How to get stefan's tone
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i like tictacs
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How to get stefan's tone
I notice alot of people are looking for that tone. So here's what you do. Turn up your neck pickup and play right between the neck and bridge. Now the fun part. Go buy a compressor. I was down the old guitar center, and for the hell of it I tried a 50 dollar compression pedal. I plug it in and turn it up, and there it is, without question, that is his tone. It is very very compressed. Now, this is after I spent 2 thousand dollars (more actually) on a rig to try and get that tone, I look at a used pedal and there it is. For those who are wondering it's a digi-tech compression and something else. I'm just about ecstatic right now.
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street fish
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I'm not questioning your results. . .
but Stefan's basses don't even have neck pickups (well, except the Quantum fretless) and he generally plays closer to the bridge than the neck.
One thing worth pointing out-- you aren't going to get Stefan's tone by using the Ampeg cabinets he has on stage. Those cabs don't have horns/tweeters, so you aren't going to get that high end bite (you don't actually hear his cabinets live, his signal goes through the Ampegs and his various signal processors into the board. The cabs are just stage monitors.
but Stefan's basses don't even have neck pickups (well, except the Quantum fretless) and he generally plays closer to the bridge than the neck.
One thing worth pointing out-- you aren't going to get Stefan's tone by using the Ampeg cabinets he has on stage. Those cabs don't have horns/tweeters, so you aren't going to get that high end bite (you don't actually hear his cabinets live, his signal goes through the Ampegs and his various signal processors into the board. The cabs are just stage monitors.
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and i know he doesn't mic them on stage. i wrote a whole thing on playing near the bridge. then i deleted it and pasted some other shit in. but that's just how i got myself to sound exactly like it. make no mistake, he uses alot of compression, which IMO is the biggest factor.street fish wrote:I'm not questioning your results. . .
but Stefan's basses don't even have neck pickups (well, except the Quantum fretless) and he generally plays closer to the bridge than the neck.
One thing worth pointing out-- you aren't going to get Stefan's tone by using the Ampeg cabinets he has on stage. Those cabs don't have horns/tweeters, so you aren't going to get that high end bite (you don't actually hear his cabinets live, his signal goes through the Ampegs and his various signal processors into the board. The cabs are just stage monitors.
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