Get James Jamerson's Bass Tone!
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Bass 10/ Treble 0… Good God man. James Jamerson is undeniably awesome but being a huge prog rock fan I can’t even fathom anything close to those settings.
Prog rock takes from multiple genres; be able to get from James Jamerson’s tone to Mark King. The fun must be making it all sound cohesive in prog
Try it and have fun with it. You might be the next big hit. Prog is about trying new things and looking from a different view isn’t it?
Why limit yourself like that for literally no reason? If anything, high end from the bass is just fighting with guitar, cymbal and vocal frequencies.
As someone who's been playing flats almost exclusively for 25 years, I can tell you that once the strings are properly broken in (which can take several months on Jameson's particular set of La Bellas - if your hands don't sweat), you can actually crank up the tone and high end on the bass and amp super high, and you get the most natural-sounding, pleasant top end you'll ever hear out of an electric bass. Turning the tone and amp high end down just flattens the top end response without any peaks and valleys. But once your flats have really died down, the top end is significantly reduced, but you still get little peaks and valleys and unlike just turning the tone down, it doesn't just sound like someone playing in the other room.
this is hilarious, because for a while i always played bass with the roundest smoothest tone possible, similar to this dude. tone knob rolled off, no treble, all bass and some mids, buttery smooth low sound. and i play metal haha. eventually i experimented and decided to go with a more treble-y clank tone like Korn and Overkill
@@skullthunder3181 I play metal on fretless basses with p bass pickups. I like the darkness of it but my amp inherently has a hair of clank on it even though I dial it pretty round and deep. I like playing through 15s for that reason. They get the boom that 10 inch drivers just don’t
It has just a little too much treble but I couldn’t get any closer
probably not enough gunk
@@PoincianaaThat's actually literally it. There is a certain tone that comes with age that absolutely cannot be emulated without legitimately old strings.
The La Bellas on my 1965 P are 27 years old now - no P bass sounds anything like mind now, it's amazing.
Very noticeable difference
@@allrequiredfields😅5a
I feel like he should have rolled the tone off a little more. But he was damn close
Jehms Jehmerson’s behs tone
i had a P bass back in the day. I let my girlfriend use it cuz she wanted to try bass. I never got it back after we broke up. I didnt know how good they were till years later! It was a late 60's early 70's possibly. I still have a Jensen Cab from that time.
Sucker
That fiesta red P would be perfect to demo Nick Simper's bass tone too.
my favourite bassist. the goat
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Bass 10 treble 0
That’s my man.
Once those flats are good and dead (I'm talking after a few years) you actually want to kick the top end back up because the high end you get out of really dead flats sounds killer and very woody, not metallic at all.
@@allrequiredfields what genre do you play with that?
As Jamerson would say, " it's a Bass Man"
BEHS!
James Jamerson is the Godfather of the Electric Bass.
Every bass player wants that tone of jamerson
Until they play in a live band
Yeah, I think his tone is more applicable in a recording setting, which makes more sense given the context.
i would not in 472716182766 trillion years want a tone like this out of my bass
It's funny because you literally couldn't have that more backwards. I've played with this sound live and in studio since the late 90s and on a gold album. Not only did no one want or care for this sound until the late 00s, I would regularly get people contacting me about my sound after shows, asking me how I got my sound.
EVERY live and studio engineer loved my sound and said it was the easiest bass sound they'd ever had to mix. And the reason why is flatwounds naturally stay out of everyone else's natural frequency range; you're not fighting with guitars, cymbals, vocals or keys.
The best part about it for me was because I my frequencies were never stepping on toes, I could effectively turn the bass up louder than I could ever need without anyone EVER asking me to turn down (unless overall mix was too high) because we weren't fighting for the same frequencies.
Furthermore, since the main component of this tone is dead flats, your amp choice is entirely irrelevant - I would even often play gigs, both big and small, without an amp, and just have me pumped through in-ears and/or monitors.
I've used this sound in modern rock bands, more classic rock style bands, soul, funk, anything even approaching indie.
The only time I ever used rounds was a band where I was ripping off Peter Hook and Robert Smith - with chorus and all 😂.
@@progfoxGotta make sure to obey those rules!
@@allrequiredfields and who are you?
