How fucking heavy is this bass tone

[Techdeth]

Man everyone talks about how great this song is ,and how great Claptons solos are , and how the Beatles would not play it until George got everones favorite most most overrated lead guitar player ever to play in it .
But fuck me this bass tone is so heavy and Paul plays it heavy as fuck . Just thought it should be stated . But thst bass tone fucks hard

 

[Floyd Eye]

I've been a Beatle head since I was about 15. I'm also a bass player. McCartney was a bad ass for sure, but as far as tone goes you have to give that credit to Geoff Emerick. McCartney is notoriously not interested in gear, tone, etc.. He couldn't tell you what kind of strings were on his basses ( they were flats) and his memory is specious at best.

At any rate, for this song he is using his jazz bass with flats and it's recorded direct.