Help with growl

[Supernaut]

On 23/02/2023 at 13:50, Lozz196 said:

If you want to keep the core tone you currently have the TC Spark Booster is a nice little pedal. 

This. Used the Spark Booster for years now and it's an always on pedal for me. 

[Baloney Balderdash]

On 23/02/2023 at 16:31, DTB said:

this one, the clip of Joe playing at the beginning 

 

That's not growl, it's farting.

 

Edited March 4, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[DTB]

15 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

 

That's not growl, it's farting.

 

Yeah, I said it was too much. 

[DTB]

I’ve pretty much got it sorted now. I’ve got the bassman into a couple of small  speakers and a Kowalski DG tube preamp into the mixer and Genelecs. Either can give a nice growl. Also got a Digbeth pedal on order which may sound even better. I was watching a Julia what her name video earlier on flatwound strings and that is the last 10% of the sound I think, but flats are a lot higher tension and I don’t want them on either of my 6ers so may well get a Sire 5 string and put flats on that. I love all this messing around chasing tone almost asmuch as playing, so long as I make some progress towards the tone I’m aiming at. 
I would be very happy to turn up at a rehearsal or gig with the tone I have now, having always gone for a very clean tight tone before, the growl is something I never liked until now. 
Julia Hofer. Edit. 

Edited March 4, 2023 by DTB

[DTB]

Well I spent the afternoon in and out of the studio depending on my pain levels and had a play around with picking techniques and if someone had said it’s all in the fingers then I would have said they were just being awkward, but I get it now, it really is all in the fingers, not the gear. 
I often changed picks as a guitarist for a different tone and is the same with the fingers, well I don’t change my fingers but you know what I mean. 
All those years spent playing one tone when I was playing bass and now I have a whole new perspective. Wish I’d known when I was younger. Isn’t that a song title??

[Baloney Balderdash]

27 minutes ago, DTB said:

Well I spent the afternoon in and out of the studio depending on my pain levels and had a play around with picking techniques and if someone had said it’s all in the fingers then I would have said they were just being awkward, but I get it now, it really is all in the fingers, not the gear. 
I often changed picks as a guitarist for a different tone and is the same with the fingers, well I don’t change my fingers but you know what I mean. 
All those years spent playing one tone when I was playing bass and now I have a whole new perspective. Wish I’d known when I was younger. Isn’t that a song title??

 

More about one specific finger plucking/picking technique, but I do briefly list and mention the different finger plucking/picking techniques too, here:

And the position of your fingers, as in how close to respectively neck or bridge you pluck, have a huge impact on your tone as well, as well as how much of the plucking finger tip, and/or eventual nail of it, that hit the strings, whether you forcefully strike or gently stroke the strings e.t.c.

 

 

Edited March 5, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[Dazed]

As far as Joe Dart and Vulfpeck go, I think they use this compression which gives a lot towards the time Joe gets. Having listened to demos of his signature Stingray played by others they still don’t nail Joes tone completely. I know some of that tone is in Joes hands too but that’s another discussion. 

 

https://goodhertz.com/vulf-comp/