Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Tool tone/FX sticky thread ver. 1
- Thread starter bigchiefbc
- Start date
Jeorge was teasing a new Way Huge pedal earlier this year then after everything hit it just disappeared. I’m guessing they ended up with issues getting them made and decided to just move it till next year. It was heavily teased on the Instagram page but I bet a sweetwater rep wouldn’t know what I was talking about if I called.
Depends on the Rep. there are literally like 450+ sales reps there last I checked and they all have different musical backgrounds. There are guitarists and bass players there that make TB folks look like amateurs with effects/gear whoring.
RE: Amp settings.
Hi all, regarding the picture above, is the top GK head (including all the settings) the clean or the dirty amp? Sorry for referencing a picture posted seven years ago, but its the only one I've seen on this thread dealing with JC's amp settings. Any insight on this question would be most appreciated.
I will have to go check a pic out on my laptop....but i beleive JC has 4 GK amps in his rack now. Possibly to have a dedicated head for the StingRay and then a spare.
Yeah it's really fun to play and it has a ton of little variations to keep it feeling fresh throughout the first movement of the song. The volume swells in the beginning are tricky to get right when you're playing along to the song, since you're essentially echoing Adam's guitar. It's a sequence of A, C, G and the G needs to be slightly delayed and cut short so that it leads into the next bar.
I managed to see them around this time last year before things got really serious- I wasn’t particularly looking forward to this song live- but man o man, that long slow intro was just the perfect first song of a show, with each band member being introduced one by one, starting with Danny.
Turns out Maynard had COVID that night and was struggling. He was incredible.
At first seeing live footage of this, i was surprised that Justin didn't use his new volume pedal for the intro. Until i went to learn the song myself. Unless you are "2 footing" it, while sitting down, its impossible to get the timing right while turning effects on/off, unless you are using the volume knob.
According to Maynard...the intro on the album was done by his son on cello.
Justin and Adam do a good job recreating it live.
I freaking knew it!! So many people on reddit and other places told me it was Adam using an octave down and a volume pedal! I knew it was cello.
That being said, knowing how to simulate it on my bass is giving me all kinds of creative ideas. Any tips for volume knob swells?
I freaking knew it!! So many people on reddit and other places told me it was Adam using an octave down and a volume pedal! I knew it was cello.
That being said, knowing how to simulate it on my bass is giving me all kinds of creative ideas. Any tips for volume knob swells?
Tips?....Getting the timing on the hammer-ons are key. This makes it easier for the timing on the volume knob. It gets even trickier when you turn on the Whammy. Its output is very touch sensitive....so if you nail a good hard hammer on, you have to use less of the volume knob, or the level is higher. Pretty evident in my vid, as the levels are all over the place during those Whammy parts.
Those of you with Wal basses, do you use mostly the bridge pickup for Tool songs? Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks! Anybody else? I also asked in the Wal thread but they seem to be more interested in geeking out about tonewoods.
Don't they know it doesn't matter? *ducks*
When I had a Wal I also shifted slightly towards the bridge, but I don't think it was "mostly" as you state, just a bit. Maybe 60/40 or so. That exact split is probably less relevant to the sound than other things outside of the bass, e.g. amps, cab, effects, pick attack, etc.
kellogc
Kello Bass Extravaganza!
- Apr 3, 2003
- 108
- 49
- 48
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification, Line6, Kings Of Groove
I'll have to try this out. What I mostly end up doing is just rolling down the tone to tame some of the high end.
If I wasn't being a purist about the exact effects used and had to work within a few equipment limitations, would a Rat-esque pedal with a full frequency clean blend ahead of a clean amp get someone in the ballpark of the biamped dirty/clean setup Justin is using? I know it wouldn't hit the Demeter chain or be a perfect match, but trying to add some options to my rig while only having a single amp available.
Unless your bass puts out a naturally gritty type of tone, I would do a full blend (no clean) on a rat-style distortion pedal set to very low gain. You just want a touch of distortion to add some warmth, and the aggressiveness of your pick playing will get you close enough to a Tool bass tone.
