Question for Cure Fans...

[Lazy1]

Guys, my band has been covering "Shake Dog Shake" by the Cure for quite some time now, and I was thinking of trying to get the same bass sound as on the studio recording. I'm a meat and potatoes bassist when it comes to equipment; just the bass, cord, amp, cabinet, tuner. So I haven't much of a clue when it comes to picking out what effect I'm hearing in tunes.

In that one, is that just straight chorus?

 

[winterburn69]

Huge Cure fan here. In my humble opinion, it sounds like a chorus and a flanger, it was most likely boss, as that's mostly all Robert Smith has ever used except for Dunlop wah pedals, and Robert Smith did almost all the instruments on The Top.

I know Simon uses a flanger for that one live, you could check out the Festival 2005 DVD, he had amazing tone throughout the whole DVD and it really stands out. Personally, I use a flanger and either a chorus or overdrive on Shake Dog Shake.

 

[Lazy1]

Alright, great. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Laurent]

Simon uses the following Boss guitar effect pedals: BF-2 Flanger, CE-5 Chorus Ensemble, MT-2 Distortion, DD-3 Digital Delay and NS-2 Noise Suppressor.