What are some of your favorite bass tones of all time? I like the Overkill bass sound on "The Years of Decay." I like the sound on all of the Mudvayne albums. I also like Iron Maiden's bass sound, Disturbed, RATM, and some others. What are your favs?

Ld.50 definetely has a nice and very unique bass tone, because Ryan did put his bass through his bass cab (ampeg) and his guitarists cab for that treble and mid tone.. very nice tone though, and the ultimate tone of all..

Papa roach!

There bassist has an unbeleivable bass tone, yeah i know there not metal, but listen to the tone of it! its a real bassy nice fingerstyle tone, love it.

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anything super clean, clear and warm

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Deeds of flesh - Mark of the Legion.

Tool.

Deep Purple

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Non fingerstyle tone, but slap bass tone - Mark King, Victor Wooten, Stu Hamm, Robert randolph and the family band, Red hot chili peppers.

Also jaco's tone is very good.

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Paul D'Amour's heavy bass sound was the shit, and the bass work on Undertow remains my favorite. (P.S. - He uses a pick).

#2 is Justin Chancellor's.

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This I know, Chancellor uses a pick too, right? I adore the sound of his Wal though.

Cliff Burton gets a lot of tone...But my personal favorite is mine. Bitches.

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He does use a pick yeah, his bass is nice though..

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The guy from Glass Casket gets a pretty awesome bass tone.

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Hahaha. Jake, you cock gobbler. Get that penis out of your mouth...

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Favourite bass tone - Warwick bass tone

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Jesus, Bill. Us "Bill's" seem to like one brand of something, and swear by it. I swear by Ibanez, and you are all over Warwick's nuts.

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Yeah, silly brits. I myself prefer Traben

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Haha, yeah, i guess so, Bill , Ibanez are my favourite guitar brand, my brother has one and it sounds lush,



Haha, but tulvox have you heard the tone yet?

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I really like the bass sound on Anthrax's "Among the Living". Does anyone know if he uses light distortion or have any idea how he gets that sound?

By the way give that album a listen, paying attention to the basslines. He reminds me of what Steve Harris would sound like if he used a pick. He MUST be influenced by Maiden.

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My personal favourite would HAVE to be Alex Webster from Cannibal Corpse. His Modulus 5-string bass sounds amazing, pumped through the classic Ampeg SVT and 8x10. He turns up the gain just a hair, to give it a very clean, yet SLIGHTLY warm/fuzzy tone to it. It cuts through beautifully!

As for Anthrax and Among the Living: an amazing CD all around, but especially the bass lines. I think he does the same thing as Webster (albeit 20 years earlier...lol) and just turns up the gain a bit. Overdriving the pre-amp section of your head will give you that sound, but if you overdo it, it'll sound like shit...not to mention sending a square-wave signal to your speakers, causing the voice coil to jump the magnetic gap and blowing your speaker cab...(speaking from experience here...grrrrrr)

Cheers.

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Tye Zamora from Alien ant farm, his tone is lush.

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Anything I can ignore.... haha just kidding.

J.C. Green from Godflesh..... Doesn't even need guitar...

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as clean as possible
or
Pale Horse

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Alex from Cannibal Corpse, Hammer Smashed Face. Awesome tone on that song. \m/

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The Stone Temple Pilots guy gets a really good tone out of his gear. Especially for a Fender.

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Anything with p-style pick ups (IBANEZ, B.C.RICH, or WARWICK). I hate the tone i get from j-style (unless it is a p/j-style combination) and soap bar pick ups. I think there is just something missing if there is not a p-stye pick up.

I have the absolute opposite opinion to you on tone and pickups, J's and Soapbars sound lush, and i dislike the P pickup tone, but each to there own.

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I'm with Bill...I can get way more depth out of J and Soapbars. P's sound too punchy and metallic for my tastes. It has to be smooth.

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john myung from dream theater, he is a beast and has aweosme tone, very warm and tasty

Mike D'Antonio from Killswitch Engage's "The End Of Heartache" Nice and thick!
Also we can't forget David Ellefson's ball crushing tone on every megadeth album

I dunno which recording you're talking about, but the one I heard had the bass sounding like a high-class rubber band.

Very True!

TOM ARAYA!! haha i'm kidding..
Steve Harris
Roger Patterson(Atheist)
Steve Digiorgio

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I agree with Tattered about Papa Roach. Toby has an awsome clean tone. What basses does that dude uses tho? Ive never accually tooken the time to find out...

I agree. Alex Webster isn't as good as you metaltabbers make him out to be.

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The sound i most try to emulate is probably Eric Langlois' on None So Vile, heavy but with all the lows (Graves Of The Fathers) and highs (break in Slit Your Guts) nice and clear.

But best bass tone of all time for me is probably Geezer Butler's sound on Master Of Reality.

Im glad someone else has noticed!

He uses Lakland basses. and Ampeg cabs and heads..

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Cannibal Corpse lol

Ive never really liked them... mostly because I dont like the vocals.

The bass never impressed me...



Tom from Slayer is a fuckin mad man tho! Have some respect! Some of the riffs he plays while he's "singing"(yelling at the top of his lungs ) are nuts!

Probably the best metal bassist is John Myung

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Alex Webster's tones, he comes up with some really nice low growly punchy tones, mixes in the mid-range good too.....and Geddy Lee, nice and dirty

lars from spiral architect gets some nice clean tones out even during crazy riffs ( same with sean from cynic, and roger from atheist). Jaco Pastorius... duh. Victor Wooten has amazing tone. Crisp,clean, and sometimes a little murky and phased. Alex webster has a cool low really treble heavy tone.

My own tone is pretty good ( not to be cocky or anything) but I have a really nice custom effect on my bp-80 and as long as I have a nice amp it comes out good.

he is great but not the best come on nobody is really the best. We all could go on and on about who we think the best players are... geesh

He said ''PROBABLY'' the best ''METAL'' bassist..

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dude ok but probably is basically saying he is so get off my case

Well all the other metal bassists just play what the guitar plays.

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No, first get off his case, if your going to prove someone wrong or bring up a point, make sure youve got it right first.

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that isnt true man, come on how about Lars from spiral architect, his lines are sometimes like the guitars but most of the time completely different( in the same key.

In the band im in I play different bass parts half of the time, and guitar parts the other half.

Dont get me wrong John Myung is freaking awesome. I even sketched a picture of him once for art class.

am i just stupid or something! it seems like im always getting chewed out on here. I thought forums let you voice your opinion on a subject not get made fun of or corrected every time the moderator doesnt like what you say

Not to say our moderator isnt cool, but get off my back!!!!!!!!

Im not on your back man, its just i dont want you causing huge rows with other members over stupid things.

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I gotta agree man, Alex Webster ALWAYS has an amazing tone, on every album AND live Cliff Burton had some nice growly tones too [RIP]

just messin around.. half the time i just say things to see what people would say.....lol