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Ryan Martinie, LD50 - that's my ideal bass sound. Unfortunately, I haven't got access to the million pounds that it would cost me to achieve it, so I set my Zoom B21.u to mimic an Ampeg and then just hit my bass really hard around the bottom of the neck.

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My Warwick Streamer std into my SansAmp BDDI with level at 12 o'clock, blend full up, presence, treble and bass about 1 o'clock and drive at about 2.

I can get a lot of sounds with that set up and using the tone and volume pots on the Warwick. I nearly always plug straight in to the FX return on my amp.

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[quote name='Galilee' post='194438' date='May 8 2008, 09:04 AM']Ryan Martinie, LD50 - that's my ideal bass sound. Unfortunately, I haven't got access to the million pounds that it would cost me to achieve it, so I set my Zoom B21.u to mimic an Ampeg and then just hit my bass really hard around the bottom of the neck.[/quote]

Huge fan of Ryan, but I'm more for his tone on Lost & Found, its just perfect, the epitome of how a Thumb NT should sound, whereas on TEOATTC it's not as prominent in the mix and for me, L.D.50 the tone is nice but a bit too honky but it really adds to what makes that album so great.


Dirk Lance (Incubus) on Science, the perfect example of how a Streamer Stage II does sound.
Sam Rivers (Limp Bizkit) on Hot Dog Flavoured Water, just pure Warwick growl.
Tye Zamora (AAF) on Anthology, a lovely growly tone and topped off with great melodic playing.
Stu Zender (Jamiroquai) on Emergency on Planet Earth + Return of The Space Cowboy, pure growly funk, simple.
Marcus Miller, just about any album he's released, his tone knocks me dead.

Now this one might seem odd, but I really do think Mike Kroeger's tone on Nickleback's Silver Side up is just amazing, deep dark and growly and some nice playing.


Back on topic, I have almost all of my treble cut due to the fact if I hear the tiniest bit of treble in my tone I can't play with that tone at all, I have my bridge pick up soloed and all my mids boosted and a add a layer of bass and voila!

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I love the bass tone on the whole of Lenny Kravitz's "Mama Said" album as far as the amp and recording goes. I love the tone Jaco gets for fingerstyle stuff. And I love Louis Johnson's and Larry Graham's slap tones.

I try to approximate the Larry Graham and Jaco tones with my playing and Kravtiz's "Mama Said" tone with my preamp.

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[quote name='Josh' post='194761' date='May 8 2008, 03:45 PM']Now this one might seem odd, but I really do think Mike Kroeger's tone on Nickleback's Silver Side up is just amazing, deep dark and growly and some nice playing.[/quote]
I agree - especially on Never Again, nice and growly. I am currently loving the bass sound on Empire (Queensryche).

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Oh - I think i misunderstood what this was about:

Doug Wimbish's tone of Living Colour's Stain album is awesome
Billy Gould on FNM's King For A Day Fool For a Lifetime

+1 for Lenny Kravitz's Mama Said album - I love the sound of the bass on It Ain't Over Till It's Over

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