Painy Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 I've always loved Glenn Hughes sound on the Feel album - sounds like angry velvet!?! Funnily enough, at last night's gig I finally nailed the sound I've been aiming at for years. My tone had been pretty close for a long time but as I have a new bass I've kinda had to start from scratch and experiment again. Last night I wanted a bit more cut through on the last song of the night so rolled back a fraction onto the bridge pickup (normally like the combination of both pups in equal measure) and it was like everything fell into place! Can't wait for the next gig now to see if I've really got it down or if a change in accoustics at a different venue will make it a one time thing. Can only hope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhet Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 For any funk officianados - this hits the nail on the head for me. David Dyson on an MTD (Ithink). If you can't be bothered to listen to all 9 minutes, try it from 2.20 where the song breaks down to some pure groove from Dyson and Gene Lake on drums. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiBzYckcYI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiBzYckcYI[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoombung Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 Best live sound; Percy Jones playing a Wal at the Venue, Victoria around 1979. Never heard anything that compares or comes close. Absolutely staggering sound. Best recorded sound - Chris Squire on Close to the Edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingson Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 There are a few for me, best rock tone I've heard on a recorded track is 'Rock and Roll Is Dead' by Lenny Kravitz. Cool tune and everything but the bass tone I find phenomenal for some reason. There are others too, nothing I'd really like to replicate myself apart from some of the more vintage tones that Willie Weeks got with Donnie Hathaway, I also like Anthony Jackson and Pino's fretted tones on most recordings that they've been a part of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cloud Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 [quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1370796093' post='2105634'] Best live sound; Percy Jones playing a Wal at the Venue, Victoria around 1979. Never heard anything that compares or comes close. Absolutely staggering sound. Best recorded sound - Chris Squire on Close to the Edge. [/quote] You have taste sir! Cannot argue with either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4000 Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) I have to agree that Chris Squire's sound is, in context, hard to beat. I particularly love his sound on Long Distance Runaround. Jon Camp, the player on the clip I posted, was obviously hugely influenced by him. Big +1 for the Ox in his Alembic period and Geezer on Heaven and Hell too. I also love JPJ's Jazz sound (and Gary Thain's and Lenny Kravitz's/LK's rotating roster) and John McVie's sounds on Rumours and Tusk. Brown Eyes is a gorgeous sound. Oh, and JJB and John Deacon. And Leigh Gorman. And Bernard Edwards! In a different vein, I also love Hadrien Feraud's sound. I have to say, someone's sound is so important to me. If I don't like someone's sound I find it very, very hard to listen to them, no matter how good they might be. Edited June 9, 2013 by 4000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magee Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I've pretty much spent my life chasing this sound, from Ten Years After's Cricklewood Green album. It's 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain. Not a great band, not a great song, but what a sound. I love that it has just a touch of grit, lots of untrebly fret clank for definition and rich bottom end. It's organic and human and gives the bass a real place in the band's sound as something more than just being an accompanying wobble in the bottom end. You can really hear it at 1'28. When I change bass, amp, strings, anything, this is still pretty much the litmus test: does it sound good playing this passage? If not, whatever I've changed has to go. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugZU4ITYkuw[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ialma Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9ckk-Wxls Mogwai sound on first album floored me. Richard Bona has another amazing sound, and hundreds others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Savage Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Best sound I've ever had was a Marshall 400W valve head into an 8x10, with my five-string; the awesomeness was overshadowed by the sheer weight though, my SS Marshall rig gets close enough until I can afford roadies. Best sound I've ever heard live was a band called Skam, active Stingray through a Boss overdrive into an Ampeg rig (IIRC); wonderfully full sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedebass Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I saw Death From above 1979 in Malmö, Sweden in 2006. Jesse F Keeler had the most fantastic sound. