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need djent bass tone.

#41
MDBass said:
It depends entirely on the band and the bassist in question. You can hear the bass loud and clear in bands like Periphery, Tesseract, Gojira, etc.
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I'm sure you're right. I'm sure I just got a bad impression somewhere along the way and never gave it much of a chance. I'm not young, and there's definitely an element of a generation gap here. I'd say more about it, but I think the following diatribe has it covered (some of you may need a "safe space" after you read this...apologies):

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#44
I'm surprised at some of the commentary here. A band like Tesseract is extremely musical, lots of melody, very technical, really nice clean vocals, and an overabundance of bass. My bandmates are big Tesseract fans and they admit that the stand out in Tesseract is the bass. Maybe theres some bad djent out there that is making people turn away from it. Or it could just be personal preference of course, I mean I dont understand how anyone can like Drake but he seems to be doing alright for himself.
 
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it's the same as most rock settings on a tube amp, but more clean low mids than overdriven upper mids little compression and play with a pick. it's really more like a rhythm guitar than bass in style. with a tight lowend
 
#51
Cstan said:


^ This guy seems to get the general idea I think.
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i have always wondered what this genre was called. i have been loving tesseract and periphery for a while. I am now a father of 2, male nurse...can't stay on top of the new music like I used to.

have always wanted to learn technical metal styles of bass, but have no practical use. I play at church, the tuning/tone/technique just doesn't fit.

I have enough basses on hand, maybe I should take the plunge and just swap one over to drop A#, strung up with lower 4 strings of a 5 string set and give it the old college try....
 
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#55
father of fires said:
I think a cheap OCD clone will get you in the ballpark to get you going.
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NKBassman said:
Joyo Ultimate Drive is about as cheap as OCD clones come. Don't be fooled by the price, it's a good pedal.

Personally if shopping for pedals, I'd be looking at a Darkglass B3k.
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Funny you both should mention basically the same thing. I kinda accidentally found that the UD sounds pretty djenty at a corporate office party, with my hip-hop/pop cover band, of all things. Threw it on, and had to dial back my tone (in this case, my Stellartone Tonestyler) in order to bring it back to something more suitable.
 
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mysticblaze said:
anything a bit more affordable (under 1500) for pedal and bass
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Well, you already have some decent basses, so I wouldn't chase a Dingwall (or any other new basses) at this point. I don't know anything about the GK Goldline head, but I suspect your amp rig may be the weak link in everything you included in your first post.

I'd start by picking up a used Darkglass b3k in the Classifieds and go from there.

If you want to upgrade your amp, look at the Darkglass Microtubes 900 Class D head. Sweetwater has them listed for $1000.
 

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