Best Bass Guitar Tone??

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HetfieldRules said:
i cant think of his name off the top of my head, but Iron Maiden's bassist was amazing i loved the tone and how prominent it was...deff the best in my book or at least favorite
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steve harris?

yeah he's got a sick tone! i got his sig set of strings for my bass ( really thick flatwounds - baztardz wouldnt fit in the nut!)
 
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Obvious choices:

Steve Harris

Geddy Lee

Chris Squire

Not so obvious:

Michael Anthony (Van Halen) It seems he gets a lot of flak but I think he's a good bassist and his tone on the first four VH albums is f***ing great.

Cronos (Venom) Monstorous bass tone, will shatter your windows if you play any of the first four Venom albums too loud.

Lemmy (Motorhead) Need I say anything about the mighty Lemmy that has not already been said?

Cheers,

CJ
 
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No Contest! Cliff Burton, RIP! Listen to "Orion" off of Master of Puppets. At exactly 6:36 Mr. Burton unleashes the most fierce bass solo ever recorded!
 
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Cowboy Dan!? said:
a few of my favorites: geddy lee, jason newstead, john paul jones, and cliff burton for his awesome use of distortion and wah.
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Totally forgot about Burton, definetely a contender! Cool!
 
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While I'm not a big Nirvana fan, I always did like Krist Novaselic's bass tone alot. However, it's pretty hard to beat Doug Pinnick's (King's X) bass tone. It just has all the right everything. Of course that 12 string bass on some of those song's didn't hurt anything either.;)
 
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i always liked john alderete (racer x, mars volta), he changes his bass tone depending on the style, and its usually really good
 
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Oh yeah....Greg Chaisson from Badlands had a serious kickin bass tone.
 
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italic zero said:
Justin Chancellor*

Adam Jones is the guitarist.
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THANK you! I knew the name looked weird but I couldn't figure out why...



And not to brag too much, but I have been very happy with my own tone on bass for quite a while now...
 
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Mike Watt

Listen to "Down with the bass", "Under the influence of the Meat Puppets", and "Mas cojones"
 
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Re: Best Bass Guitar Tone??

Phil Lesh- Gratefule Dead
Mike Gordon- Phish (Breaking up this summer :smack: ; doctors upin' the dose on antidepressants :) )
and of course the late and great Allen Woody (R.I.P.)
plus claypools pretty awesome
 
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Ken said:
And not to brag too much, but I have been very happy with my own tone on bass for quite a while now...
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Don't worry about it at all! Feel good! Finding your tone is the ultimate goal, a goal that you feel you've met. Congradulations and more power to ya! :fing2:
 
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Geddy Lee on everything up until "Signals" with his Ric and Chris Squire on everything until "Drama".

Nathan Easton all the funky stuff and Stanley Clark's Alembic.
 
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Justin Chancellor from Tool . . . his name is justin isnt it? I was pretty sure it was. Anyway . .. what kind of bass does he use? Musicman?
 
Re: Best Bass Guitar Tone??

McLaughysSN said:
anyone who uses a gibson grabber :)
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I haven't seen anyone use one of those for years. Last one I saw using one was the bass player with Green Day on the "Basket Case" video, but I'll be damned if that doesn't sound like a Rickenbacker.

My faves: Steve Harris, Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Paul McCartney, Mel Schacher, Dan Hartman....
 
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