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The heroes who defined your tone

#41
MustacheJoeII said:
I was fifteen or sixteen and had never heard of the Minute Men or fIREHOSE, and was really reluctant to listen to "the establishment." So when I heard "alternative" types talk about mike watt I was skeptical. And then I actually bought "Ballhog or Tug-Boat?"

Throaty open A-string slide up to the octave, but he still had a boomy bottom. And then, the droped-D bombast of the opening track of "Contemplating the Engine Room..."

Defined, but part of the mix, even on his own solo records. Most bass solo records are about the bassist showing off, mike watt writes records on bass; songs and all.
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YES! This^
 
#42
Dash Rantic said:
For me it'd be Tim Commerford and Justin Chancellor. Very different sounds from each, but I've done what I can to get a blend between the two. Been happy with my tone so far!
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This is also my tone mentors! I love timmy c's punch and growl from j bass. Especially on "bombtrack" very clear and clean. And jc's tone on any tool album, anemia to 10000 days, it is pure nirvana (not the band.)

I have blended the two into my own sound. My VM jazz with bridge pup rolled max neck at 50% tone at 70% into a stereo delayed. Output 1 to phathed to tour tnt 115 combo. Aka dirty channel. Output 2 to chorus to hartke ba2000 with 215 cab. Aka clean channel. with this setup i get the sound that i hear in my head and it works great for what my band needs. I just wish i had a wal bass.
 
#44
chef_tater said:
This is also my tone mentors! I love timmy c's punch and growl from j bass. Especially on "bombtrack" very clear and clean. And jc's tone on any tool album, anemia to 10000 days, it is pure nirvana (not the band.)

I have blended the two into my own sound. My VM jazz with bridge pup rolled max neck at 50% tone at 70% into a stereo delayed. Output 1 to phathed to tour tnt 115 combo. Aka dirty channel. Output 2 to chorus to hartke ba2000 with 215 cab. Aka clean channel. with this setup i get the sound that i hear in my head and it works great for what my band needs. I just wish i had a wal bass.
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I'm fairly certain that Tim C used a Musicman Stingray on the first RATM album including Bombtrack.
 
#45
When I was a kid I wanted to be Chris Squire. I love the ballsy articulate sound he has.

When I got older, I wanted to be dUg Pinnick. I love the ballsy bassy sound he has.

In the end, I just went clean and direct to the sound board and let the sound guy make me sound like me.

I have no idea what "my sound" is exactly, but one thing I can tell you: It has balls!!
 
#54
Sometimes you'll hear a great tone on an album - or maybe just one song on an album - but then the tone on another album from the same player isn't as good. For example, I thought Duff McKagan had a great tone on Appetite for Destruction - but the tone on all of the other GNR albums doesn't seem as good to me - even though I've read in interviews with Duff that he used the same rig. This makes me think that many times the great tone isn't so much the player, but the engineer or producer.
 
#55
:cool:

Sir Paul**************James Jamerson Rocco Prestia
Jack Bruce Chuck Rainy Jonas Hellborg
John Paul Jones Duck Dunn Jeff Berlin
Tim Bogart George Porter Jr. Jaco
Berry Oakley Willie Weeks Mick Karn
Lee Sklar Pino Palladino Richard Bona

It's a start. :bassist:
 
#56
Early Billy Gould... since I was a youngster.
I bought my 4003 Ric in '04 because Paul D'Amour had one, and thought he was the closest to Billy's early pick tone than any bassist I had ever heard. It had the "canny" attack I loved so much(and looked nice).

Strangely enough, recently trying to get the same thickness and crunch as Mew's P bass on the album "And the Glass Handed Kites" revealed the closest I have come to that tone in my head - I guess a Ric trying to do what a P bass did(on that album) came out a bit more harsh and metallic.

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#57
ronlitz said:
Sometimes you'll hear a great tone on an album - or maybe just one song on an album - but then the tone on another album from the same player isn't as good. For example, I thought Duff McKagan had a great tone on Appetite for Destruction - but the tone on all of the other GNR albums doesn't seem as good to me - even though I've read in interviews with Duff that he used the same rig. This makes me think that many times the great tone isn't so much the player, but the engineer or producer.
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Yeah, his tone was sick in Appetite - one of the best Fender rock tones ever:cool:
 
#60
ronlitz said:
Sometimes you'll hear a great tone on an album - or maybe just one song on an album - but then the tone on another album from the same player isn't as good. For example, I thought Duff McKagan had a great tone on Appetite for Destruction - but the tone on all of the other GNR albums doesn't seem as good to me - even though I've read in interviews with Duff that he used the same rig. This makes me think that many times the great tone isn't so much the player, but the engineer or producer.
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You're probably right about the producer thing but

You're definitely right about Duff's tone on Appetite. Awesome.
 

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