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So I just listened to Insomniac...

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I was under the impression both Dookie and Insomniac were recorded with an old P-bass. I remember an old article in Bass player magazine, where he talks about it, and remarks about the bass distorting on Welcome to paradise cause he had trouble punching through the guitar frequencies.
 
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Bass Growler said:
I was under the impression both Dookie and Insomniac were recorded with an old P-bass. I remember an old article in Bass player magazine, where he talks about it, and remarks about the bass distorting on Welcome to paradise cause he had trouble punching through the guitar frequencies.
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Nah. Insomniac is the G3, like Kerplunk. Dookie was done with an active PJ, probably a P bass Plus. The G3 was broken then and he rented the PJ from SIR NY. Unfortunately the Guitar Centre interview that mentions it has been taken down recently.
 
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Okay, I found it, here's what Mike said in an interview with Guitar world magazine of december 1997, and I quote:

"On this record (Nimrod) I used Precision basses because my old Gibson G-3 didn't sound good with the new songs. I used an old '66 and '69;
they have a real warmth on the low end, and they have this London Calling midrange. For this record I knew we weren't going for the huge
guitar sound; this gave me more room to get in there. I needed to play a real punchy bass on the old records because the guitar frequencies were
everywhere and I needed to get right through the middle. I recorded Dookie with a P bass too, and you can hear the bass distort on "Welcome to Paradise."

I use Mesa/Boogie amps, MB 2000's. They're half-tube and half-solid state. I wanted to custom-make my own sound, and Mesa/Boogie was really willing
to work with me. They made me 6x10 cabinets, and we put those on top of an 1x18. I think I'm nailing it. I have an MB 2000 running each one of my
6x10 cabinets and then an MB 2000 running both of my 18's.
 
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Bass Growler said:
Okay, I found it, here's what Mike said in an interview with Guitar world magazine of december 1997, and I quote:

"On this record (Nimrod) I used Precision basses because my old Gibson G-3 didn't sound good with the new songs. I used an old '66 and '69;
they have a real warmth on the low end, and they have this London Calling midrange. For this record I knew we weren't going for the huge
guitar sound; this gave me more room to get in there. I needed to play a real punchy bass on the old records because the guitar frequencies were
everywhere and I needed to get right through the middle. I recorded Dookie with a P bass too, and you can hear the bass distort on "Welcome to Paradise."

I use Mesa/Boogie amps, MB 2000's. They're half-tube and half-solid state. I wanted to custom-make my own sound, and Mesa/Boogie was really willing
to work with me. They made me 6x10 cabinets, and we put those on top of an 1x18. I think I'm nailing it. I have an MB 2000 running each one of my
6x10 cabinets and then an MB 2000 running both of my 18's.
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Where did you find it?
 
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Here you go:

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