How to achieve growly, zingy tone?

[FunkHead]

You could easily get that sound with an Active Warwick corvette straight into any given rig.

 

[bryan gibson]

You could easily get that sound with an Active Warwick corvette straight into any given rig.

Beat me to it Any 'wick with active or passive HB's into a Hartke hybrid head, played with a pick near the bridge.

 

[Unrepresented]

The sansamp bass driver with the presence and treble boosted + generous drive will get that sound, from my experience.

B3K is way too thin IMO to get that tone. That sounds more like a Stingray or a Rick tone with an overdriven amp. A B7K on the other hand could get closer. If you're going to go the pedal route, I'd look at a pedal like the Okko Basstard or one of the Swell pedals. Sounds more like that tone than the Darkglass.

Sounded roughly like a Stingray going into a BDDI with presence and drive boosted to taste in the samples provided. In other words, scooped with a big peak in the high mids.

 

[jwr]

I just messed around with my Eden 300T and my Dingwall AB1 and got pretty close to this sound with just that. Gain all the way up with overdrive on the amp.

Adjust the treble to get more clank.

I really don't think you need a pedal for this. Just a nice tube amp. Or if you must have a pedal a tube amp emulator. I think the BDDI would do it as well. I had one for awhile and it got some awesome tones going out of it. Just sucks that it doesn't seem to like other pedals. At least not the ones I had.

 

[Josh Pelican]

Numerous bassists tour with that head and can achieve that tone. You don't need to spend $250+ on a pedal or buy another head. Crank that SVT.