A HEAVY bass distorsion (or "How far can a RBI/BDDI go?)

[AudioGeekZine]

Karnivool is epic tones. Check out their myspace for recording pics.

 

[Benny H]

I use my Maxon overdrive for boost in front of Sansamp DI. Works a treat.

I don't think you can successfully distort anything that is really big at the bottom to start with. You need to hit the mids.. I think.

 

[muckypup1]

IMO Fathomless Mastery just sounds shit all-round.
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Decapitated 'The Negation'/'Organic Hallucinosis' or Meshuggah 'Chaosphere'/'DEI' for awesome bass grit. Actually that's probably a case in point of Sansamp grit vs Rectifier grit on bass.

Hell yeah! These albums have the ultimate bass tones

 

[Deus.exe]

Our Bass player has one of these:
Hartke VXL Bass Attack Pedal

I produces a tone which we call "Cement Mixer Bass".

 

[FloridaRolf]

A friend of mine uses an Electro Harmonix Bass Big Muff (he plays in a grunge / (psychedelic) rock band), I think it sounds really great and dirty.

 

[D20]

I would love to know what they used for this bass tone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjvtx3HMUks&feature=related

I can give a +1 to the MXR M80, I've mixed a few of them live and they are great

I read somewhere that he uses a Boss Bass Overdrive and a Tech 21 Bass XXL

 

[egan.]

I read somewhere that he uses a Boss Bass Overdrive and a Tech 21 Bass XXL

I just hunted this down on talk bass:

Got an E-mail from Jon a couple days ago:

I use an Ashdown EVO II 500 live and in the studio I'll use a number of heads, mainly an Ampeg SVT-CL or SVT-2, plus also Eden, Sunn and Aguilar gear, as well as my Ashdown of course. I use a boss bass equaliser (GEB-7) to reduce a bit of the low mids (160Hz) that are naturally produced from my Warwick Thumb-6, I also run an ODB-3 but I've just bought a Tech-21 XXL, which is a monster distortion, a bit differnt to the ODB-3, which is an overdrive. I also use a DD-20 boss delay and an OC-3 boss octave pedal for some parts of newer songs.

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Incubus s.c.i.e.n.c.e.

Tim Commerford has never used a Rat on any RATM or Audioslave record. He used to use a Marshall Guv'nor on the first RATM. Later on he was using his own custom distortion boxes.

 

[arv_foh]

I just hunted this down on talk bass:

Nice. I found this on their myspace page

is that a Neumann?

 

[DanLights]

I definitely have some sampling, testing and researching to do. Everyone who can post samples of distorsion/boxes and info on what bassists use what is appreciated! And thanks for all supplied info

 

[JonWormwood]

Boss ODB3 is sickening distorted. Ahjteam has some clips.

 

[gabriel g.]

For a sound like this AMPEG is the answer

 

[arv_foh]

I like this tone too



I know the bassist so I asked him what they used

"We used my Rickenbacker 5 string, 300 watt Tech 21 bass amp, MXR bass DI and Mesa Boogie Powerhouse cab mic'd up and blended with the DI. Little bit of compression for flavor. That was about it."

 

[arvoitus]

I did monitors for a live band which used a Boss HM-2 on the bass. He used extreme settings and it sounded really really evil. On extreme settings it wouldn't be useful for studio, but i think it can sound decent on lower gain settings.

 

[vespiz]

I've been digging the Hughes & Kettner Warp -pedal on bass.

 

[FloridaRolf]

I did monitors for a live band which used a Boss HM-2 on the bass. He used extreme settings and it sounded really really evil. On extreme settings it wouldn't be useful for studio, but i think it can sound decent on lower gain settings.

I forgot to say that I do this too. This creates a nice distortion for the bass to blend in a bit behind the other bass tracks (if you use reamping for bass) and it makes the low-end ultra-fat.

e: maybe I can provide a (comparison) clip today / tomorrow, got my bandmates bass here.