p.s.: There's a modern Ric 4003 in there somewhere... he pulls some cool grindy-yet-smoove tones out of it as I'm sure many of us have experienced firsthand.
Re: Bass Sounds (cool comparisons video in song form)
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:54 pm
by sloop_john_b
Really enjoyed that! He is a creative player with STUNNING chops to boot.
Re: Bass Sounds (cool comparisons video in song form)
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:59 pm
by cassius987
sloop_john_b wrote:Really enjoyed that! He is a creative player with STUNNING chops to boot.
+1
Re: Bass Sounds (cool comparisons video in song form)
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:08 am
by DriftSpace
This is definitely a headphones video.
Thanks a low, Joshua; some of these instruments I had not heard (nor even seen) before.
Re: Bass Sounds (cool comparisons video in song form)
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:04 am
by teb
That's kind of fun to watch and interesting to do with your own instruments. I put one together (just a sound file) with clips from recordings using my various basses a while back. It's always nice as a handy reference when your wife asks if you really need all those expensive guitars.
In order of appearance:
Kala fretless U-Bass Ukulele, my old fretless Frankenstein Gibson Les Paul, Rickenbacker 2030 (mod-body), '69 Hagstrom 8-string, Pedulla Buzz fretless, and Hofner V63 Beatle
Re: Bass Sounds (cool comparisons video in song form)
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 11:10 am
by woodyng
Quite the cornucopia of bassdom there! And awesome playing as well!
I really loved the sound he was getting from that Rob Allen.....
Re: Bass Sounds (cool comparisons video in song form)
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:23 pm
by cjj
Cool video, interesting to hear the differences!
Same with yours Todd, great to be able to hear how different bases sound!
Re: Bass Sounds (cool comparisons video in song form)
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:36 pm
by cassius987
woodyng wrote:Quite the cornucopia of bassdom there! And awesome playing as well!
I really loved the sound he was getting from that Rob Allen.....
The Rob Allen is downright amazing in tone--of course the player is part of what makes it sound so good but it seems like I've never heard a Rob Allen played by anyone that failed to impress me. The Adamovic was probably my other favorite.
I think there's a healthy dose of mix bias involved in my decision, but my two favorites by far were the Ric and the Pedulla. All very nice recordings, Ted.
I posted these recordings in another thread already but now they seem pertinent here too, in a way, because instead of two different basses sounding different it's the same bass sounding two different ways.
cassius987 wrote:...I uploaded one of my old (now broken up) band's recordings; one is a live setting and the other is a demo made in the guitarist's basement. The song, "American Kids" can be heard as the second song in the set of the live recording (around 4:40). The basses and rigs are the same: my 4003FL through my fEARful 15/6 with a TC Classic 450 head, and I'm sure the preamp was set pretty much the same. I think I used an Aphex Punch Factory in front of the head both times too. The differences: at the gig, I'm soloing the bridge pickup and the strings are Circle K rounds. In the studio, it's Fender 9050s and I'm using the neck pickup exclusively. The tones are vast oceans apart from each other. The pickups themselves, by the way, are the same.
