Industry Standards

[SteveXFR]

Punk -

Whatever you found in a skip, swapped for some drugs or stole from another bands tour bus.

 

Doom Metal -

Bass - Anything tuned to C or lower.

Amp - Anything with an obscene amount of gain and a huge bag of weed on top of it.

Effect pedals - Anything with a picture of Satan or demons and a name like "soul sucking witch" or "Grave desecrater" or "Demonic violator" made by a company with a name like "Satan's stool samples" or "Demonic Possession Acid Drinkers"

[Supernaut]

17 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Punk -

Whatever you found in a skip, swapped for some drugs or stole from another bands tour bus.

 

Doom Metal -

Bass - Anything tuned to C or lower.

Amp - Anything with an obscene amount of gain and a huge bag of weed on top of it.

Effect pedals - Anything with a picture of Satan or demons and a name like "soul sucking witch" or "Grave desecrater" or "Demonic violator" made by a company with a name like "Satan's stool samples" or "Demonic Possession Acid Drinkers"

 

Don't forget your neck beard, bro! 

[SteveXFR]

29 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

 

Don't forget your neck beard, bro! 

 

That's more of a nu metal thing than a doom thing 

[EBS_freak]

Every 90s rehearsal room band

 

Encore bass from Argos plugged into Peavey TNT15

[Mykesbass]

6 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I used to listen to a lot of Sade, and Paul Denman played his bass really high 

Was a big fan - still love the two early albums. Stupidly never got around to listening to the later stuff which is also meant to be good.

[Reggaebass]

2 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

the later stuff which is also meant to be good.

I haven’t listened for a long while, I’ll check out their later stuff 👍

[drTStingray]

14 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Reggae/dub

fender jazz

Ampeg valve 

Barefaced cab 

‘Family Man’ Barratt did use a Jazz in the 70s, but into an Acoustic 370/301. I’m sure if he was playing the same stuff now he’d be using decent class D equipment. 

 

The bass player in Steel Pulse used a very nice Stingray. 

 

It never ceases to amaze me how everyone presumes every bassist used Ampeg - in the 70s Ampeg would be a V4B - and they were not ubiquitous with bands - John Paul Jones was another Acoustic amplification user. 
 

We need to beware current ‘industry standards’, which are often based on an incorrect impression of what was used historically. 
 

For 90s pop - Musicman Stingray 5. 

[Reggaebass]

7 hours ago, drTStingray said:

Family Man’ Barratt did use a Jazz in the 70s, but into an Acoustic 370/301.

I’ve seen Robbie Shakespeare , Aston Barrett and flabba holt all using ampeg , I’m not saying that’s all they used, but most bands I’ve seen do, including me

 

this is from an interview-

Aston Barrett, nicknamed “Family Man” (even before he had children,) is a Fender Jazz Bass player who plays reggae music.

Amazingly, he is able to get an incredible upright sound out of the Fender J:

Aston is known to use a custom flatwound set of strings. He has said in an interview that custom sizing was chosen from a 5-string set (even though he plays 4-string) and that Fender sends him 6 packs of strings once a year.

In studio, Aston uses Ampeg amplification

[SteveXFR]

13 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

Every 90s rehearsal room band

 

Encore bass from Argos plugged into Peavey TNT15

 

That's exactly what my local rehearsal room still has. I think the bass probably is from the mid 90's and still on the original strings.

[NAS Bass]

13 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

Every 90s rehearsal room band

 

Encore bass from Argos plugged into Peavey TNT15

Before massive availability, access to 'big' brands and the internet leading to an obsession with minutia, most bands in most places that I remember were using rock solid, reliable Peavey amps - good players sounded great too!

[SteveXFR]

14 minutes ago, NAS Bass said:

Before massive availability, access to 'big' brands and the internet leading to an obsession with minutia, most bands in most places that I remember were using rock solid, reliable Peavey amps - good players sounded great too!

