MTD Slap Tone?

[Mr_O'B]

They don't all sound like that. My super won't sound like that ever. His has a definite scoop to his sound and strong highs. Mine has more lows and mids and a lot smoother treble with both humbuckers on. Much more full sounding for finger style. On the flip side it gets a whole lot more slappy with both coil taps in single coil mode. Mine is ash, maple/rosewood.
There's a good video floating around online of someone comparing a handfull of 535's with different wood combos back to back. They all sound similar but not the same.

I saw a video with Andrew Gouche a/b'ing MTD basses with diff. wood combos.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I posted a video below of David Dyson and his MTD.
Besides his MTD, I haven't heard thick/rich slap tone coming from
MTD basses. We probably have different definitions of what we consider thick/rich/punchy!

I would like to add that unless something has changed Dyson has been using Skjold basses for the last few years.

 

[Mr_O'B]

Yeah, I'm very familiar with DD's MTD sound from his time with Me'shell. That's pretty much the sound of my MTDs - which I would say are thicker and richer sounding than any of the Sadowskys I've owned when slapped.

Your are a very lucky man to own MTDs that sound like that!

 

[Mr_O'B]

Is this pretty much how American MTDs sound slapped, or is this simply a case of a genius players doing what the rest of us can't?

Dr. Cheese,

Andrew Gouche is bonded with his signature model. His brilliance combined with his choice of woods is a winning combination!

 

[bass12]

I saw a video with Andrew Gouche a/b'ing MTD basses with diff. wood combos.

AG has had a bunch of different MTDs over the years in different wood combos. He also likes to crank all of his EQ pots which is out of the ordinary.

 

[Mr_O'B]

Could have been the video but that's not the tone I go for. It's a very sterile sound to my ears. I like a bright high end but not glassy. I like booty in my lows. I keep my mids in the flat position but on my GK amp, I flip the contour switch on which basically 'smiley face's' the eq. The electronics on the MTD sound like Barts which I love but just not eq'd like that. I love old school tone (Jazz basses and Musicman basses).

I've seen Chaka Khan with Andrew and Melvin. I prefer Melvin's sound in the mix.

DWBass, two examples of basses with a fair amount of Low end "BOOTY"

 

[Dr. Cheese]

This is career retrospective if Andrew Gouche I found on YouTube. If you check it out, you will find that his slap tone of his Performance Jazz clone is very similar to his slap tone on his MTDs.

 

[Keith Guitars]

One of my favorite recorded bass tones is an MTD, and the album has some slap on it.
The album is Erykah Badu "Live", with Hubert Eaves IV on bass.

The rhythm section on this record is as good as it can get for the genre, and its beautifully recorded.
Eaves is using an MTD (not sure of wood combination) with an Aguilar DB680, IIRC.
His slap tones are as deep, full, and 3-D as anything you could hope for, and the fingerstyle tones are equally killer. Of course, the playing is top-shelf...bulletproof, solid groove playing with the occasional little fill that snaps your head around. Amazing player. Mike told me he's even better on the drums!

Very much worth the listen.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

One of my favorite recorded bass tones is an MTD, and the album has some slap on it.
The album is Erykah Badu "Live", with Hubert Eaves IV on bass.

The rhythm section on this record is as good as it can get for the genre, and its beautifully recorded.
Eaves is using an MTD (not sure of wood combination) with an Aguilar DB680, IIRC.
His slap tones are as deep, full, and 3-D as anything you could hope for, and the fingerstyle tones are equally killer. Of course, the playing is top-shelf...bulletproof, solid groove playing with the occasional little fill that snaps your head around. Amazing player. Mike told me he's even better on the drums!

Very much worth the listen.

Yes, that is a great album with great bass work on it!

 

[Max Blasto]

Interesting stuff.

So, slap aside, do you fellas know of anybody using MTDs (535) as rock basses.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Interesting stuff.

So, slap aside, do you fellas know of anybody using MTDs (535) as rock basses.

There was a guy who used one back in the late eighties or early nineties with Henry Rollins.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Here he is.

 

[Aprido]

This my mtd kz6 slap sound,
In my arrangements on the most viral thing in this world today, hahaha

 

[iplay5strings]

I honestly think this was Gouche's best sounding bass.

No disrespect to his sig model, if that's the tone for him then awesome. I just don't like where the treble response shifted and it lacks that mid chewy-ness that my ear likes. The bass in the video I linked however, when I get the cheddar I will be buying that bass in a 5.

 

[jjk2007]

Whatever AG was using on that Destinys Child clip sounded killer!!

 

[iplay5strings]

Whatever AG was using on that Destinys Child clip sounded killer!!

Some kind of J, not sure if Fender or Super J.

 

[dralionux]

How about this? (sound samples from 3:38)

 

[Dr. Cheese]

How about this? (sound samples from 3:38)

Little bass, BIG price! Sounded great, I wish the guy demoing the bass played the B string more.