JJ 'the hook'
One thing you might want to try is turning. The volume down a bit, it will make it sound ever so slightly bassier
James Jamerson used one finger!
John McEnroe used a Dunlop
He did dude
i always do bass 10 mid 10 treble 0 on my Cort C4 bc it has a mark bass pre amp inside and sounds amazing.
I purchased a Fender Vintage Series ‘62 P Bass about 12-15 years ago. First thing I did was swap out the rounds with flats and cut up a piece of foam and stuck in under the strings near the bridge. I haven’t gotten it out and played it in about 8 years.
Day 5 of me asking for Ace of behs behs tone.
Yep!!! You got it!!!!
nailed it!
He was notorious for having his bass set up with really high action.
Excellent!
Nailed it !
My '51 reissue with tapewounds sounds perfect with these settings ! Thanks Danny
Got the behs tone right !
If you still have the ashtray bridge cover on you P bass, put the foam *above* the strings ie between the cover and the strings
Love the content man! Wow imagine if a behs player does the Jaco' chicken greese lube on the hands and then follows this thinking of never cleaning strings or frets....ha!
Superb
I believe when asked about cleaning his strings.
He may also have said,
"The dirt is my sound."
I also believe that it was quite common back in the day.
When recording Bass guitars back in the 50's and 60's?
Engineers rarely gave the instrument any frequency over 500 Hz.
You have to remember 4 track recording was being used from the 40's right up into the 60's.
So the higher frequencies were reserved for vocals and the lead instruments.
Gotta keep em separated
In the late 60's, 8 track recording took over.
Now I know how that sound was achieved...
That foam under the bridge is a forgotten technique that gives such "thump" to the tone
the fact Dehv Muustain came up right after this vid had me rollin!
ARCTIC MONKEYS BEHS TONE PLS!!
Great channel ❤
I got into recording many years ago . I needed a bass guitar. It was the cheapest instrument in the shop , the sales assistant said to me just put some sticky tape over the name and your good to go. I had it for over 20 years, and I never changed the strings. It had three pickups, and it never let me down.
"Goonk" should be a volume setting on all bass amps and pedals.
Bass Treble Mid Goonk
We need Chris Wolstenholme
On point!!
Thank you
When I heard it was James Jamerson the first thing I though of was the foam under the bridge.
It's actually over the bridge
Another day of Danny Sapkos 2 am bass tone. (Sorry I've been inconsistent, but I've been in hospital.)
Damn that’s pretty good!!
Spectacular, as always, have a coffee on him, er sorry I mean rip James Jamerson.
Request: Ronnie Baker's bass tone in 30 seconds please!
Wow that was insanely similar you’re amazing
I’d roll the tone knob all the way off. Unless you play rock, that knob stays off.
Beeeeehs
Brian Richie from the Violent Femmes bass tone!
JJ for president!
B E H S
Hey ! A episode on BRMC bass tone ? It is huuge !
Another big part of the tone is playing with your full index finger, like it was an upright. Your fingertips produce the brightness that separates your tone from his.
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Once you plug in studio effects you’re basically sounding like ANY 4 string bass with flatwound strings and a single pickup, like a Squire, G&L or Ibanez. So buy the right effects and use a pedalboard that you can put in a gigbag or backpack.
Do Enter Shikari Bassist
But what speakers was he using? Speakers are literally a fixed EQ curve. So, whatever speaker he was using will get you 90% of the way to that tone. The rest is the EQ on the amp, with a tiny influence from the pickups.
Speakers has literally nothing to do with his tone. 90% of what you're hearing on Motown recordings is direct signal. And even when they did finally start adding amp signal, it had effectively zero impact on tone.
I'm not just pulling this out of my ass - I've been recording with professional gear exclusively from the 40-60s for the last 20 years. My main bass is a 1965 P bass that has the same make and model of strings that Jamerson used that I put on the bass when I bought it in 1998.
As the strings died down, I no longer needed to turn the tone on the bass or amp down and even after enough years I didn't need a mute, the strings were that dead - but it is absolutely his tone, and I've yet to hear anyone come closer than my setup.
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Chuck Rainey does a cool version of this classic. fyi
Close. Great stuff mate, and im a drummer. 😂❤🤘😎
MIKEY WAYYY
What about the flatwounds?