 

Peavey used to make some great amps and basses back then. I think John Taylor of Duran Duran still uses a lot of old Peavey gear.

[NAS Bass]

1 minute ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Peavey used to make some great amps and basses back then. I think John Taylor of Duran Duran still uses a lot of old Peavey gear.

Yep, a fine example of a good musician sounding great!

[drTStingray]

2 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I’ve seen Robbie Shakespeare , Aston Barrett and flabba holt all using ampeg , I’m not saying that’s all they used, but most bands I’ve seen do, including me

 

this is from an interview-

Aston Barrett, nicknamed “Family Man” (even before he had children,) is a Fender Jazz Bass player who plays reggae music.

Amazingly, he is able to get an incredible upright sound out of the Fender J:

Aston is known to use a custom flatwound set of strings. He has said in an interview that custom sizing was chosen from a 5-string set (even though he plays 4-string) and that Fender sends him 6 packs of strings once a year.

In studio, Aston uses Ampeg amplification

Thanks for this. I’ve seen footage of him using Acoustic but to be fair, it was from the early/mid 70s. Many reggae bands used 18” speakers at the time. 
 

This is from before the days when ‘lowly’ bass players featured in guitar magazines, or specialist magazines existed for them!! 

[Reggaebass]

10 minutes ago, drTStingray said:

I’ve seen footage of him using Acoustic

Yeah definitely drT  ,your right,  I think he used the acoustic live and the ampeg for recording , Robbie also used a lot of Markbass , I assume he was sponsored 

[Dan Dare]

Motown. P bass with high action and well worn La Bella flats via custom preamp direct to board. Sorry, B15 fans, but the amp was only used for monitoring in the studio (to enable the rest of the musicians to hear the bass). The sound from it did not go to tape.

[cetera]

80's UK pop:

 

Wal Custom or MM Stingray

Boss CE2 chorus

Trace Elliott head and cabs

[la bam]

I see loads of jazz / fusion type bands (pro and semi) using:

 

Fender jazz

Markbass combo.

 

Always sound great too to be fair.

[cetera]

70's Prog/Pomp:

 

Rickenbacker

Ampeg

various effects (reverb, delay, chorus, phaser etc)

[tauzero]

Prog rock:

 

Any bass (Rickenbacker, Jazz, Precision, Warwick, Musicman, Yamaha, Cort all used by industry-standard bassists with apologies for any omissions)

 

Any amp (see above)

 

Any effects (including none)

 

Sometimes a Moog Taurus or derivative

Edited December 16, 2021 by tauzero

[SteveXFR]

Djent - 

 

Bass - Dingwall Combustion, Dingwall D Bird, Dingwall NG2, Dingwall NG3 and anything in between, I guess there's no standard Bass really. 

 

Amp - Darkglass 

 

Cab - Darkglass 

 

Effects - Darkglass Adam, Darkglass B7K, Darkglass Alpha Omega, Darkglass Microtubes X, Darkglass Alpha Omicron, Darkglass Hyper Luminal. Anything goes really, there's no particular pattern or feature in common. 

 

Jeans - Tight

 

T-shirt - White, ripped

 

[NHM]

no-one has mentioned the blues!

I'm Fender Fender Fender - Musicmaster, Downtown Express, Bassman 500 - all of which seems to do the job OK.

[EBS_freak]

Skiffle -

 

Washtub, broom handle, string

 

Deluxe version - Tea chest, broom handle string.

[SteveXFR]

44 minutes ago, NHM said:

no-one has mentioned the blues!

I'm Fender Fender Fender - Musicmaster, Downtown Express, Bassman 500 - all of which seems to do the job OK.

 

You can't play blues on Fender gear. How are you going to sing about your wife leaving with all your money when you're playing expensive equipment?

Maybe you could use a beat up old Squier precision and a home made amp cobbled together from bits of scrap car radio and a dog lead on top but no dog because your ex wife took him.

[NHM]

Are you having a bad morning? Anyway, she wouldn't want it as she knows it isn't expensive.