Influential Effect Usage

[insomniac2295]

Who influenced you to first really get into effects?

The influence that pushed me over the edge into effectdom would be Colin DeKuiper, the first bassist from Russian Circles. Him and the guitarist, Mike Sullivan, had a huge impact on me effect-wise. I still use and borrow lots of tricks that they used which were so influential to me.

Discuss.

 

[Dick Tree]

Cliff Burton... I bought the Digitech Death Metal distortion pedal around the time it came out because it was very cheap and I wanted to play Pulling Teeth. I think I was about 12 or 13 years old.

 

[FaithNoMan]

Billy Gould got me into using a slight overdrive, but it's not really an effect, per se.

The Edge, from U2 got me into delay. With the percussive, metallic bass tones I like and using a pick, I figured it's perfect for bass as well.

Plus, the rhythmic part about delay can definitely be used in a bassline, if not too complicated.

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[Funkinthetrunk]

Toss up between Bootsy and Graham.

 

[nad]

The distortion channel on my friend's crappy KMD guitar amp when I was 13. I was jealous, but more importantly, I was in love.

 

[wolffman]

i hate to be this guy but...

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f36/what-band-musician-did-inspire-you-use-effects-723679/index7.html

I'll still play anyway- Dan Kurtz of The New Deal. IMO He has the best tone of the jam/live electronica bass players. He got me into playing bass again, jam bands, and ultimately playing effects. Great synth sounds. Seems like he's relatively unknown around these parts.

Most recently it's been Clay Parnell of brothers past. All in all the talkbass community has been the most influential- thanks guys.

 

[insomniac2295]

i hate to be this guy but...

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f36/what-band-musician-did-inspire-you-use-effects-723679/index7.html

I'll still play anyway- Dan Kurtz of The New Deal. IMO He has the best tone of the jam/live electronica bass players. He got me into playing bass again, jam bands, and ultimately playing effects. Great synth sounds. Seems like he's relatively unknown around these parts.

Most recently it's been Clay Parnell of brothers past. All in all the talkbass community has been the most influential- thanks guys.

Gaaaahhhwwww!!! I knew there had to be a similar thread on here. I did a breif "look-at-the-first-page" search and didn't come up with anything.

 

[spiker]

Tim C
Flea
Dirk Lance

 

[DeltaPhoenix]

Les CLaypool

 

[Dazonbass]

Claypool for me as well

 

[Kwesi]

No one. I thought to myself "Why should synths have all the fun?" and went from there. After that is was all about getting different sounds out of my bass that still fit the bass role but had different and fun characteristics to them. It was kind of like cooking; "Yeah, this tastes great but if I added this, could it taste even better?" Since getting into effects there have been plenty of players whom I love that use effects but they weren't what set off the initial spark.

 

[sillyfabe]

Geddy Lee: crunchy tone and awesome chorus
Flea: bass wah-wah, phaser
Graham: phaser
Bootsy: everything else!, synth bass
Chris W: fuzz,synthesis,octaver
Pino: octaver
Juan Alderte: bass synth, prog-bass
Tim C: wah-wah, crunchiness

 

[bassbrad]

Aphonso Johnson, Percy Jones and Ralphe Armstrong

 

[bongomania]

I started with effects, and only picked up bass years later.

 

[FaithNoMan]

I started with effects, and only picked up bass years later.

Hahaha

I don't know if that was intentional, but it was hilarious.

 

[mouthmw]

Juan Alderete - the biggest influence all around
Timmy C - mostly for dirt sounds
Flea - mostly for his tone and envelopes

 

[kevteop]

Dr Dre, MCA, Mark Brydon from Moloko, and most of the Big Beat bands of the mid '90s.

Funny that there's only two actual bass players in there, and both are better known for doing other things.

 

[4StringAxe]

I can't pin point any one really. Lots of players influenced me. I just know one day many years ago I took my first hit of effects and have been chasing the dragon of tone ever since

 

[G.Bisson]

NIN song "With Teeth" inspired me to explore using bass fuzz.

Roger Waters influenced my use of phasers and delay.

The whole history of rock and metal music has influenced my overdrive and distortion tones.

 

[caeman]

Ennio Morricone. Depeche Mode. Devo. Van Halen.