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Not another "best bass" thread: What do YOU use for metal?

#82
Flaked Beans said:
BUT this would be my main gigging bass for metal!

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ps. Steve Harris only needed 4 strings
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#87
Fender deluxe active jazz V MIM tuned ADADG, my carvin lb50 drop D, and my MIJ Jaguar bass tuned standard or DGCF are my three, the tunings vary. I want a tricked out t bird for BEAD tuning and am thinking building a bass vi for baritone guitar stuff
 
#89
You Know.... there was this real cool cat who posted not so long ago playing a Dingwal in a pretty popular metal band. Don't remember the guys name or the bands name, but I do remember it was a semi-isolated bass track and the vid was from his headstock cam. It was pretty awesome stuff
 
#92
Jay_Bass said:
Disclaimer: this is not another best bass for metal thread! I did a search and similar threads came up but they were not recent nor were they exactly what I'm looking for.

I know it's all subjective and down to personal preference. I also know that pretty much anything can be used to play heavy metal music... but for all you metalheads out there, I want to know what basses YOU play heavy music with! Please share, I'm curious and I think it might be beneficial for some readers to see the kind of variety in basses/tones that will fit right in to a metal context. :)

Me? I rock a USA P Bass for metal. I tune it to BEAD and leave out the G string, plug it in to a VT Bass DI and/or an Ampeg SVT 5Pro, and off I go. I vastly prefer my Precision over my other basses for the heavy stuff. Let's hear what you use!
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More like 70's/ 80's Pop-Hard Rock, but here goes- Epiphone Thunderbird Classic Pro IV's, Tech21 VT-DI and various Ampeg head and speaker cabinet configurations.
 
#93
Well, if someone approached me with a crazy touring offer for a metal band (what are the odds??) - I'd bring two basses: My dark blue&black Zon 8 string and my black Lakland 4-94. All my other basses are far too pretty / jazzy for metal.
 
#95
I thought I wouldn't to post this...
But I will :D If I gigged a in a brutal technical metal band, well I'd use this:


But right now my Brubaker Brute JJX5 cuts it, and does a darned good job. Another option would be a fretless 6+ string as seen in bands such as Obscura and Beyond Creation.
 
#97
I play Dream Theater and Liquid Tension covers (prog metal), and I use these:

Yamaha RBXJM2 John Myung Signature II guitars (x2) into a Markbass pedalboard and finally into a Trace Elliot AH500X dual 250w mono amp one channel driving a Trace 1048 4x10 and a Trace 4052h (4 x 5 "Bright Box"), and the second channel drives a Trace 2x15 1528. They're balanced at the output stage by setting the appropriate volume, etc., for each amp. :)

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It crushes utterly.

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#99
I use the same two basses I use for everything else. But then again, I mostly play rock, post-punk, and metal. :D

For fingerstyle, I usually reach for my Warwick Corvette Bubinga 5-String, strung with Elixir Nanowebs. The pickup balance ranges from 50/50 to 75/25 (favoring the bridge single-coil pickup) depending on what I'm playing. I usually won't favor the neck pickup unless the song calls for that kind of tone. For pickstyle, I usually reach for my EBMM StingRay (with Ernie Ball Slinkys) instead.
 

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