Favourite bass tones??

[BucketheadRules]

Here's one to seriously test your sanity:



I love the way the bass really pops out instead of being buried in the mix like in so many other death metal bands. The actual playing is quite something too... there's a little unaccompanied fill around the 2:45 mark which is just crazy.

[axisus]

I've always loved Stanley Clarke's amazing active alembic tone on his 85' album 'Find out'.

I don't suppose anyone else here has even heard it???

[Grunfeld.]

This is how I've always liked a bass to sound.

[erictheweary]

JJ Burnel

Phil Lynott ( especially anyone where he used a bit of phaser)

I like how Mel Schacher sounded on the earlier Grand Funk records

Almost any Jaco

I was listening to Steel Pulse earlier today - reggae warmth but still a lot of clarity.

Lot of good bass sounds on Frank Zappa records, probably Scott Thunes from my era of listening to him, nice growl.

And a bit of early 80's aggressive Rickenbacker is always good - The Jam ( Mr Foxton) and early New Model Army ( Stuart Morrow):

[ICBM]

And a bit of early 80's aggressive Rickenbacker is always good - The Jam ( Mr Foxton) and early New Model Army ( Stuart Morrow)

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that probably about half of all my favourite bass sounds from the 1960s to the present day were made with a Rickenbacker. I'd include these two.

So I bought one. I'm not sure I'll ever need another bass... even though I did trade my modern 4003 for an even better '73 4001 a few months ago .

There really is no substitute.

[monquixote]

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that probably about half of all my favourite bass sounds from the 1960s to the present day were made with a Rickenbacker. I'd include these two.

So I bought one. I'm not sure I'll ever need another bass... even though I did trade my modern 4003 for an even better '73 4001 a few months ago .

There really is no substitute.

I love how they sound I just can't get on with the weedy little necks.

Rage Against the Machine got me interested in bass.

Tim Cs Stingray sounds immense!

[ICBM]

I love how they sound I just can't get on with the weedy little necks.

Look at some recent 4003s - they've been coming with different-sized necks for quite a few years. The ones made in the early 2000s in particular have quite fat necks. (Too much so for me, I like the thin necks!)

[monquixote]

Look at some recent 4003s - they've been coming with different-sized necks for quite a few years. The ones made in the early 2000s in particular have quite fat necks. (Too much so for me, I like the thin necks!)

I would like to own one at some point as I love the sound.

I've got a five string Streamer with the old Warwick neck profile. It's like a fekking tree

[erictheweary]

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that probably about half of all my favourite bass sounds from the 1960s to the present day were made with a Rickenbacker. I'd include these two.

I tend to like huge fat two 18" speakers in an oak wardrobe type bass sounds or that Rickenbacker twang. Almost the extreme options whereas most bass sounds are probably somewhere inbetween, or at least a bit too ( can't think of the right word but I'll go with...)refined.

[ICBM]

I tend to like huge fat two 18" speakers in an oak wardrobe type bass sounds or that Rickenbacker twang. Almost the extreme options whereas most bass sounds are probably somewhere inbetween, or at least a bit too ( can't think of the right word but I'll go with...)refined.

Absolutely! I really don't like most 'modern' bass sounds or equipment at all. I especially can't stand this so-called "transparent" thing... all frequencies and no character. Don't like active basses, don't like tweeters in bass cabinets, don't like bass gear you can lift with anything smaller than a crane .

Gibson EB through a Marshall Major and 4x15"s, or Rick 4001 through an SVT... perfect .

(To be fair, I do like a few active basses - eg Stingrays - and plenty of sort-of modern solid-state bass gear, but only that with much more character than a lot of the modern high-end stuff seems to have.)