Tone Monster
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What’s some of your favorite tones and what rigs were used?
Favorite Bass tone for rock/metal??
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Findthetone1
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Don't know the rigs but Benjamin Orrs tone on Heartbeat City and Eddie Jacksons tone on Mindcrime are my two absolute favorites.
dawnofdreamx97
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Always loved spector basses into ampeg svt classic with the graphic eq, along with the 8x10 fridge, and of course sansamp.... one of my favorites!
Also a huge fan of a pbass into a mesa 400+ with the 15 and 4x10 cabs .... massive
Honorable mention to a stingray into a Galien Krueger rig!
Also a huge fan of a pbass into a mesa 400+ with the 15 and 4x10 cabs .... massive
Honorable mention to a stingray into a Galien Krueger rig!
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SpiderWars
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Rickenbacker bass split to 2 amps like a cranked Marshall and an Ampeg SVT. Chris Squire did something like that and his tone on Fragile for example just kills imo. I think Geddy Lee did something similar.
dawnofdreamx97
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I'd love to hear that!
SpiderWars
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I think they have separate jacks for each pickup and he ran the thinner bridge pickup to the cranked Marshall and the neck pickup to a cleaner set SVT. Or something...and that rig may not be what's on Fragile. I've also heard Fragile is just Ric->Marshall.
skoora
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Probably most things either recorded with an early 70’s SVT or a GK800RB. My two favorite bass amps. Throw in a lot of earlier punk recorded with SS Peavey amps. Not sure if Kira played on Damaged but there’s a fat, gnarly tone (sounds like a P-bass) on that Black Flag record.
dawnofdreamx97
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Gary Meskil from pro pain and the crumb suckers has a killer bass tone to. Mostly stingrays and I think an aria on the earlier stuff.
cardinal
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Yeah, a Spector with their HAZlab preamp and EMGs into either an SVT or 800rb and an Ampeg 810 cab is going to give instant killer rock/metal bass tone. This was the late '80s/early '90s standard. Queensryche, Skid Row, Alice In Chains, Pantera, etc.
Bass set up matters too. Low action IMHO gives that clanky/grinding sound that works best for this stuff.
After using Spectors for a while, I've ended up just using Jazz basses. I usually slightly favor the bridge pickup to give that growling sound. Nothing I've used tops the old SVT/800rb sound, but some of the Aguilar stuff is nice.
The Darkglass overdrive units get some eye rolls, but IMHO they sound freaking awesome. That's why everyone and their brother uses them.
Jeff Hilligan
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Go buy a dug pedal from tech 21
Pinnick all day long
Pinnick all day long
thegame
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DD Verni - Overkill - Peavey Mark 4 (Solid state)
Frank Bello - Anthrax - whatever he used on Got the time - killer!
David “Sticky fingers” Ellefson - Gallien Kreuger
Tool - Justin Chancellor - massive W/D rig feeding 3 signals to PA - mic‘d dry cab, mic’d wet cab for FX and finally a DI signal
Regardless the tone, the bass should always be placed high in the mix like all those bands do. Sounds heavier, supports the guitars better and adds much more dimensionality to the music when the bassist plays interesting and complimentary lines.
Frank Bello - Anthrax - whatever he used on Got the time - killer!
David “Sticky fingers” Ellefson - Gallien Kreuger
Tool - Justin Chancellor - massive W/D rig feeding 3 signals to PA - mic‘d dry cab, mic’d wet cab for FX and finally a DI signal
Regardless the tone, the bass should always be placed high in the mix like all those bands do. Sounds heavier, supports the guitars better and adds much more dimensionality to the music when the bassist plays interesting and complimentary lines.