Your favourite bass tones?

[Seizure.]

Converge - No Heroes

bass on no heroes was done with a heil pr30 and yamaha sub-kick.
the subkick can be tricky. i keep it on a separate track, compress it a lot, and occasionally key it off the kick.

Got this info from the man himself

 

[Teddyboy]

Pantera - Far Beyond Driven and "I can't hide" from 101 Proof
Metallica - Black Album (fits perfect with the guitars + I love "My Friend of Misery" bass sound)
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (especially the song..)
Tool - 10000 Days
Deftones - White Pony
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
Cradle of Filth - "Sleepless" (Anathema cover in From the Cradle to Enslave E.P.)

 

[TheDriller]

Faith No More - "Angel Dust"

Oh christ YES!!!!!
best bass tone ever, specifically on Caffeine and Land Of Sunshine

 

[TheDriller]

oh,
i particularly like the tone on the Deathspell Omega track "First Prayer",
not a great production overall but the bass sounds vast in that tune.

on their late albums, with great production, the bass loses its balls completely compared to this

 

[grywolf627]

...Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face

Yes! Good call. I forgot about that one! Damn I love that CD.

 

[drew_drummer]

Cult Of luna - The Beyond!
BEST. BASSTONE. EEEEEEVER.

P-Bass into sunn into 4x12... crushing!

Fucking LOVE that album! In fact, I love CoL.

 

[sparkyness]

bass on no heroes was done with a heil pr30 and yamaha sub-kick.
the subkick can be tricky. i keep it on a separate track, compress it a lot, and occasionally key it off the kick.

Got this info from the man himself

That's a good tip. I imagine the sub-kick would be a cool alternative to a using a subharmonic synth and must give it a try sometime. I love the effect of a distorted and compressed sub-synth track though.

 

[Mus-Huggah]

Mnemic - Audio injected soul

 

[PhilR]

Nickelback. Some of the most godawful music ever but damn, thats one hell of a bass sound.

 

[grywolf627]

Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again. I know it's not metal enough for many around here, but holy hell is that an awesome bass tone! Exactly the tone I'm trying to achieve.

Edit: Can't believe I forgot this one: our own Splat88's bass tone on "Wke Darker Skies". Incredible bass tone!

 

[jesus69lol]

I am going to chime in with yet another vote for tool and faith no more. Also maybe primus and anything with stanley clarke as well. I would be very interested in any kind of insights into tools bass sound that can be had, I have been toying with my own bass tone a lot lately and I can definitely get somethign vveeery workable but, staunch perfectionist that I am, its not close enough!

One thing I've noticed on tones that are very treble heavy is that for me to prevent obnoxious clicking and clacking I have to put very narrow slices into the upper mids. Also, I read here a while ago about doing a send on the bass with a high pass and then using a chorus and raising the level of the wet signal to taste and I will say that has working wonderfully for me.

 

[Rex Rocker]

down II has some sweet swampy bass tone! seen down live, and man does rex`s bass ever sound sweet!

Couldn't agree more!

 

[roy22341]

...And Justice for All

 

[pifos_2]

diablo - icaros
katatonia - TGCD

 

[lordcthulhu]

...And Justice for All

Jokes been done buddy :/

Pagan's Mind - everything
Hibria - Defying the Rules
Porcupine Tree - everything
Sodom - Agent Orange (obviously Onkel Tom worships Lemmy)

Also a big sucker for "dirty" fingerstyle tones, e.g.
Stratovarius - Episode
Morbid Angel

 

[Morgan C]

Another one for Tool's 10000 Days. Great sound.
Also most of Porcupine Tree's stuff.
Breaking Benjamin - Phobia (specifically Diary of Jane, the bass blends really well but you can just hear it ring out in the verse and it adds so much to the guitars)
Darkwater - Calling the Earth to Witness (awesome tone at the expense of the kick drum)

 

[plague_rider]

totally agree with the FNM and Tool (Tool especially, Wal basses sound amazing and Justin knows what he's doing)

Tim Commerford from Rage/Audioslave has an awesome setup for the classic passive/jazz sound and i love his use of wah and distortion...

but i gotta say alot of what i listen to is the heavier Thrash/Death stuff

so i've got to say some of the bass tones i appreciate are:

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
In Flames - Clayman
Testament - Souls of Black
Children of Bodom - In your Face
Machine Head - Days turn Blue to Gray
Alice in Chains - Would?

 

[emjay75]

Rush - Moving Pictures
Cave In - Antenna
Tool - Lateralus (sorry 10,00 Days bugs)
Voivod - Angel Rat/Outer Limits
Queensryche - Empire (espesh Della Brown)
Megadeth - Countdown To Exticntion

 

[chaosmonger]

Voivod : Nothingface

Queensryche: Empire

and of course FNM .... Billy knows his shit.

 

[More Than Ever]

For bass tone, I have to go with..

Mudvayne easily #1.

#2 Queensryche - Empire album, songs Della Brown and Anybody Listening.

#3 has got to be a shout out to Stu Hamm & Billy Sheehan.