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Tone Monsters

#21
So = no chicks with tone?

Listening to some Russian bassist with great tone right now - but not a chick. Mikhail Vasil'ev.

So he's my contribution - great tone. Really amazing player - played with the Soviet/Russian group Aquarium in their early days - reminiscent in some ways of Tony Levin. I really like his tone.
 
#22
LCMBassist said:
Ok, so who are your favourite bassists who have good tone? They don't have to be amazing players, but they have to have made you think 'hmmm, that sounds a bit good!'. Mine are, in no particular order:

Jason Newsted (Metallica)
Tim Commerford (Rage, and Audioslave tone too)
Mike Kroeger (Nickelback)
Guy from Alien Ant Farm
Dirk Lance (Incubus)
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Jimmy Johnson (with James Taylor on October Road)
Lee Sklar (with James Taylor on Never Die Young)
"Hutch Hutchinson (with whoever when he plays that fretless)
Mark King (on Level 42's Guaranteed)
Paul McCartney (on his Flowers in the Dirt)
 
#23
Dug Pinnock (Kings X) He has the biggest baddist hard rock metal tone I've ever heard. It sounds like a bass AND two tuned down guitars.

Peter Cetera Chicago (especially Chicago V) That pick tone on a P Bass is warm-round and cuts thru the mix like no other

Will Lee (Live at Manny's Carwash w/Hiram Bullock) The consummate modern pop tone, grindy and round but with some meat when he's slapping.

James Jamerson, I know he gets lost in the mix sometimes, but it's always there and it always supports the band. He was also the first bass player many of us noticed during the late 60's growing up despite the fact we didn't know who he was.

Mark Egan (with Pat Metheny group) The best Frettless sound ever, it sounds like a frettless with all the nuances that are available on a frettless but with a fatness that is lacking in many frettless players sound.

Rustee Allen (If you want me to stay-Sly) the consummate example of the 70's J bass sound later built on by Verdine White and others. Not to be confused with the J bass on Steroids sound of Marcus Miller. These basses had a cool mid-range bark

Chris Squire (Yes) The forerunner of modern metal tone. A grindy driving sound that propelled the song along.

Barry Oakley (Allman Brothers) Probably the prototype P-Bass rock sound for years to come.
 
#24
burk48237 said:
Dug Pinnock (Kings X) He has the biggest baddist hard rock metal tone I've ever heard. It sounds like a bass AND two tuned down guitars.

Peter Cetera Chicago (especially Chicago V) That pick tone on a P Bass is warm-round and cuts thru the mix like no other

Will Lee (Live at Manny's Carwash w/Hiram Bullock) The consummate modern pop tone, grindy and round but with some meat when he's slapping.

James Jamerson, I know he gets lost in the mix sometimes, but it's always there and it always supports the band. He was also the first bass player many of us noticed during the late 60's growing up despite the fact we didn't know who he was.

Mark Egan (with Pat Metheny group) The best Frettless sound ever, it sounds like a frettless with all the nuances that are available on a frettless but with a fatness that is lacking in many frettless players sound.

Rustee Allen (If you want me to stay-Sly) the consummate example of the 70's J bass sound later built on by Verdine White and others. Not to be confused with the J bass on Steroids sound of Marcus Miller. These basses had a cool mid-range bark

Chris Squire (Yes) The forerunner of modern metal tone. A grindy driving sound that propelled the song along.

Barry Oakley (Allman Brothers) Probably the prototype P-Bass rock sound for years to come.
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Good call.
Love Mark Egan. Great playing, great sound... ...except that there are some recordings in which there is just too much chorus effect on the bass sound.
 
#31
I'll second or third Pino with John Mayer Trio.
Juan Alderete (TMV)
Mike Inez (Alice in Chains)
Geddy (if you don't already know)
Chris Wood (MMW)
Justin Chancellor
Chris Squire (Yes)
Steve Swallow
Christian McBride (more double bass than electric)
Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)
Trevor of Doom (His Ivory Class tones were killer!!)
 
#35
LCMBassist said:
Just remembered another....I think it's Mike Inez. Basically the guy who played on It Ain't Like That, Man In The Box, and We Die Young. Dirty tone. Is that a Spector?
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That was actually Mike Starr, their original bassist. Inez played on the "Jar of Flies" EP, the self titled album, and "MTV Unplugged" -both bassists are awesome, and, being in that generation, partly the reasons I started playing! And yes, both of them use Spector.

And I love that Guy Pratt got mentioned twice! The Toy Matinee album is one of my all time favorites!!!
 
#37
Marcus Miller for slap
Jaco Pastorius for fretless
John Entwhistle and Geddy Lee for rock

And almost every double bass player I hear!

Tone honestly depends on the type of music, which depends on what I'm in the mood for.
 
#40
I think Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, Blotted Science) has the ultimate bass sound nailed. For me, it's what I think bass should sound like.

Apart from him, John Entwistle--the master, Steve DiGiorgio (as bizarre as his bass solos can be--he has a wacky sound), Les Claypool, Eric Langlois (Cryptopsy), Greg Christian (Testament), Marcin Rygiel (Decapitated), Ted Lundstrom (Amon Amarth), Jens Becker (Running Wild). Yay wanky, cheesedick metal :D
 

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