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Geddy Lee's best tone?

Which Rush studio album had the best bass tones?

  • RUSH

    Votes: 8 2.7%

  • Fly By Night

    Votes: 7 2.4%

  • Caress Of Steel

    Votes: 5 1.7%

  • 2112

    Votes: 14 4.8%

  • A Farewell To Kings

    Votes: 21 7.2%

  • Hemispheres

    Votes: 35 11.9%

  • Permanent Waves

    Votes: 24 8.2%

  • Moving Pictures

    Votes: 76 25.9%

  • Signals

    Votes: 31 10.6%

  • Grace Under Pressure

    Votes: 4 1.4%

  • Power Windows

    Votes: 11 3.8%

  • Hold Your Fire

    Votes: 9 3.1%

  • Presto

    Votes: 3 1.0%

  • Roll the Bones

    Votes: 6 2.0%

  • Counterparts

    Votes: 8 2.7%

  • Test For Echo

    Votes: 4 1.4%

  • Vapor Trails

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Snakes and Arrows

    Votes: 4 1.4%

  • Clockwork Angels

    Votes: 23 7.8%
  • Total voters
    293
#81
My favorite bass tone of ANY recording is on the album Permanent Waves. It has all the dynamic range of the best old school recordings yet each instrument seems perfectly processed and just compressed enough that everything seems to pop out musically. The bass sits in the mix perfectly and you can hear every nuance of Geddy's playing without the bass overpowering anything else.

Play "Freewill" on a high quality system (from a good soure recording, not some lo-bit mp3 garbage) and turn the volume up a bit. Revel in what is a truly well executed bass sound.
 
#85
I haven't really met a Rush sound I didn't like, although I like some more than others. 2112, for nostalgia's sake. First album to introduce me to Rush as a teenager. Love the Jazz and Rick tones on Moving Pictures. Permanent Wave,Signals, and Counterparts stand out for me as well. And I really like Clockwork Angels as well. I also liked the sound of Malignant Narcissism, from Snakes and Arrows.
 
#87
WJGreer said:
I've never heard so many people stand up for Signals as a Rush album than in this thread. Usually people vilify that album as the beginning of the end for Rush.
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That was the album that made me a Rush fan and is still among my favorites. As a teenager in the 80s, that album and Grace Under Pressure together pretty much defined the decade for me, with the high tech futuristic thinking of the time being represented by Signals, and the fear of nuclear war represented by GUP. I loved their back catalogue, too, but these two albums left a huge impression on me.
 
#89
Spectrum said:
That was the album that made me a Rush fan and is still among my favorites. As a teenager in the 80s, that album and Grace Under Pressure together pretty much defined the decade for me, with the high tech futuristic thinking of the time being represented by Signals, and the fear of nuclear war represented by GUP. I loved their back catalogue, too, but these two albums left a huge impression on me.
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I love those albums too!!!
 
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#92
I proudly voted for the debut album! He makes a P bass sound almost like a Rickenbacker. With the original drummer there is a certain kind of magic that just isn't there with Peart playing the same stuff on that early live album even. More groove, less half-baked tributes to Ayn Rand....
 
#97
Anybody see the latest leg of the tour? I saw them in Atlantic city last night (awesome) and Geddy used 5 different basses. The white relic'd one is new. What's the story on the different basses? I would've thought tuning but Alex didn't change when he did. Other than the red one for 2112 - which he's used for a while for dropped tuning, I don't know how the other basses differ. They are all jazzes, maple board, badass bridges. (I'm excited that Geddy finally followed ME and got a white jazz. ;) )
 
#98
Yeah, I was at the show last night too. Incredible tone on all of the basses he used (I only remember seeing 3...black, white and the red, but I was in section D to the left of the stage opposite Geddy & my eyesight aint what it used to be! LOL)

Took my 13 year old nephew (his first concert) and he was thrilled to hear a lot of the tracks I'd been showing him, especially Limelight, Big Money & Manhattan Project.

Was surpised at the on stage string ensemble for the Clockwork Angels segment, but overall a great show and some of the best live tones I've ever heard from Geddy.

Only downer was the idiot at the soundboard allowing some of Alex's effects to clip like that, but we had a frickin' blast!
 
#99
Fletz said:
Anybody see the latest leg of the tour? I saw them in Atlantic city last night (awesome) and Geddy used 5 different basses. The white relic'd one is new. What's the story on the different basses? I would've thought tuning but Alex didn't change when he did. Other than the red one for 2112 - which he's used for a while for dropped tuning, I don't know how the other basses differ. They are all jazzes, maple board, badass bridges. (I'm excited that Geddy finally followed ME and got a white jazz. ;) )
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Saw Rush in Orlando on the 28th, the Relic is a new Custom Shop Bass. Here is a pic.
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