What effects used to get this sound? Toxic.

[AK Bass Guy]

The bass sound on this track is just fat and juicy.
It sounds like it could be a Moog but multiple sources credit a bass player on the track. There are multiple glissandos which convince me it’s a bass and not keys.
Listen with headphones to appreciate the playing and sound.

 

[BGroovy]

 

[salmon256]

Here's the simple way to get it -

 

[primussucks9126]

Fuzz and a rolling off your tone knob gets your pretty close.

There's definitely a filter thing going on, but i haven't found it crucial when I played this one in my wedding band.

 

[salmon256]

On a serious note - as someone who is Norwegian (but I'm American so lol) the player on this track is Swedish... but even on Talkbass not a thing on this bass player other than I found his Instagram... he seem to be a big name in the Europop world.


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His Insta with some gear he uses
His Wiki page but in Swedish

Maybe hit him up on Insta? He seems chill, he is a massage therapist too - I trust that he is chill!

I also just want to say these are kind of bassist I think Youtubers should try to interview - I know so many obscure dudes who play on giant hits, give these cats a chance to talk, not wait till they are old look at Carol Kaye, Rutger Gunnarsson - Interview them earlier especially in todays age! I want better a great
Armand Sabal-Lecco interview he's an amazing bassist who is extremely lesser know but a giant player!

 

[primussucks9126]

This is a pretty great look at the tone in a more isolated setting.

And here's someone getting close on a synth:

You can take some of the ideas and apply them to bass too, I'd say.


At :17 he gives you tone tips.

Another with just some fuzz:

 

[RGerhart]

Yeah, the bass is definitely the first thing I pay attention to when I watch this video. Yep.

 

[RattleSnack]

My Source Audio C4 with one of the Moog patches I downloaded from Community (Neuro 3 app) sounds basically the same. Yes, I play that song with my covers band often.

 

[Podgorny]

If it's not a synth, someone worked really hard to make a bass sound like one.
As far as credits goes, production credits are often full of errors, especially on albums with multiple production teams. Really, the only way to know for sure what that sound is, is to ask the producers (https://www.instagram.com/pontuswinnberg/)

 

[ProbablyTooLoud]

sounds like the toy casio keyboard I had in 1983

 

[AK Bass Guy]

This is a pretty great look at the tone in a more isolated setting.

And here's someone getting close on a synth:

You can take some of the ideas and apply them to bass too, I'd say.


At :17 he gives you tone tips.

Another with just some fuzz:

Neat.
So I think the fuzz is doing most of the work.
A low pass is on it as well.
Maybe a really slow set auto wah and a bit of compression.

 

[AK Bass Guy]

sounds like the toy casio keyboard I had in 1983

Doesn’t sound like any toy Casio keyboard I had in the 80s. I was there, I would know.
If you need a reminder here you go.

 

[CryingBass]

Did anybody mention fretless yet? Was it? I was not listening

 

[FretRiff]

FYI the bassist for this song, Thomas Lindbergh, also tracked the bass for Oops, I Did It Again 26 years ago.

 

[primussucks9126]

Neat.
So I think the fuzz is doing most of the work.
A low pass is on it as well.
Maybe a really slow set auto wah and a bit of compression.

100% I find my tone knob works well as the LPF. I haven't been satisfied with any filters I've added, but I'm also using multi-fx for the most part since I don't have any stand alone ones

Did anybody mention fretless yet? Was it? I was not listening

I think the fretless can help sell the slides for sure. There's some cool covers I noticed being played on fretless.

 

[logdrum]

Yay, Jazz Bass,

 

[logdrum]

No need for fretless, the glissandos are fast enough to trick the mind into hearing a non stepping glissando

 

[ProbablyTooLoud]

Doesn’t sound like any toy Casio keyboard I had in the 80s. I was there, I would know.
If you need a reminder here you go.

I was there too holmes, had that exact model I think, and rocked tf out of that thing plugged into a crate guitar amp.

 

[Aidenn7]

I was thinking that a woolly mammoth with ibanez synthesizer bass. would be close.

 

[AK Bass Guy]

I was there too holmes, had that exact model I think, and rocked tf out of that thing plugged into a crate guitar amp.

Remember when the SK1 came out several years later and everyone thought it was the most amazing thing ever.