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Favourite recorded bass tone

#81
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#83
I LOVE Les Claypool's tone on the Antipop album, it's just plain badass...

Also, Justin Chancellor's tone on Lateralus, Geddy Lee's tone preforming live at Brazil, John Myung's tone in Scenes from a memory (namely in his bass solo for Dance of Eternity) and when performing Live at Budokan, Tony Levin's tone (namely here:

P.S. what bass is the last guy using?
 
#89
projectMalamute said:
You need to dig a little deeper in to the Beatles catalog. The bass is probably the loudest thing on 'Rain' for instance. In fact most of the stuff they were doing around the time of Revolver has some really upfront bass.

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Well, I did say "one of." The tone on Sgt. Pepper's is a little more mature than it was on Revolver. Brighter, I guess.
 
#90
Wallbender said:
John Wetton's tone on 'Red' by King Crimson.
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Yup, great tone, also

1. Duck Dunn on hip-Hug-Her,
2. Ron Wood on Beckola
3. Jack Cassady on After Bathing at Baxters

1,2, and 3 are among my all time favorite tones on record.

McCartney on Helter Skelter and Baby You're a Rich man, among many other great McCartney tones.
Felix Pappalardi's tone was great, as was Jack Bruce's especially on West, Bruce and Liang.
Tim Bogart on many Vanilla Fudge recordings
Entwistle on My Generation (studio version)
Mostly anything Jamerson played.
Chuck Rainey
Some old live Chris Squire

Many others I'm sure I skipped.
 
#91
Another good one is Skuli sverrisson on the pachora records.
The tone on those records on it's own would not have made it onto my "list" but it works remarkably well in the context of this band.
 
#92
projectMalamute said:
You need to dig a little deeper in to the Beatles catalog. The bass is probably the loudest thing on 'Rain' for instance. In fact most of the stuff they were doing around the time of Revolver has some really upfront bass.

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great bass sound
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Even though he has a Hofner in that clip he started using his Rickenbacker 4001 around that time. The Beatles always had loud bass compared to other bands at that time especially when they first came out. McCartney put electric bass on the map. I remember reviewers mentioning the loud bass when they were new. When I heard him I switched from trumpet to bass guitar as soon as I could afford one. He inspired me and countless others. He was the first to put bass upfront right from day one.
 

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