Pixies Bass Tone

[fms911]

Can someone plz tell me how to get Pixies type bass tone. Like the songs Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone To Heaven and Gouge Away. Also is a thunderbird appropriate for this kind of tone? Any advice will be much appreciated especially if it means something easily done like type of strings or eq settings.

 

[Devo-lution]

I seem to be able to cop the monkey gone to heaven tone pretty well with a pick on my stingray if I cut some bass and a lot of treble

 

[Swicked]

it's pretty easy. boost the low mids and high mids roll off treble roll up lows slightly up, play witha pick. she uses a peavey amp. amp and bass shouldn;t really matter i got this tone quiet easily through my trace elliot and squier P

 

[s_mcsleazy]

a thunderbird might work for that but if you really wanna get the tone right i recomend a precision bass. i think kim deal also uses quite old sounding strings if thats any help.

you MIGHT if your verry lucky get that sound from your thunderbird if you use only the neck pickup and roll off some of them highs with your tone on your bass (unless your using one of the active thunderbirds then boost the mids and cut out the highs)

 

[dannster]

Plug P-bass into SVT w/810 cab, grab pick, go.

 

[funkytoe]

Kim Deal played a lot of the early Pixies stuff on an Aria Pro II Cardinal bass through a Peavey Combo 300 amp. She later moved on to a 1962 Fender P bass and a Red Musicman/Ernie Ball Stingray with Maple board and transparent guard. Nothing magical about her tone. She seems to sound the same on each of the aforementioned instruments. Just a nice set of broken-in roundwounds and a pick on most any bass can get you there.

 

[zachoff]

P -> SVT -> 810

 

[dubclashdub]

Her Bass is a 62 reissue not an original though, I'm seeing them tomorrow, very excited

 

[Tom Howland]

Plug P-bass into SVT w/810 cab, grab pick, go.

Beat me to it.

 

[kb9wyz]

I appreciate the Pixies, but I have never associated the word "tone" with them before.