Best Bass Sounds

[acidbass]

Mine is KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See.

Anyone else think this song has one of the best recorded bass sounds ever?

I was listening to it earlier - the album version, and thought what a GREAT bass tone the guy gets. I looked him up online, some dude called Arnulf Lindner, but I couldn't find any information about his equipment unfortunately. I have it on good information that he plays a Jazz though?

I'd love to be able to get this sound in the studio or indeed live. It surprised me too that he used a hell of a lot of reverb in the recording, something which is strange for bassists a lot of the time.

So....anyone else got any songs that they just love to listen to because of the bass tone?

[Kiwi]

Yeah - these are mine :

Level 42, Live at Wembley:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/v/TCv-5EonBuo"]http://www.youtube.com/v/TCv-5EonBuo[/url]

John Pattitucci, during his Smith days on this clip:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/v/Am61TgFB8qI"]http://www.youtube.com/v/Am61TgFB8qI[/url]

Louis Johnson on this tuition video (which sounds the same as my 'ray!):

[url="http://www.youtube.com/v/pr3EwkdrtBk"]http://www.youtube.com/v/pr3EwkdrtBk[/url]

Meshell Ndegeocello has an monster vintage jazz vibe going here:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/v/uE3Y380Nv8Y"]http://www.youtube.com/v/uE3Y380Nv8Y[/url]

and the most gorgeous fretless sounds ever:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/v/4S2chCFBcaA"]http://www.youtube.com/v/4S2chCFBcaA[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/v/zc4cg-w-92M"]http://www.youtube.com/v/zc4cg-w-92M[/url]

(Oh nooooooooooooo!!! Its sampled and sequenced!!!)

[Josh]

One that stands out the most for me is Ryan Martinies live tone in this here video:


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJsNTeAuvf4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJsNTeAuvf4[/url]

[paul, the]

I shout mine out so much - but it's only because it makes me blissfully happy.


I'll hold back this time.

[thumbo]

Timmy C's sound on the self titled RATM album always does it for me.

[kevbass]

This defiantely one of the nicest tones Ive heard, I'd love to get this tone right, but seeing how secretive he is its probbably not going to happen but I try
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E3sb17GA1o"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E3sb17GA1o[/url]

[ThirteenDevils]

Has to be Ray Browns tone on the Oscar Peterson Trio LP 'We Get Requests' listen to the track "You Look Good To Me" a chilled bowed intro followed by some great upright picking.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKpoCy0a5Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKpoCy0a5Y[/url]

Edited May 22, 2007 by ThirteenDevils

[chris_b]

The best bass tone on record is anything by Reggie McBride playing with Keb Mo (check out Muddy Water on the Slow Down cd), closely followed by Cornell C Williams playing with Jon Cleary (check out More Hipper on the Absolute Monster Gentlemen cd). These players are THE best but I think a lot of credit must go to John Porter who has produced most of these artists’ albums.... then there is anything by Paul Turner...... Larry Graham...... Aston "Family Man" Barrett....

Edited May 23, 2007 by chris_b

[paul, the]

[quote name='ThirteenDevils' post='4863' date='May 23 2007, 01:28 AM']Has to be Ray Browns tone on the Oscar Peterson Trio LP 'We Get Requests' listen to the track "You Look Good To Me" a chilled bowed intro followed by some great upright picking.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKpoCy0a5Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKpoCy0a5Y[/url][/quote]

I'll never get tired of Oscar's playing face, he looks so happy.


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I'd give both my legs to walk like that.

[Ogien]

I guess it is difficult to find the one and only best bass sound but these are interesting:


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rsi_nLGG80[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tznNrgULAKE[/media]

Intersting bass here by the way - Stingray with P pickup.

[ahpook]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aXF9DG9FGo[/media]

fuzzzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyy

[Wylie]

Tony Levin on Peter Gabriel's 'Don't Give Up.'

[steve-soar]

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1320968215' post='1434007']
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aXF9DG9FGo[/media]

fuzzzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyy
[/quote]Genius.

[xilddx]

I LOVE Chris Squire's tone on Siberian Khatru on the live Keys to Ascension album. I just HAD to programme something like it on the POD X3 and got close. Used it at the last gig. It's deep, with some sizzle. Wonderful tone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0u0VW4UDQw

[xilddx]

Scott Thunes on Dupree's Paradise from Make a Jazz Noise Here. 65 P Bass, played with a pick, some chorus into a Trace I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb3bQoxvHRk&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLA828471784E3D573

[steve-soar]

Some chorus? Maybe a touch. Hehe. Brilliant.

[xilddx]

[quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1320971407' post='1434042']
Some chorus? Maybe a touch. Hehe. Brilliant.
[/quote]
Steve Vai's wife's Boss CH-1 she gave him actually. You're right, much more than 'some'

[steve-soar]

2:54 Jim sounds great on this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4j6q1Svf30

[Lozz196]

I really like the bass sound on Whams Club Tropicana. Not overkeen on Wham, but that bass is just great.

[mike f]

Scott Thunes and Cardiacs on the same thread. Winner.

Anyhoo, about Scott's sound;

"Yes, I used a flanger on stage. I was this cheezy little thing I got from Pia Vai, right after she was fired from Vixen (before they got big, but after a couple of years of touring military bases)".

Jim Smith's sound on Sing To God is also a favourite.

[xilddx]

[quote name='mike f' timestamp='1321020600' post='1434436']
Scott Thunes and Cardiacs on the same thread. Winner.

Anyhoo, about Scott's sound;

"Yes, I used a flanger on stage. I was this cheezy little thing I got from Pia Vai, right after she was fired from Vixen (before they got big, but after a couple of years of touring military bases)".

Jim Smith's sound on Sing To God is also a favourite.
[/quote]

As far I know it was Pia's Boss CH-1 chorus. Whatever it was, it's a great tone and ,apparently, sound engineers loved it.

[Conan]

[quote name='acidbass' timestamp='1179870550' post='4753']
Mine is KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See.

Anyone else think this song has one of the best recorded bass sounds ever?
So....anyone else got any songs that they just love to listen to because of the bass tone?
[/quote]

Dunno if it's one of the best ever (if such a thing exists when tone is such a subjective quality), but I've been listening to that album a lot recently and I love that sound too! In fact it was used on Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers programme last saturday morning (repeated tonight at 7:30!).

I really like John Giblin's sound - especially on Cliche by Fish from the Vigil album.

Geddy Lee's tone on Fly by Night is nice too.

Chris Squire on Roundabout (goes without saying!).

Marcus Miller on David Sanborn's Run for Cover.

Jeff Berlin on Bill Bruford's Either end of August.

Hmmm. You got me thinking now!

Edited November 11, 2011 by Conan

[Wil]

Carol Kayes' J on Pet Sounds/SMiLE does it for me.

Edit - might be a P, actually.

Edited November 11, 2011 by Wil

[bremen]

I like 'em Nasty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcCQFirjdpM&feature=related

[mcgraham]

P - Jamiroquai's 'Runaway', or perhaps ToP's 'What is hip?'
J - Miller's fingerstyle, on quite a few of his tracks on 'Silver Rain', e.g. Frankenstein, Power of Soul, etc.