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Fieldy's sound

#43
bassman_619 said:
to get his tech down slap and i mean rapidly slap with ur thumb and pinkey it a take a while but u wii l thank me try it and turn ur treble hallf way ^ :bassist: to slap with ur pink first slap with ur thumb then come back hard with ur pinky:example:---------------------------
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TPTPTPTPTPTPTP ok thats it try it it help me dont get discouraged it took me aleast 3 months to master get the korn live at cbgbs u get a close pu of his solo :hyper: layter u need maore ifo hit me up [email protected]
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Or you could do it the real way and learn how to slap quickly with just your thumb. I imagine it's easy for him to make sound with slapping with his pinky because of the detuned strings and mass amounts of highs making every little thing be picked up ;)
 
#48
"When I`m doing that clicking stuff, I either strum all the strings with the back of my fingers, or I grab all four strings at once and pull`em when I`m slapping. Most bass players hit down on one string and pull up on another. I pull up on four." It took some experimentation to refine this technique. "At first I was just pulling one, and I thought, it sounds kinda weak. Then I tried two, and then three, and finally I said, '**** it - I'll try all four'. It took practice, but now it's easy."
He tunes the lowest string on his Ibanez Soundgear 5 down a whole-step to A.
Fieldy also relies on some creative EQ to bring out his bottom-heavy sound. His two MESA/Boogie M-2000 heads each have 18 bands of EQ, which he tweaks heavily. "I don't use any mids," he maintains. This leaves lots of low end to help his tone emerge from the drop-tuned guitar mix, and it leaves plenty of highs that let his percussive work cut through.
On the road, each of Fieldy`s M-2000 heads powers a 2x15 cabinets and 4x10 cabinets, one each by Hughes & Kettner and MESA/Boogie. "The clicking sound is the horn in the 10's," Fieldy notes. "We don`t even mike the speakers; we just put that mike right in the middle of the horn. I use a SansAmp, too, both live and in the studio. It puts a real sub-low on the bass you can`t really hear - you just feel it."
In the studio he sets up one of his MESA/Boogie heads along with a single 4x10 cabinet with the horn miked, usually no effects.

And I always thought he was using his ring finger. I don't see how you get enough strength in your pinky to make it sound right...
 
#49
Upon drumming on my leg, it would make more sense that he'd do it with his ring finger.


Alright guys I gotta fess up, I'm in a Korn tribute band... we are called KARROT! Download our MP3 here...

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And choose the Karrot song.






Alright... it isn't real, but it was my attempt to get the Fieldy sound... I failed miserably... but it's still kinda funny. (I put like 5 minutes into this, you can't give me too much crap. :D
 
#50
Guys, on a serious note, GET AN INBANEZ!!!! That's the easiest way to get his "sound". I've gotten his sound, albeit by accident, numerous times with an Ergodyne that I had about 7 years ago. We were in rehearsal, when the band leader yelled, "What the f*** is that clicking sound?!" If you fans want to discuss something, try answering the question I put in my post on the first page of this thread. I'm really curious.
 
#51
john turner said:
actually, fieldy isn't really that bad a player. in fact, he is very tight with their drummer, both on record and live. now, you wanna hear someone doing almost the same exact thing as fieldy, but not tight at all with the drummer, listen to coal chamber. i won't say anything about sucking - ;) - but you can tell the difference between them and korn just by the difference in bass-drums tightness. sounds like the difference between an elementary school orchestra and the new york philharmonic.
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I think that's the only time a connection has been made between Fieldy and the New York Philharmonic...

I'd love to see Fieldy play with the NYP though...

Woodchuck: What did you ask on the first page?
 
#53
To get the sound just buy a Ibanez K5. I played bass in a Korn tribute gig a few months ago, and I learned that Fieldy technique one week before the gig. And I think I managed very well. It's really easy once you get the hang of it.

I didn't use the Thumb/pinky technique. I slapped with thumb and the palm of my hand, close to the root of the pinky.
alot easier and doesn't look that gay
 
#57
john turner said:
actually, fieldy isn't really that bad a player. in fact, he is very tight with their drummer, both on record and live. now, you wanna hear someone doing almost the same exact thing as fieldy, but not tight at all with the drummer, listen to coal chamber. i won't say anything about sucking - ;) - but you can tell the difference between them and korn just by the difference in bass-drums tightness. sounds like the difference between an elementary school orchestra and the new york philharmonic.
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Actually, I think a lot of it has to due with the producer. Ross Robinson's collaborations were by far the best ones, IMO. He's able to get those performances out of the artists and get that tightness as close as possible as well as fine-tune the sound. It sounds raw, yet full of rage. I can't say the same for the last few ablum: yuck. the last few albums had the sloppiest mixes and bass sounds I've heard in a long time.

That seems to follow a long trend in "nu-metal" bands like korn, limp bizkit, linkin park, etc. where the songwriting and production gets far worse as the bands' careers transgress.

You're right about coal chamber, though. Rayna blows.
 
#58
Im no where near being the fieldy fan I used to be, but I'm seeing all of this fieldy sucks garbage and its getting to me. The guy is pretty innovative as far as his slapping style is concerned, which makes sense being that he is one half of the rythym section of one of the most innovative bands to come around in the past 20 years. Hes all rythym, no melody. But in his case, it works very well. Whether you like him or not, give credit where credit where is due you arrogant bastards.
 

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