Effects used by prominent bassists

[John Thibodeaux]

Does anyone know where to find a list of effects used by a certain bassist. I’m looking for specifically what effects were used by Larry Paxton when he played on joe Diffie’s single “Pickup Man”

 

[catcauphonic]

Maybe a silly answer, but did you try searching their name to include the word 'pedals', 'pedalboard', 'effects', or similar?

 

[crguti]

I’ve just listened to the song... only in USA you can listen such a thing.

 

[Gearhead17]

The 90's country era - hmmmm. I can't imagine these bass players were using much if any effects for recording. Seems more like a tube amp was miked up and that was it. There is a decent amount of midrange in that tone too. Didn't sound like much high end above 900hz. Start with a tube amp, a good mid boost in the 200-600hz range and play tight to the kick drum. That is what I would do.

 

[AlvarHanso]

I’ve just listened to the song... only in USA you can listen such a thing.

I had to search for it. I remembered the name Joe Diffie (how can one forget a name such as that?), and about 10 seconds in remembered seeing that video many times, and hearing that song many times 25 years ago. And hating it every time. I gave up watching it all the way through 1:25 into it. I wanted to see it for nostalgia sake, but that was bad.

That said, I could totally see doing this song in a bar and getting a great reaction. And I'm also a virulent anti-country person, at least partially due to having that stuff inflicted upon me in the teen years when my mother went through a country phase, whilst I was embarking on a serious investigation into The Who and The Allman Brothers and Jimi Hendrix. So, don't take my hatred of this song personally.

 

[John Thibodeaux]

Wow out of all the answers only one gave one worthy of reading. Hmm guess I picked the wrong group

 

[La Faro]

1 in 4 seems like a good ratio to me.

 

[JeroB666]

Tricky request, can't seem to find anything related to his use of effects or anything of the sort.

I would suggest trying to isolate the track and checking that way?

 

[theunknowndude]

Long shot - is he listed on that equip board site?
But even that is hard to find and out of date for some people...

 

[richntiff]

Ok. I play a lot of 90’s era country. It’s not tough. There are no effects. It’s a P bass into something muddy and thumpy. Which of course is why I play jazz or music man toned basses into GK amps for this stuff

 

[dreamadream99]

Wow out of all the answers only one gave one worthy of reading. Hmm guess I picked the wrong group

And, once again boys and girls, someone asks for help, then complains about the quality of Help offered.

Tell us, John, what is anyone’s incentive to help you now?

 

[remcult]

Equipboard is an ok resource, but should be taken with a grain of salt

 

[John Thibodeaux]

And, once again boys and girls, someone asks for help, then complains about the quality of Help offered.

Tell us, John, what is anyone’s incentive to help you now?

Well telling me that 90's country music sucks or country music sucks isn't exactly help now is it. At the time i made the post there was only one answer that actually was help.

 

[John Thibodeaux]

Ok. I play a lot of 90’s era country. It’s not tough. There are no effects. It’s a P bass into something muddy and thumpy. Which of course is why I play jazz or music man toned basses into GK amps for this stuff

I guarantee there was some sort of effects on the studio session, or even if not just the set up that was used for the bass in that session would suffice.

 

[John Thibodeaux]

Long shot - is he listed on that equip board site?
But even that is hard to find and out of date for some people...

Not sure, but thanks for that reference source, I'll check it out.

 

[John Thibodeaux]

The 90's country era - hmmmm. I can't imagine these bass players were using much if any effects for recording. Seems more like a tube amp was miked up and that was it. There is a decent amount of midrange in that tone too. Didn't sound like much high end above 900hz. Start with a tube amp, a good mid boost in the 200-600hz range and play tight to the kick drum. That is what I would do.

Thanks for your input. I was hoping that someone in the community has a source that lists prominant bassists equipment that is used. Kind of like Discogs where you can look up all the musicians on a certain album etc.

 

[cataract]

Wow out of all the answers only one gave one worthy of reading. Hmm guess I picked the wrong group

The forums here are searchable and a literal trove of useful information— do the work and start digging.

 

[Mosfed]

Does anyone know where to find a list of effects used by a certain bassist. I’m looking for specifically what effects were used by Larry Paxton when he played on joe Diffie’s single “Pickup Man”

i don’t think there is much in there in terms of effects. Probably a p-bass to a tube amp with some EQ, HPF and compression added at the mixing board.

I would go P-bass -> compressor -> tube amp and I bet you nail that tone

 

[catcauphonic]

The forums here are searchable and a literal trove of useful information— do the work and start digging.

To be fair... If there's one place where TB is lacking, it's the search function. Best use your preferred larger search engine of choice and type in 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx site:TalkBass' or something like that

 

[cataract]

To be fair... If there's one place where TB is lacking, it's the search function. Best use your preferred larger search engine of choice and type in 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx site:TalkBass' or something like that

You’re not wrong. But a Talkbass search via a search engine is a Talkbass search nonetheless.