What's your favourite bass tone?

[Rayman]

Which song includes [i]THE[/i] bass sound that you love the most?

I've got loads of favourites:

You Are The Universe - Brand New Heavies
Don't Give Hate a Chance - Jamiroquai
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - The Blockheads
Lovegames - Level 42
5 Minutes - The Stranglers
3 Deuces - Marcus Miller
[i]Anything[/i] Geddy Lee plays

etc etc,

but if I could nail [i]one[/i] tone it would be the one Meshell Ndegeocello gets on "If That's Your Boyfriend"

If you haven't heard it? Youtube it right now, I defy anyone to dislike it.

[xilddx]

My own.

[Hobbayne]

I love that pick on flats tone on the little bass solo on The Beatles 'Everybodys Got Something To Hide'
Macca on a Fender Jazz, I read somewhere.

[HMX]

Not that I expect many people to know it, but Good Apollo I (album) by Coheed & Cambria is probably my favourite bass tone. Pure Spector awesomeness and some great bass playing.

[Spike Vincent]

Algy Ward on the Damned's Machine Gun Ettiquette.

[chris_b]

I've posted this before.... anything by Reggie McBride playing bass with Keb Mo.

[Lozz196]

For actual bass tone, I really like the intro to C`mon Everybody, by The Sex Pistols.

Definitely a Precision, and sounds like through an Ampeg type amp.

[Dandelion]

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1332401157' post='1587661']
For actual bass tone, I really like the intro to C`mon Everybody, by The Sex Pistols.

Definitely a Precision, and sounds like through an Ampeg type amp.
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Agreed! I love that tone..

[Low End Bee]

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1332376052' post='1587594']
Algy Ward on the Damned's Machine Gun Ettiquette.
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Even though he was the bass player at the time and was credited on the sleeve I'm not to sure he actually played much on the LP. Nice tone indeed though.

Edited March 22, 2012 by Low End Bee

[cheddatom]

deffinitely my own (link in sig)

There are other tones I have loved in the past though: Dirk Lance from Incubus, Timmy C on Evil Empire, a lot of the tones on Muse's Origin of Symmetry, Justin Chancellor, the guy from Karnivool. Now i've managed to surpass all these and I literally have the perfect tone(s) for me.

[Gust0o]

I quite like a mix of the following:
[list]
[*]The Fall - Blindness
[*]Pantera - Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills
[*]Weedeater - Wizard Fight
[/list]
When playing, either with the band or for myself, I tend to like either a little grit and distortion or the overblown fuzz. Never the twain shall meet, mind.

Plenty of good tones out there, including some super silky ones; but when playing I like it dirty, ooh er.

[LiamPodmore]

P!nk - Funhouse (Lovely and warm, fat tone)
You Me At Six - Loverboy (Grindy and evil, like a snarling pit bull)
That Sunday Feeling - Greater Heights (Quite quiet but a rather good overdriven VT/SVT 4 Combo)
Nickelback - When We Stand Together (Always loved Mike's tones, huge tone on this)

I probably have more, but i can't think of any at the moment.

Liam

[Low End Bee]

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1332367169' post='1587472']
My own.
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Me too.

[Stacker]

Bruce Foxton on Eton Rifles
Th guy out of Love Affair on Everlasting Love
Doug Pinninck!!

Too many others to mention. A crap one for me was Kim Deal's sound with The Pixies!

[joeystrange]

Not exactly 'tone' but adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood by Future Of The Left has an incredible sound! In fact, that whole album sounds great.

As far as pure bass and amp tone I love pretty much everything on No Push Collide by Serafin.

[Roland Rock]

- I was watching the Jungle book with my daughter the other day, check out the beautiful tone at the start of the vultures scene. That.
- 'Music To Interrogate By' from the Bullitt soundtrack (played by Carol Kaye)
- Boogie on Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder's Moog
- Anything by Aston Family Man Barrett

[Leonard Smalls]

I'm currently really enjoying a tone from my Parker bass on "slap" tone, going through a Yamaha FX770 with compression and a tiny touch of down octaving, into a Roctron Utopia on "Bass Ballz" setting (with some of the distortion dialled out), then all of that going through the FX loop on my Marshall into a Qtron.
It's a seriously dirty Bootsy noise, which only gets crazier if I configure the Rocktron pedal to act as a bass wah.

[Michaelg]

my holy grail of bass tone

http://youtu.be/NcCZVzKXR-0

[Paul_C]

[url="http://youtu.be/kUH2jxpVXqg"]http://youtu.be/kUH2jxpVXqg[/url]

[christhammer666]

for me its
1.the middle section of metallicas orion
2.anything by pete trewavas on the whirlwind(i normally hate bright tones but this rocks)
3.mastodons blood an thunder

[markdavid]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1332372843' post='1587565']
I love that pick on flats tone on the little bass solo on The Beatles 'Everybodys Got Something To Hide'
Macca on a Fender Jazz, I read somewhere.
[/quote] + 1 Awesome, awesome tone

[Chaos Daveo]

"Hook In Mouth" by Megadeth can think of millions more but that will always be my fave..

[leftyhook]

The one that my fingers and any bass produces

[The Dark Lord]

Listen to this (the bit that starts 40 seconds in) for Holy Grail tone.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_k1aE0Fvqo[/media]

Edited March 22, 2012 by mercuryl

[achknalligewelt]

There is something about the tone on Serge Gainsbourg's stuff around the Jane Birkin/ Melody Nelson albums that I love. It's got a kind of trebly prominence without being too flash, plus the playing itself is just awesome. Herbie Flowers, I think, although I could be wrong.

I'll also shamelessly copy any tone ever made by Paul McCartney or Mike Mills. Well, try and copy.