Can someone please tell me how you get this tone?

[Gust0o]

I'm pretty sure I've seen this somewhere on Basschat, but was browsing Youtube for inspiration and hit upon:



Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea, but I think it's great - it's relentless and harsh. Surely it's not just the choice of Precision, what else is in the mix?

[ThomBassmonkey]

Sounds to me like he has the whole signal distorted (instead of just distorting the highs) and very strange EQ. Might even be a kind of filter to get that effect.

[yorick]

Sure there's an Ampeg rig lurking in the background....

[Spoombung]

You mean the tone of a million pub rock gigs?

[Jerry_B]

Spot the pickups too...

[Lozz196]

Overdriven SD QPs?

Probably a Sansamp BDDI or equivalent being used there. I can get that type of sound from mine.

[ahpook]

[quote name='yorick' post='1118213' date='Feb 6 2011, 08:26 PM']Sure there's an Ampeg rig lurking in the background....[/quote]

yep - sounds like clanky new strings into a driven ampeg to me.

[Stuee]

Take an Active P Bass, play it with a pick, chuck it into some variant of Ampeg SVT with a cranked input stage and maxed out drive control, and EQ to taste

[Mog]

Ibby Phat Head on clean mode and comp switch set to 2 will get close. IMO its probably a MXR DI. I really like the way that sits in the mix.

[Musky]

Could be almost any overdrive in there, but it reminds me of the ODB-3.

[Gust0o]

Had I posted the Quo, Spoom, you might have been close. Either that, or you sip your shandy in some different places to me

Heads Fall was a brilliant album. Had pretty much forgotten all about. Managed to get close with my Eagle after some fiddling - pity I don't like playing pick, as I really like this.

Edited February 6, 2011 by Gust0o

[Cosmo Valdemar]

There does seem to some very strange EQing going on there, but it sounds great. Love the album version too, my drummer and I like to soundcheck with that one.

[cd_david]

Sounds like it could be a Marshall Guvnor or RAT distortion to me?

[dangerboy]

My first thought was RAT.

[Sonic_Groove]

On a side note the loverly young lady on Keyboards is Mark E Smiths girlfriend!!! How the hell does he do that???

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Edited February 7, 2011 by Sonic_Groove

[Kirky]

His wife, actually!

[Sonic_Groove]

[quote name='Kirky' post='1118836' date='Feb 7 2011, 01:01 PM']His wife, actually![/quote]

Wow --- Even more "Curious Orange"!

B

[Chris2112]

There's nothing special about that, just thump a P bass through a distorted amp. And get someone to mic up a telephone and press buttons randomly to simulate the other sounds in that song.

[MythSte]

Sounds like my old MXR DI+ that...

Personally I can't see it being natural ampeg distortion, its jut not quite right for that and I don't think they'd play at that volume even on Jools.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1118872' date='Feb 7 2011, 01:40 PM']There's nothing special about that, just thump a P bass through a distorted amp.[/quote]

We all know you don't particularly like Fenders, but that is a ridiculous response. I could play a Precision through a distorted Ampeg, followed by a distorted Matamp - two completely different sounds, and neither of which would sound anything like the tone in the clip.

[Wil]

Sounds like an emphasis on the high mids to me, compared to the usual P bass low mid thump.

[ZMech]

Just to add some variation, try checking out Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, I think their bassist has one of the nicest overdriven/distorted sounds i've heard.

[BottomE]

Kick your speakers in?

[Rich]

That's a cracking bass tone, really brutal.
Just a shame about the rest of the song... oh dear, what a fearful racket.