What is your sound?

[CallMeAl]

P bass, old rounds, warm amp

 

[WG Plum]

Hard to say, I frequently use a lot of effects in a primarily freely improvised setting. My fundamental tone is clean and warm. I play fretless about 85% of the time, but I don't go for maximum wah or a burpy, midrange-heavy, tone. I mostly play upright otherwise, and fretted once in a while. Bergantino Forte HP into either a Bergantino NXT 212 or NXT 210.

 

[M-Mittlesteadt]

Any and every sound I can get out of this...

I am in total experimental mode these days.

 

[JIO]

I do strive to achieve a certain sound/tone live for the two bands I play in. With Bond Girl (James Bond soundtrack songs, spy and some lounge/dance material) I use my '66 J w/D'Addario nickel round-wounds and primarily play with a pick & palm-mute, ala Carol Kaye. With my band The Sean Conneries (original material & classic pop) I use a few different basses (only one per gig) and play in a few different styles depending on the material. Could I use one bass for both bands? - certainly. Knowing our audience could care less what I play, as long as I play well - I only do it/get picky about sound/tone for my own ears to achieve a sound/tone that to me sounds correct for the material. Likewise when recording, I bring what I feel the songs need, including fretless.

 

[JIO]

Mostly: a passive, 60's style Jazz Bass (either 4 or 5 string) with .045-.105 nickel wound roundwounds with both pickups and the tone at 100% through a subtle compressor (currently I use a Cali76) through a pretty clean amp with a bit of boost of the low end and low mids through 12" speakers. Loosely based on Paul Turner's and Meshell Ndegeocello's Jazz bass sound. When I'm playing with in-ear monitoring and don't need a "real" amp, I try to emulate that sound with my Helix LT.

So basically this setup defines my ideal sound:
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[Nolan Tremblay]

I tend to like between modern hifi type tones (very clean, even sort of bass/mid/treble balance) to the kind of ballsy, mid-forward Wal tone (think Flea Blood Sugar Sex Magic and Justin Chancellor Lateralus).

 

[rickwebb]

"You sound like a piano player beating up a drummer". And it was a compliment.