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Is this tone even possible?

#101
SonicMirage said:
Thanks for reply!

I've tried all settings on my treble control but havent really tried cutting bass. I'll try that now.

I know he uses DR Fat Beams. (Stainless steel rounds)
I use Dunlop Marcus Miller Super Brights (Stainless steel rounds)

I believe he records direct. Not through an amp or anything.

He says the pedal he uses is just a basic EQ/Compressor pedal.
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It's actually a preamp I believe !
 
#102
I dont see anyone commentating on age of the strings.

I assume you need fresh strings to achieve this type of tone right?

If Travis were to play this song for 10 hours straight in this video his tone would sound a lot different after a few hours?
 
#104
Great player and technique. You can hear the compressor and the sizzle you get from an active bass or using a preamp. Has the brightness of newish strings to answer your question, at least to me, you can hear it when he slaps and pops.
I got a very similar tone from a bass a G&L Tribute L2000 with newish strings on active mode. Er...I was trying for a more classic rock tone but had inadvertently left the switch on active and thought it sounded pretty nice but wasn't what I needed. Still fiddling with the knobs and switches on my bass. lol
In other words, I don't think it's a hard tone or sound to cop on an active bass, I think you might get there with your jazz and a preamp, compressor and newish strings. You need the sizzle and the mad skillz if you want to sound like that guy. :)
 
#106
Sound like just 70s Jazz pickup spacing plus active electronic with great playing technique and dynamic control.

Even if you have 60s configuration, it can still sound very close minus the slap tone, if your Jazz bass is passive, try to get an outboard preamp, something like Sadowsky or Aguilar are pretty great, play closer to the bridge position, EQ to taste, already can get you pretty close I think.
 
#107
SonicMirage said:
I dont see anyone commentating on age of the strings.
I assume you need fresh strings to achieve this type of tone right?
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That sounds more like really worn in rounds to me - fresh ones (at least with my fingers hitting them) would clank a whole lot more.

Then again, on a lot of the Youtube recordings I've been in the last year, I sound kinda like that. How do I get that tone? Ask the sound guy - it doesn't sound at all like that in my in ears. Most of the FOH folks I work with roll off the high end of the bass quite a bit - I'm guessing there's a steep rolloff in this guy's recording rig somewhere, so you don't get a lot of clink and clank.
 
#109
Maxdusty said:
Great player and technique. You can hear the compressor and the sizzle you get from an active bass or using a preamp. Has the brightness of newish strings to answer your question, at least to me, you can hear it when he slaps and pops.
:)
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I'm not certain it has to be active - my passive basses (with nickel rounds) are much brighter sounding than this tone with everything wide open.
 
#112
micguy said:
Nope - the bass I had in my lap while listening to that has strings (Boomers) that are 6 months old on it, they still sound brighter, and that's not my brightest sounding bass. I do have rather hard callouses, which may be part of it.
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Hard for me to believe that.

I use the Fat Beams Travis uses in his video and mine are dead after a couple hours.
 

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