob Weston, guys that have very distinct and high mid clanky tones. I've studied what they use and how they use to see if I can get in the same realm tonally. Doesn't mean I want to be them or sound exactly like them. But they inspire my tone and playing techniques a lot. And studying what they use and how they use it helps me get the tone I hear in my head out through my cab and rig. If it weren't for threads like these and guys who love and get inspired by other players, I would've missed so much. You can learn a lot if you keep an open mind about this stuff.
Hopefully this helped you understand why some of us want to know about someones setup and rig and tools they use to produce their tone and music. There aren't many out there who want to be or produce an exact copy of a player. Besides, that's pretty impossible. And most of us know this too.
No I'm not in a tribute band, although I have played a few covers. I try to do my own take on covers so they're not exactly the same. However I get that a lot of audiences want the tribute band they paid to go and see to sound like the original band.
Sort of missed my point. I understand getting a feel for someone else's rig and using those influences to inspire your own choices but copying someone's rig down to the last detail? Sod that.
Not at all. I was trying to be nice from the way you asked your question. Why do you care if people want to copy someone else's tone? If it inspires them to pick up a bass and play, I say more power to them. It's comments like yours that ruin it for everyone. If you don't get it, move on. Let others enjoy the thread. They don't need these kinds of comments questioning their motives or playing.
Copyright strike.
Here's my version of Hysteria bass sound. I was aiming to get closer to the studio recording than his live, as that tends to change each tour. The method is the same though
Dude that sounds great, what pedals did you use for the tone?
Also, @honotron would you mind sending me your signal path, im comfused on how you get clean and can still blend your distortions and fuzzes with 1 ls-2
thank you.
It's the same technique that I'm sure is how the recording was done. I have a clean, a Muff, and a saw synth. The synth is key to having the distortion notes more defined. It's very basic, and on it's own sounds hidious and plan, but when you add the muff track over it, you get that sound.
