Ska Tone

[parker_muse]

Hey fellas,

I'm having a change around in my rig in my pursuit to be Horace Panter from The Specials.

Just acquired a Westone Thunder Jet (basically a Thunder 1) with some nice flats on it so i can get his classic P tone - i might stick a wizard in to make it super vintage?

Will the flats help to get that old school tone or will they detract from it? Will it be a bit wooly?

I'll also hopefully be running a Marshall Bass State B150 - nice big speaker for those booming ska bass tones.

Think Nite Klub or Too Much Too Young - thats the tone i want.

Cheers fellas.

Tom

[waynepunkdude]

When I'm doing ska stuff on a P I always roll of the tone.

[parker_muse]

Yeah i imagine i will too - i don't want a treble clunk. Just want something phat.

[Hobbayne]

Horace Panter played some great bass lines, and was always leaping about and jumping around the stage! some of his better bass lines were recorded with him 2 feet off of the ground!
Check out the Old Grey Whistle Test DVD!

Edited October 28, 2010 by Hobbayne

[razze06]

In my brief tenure in an old school ska band, I used an old epiphone et180 strung with flats, neck pickup, tone rolled off, and my peavey head into a 2x15 peavey cab. Phattastic.

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1003816' date='Oct 28 2010, 02:41 PM']Horace Panter played some great bass lines, and was always leaping about and jumping around the stage! some of his better bass lines were recorded with him 2 feet off of the ground!
Check out the Old Grey Whistle Test DVD![/quote]
Very underrated. Some of his recordings are spot on old school P imho.... sometimes a little too old school.

[Tait]

To answer your question I'd say flats will help towards that sound. But then, I've only ever used flats on a fretless, so it could be the fretlessness that attributes to the tone.

[parker_muse]

Cheers fellas!

What sorta EQ setup should i try out?