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Favorite Sir Paul tone?

#22
Not the greatest song ever, but well, it was the 80s, and I remember this movie and video growing up, and I liked the bass tone. Since it's only a stupid video there's no way to tell if he used the Ric in the recording, but whatever he used it has lots of deep growl and maybe some chorus on it. I'm going to assume it's the Ric. I'm way too young to remember the Beatles so this was my intro to Paul the bass player.

 
#23
The tone he got for A Day in the Life.

One of the earlier examples of the later common practice of going direct into the board for bass. It generally sounds like dry and punchy crap when isolated. (As opposed to miking a bass amp, which often sounds good in the studio, but far less good in the mix.)



However, in the mix, Paul's bassline is absolutely magical.

Thank you George Martin! :thumbsup:
 
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lermgalieu said:
Huh? :wideyed:
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McCartney was really the first bass player whose bass lines actually stood out in the mix, was pretty much the first bass player to put electric bass on the map. During the 60's when I first started playing bass was king and McCartney was the king of the bass, (well him and Jamerson) everyone imitated him. He doesn't get a lot of credit though which is kind of strange to me, he is and was a phenomenal, very original bass player. This is the only version I could find, youtube and lawyers are getting ridiculous.

 
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Agree with @bobyoung53 Paul and Jameson were the creative leads in that era and I was coming from the Motown/Soul side listening to Mac's great lines, tone appropriate for the type of tunes.

I like his Ric work to, more in the post Beatles era but not a fan of those years/bands.

I always thought that his lyrical mind, that melody/harmony focus made his great bass lines just natural. He did/does get the bass as a bad ass beater too.
 
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40Hz said:
The tone he got for A Day in the Life.

One of the earlier examples of the later common practice of going direct into the board for bass. It generally sounds like dry and punchy crap when isolated. (As opposed to miking a bass amp, which often sounds good in the studio, but far less good in the mix.)



However, in the mix, Paul's bassline is absolutely magical.

Thank you George Martin! :thumbsup:
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See, now I really like that tone! It's just dead and thumps. Did he use foam or palm mute? Or was that just a function of dead strings?
 
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ecadad said:
True, I was listening to the isolated bass from "Band On The Run" and it sounded pretty horrendous, thin, distorted in a wrong way... but in the track it sounds so juicy!
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it could be that the tracks are isolated prior to going into mastering processing - with things like EQing, Compression, saturation, missing. either on the track or on the mastering chanel
keep that in mind :) so perhaps you are hearing to pre-mastering or even direct recording pre-chanel FX.

ALSO. if you have things like limiter on master chanel and then mute everything except the bass guitar and render (play) it , sound WILL be different a bit as less of the sound is being pushed and less limiting/compression will be applied.
 
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BigDrew said:
See, now I really like that tone! It's just dead and thumps. Did he use foam or palm mute? Or was that just a function of dead strings?
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Couldn't say without being there. But I'm guessing it was just a pick and old strings. Sounds like Martin threw a little plate reverb on it and called it a win. At least to my ears.

Anybody out there know for sure?
 

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