Favourite bass tones??

[frankus]

Marcus Miller on the Silver Rain Album.

[danomess]

Lemmy-Motorhead- No Sleep till Hamersmith'
Jah Wobble, Metal Box,
Daresay others will come to me....

[BucketheadRules]

I like growly, slightly-overdriven tones best, and my all-time favourite HAS to be Jon Stockman's sound on Karnivool's track "Goliath", the bass kicks in around twenty seconds into the song:



Majestic. I think that was played on a 6-string Warwick Thumb into an Ampeg.

That said, I also have a considerable soft spot for the almighty Pete Steele of Type O Negative, particularly on the October Rust album:



Yes, that intro really is on bass - I thought it was a fuzzed-up guitar for a long time. It sounds even cooler when he shifts it down an octave, when the rest of the band come in.

I also like the impossibly deep Spector/Ampeg-powered 5-string growl that Alex Webster gets at the beginning of this track. Twenty-five seconds in, your head will probably blow up.



Jeroen Thesseling's six-string Warwick fretless sound on "Cosmogenesis" by Obscura is great too.



Then there's the legendary Geddy Lee... he's always amazing but particularly, the tone at 3:15 here is just magnificent.



I've always liked Rex Brown's tone with Pantera, brilliant player too - very underrated:



He's normally quite low in the mix but you can hear it under the solo about 4 minutes in.

The fuzzed-out madness of this intro:



And finally, the awesome fretless Jazz Bass growl of the one and only Jaco Pastorius - the fill at 1:45 shows it off very nicely indeed:

[fretmeister]

Changes a lot.

But at the moment, Kyle Eastwood on Metropolitain album.

Big thick, clean but chewy with loads of fundamental. Lovely. Bloke can write a sweet tune too.

[Sporky_McGuffin]

Stingray into an Ampeg. Like steel ball bearings rolling down a cast-iron drainpipe. Magnificent .

[HerbieTheRadDorklift]

[bj]

I utterly love Dave Carpenter's rich warm all-encompassing bass sound on this live version of Allan Holdsworth's Tokyo Dream. Check out the first chorus at 0:50 but do yourself a favour -stick some headphones on first!

[showermusings]

I actually enjoyed everything that Connor posted. I'm pleasantly surprised

[BucketheadRules]

I actually enjoyed everything that Connor posted. I'm pleasantly surprised

Even Blotted Science?

[Sporky_McGuffin]

I actually enjoyed everything that Connor posted. I'm pleasantly surprised

I enjoyed them all simultaneously. Well, simultaneously-ish - hard to click the play buttons at the same time.