How do I get the bass tone of fieldy from the album "issues" by koяn?

[Fieldy fan]

I have been listening to Korn for  a while and I love them and especially love their bass tone, my favorite era for this bass tone was issues (and take a look in the mirror) and I really want to get the bass tone from there, can anyone tell me what amps and what settings to use? 

[ped]

Hi there. I know what you mean. I think it’s a cool sound too, it really works and the clicky clank makes the bass really stick out if the mix and fits in so well with the drums. I’m not sure why Fieldy is often a figure of ridicule. It’s not my sound but I remember asking a similar question years ago on Talkbass. To this day I like a slightly clanky sound. 
 

He plays an Ibanez Soundgear, but a modern 5 string with two pickups will work. Super low action, detuned of course. His amp is very clean and probably somewhere there’s a limiter to give the sound a definite ‘wall’ so it can drop in between the guitars and drums. A similar approach without limiting would likely lead to a fairly uneven sound and struggle for volume. Oh and not much in the way of mids!

[Bassybert]

I think as Ped mentioned above, a lot of the time that clicky sound is coming from a combination of low action and loose/detuned strings hitting the frets. It’s more of a percussive thing than just playing the notes in a clean way. 

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

I saw a Gallien Krueger video on YouTube recently, with his 'replacement'. Might be useful. 

 

 

Found it.

 

Edited Friday at 12:19 by ProjeKtWEREWOLF

[PaulThePlug]

Ibby SR305 would be a place to start

[Musicman20]

I’ve grown to respect him once I heard how deep the bass is…it really fills the low end but you need a good set of speakers / headphones to appreciate it.

 

He’s very percussive! 

[Russ]

There were two tricks with his recorded sound. First was that the Ibanez he plays, an old SR1305 (which his K5 was based on), had the old Ibanez Vari-Mid circuit, with a parametric midrange EQ control -  he set the frequency towards the upper mids, and dialled it all out, leaving the low end and that “clack” that he’s famous for. The earlier versions of the K5 - the version with the mahogany body/padauk top combo - also had this circuit. Not sure the newer versions do though. 

 

Secondly, he recorded through a big Hughes & Kettner rig, taking a direct sound and a miked sound, but the mic was pointed directly at the tweeters in the cab.