How is he getting this tone. ?

[bubinga5]

Strings, preamp, pickups.?. I'm aware he is scooping those mid's, but the zing and tone he's getting from the higher frequencies is great.He's playing a KSD 705.

Any ideas.? http://youtu.be/r5dFOGetYMg

Edited October 9, 2016 by bubinga5

[HazBeen]

Compression, lots of it and scooped eq. My guess......


Yuk.

[ZilchWoolham]

Sounds like a pretty normal clean, modern, slap-happy tone to me. In the video annotations he mentions he's using an "Audere Audio" pre-amp, but I'd assume you could get something similar with most hi-fi styled pre-amps or Class D amps, which do seem to be dominating the market. Should be fairly easy to dial in with common equipment, and of course, in agreement with the previous speaker, in every way the opposite of what I'd consider good tone! (Go for it, though!)

[dannybuoy]

Steel strings, scooped EQ. Sounds awful to me though, he could do with a set of flats and boosting the mids!

[JTUK]

Sounds like Melvin Davis. Presense, but not a strong top, scoop, jazz and new strings.

[ZilchWoolham]

Also, to get that ultra-high end, you'd want as much headroom as possible. And maybe use the DI out on your amp instead of the cab, as even relatively bright cabs do tend to round out the sound a bit.

Edited October 9, 2016 by ZilchWoolham