This tone...
 

Someone can help me tuning my bass to this 'crunch' tone like in this video
is that some kind of reverb effect or some tuning? please help me :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpKV0UYbPNk

before the breakdown you hear it well

my rig: Esp F255 Crate Bt100 amp

the video is also kind of funny so have fun! :P

Thanks!

Haha, I've seen this video before, it's great.

He isn't using any 'special' tuning to get that tone, he did tune his bass to drop D...but that doesn't make a difference in tone. As you can see clearly in the video, he is using 2 Ampeg cabinets, probably Ampeg heads too. Ampeg heads are 'tube' powered (or 'valve' as they would say in England) tubes can cause some distortion when the gain is turned up, causing your final output to have a crunchy/gritty/growly/burpy tone (whatever you want to call it) However...there are some effects that can emulate the tube "burp" effect without having to buy an expensive tube head or preamp. Tell me if you want any help finding these and I'll gladly list some.

~Cheers :beer:

It is a distortion effect, that much I know. I'm one of a billion guitar players in the world, but I know overdrive/distortion when I hear it. I'm sure other bass players here at metaltabs will be able to provide you more info how to zero in on your desired tone.

BTW, I love this video too. Anyone notice the Megadeth parody... "*remote to the head* Wenala, wenala, wenala, wenala, wenala, wenala, wenala, wenala, wenala, wenala, what do you think of that, Blawhahahahaa" :rofl:

SansAmp
 

Yeah... It can be effects or natural tube drive. Effects are the way to go if you don't want to lay out too much paper. One of the best effects for bass distortion is the 'SansAmp Bass Driver D.I.' made by Tech.21.NYC. Great tones.

You can read more about it here : http://www.tech21nyc.com/bassdriver.html

And if you want to hear some sound samples of this unit, download these sound files (MP3's) to hear what it can do :

http://www.tech21nyc.com/sounds/lan...nds/Bassman.mp3

http://www.tech21nyc.com/sounds/lan...nds/DI_mike.mp3

http://www.tech21nyc.com/sounds/lan...sounds/PJam.mp3

http://www.tech21nyc.com/sounds/landmark_sounds/SVT.mp3

http://www.tech21nyc.com/sounds/lan...sounds/Tool.mp3

http://www.tech21nyc.com/sounds/lan...sounds/Warm.mp3

http://www.tech21nyc.com/sounds/landmark_sounds/Yes.mp3

Hope you enjoy some of those sounds, if you want me to show some more products just say so and I'll list some more. Hope that helps :)

~Cheers :beer:

yea i found how to tune this thing you need a bass overdrive and turn up the gain! i have a boss overdrive pedal that a i never used so i tried it and it works well!

thast sansamp pedal looks nice i want to try one! :flame:

how much does it cost?

It is nice :) did you listen to some of the sound clips? I love some of the tones that come out of that beast :lhdevil:
Here's the link to the MusiciansFriend page for it http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...r-DI?sku=480206
It would be around $250-$300 in Canada.

~Cheers :beer:

Hahaha hilarious fuckin video! BTW a Fender jazz bass run through a Tech21 Sansamp Bass Driver is EXACTLY that sound.

I fucking love that guy
hes the only metal head in comedy

What about Jim Carey? Somebody mentioned to me once that he likes Cannibal Corpse, or is that just bullshit?

I doubt he likes them.
its just that they were in one of his pet detective movies.
and I said "comedy"
jim carry is NOT funny.

In your opinion, I think hes hilarious.

I think he tries too hard.

even though the lyrics arent very appropriate that video is hillarious!

Appropriate? What do you mean by that :confused: lol

This pedal is somewhat cheaper and still sounds great if you don't want to drop alot of $$$ on the SansAmp. There are sound samples on this page :

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...edal?sku=151396

~Cheers :beer:

I heard Jim Carrey was the one who got them the part in Pet Detective.

how many times have you heard "haha cannibal corpse, what the hell is that?!, its hilarious!"

Sorry to dig this up but...

About 30 seconds in the song The Striker Strikes the bass plays by himself for like 2 seconds, but with a terrrrriffic tone. Anyone know which pedal or whatever could be responsible for a tone like this one?

I'd say, mail the band and ask.