I think I just discovered my favorite Metal Bass tone

[Blazer]

Rex Brown's Spector tone just fits this song so perfectly.

[hollowbody]

It's not bad but nothing spectacular, IMO.  Anything would sound great against Diamond Darrell's horrible tone.   

[SKATE RAT]

i don't know dude,his tone is more funk than metal.

[uwe]

Not my tone, but I like it. And proof how you can play bass in a metal band and not have to sound like a tuned bass drum.

[Barklessdog]

I liked it as well, sounds active to my ears, but at least you can hear the bass.


Seems like for metal it's active trebley or lost in the mix bass.

[Blazer]

I liked it as well, sounds active to my ears, but at least you can hear the bass.

Rex Brown is a Spector endorser and has them fitted with EMG electronics, so his clear active "Clank" on this live version isn't really that surprising.

Here's the studio version of that song.

[Barklessdog]

I also really like Meshuggah's bass players tone, if it is the bass player?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjzIBI3jkKY&feature=related

[TBird1958]

I'm not much of a metal fan actually, mostly because the bass is so lost in the poorly eq'd sea of guitar.........Don't like Pantera either, but you can at least hear Rex Brown and I do like his tone and his Spector.  Could be way worse, could be a Wankw&*k