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Favourite recorded bass tone

#201
Apparently for you a nice tone is nice when the bass is right in front in the mix and when it's loud and clear , but sometimes there's like a range of frequencies in the bass that's dominant even if it's not too loud in the mix and for me choosing the right frequencies gives you the nice tone.

Train Of Thought - Dream Theater
and you have to make sure you have a good set of speakers
 
#202
I doubt anyone's heard of them, but there was this ska band from Chicago - the Blue Meanies, for reference - that had two different bass players (not at once, mind you), each with tones that I'm especially fond of. Jay Vance, one of my big inspirations, played on all of the early stuff through their first studio LP, "Kiss Your Ass Goodbye," and his sound was what really drove me to near-exclusivity with the fretless. The other bassist, Dave Lund, got this really punchy, awesome sound that I've foolishly tried to imitate (then I remember that I play six-string, fretless, and, for the moment, active bass).
 
#213
()smoke() said:
lately i listen to 'swing on' from the bonin' in the boneyard single by fishbone over and over again...bounce the ball against the wall, watch the ball bounce back...
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+1

Fishbone is awesome. I particularly like their stuff from Truth and Soul and The Reality of My Surroundings. I overplayed those two albums in the 90s and continue to put them on every now and then.
 
#215
I really dig the bass player's tone on the BB King/Eric Clapton album, Riding With The King. I suspect it is Willie Weeks on his P bass, but I honestly have no idea. I don't even get to play that much blues myself, but I love his tone (or her tone).
 
#216
Listen to Tom Petersson on Cheap Trick's debut album from 1977 titled simply CHEAP TRICK. He plays a Gibson Thunderbird and the tone is amazing! He still had not invented the 12 string bass, but his sound is still HOT and VERY cool. Not sure if he played through an Ampeg B-15 or a guitar amp.
 
#217
Joe Lally with Fugazi - almost any studio recording
Jack Bruce: Badge (with Cream)
Bootsy with James Brown
Jaco on Opus Pocus
Geddy, esp. on Hold Your Fire
On DB, Ben Allison (Little Things...)

Really too many to name in one post....
 
#219
Rick Danko (of The Band) really gets some nice tones on anything recorded with that old Ampeg fretless (with the scrolled headstock). Check out 'Last of the Blacksmiths" from Cahoots for one of my favourites. You can also see it in action on the DVDs 'The Last Waltz' and 'Festival Express'.

Heres a couple of clips on YouTube with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Y987Uf1wY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PJwxQrm8Os

Also George Porter Jr. of The Meters has a really great fat tone on pretty much everything he recorded.
 
#220
Neds Atomic Dustbin's "God Fodder" and "Are You Normal?" the whole CD's. Two basses! the sound is sonic bliss (at least to me).

And while it is not my favorite bass tone (in fact I do not even think that have a bass player), one sound that I have never been able to get out of my head since the first time I heard it; "My Pal Foot Foot" by the Shaggs
 

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