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtYekFzfAI[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolossusuk Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Alan Meros' sound on Beware Of Darkness - Spock's Beard is immense though owes a lot to the Fragile / Edge era sound of Chris Squire. Just love the grind those guys produce and hats off to Squire for moving the bass more out to the forefront as opposed to being a background rumble Also Pat Badger on Get The Funk out And last not least, Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton esp on Pump and Get a Grip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gapiro Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 [quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1370688677' post='2104373'] Yep, that'll do for me. [/quote] [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1370690737' post='2104406'] I always loved Kasim Sultan's playing and tone on L by Steve Hillage . A superb and underrated player . It's a shame he ended up in Meatloaf . [/quote] [quote name='Ziphoblat' timestamp='1370694581' post='2104476'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my6bfA14vMQ[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8HnfD4DQ0[/media] [/quote] [quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1370694834' post='2104482'] So many different tones that are great. It's horses for courses. I think it's actually hard to get an overdriven bass tone just right; Justin Chancellor on 10,000 days nails it..but to my ears Geddy Lee has got it wrong over the last few years (Rush fans, I am one of you don't hurt me!). Personally this is the one that ticks all of my boxes. youtu.be/Rf6tp2c6nMM [/quote] [quote name='Jellyfish' timestamp='1370731056' post='2105038'] youtube.com/watch?v=ddOFtHP3oS8 And at 1:44 in this video. Love it! youtube.com/watch?v=g7A8wwduI6U [/quote] I love all of these. All for different reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gapiro Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 [quote name='stoker' timestamp='1370679081' post='2104223'] Best sound I ever heard was Jack Bruces sound on Cream's live version of 'Crossroads'. A definite inspiration on me. [/quote] That is really well done and sits well in the mix. The playing, although busy also really works too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4rchitec7 Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Check this, a Ken Smith could break walls !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i_VyA5HoBw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornats Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 (edited) Love the variety of sounds here! I'm a big fan of Billy Gould's sound from Faith No More. It just has that certain growl that I always associate with him: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-WvTieSyEI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-WvTieSyEI[/url] Edited June 10, 2013 by Mornats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pembo Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8jPDdHd9y8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8jPDdHd9y8[/url] This is the album that made me wonder "What is that thick, thumpy, bendy tone?" when I was about 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_skezz Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Quite possibly Glenn Hughes on the opening track of Black Country Communion's debut. Punchy but sits nicely in the mix when the rest of the instruments kick in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroybasslines Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 What about this for a lovely Precision tone? Distinctive but sits in the mix, woody but defined. Sweet! [media]http://youtu.be/i1cskIan5Jw[/media] Not sure I can do a 'best ever'! But if I had to choose a player who's basses, amps, fingers and talent I could appropriate for my own, it'd have to be Pino... [media]http://youtu.be/0d9wgf22sQU[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 My Shuker sounds gorgeous through my Shuttle and Nemesis cabs, but the best sound I have ever produced was when I gigged Kiwi's old Ken Smith fretted BSR5 through the Eden head/SWR Triad rig I had at that time. The Smith and the Eden were just made for each other and the tone was to die for. Our dearly missed friend OldGit was playing bari sax in the band back then and it was as much as I could do to stop him from swiping that Smith . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysP Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I've never heard Peds bass sound, but I'm sure it would be the best bass sound I've ever heard if I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andysleigh Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 (edited) Krist RD artist here [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee6xkwVucIE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee6xkwVucIE[/url] Edited June 10, 2013 by andysleigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer of the Bass Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Not sure about "best ever", but this was a bit of a revelation for me when I first heard it. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hypFSAKxC8[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 It may not be suitable for everything but god i love this sound. It's the reason why i started playing. I heard it and thought what is that noise. I was 14 and it just rocked me. Sounded so filth and menacing so i found out what it was and started playing. http://youtu.be/6IamlIGPNCU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 (edited) This is rather tasty IMO (starts at around 1.35) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efa4aIe6-OU[/media] Progtastic... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca3wKjunVmw[/media] Edited June 11, 2013 by Conan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 And now for something completely different: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD_azs_xVa8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD_azs_xVa8[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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