I'm currently working on a project with a dull strings-sounding bass so impossible to get a clanky and percussive result. I gotta find the way to make it sound deep and maybe bring more high mids from the guitars to fill the missing bass attacks. Not easy especially because it's not my fave kind of bass tone.
Here's a bass tone I really dig. You guys know it for sure, check it out at 2:33 (the man's not picking like a pussy too) It's bass > amp > cab only I guess (+ EQ/comp)?? [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcZ2ndsYI4&feature=related[/ame]
Sounds like a good clean bass amp, and perhaps some DI for extra clunk. Not that hard to get that sound if you got a good bas amp, good bas and a good bas player haha.