Describe your bass tone!

[Alexdeth89]

How wold you describe your tone? and what are some of the key factors to get it?

I go first, I'll define my tone:
Very articulate and mostly scooped out of the midrange, with prominent lows and highs.
The low end is warm, deep and tight and the highs are very bright and zingy.
I think most of the tone comes from my stainless strings, solid state amp and active electronics.

Ok, now your turn guys

 

[P. Aaron]

I work to sound like Bruce Thomas from those early Elvis Costello recordings: Accidents Will Happen, Lipstick Vogue, Pump It Up.

Just using MIA Precisions, a Hartke LH1000, LDS 2 x 10 cabs.

Not hard to get but, it's never tiresome and always seems to fit in with the music I am playing.

 

[Ric5]

Part McCartney, part Chris Squire, part Geddy Lee, part John Whetton, and the rest me.

 

[thedudebrah]

Loud.

 

[mpdd]

been kind of into a post punk/gothic rock tone like jesus and mary chain or marilyn manson recently, wmd geiger counter bitcrushed tubey od voice into a vintage dr q envelope filter, a little synthy and processed i suppose, compared to my overdriven d180

 

[loinmute]

Punchy, hollow, thump....but a very pronounced overdriven grind.

 

[Duckwater]

Overpowering in every frequency range

 

[subbasshz]

louder then god. I try to make people sick from volume / bass.

 

[bkbirge]

Heavy on the mids. If I'm on a P I'll play at the neck to accent the woodiness for that old Headhunters kind of sound (not that I can play anything like that) and expression. Used to play at the bridge all the time because I like that tone better but hard to be as expressive there. My recorded tones are all over from dark dark P to bright plucked lipstick to the classic jazz (and Jazz) sounds.

 

[TBird1958]

Big Angry Piano

 

[millsbass5]

KICK-ASS!!!!!!!

 

[Rip Topaz]

I'm using a P-bass with flats. We all know what that sounds like.

 

[chubfarm2001]

An iceberg. Cuts thru just enough so you know it's there, but underneath it will sink ships.

 

[lowphatbass]

Assertive, lot's of sack and booty.

 

[datsaxguy]

Marcus Miller meets Bootsy Collins!

 

[Jaco Taco]

Mid-Range in your F@$kin' Face!!!!

 

[Numbpk3r2]

Twangy and Clangy

 

[Tom Howland]

I have three tone I try to get.

1- P-Bass / Flats the "Pino" John Mayer Trio tone.

2- Jazz-Bass "Jaco" bridge-pickup tone.

3- Wal Mk1 fretless "Mick Karn" tone.

 

[mcm]

raw and nasty, simple and spontaneous.

 

[dedpool1052]

i have no one specific tone. it's pretty much an amalgam of all the players that have had an influence on me as a player.