Robert Manning

Welcome!, im down south too

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPBGCXvvuUc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPBGCXvvuUc[/url] sounds like sex!

[quote name='Toasted' post='1252652' date='Jun 1 2011, 01:25 PM']Says the man with the "Nevada precision bass".[/quote] It was £40 not £2000.

[quote name='shine182' post='1252107' date='May 31 2011, 09:55 PM']Definately Jazz bassed! Got the ampeg stack and been playing a Jaguar, which has a similar pickup setup. But i'm thinking there must be something else... for just a touch more growl? Perhaps a Tech 21 VT? Perhaps im just imagining it lol Thanks Alex[/quote] the jaguar dosent really sound like a STD jazz. well, it does but...its much brighter snappier sounding. carlos's's's'ss ss sound i really simple to get, its just a jazz bass with dirty strings and a pick. oh and played nearer the neck for more of a mellow sound, if my growl you mean... a bump in the mids around 100k. its mainly the production side of things and playing style he plays in drop D too.

the last album is amazing also

I think being a pro, is knowing how to achieve a particular timbre, understanding materials and HARMONICS, (not the things that you play on your bass) (learn about fundamentals and harmonics its enlightening) i think being an artist is writing songs and falling into the timbre by mistake in a way. think of some rock bass players... do they work out how achieve a gritty mildly distorted bass sound with a pick by studying the art of tone, or is it just the only way they know how to do what they do. hard to say, until you meet them.

why would you buy a fender rip off when you could buy a real fender? ;P

[quote name='shine182' post='1252041' date='May 31 2011, 08:59 PM']Hi There, Love the deep bass growl on this track by Interpol. [url="http://youtu.be/GAEPl_MKAQQ"]http://youtu.be/GAEPl_MKAQQ[/url] Any ideas how I can get this sound? Thanks Alex[/quote] MASSIVE INTERPOL FAN HEAR!, So glad someone out there.... anyway. its a usa fender jazz, (basically any decent jazz with a rosewood neck) through an ampeg 8x10, svt rig. make sure your roundwound strings are pretty used too.. Carlos is one of my fave bass players out there.

[quote name='silentbob' post='1248305' date='May 28 2011, 03:17 PM']Just been listening to Walk On By by The Stranglers and started thinking to myself, like i often do when listening to stuff, how did he get that tone? Then started wondering whether bass players had always strived to get their perfect sound, or was just a case of plug in your bass to whatever's available, bugger around with the pedal and amp settings for thirty seconds and that'll do, leaving future generations of bass players marvelling at their skill and spending hundreds of pounds trying to recreate that sound. Any thoughts?[/quote] Ive spoken to lots of bass players in real bands, (like what non bass players listen to) and for many of them, its just 'go for it, and see what happens' i think a lot of the sound is the producer's responsibility at the end of the day... i spoke to the young knifes the other day, and i asked the bass player what he used for the previous records... he couldn't quite remember. a lot of guys use the bass/amp that is hanging around the studio at the time of recording! until they they get development moneys to go out and buy a instrument of there liking!. and us suckers, listen to our ipods thinking ' i wish one day i sound as good as that.. and ah i really want a rickenbacker so i can sound like .....' Ive done it... then after studying music tech full time, you realise, that most musicians are in fact; idiots* *(everyone on bass chat is awesome and not an idiot

It just look [u][b]righ[/b][/u]t. so does an [b]Ampeg 8 by 10.[/b] Also. because there [size=5]brilliant[/size]

mmm... mine says MIA... well i like that because its better than MIM, and it makes me feel better. just being honest

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='1235499' date='May 18 2011, 11:58 AM']MIM = Mexicans in Mexico MIA =Mexicans in America.[/quote] indeed true!

I love my thunderbird! Its a gibson btw, i think the cheepo bog std epi's may have tarnished the specialness of the real thing. my gibson is resonant responsive very rich sounding. and above all beautiful. oh and very fun to play. AND......... ARE THERE NO KINGS OF LEON FANS HEAR? the last three albums featured some great rock bass performances. Check out the latest single 'immortals'.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/manning6680?feature=mhee"]http://www.youtube.com/user/manning6680?feature=mhee[/url] i use it as a self progress blog!

[quote name='4-string-thing' post='1237496' date='May 19 2011, 10:11 PM']I hope this is irony, cos I've always found just the opposite! Bass players are always forward thinking and looking to try new equipment ie, graphite necks, composite bodies, new cab designs, class D amps etc etc. Guitarists can't seem to get beyond a strat, tele or les paul through a valve amp, all 50's technology![/quote] Very good point!