Jehms Jehmerson's behs tone
Video 54 of asking for Austin Cressey :) (Lead Pipe & Colorblind / dirty tone specifically)
Please do Shavo Odadjian's tone from System of a Down.
You need the foam under the cover on top of the strings. Mutes it more like the original bridge covers
Gunk keeps the Funk! Badge idea.
please do Troy Sanders from Mastadon
Do Tim Commerford. Man was thunder.
I would say that your signal was not quite hot enough. If you listen to his sound, the low string is right on the edge of distortion, not just deep but also just that slight fry... almost as if the pickups are closer or something. It's a weird effect.
What song is that??? The bassline sounds so familiar
Burnadette
origin of geezer
BEHS!!
Apparently according to google translate on your comment, "behs" means something like 'awesome' in your native tongue? Is this true??
@@allrequiredfields No lol, he says bass with an accent so it sounds like behs. Which is funny.
Ah damp string with a magnet glued on.
Detach bridge from tail.
Day #80 of asking for Necrobutcher's BEHS tone, please!
I put flatwounds on my crappy bass and now it sounds much better
Attempt 6 asking for the mark hoppus bass tone!!
Treble high,,,bass at about 10:00,,scoop the mids,,,well maybe mids at 1 and a half max...and I used a mxr bass d.i. through a peavey max 100 watt solid state....his tone is similar to Dave eleffson from megadeth in they both used a heavy pic and a toned down clanky tone......clanky tone is scooped mids tone with alternating up and down strokes....watch the ddamn video...w😉
Well you take a piece of sponge 🧽 and put underneath the strings near the bridge.
You will get that sound.
Play some Beatles on a Hofner BEHS.
Mudvayne/ryan martini bass tone please day 45
I hear zero tone not just slightly rolled off love your P tho! Especially that bridge plate
Can you do a video one how to get Geddy Lee’s tone on bass I try everything and it just doesn’t sound right
Get you a fretless jazz bass.
@@woiowoiow190Geddy doesn’t use fretless wtf
His tone is in his hands, pluck fucking hard. As hard as you can in a downward motion rather than across. And get new roundwound strings
@@Farewelltokingz Yeah Geddy only used Fretless for one song Malignant Narcissism which I couldn’t even tell until someone told me and I watched a video
@@captainkthebassplayinpirate16 yeah the beauty of jazz bass is that sometimes you can't tell the difference. I own one, which is a workhorse for any gig I hav3, whether be a pop gig, r&b, or playing standards. I recommend it. Good luck.
Still waiting for Lou Barlow's tone
Needs more fretboard gunk.
Jarkko Aaltonen behs tone!
james jamerson used one finger
Day 400 something or other and 1 for Al Cisernos’s Bass Tone
There will be no bass players like Jamerson ever, trust me. 😊👍
Ryan Martini please 🙏🙏🙏
day 4 for stings tone
I don't know. Even though l love old funk l'm a part time bassist (locally l'm the fill-in guy on any of the major rock instruments) l like that sharp Rickenbacher sound for my stuff but have other basses for the type of music l'm playing. I can't play a dirty instrument so when l want a mellow sound l do it with EQ, compression and tube simulator usually with my J-bass
Paul gray day 1
When are we gonna get to JJ Burnell's tone? In 30 seconds
Beeehss
How to get Jaco Pastorius tone!?!?
Yours has a little more harmonic detail. Played back on a phonograph, though, it’s probably dead on.😊
Paul ?
Literally no difference between the 2 🔥🔥🔥
i need to hear pat patterson's riff
ADAM DUCE PLEASE
thundercat bass tone
As a guitarist i cant hear difference between any behs tones, its just too low
I know, it’s like there’s zero cut at all.
As a bassist I can’t hear any difference in guitar tones it’s just to high but I can tell the difference between single coils and hum buckers
It’s hard when you hear muffled basses like this but you’ll know the difference between that and a gritty rock bass
@@thedankknight8333 thats true but i can tell the difference between for example distorted and non distorted but not bass 10 treble 0 and bass 5 treble 5
@@jaymarcum5863 As a bass guitarist I can tell the difference of different stratocasters and telecasters, in the same settings and have trouble differentiating, a p-bass imitating a jazz bass and vice versa.
Steve digiorgio
Doesn’t have as much sharpness on the attack, im wearing good headphones so I can hear the differences