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Looking for a good bass tone!
- Thread starter Uber9000
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Welcome to Talkbass.
Are you asking a question? Are you looking for a new amp? I can't really tell what you're looking for.
Can you be more specific about pretty much everything?
There's a lot between Macca and punk.
There's a lot between Macca and punk.
Welcome to TalkBass!!!!!
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Are you looking for amp recommendations?
EQ settings?
Technique help?
If buying gear, what is your budget?
If buying gear, roughly where are you? We have bass players from all over the world. The answers for someone from Moscow would be different from answers for someone in rural Iowa or NYC.
HELP us help You!
We need more information to help you.
Are you looking for amp recommendations?
EQ settings?
Technique help?
If buying gear, what is your budget?
If buying gear, roughly where are you? We have bass players from all over the world. The answers for someone from Moscow would be different from answers for someone in rural Iowa or NYC.
HELP us help You!
I thought I was the only one looking for a good bass tone!
I thought I was the only one looking for a good bass tone!
Yeah, not many of us here care much about bass tone. <g>
Sadly the OP is AWOL. All the effort to join TB, one post, then gone like a fart in a windstorm. OP? OP? Where are't thou OP?
An amp tone setting that can sound like Paul McCartney and a punk sound. Preferably a fat, percussive tone.
Just my 2 cents...
If you’re looking for “good” bass tone, lend your ears to everything else that isn’t Mcartney or punk.
If you’re looking for “good” bass tone, lend your ears to everything else that isn’t Mcartney or punk.
Your amp is unfamiliar.
For twang use your fingertips aggressively more towards the bridge than the fingerboard.
I thought I was the only one looking for a good bass tone!
The people that were looking for bad bass tone all already found it.
I'm just looking for tone settings. I don't want to buy anything (I'm 13 and have been playing bass since October). I just want to know a good amp setting (low, low-mid, high-mid, high dials) for sounding like a mix of macca and punk.Welcome to TalkBass!!!!!
We need more information to help you.
Are you looking for amp recommendations?
EQ settings?
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If buying gear, roughly where are you? We have bass players from all over the world. The answers for someone from Moscow would be different from answers for someone in rural Iowa or NYC.
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The sound of punk is cheap gear poorly used. Just pretend you don't know what you're doing and dial things in any which way. Boom, you have a punk bass tone.
For McCartney, just use flatwounds and play melodically (so, the opposite of punk). Lots of mids and not much of anything else.
For McCartney, just use flatwounds and play melodically (so, the opposite of punk). Lots of mids and not much of anything else.
Do what many many thousands of bass players have done before you: take your bass and your amp and recordings of Macca and punk and turn knobs/adjust your plucking/picking technique until you hear what you’re looking for.
No one else can tell you.
No one else can tell you.
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Hmm, I hope you're joking.
Punk is an intense style a lot of the time. Often, those bassists will use a pick, and play with a lot of downstrokes, so instead of alternating up/down/up/down the same line can be played down/down/down/down.
Paul McCartney played a lot of almost counter melodies that aren't
indicitave of a traditional 50's or 60's rock bass style. His playing style was much more relaxed and hinged often times, on his or Lennon's vocal melodies. I'm actually surprised you can pick up much of his tone, are you listening to some remastered tracks?As far as settings go, it's really dependent on the amp and what it sounds like. The two styles you are interested in are worlds apart, and actually a traditional rock bass sound would be somewhere in between. Start with all of your settings at half, or 12 o'clock. Then slowly turn up the volume until it's at an appropriate level. Instead of boosting (clockwise turn) the eq section, try reducing (counterclockwise) the settings. I'd start with a slight scoop ( dial back low mids, and increase slightly the high mids). That's pretty typical of many rock genres, and a good place to cut your teeth.
