Real Songs That Use Bass Effects

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This one @PamPurrs
Tina, I think you said she is your bas hero, or one of them.
I am pretty sure everything she is playing has a little bit of Octaver, and a hint of chorus, like on the 2nd song, around 8 min and again at 1 hour and 20 seconds for examples.
Maybe sometimes Envelope filter., like on the song starts about 17:15 and check again around 32:30

Unfortunately, David opens the act with Psycho Killer, but a solo version, and she doesn’t play on it, but every other time she has her bass in the performance, she has some of these FX on her tone.
I may be off on the exact effect sometimes, others here can correct me if so.

https://youtu.be/h-1PXYM135I

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Indeed she is!

Which turned me off of “Stop Making Sense” and I never actually watched the entire movie.

I don’t see any pedals in front of her, so if effects are used they must have been added in post.

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Pretty sure on stuff like “Girlfriend is Better” it is an actual synth playing the bassline with the bass.

Or rackmounts.

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It’s worth a watch. Each song one more band member comes out and joins. Tina is #2. There are a few songs she plays a synth bass vs. a bass btw.

Yuppers.

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It’s also common to have techs work the pedals offstage for the musician.

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Fast forward a couple of minutes and watch the rest of it. It’s worth it. Trust me.

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Something that jumped out at me was that she was playing while basically running in place… And yes, worth the watch. Thanks for sharing…

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Yeah it’s really really good. It might actually be the best version of many of their songs. Especially “Girlfriend Is Better”.

If you never got to see them or Tom Tom Club live - they were really great live.

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Yeah, she did that with Tom Tom Club also.

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Here you go :slight_smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4

The HD version linked above will be much better, but that should give a taste on what you’re missing :slight_smile:

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That suit is still a riot 37 years later.

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Tom Tom Club makes an appearance in Stop Making Sense, if that helps sell it to you. :slight_smile:

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Thanks, I did watch the whole thing. It’s pretty good.

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I agree Pam…I must admit I fell for the hype and have Chorus & Octaver…after few days they went into the corner. ( they are in pile for Guitar Center trade in days with 15% discount on new purchase). That said the Darkglass Hyper Luminal and Harmonic Booster focus more on tone shaping and they do have a very profound effects on Bass tone. Darkglass is famous for making only Bass distortion pedals, pre-amps, and amplifiers. Just be prepared to spend more money on both of these items than your bass or amplifier cost…these are the Ferrari of the Bass Pedal world. But hey…you do have that pile of worthless guitar (bass?) pedals to make a down payment!

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delay aswell usually its quite subtle but on blue Monday its very out there

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Sometimes if I’m looking for specifics on which gear a certain bassist uses, this website provides useful information (sometimes misses something, but pretty good in general).

  • In the top left corner there is a search box if you want to go for the band or artist name;
  • It shows results for basses, pedals, strings, amplifiers…

https://equipboard.com/role/bassists

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With delay and reverb for those guys I often wonder how much is effect and how much is Martin Hannett making them play in some weird room. Like how he made Stephen Morris play drums on the roof.

But for Blue Monday/The Beach/etc it’s probably effect, yeah. He wasn’t working with them then IIRC (in fact I think he was suing them).

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