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Favourite recorded bass tone

#22
Doug Pinnick's tone on Groove Machine is amazingly deep with some great grit, love it. Of course, his tone is pretty awesome most of the time.

Steve Harris has an amazing, punchy tone I love, but wouldn't actively try to emulate, The Trooper and Run to the Hills being favorite examples.

I also really dig Geddy Lee's Steinberger tone on Distant Early Warning - GREAT sound. If I ever found a Steinberger that sounded like that, I'd grab it in a heartbeat. His tone in Red Barchetta is also pretty cool.
 
#25
At the risk of being monotonous, since I have posted this clip numerous times (I am not the first to do so), this is one of my favorite recorded bass tones. It features Maurice Fitzgerald playing a USA Peavey Cirrus 5 Bubinga/Walnut with Fred Hammond live in concert. As Soon as I heard this track, "I Want My Destiny", I knew that I had to have this bass-and I am blessed to actually have it!


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A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste! :cool:
 
#26
-'New York Minute' (Don Henley) by Pino Palladino, better yet almost anything by Pino
-'Please Don't Stop' by Richard Bona
-'Do You Love Me?' (Clair Marlo) and 'Real Love' (Paulinho da Costa) by Abraham Laboriel
-'Panther' by Marcus Miller
-'Portrait of tracy' by Jaco Pastorius
-'Diggin' on James brown' (TOP) by rocco Prestia
-'Lea' (Toto) by Mike Porcaro
-'Rapper's Delight'
-almost anything from James Jamerson
-'alright' Jamiroquai
-'Love is All That Matters' (Eric Carmen) Cheesy song but great bassline

And the list goes on and on...;)
 
#28
I don't know who the bassist is, or what bass he uses (sounds a bit Sadowsky-like to me :hmm:), but there's an album called, "Times Are Changing" by blues guitarist Bernard Allison, which has a killer, fat active bass sound.

I'd be really grateful if anyone could shed any light on the identity of the player and (even better) the make and model of bass that he uses :).

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#32
Dazed and Confused live from The Song Remains the Same.

Why? It's so round, pure and large. You just KNOW it was shaking the place, and vibrating the lungs, bones and brains of everyone in the stadium.

Mid-range is for mama's boys. I play bass for the bass.
 
#33
Recent tone candy (to me anyway):

The Fixx "Red Skies at Night" and "Stand or Fall"

Something about the way that the bass tone has a 'curl' to it. Always liked these songs.

"Ok, bimpy, define this 'curl' that you speak of."

I guess if were to spell it (the 'curl' sound), it would be something like

'Glurln Glurln.... Glurln Glurln'

If I had a guess, it would be that Dan K. Brown was playing these songs on the recordings and that he used a Steinberger (the original composite expensive one).
 
#34
There are way too many for me to come up with a complete list. Just a few off the top of my head:

Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (the whole album)
My Drug Hell - "She Flies So High"
Gallon Drunk - "Some Fool's Mess"
the Idle Race - "End of the Road"

Gah I could go on and on; for instance, there are a bunch of pre-disco Bee Gees records with wonderful deep, rich, Rickenbacker tone on them, up to and including the great To Whom it May Concern
 
#35
bimplizkit said:
Recent tone candy (to me anyway):

The Fixx "Red Skies at Night" and "Stand or Fall"

Something about the way that the bass tone has a 'curl' to it. Always liked these songs.

"Ok, bimpy, define this 'curl' that you speak of."

I guess if were to spell it (the 'curl' sound), it would be something like

'Glurln Glurln.... Glurln Glurln'

If I had a guess, it would be that Dan K. Brown was playing these songs on the recordings and that he used a Steinberger (the original composite expensive one).
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Rupert Hine is also an excellent producer, so I suspect his fingers had to do with the final bass sound. --Kent
 
#36
A few of my faves have been mentioned (RATM on Evil Empire, some Tony Levin), but let's add:

Tony Levin with King Crimson, especially "Sleepless" and the entire Thrak album;

Graham Maby on Joe Jackson's Look Sharp album;

The Zutons' player on the Who Killed the Zutons disc, which has some impeccably recorded P-bass/flatwound tones;

Adam Clayton's bottom-heavy, growly J-bass tone on the Live at Slane Castle DVD;

Tool's Lateralus album;

Autolux's Future Perfect album, which has a P-bass run through some heavy effects;

Flea on The Mars Volta's De-Loused in the Comatorium disc;

Billy Idol's bassist (Steve McGrath I think) on the Devil's Playground album, especially "Scream" for an aggressive, modern hard rock tone; and of course

The Ox on Live at Leeds.
 
#38
Stuart Zender on Jamiroqaui's Travelling Without Moving
Stuart Zender on Jamiroqaui's The Return of the Space Cowboy
Stuart Zender on Jamiroqaui's Emergency on Planet Earth
Dirk Lance on Incubus's SCIENCE
Dirk Lance on Incubus's Make Yourself
Dirk Lance on Incubus's Morning View
Tim Commerford's on The Battle of Los Angeles
Tim Commerford's on Rage Against The Machine
Flea's on Blood Sex Sugar Magik
 

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