Bassists with the best tone

[The Ozzman]

Rex Brown
Joey Vera
Geezer Butler (obviously)
Steve DiGiorgio
Martin Mendez

 

[SweptbackFlame]

Alex Webster, I fucking love his tone.

 

[Allfader]

Steve di Giorgio on Vintersorg, Death's ITP and Control Denied mainly.
Sean Malone
Tyr (Borknagar, Emperor, Satyricon)
Lars K. Norberg (Spiral Architect, Scariot)
Mikael Hedlund (Hypocrisy)
Skoll (Ved Buens Ende, Ulver, Arcturus)

 

[Tennyson]

I really like the tone of Marco Panichi from Hibria, at times it almost sounds funky.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Johan DeFarfella (Opeth)

 

[Matt]

Johan DeFarfella (Opeth)

YES. Also John Myung from DT. My favorite is Chris Squire though, I fucking love Rickenbackers played with a pick/quarter

 

[challenge_everything]

Johan DeFarfella (Opeth)

This.

 

[mutantllama]

Geezer Butler

 

[Black Friday]

This thread ended as soon as Ozz said DiGorgio.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Johan DeFarfella (Opeth)

Absolutely. I'm not overly interested in bassplayers but he was out of this world, especially on Morningrise. A big part of why he was so different i think is that he played metal but never listened to metal. It's DeFarfalla by the way

 

[Satanstoenail]

Tony Choy (on Unquestionable Presence and Testimony of the Ancients mainly, his tone on Elements was terrible)
Steve Harris
Sean Malone
Ron Royce
Alex Webster
Geezer Butler pulled some awesome "back in the day thick warm & fuzzy" tone
The guy from Between The Buried And Me also has really nice tone

 

[mutantllama]

How could I forget about Tony Chow and Steve Harris! Some of my other favorite tones, and players in general.

 

[Black Friday]

Tony Choy (on Unquestionable Presence and Testimony of the Ancients mainly, his tone on Elements was terrible)

Strange, he didn't sound any different on that one, at least to me. <_<

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Burke Shelley in fuckin' Budgie. Heaviest, dirtiest bass sound I've ever heard (at least in hard rock / metal).

 

[The Ozzman]

I forgot about Steve Harris

 

[Bitencourt29]

Some of the best tones imo:

- Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Sadus, Icead Earth, Testament and others)
- Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse)
- Jean-Michel Labadie (Gojira)
- Troy Sanders (Mastodon)
- Magnus "Devo" Andersson (Marduk)
- Steve Harris (Maiden)
- John Myung (Dream Theater)
- Christian Giesler (Kreator)

 

[Satanstoenail]

Strange, he didn't sound any different on that one, at least to me. <_<

You also think Reign in Blood doesn't sound aggressive, so quite frankly at this point I'm wondering if you have a functioning set of ears or not. Choy's tone on Elements has WAY more midrange, and much less low and mid-low range.

 

[Black Friday]

You also think Reign in Blood doesn't sound aggressive, so quite frankly at this point I'm wondering if you have a functioning set of ears or not. Choy's tone on Elements has WAY more midrange, and much less low and mid-low range.

Because the way an album sounds to someone is complete and total fact, and not opinion.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Because the way an album sounds to someone is complete and total fact, and not opinion.

Bah, wheel out the "but it's my opinion" horse carcass and flog it if you must, but saying RiB isn't aggressive is like saying Britney Sears 'isn't very poppy'. It can be your opinion all you like, but it's wrong. And saying Tony Choy's tone sounds the same on Unquestionable Presence as it does on Elements is also wrong, but this opinion of yours is a lot less subjective, because if you actually listen to the albums one after the other without changing the equaliser settings you can clearly hear that the tone is different. How much it has to do with the production difference is possibly debatable considering Elements sounds thinner and more mid-rangey as a whole.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Lars Norberg, Rainer Landfermann.