Amos Williams of Tesseract Talks Bass Tone | Reverb Interview 

This guy sounds exactly how he looks.

I want this man to narrate audiobooks.

An absolute legend, love the emotion he puts into his playing

he approaches bass like a scientist ... its also interesting to note that his playing truly serves the song ... i can tell the riffs from which tesseract song they are but on their own they sound quite weird, but hear in them with drums and in context and they are massive

he's so composed and articulate

Came to hear about a bass rig, 1 min in now I'm meditating.

I think we need an Amos solo album

ive never found a bassist more interesting. this man is a genius

Looks like Hugh Grant and Jaco did the fusion dance from DBZ.

Voice of a narrator, face of Hugh Grant, bass skills and tone of a god!

Absolutely love his work in TesseracT.

I just seen him live....he Roadies his own gear before the show, he wears a black hoodie.... it's funny, removes the hoodie, then he's the bassist in the band.

Absolutely one of my favorite bass players and favorite bands!

I miss the growl of his Warwick, but still a good tone.

Wow, probably the most helpful bass tone chat ever. Amos Williams, thank you!

Feels a little cut short, I can't be the only dude to notice that...anywaus, Amos is awesome and his diction is incredible. I love musicians that know what they're talking about.

When David Attenborough passes, I vote for Amos to narrate all wildlife documentaries. 👌🏻

Love the look of the new Kiesels, but his tone is so much "better" to me when hes playing his Warwicks

So articulate, and he plays so beautifully too. My favourite bass player. 🤘🏻

I like this guy's approach to bass. Very intuitive thinking and delivery.

I love when a musician actually KNOWS his gear and his tone. I've always been anal about my guitar tones, often spending weeks fiddling with dials and settings to find the sweet spot for every pedal, channel, and song. It drives me nuts to meet players with the "I just turn all the dials all the way up and play" mentality.

the Avalon is absolutely amazing..used one in the studio and fell in love with it.

I just keep finding more and more reasons to love this guy! Amos is quickly becoming one of my all time favorite bass players! ...I'd say #1 favorite, but I'm sure you'll understand why I can't take that distinction from Geddy Lee...

Jedi Bass. Would love to see Amos jam with Abasi or Govan.

This guy makes the concept of playing bass guitar sound like the name of his band

So happy that he finally has a signature bass with kiesel.

Big influence on my current rig. I have used very similar gear from my start as a bassist. I used a warwick fna jazzman with a tech 21 sansamp vt deluxe instead of a darkglass b7k, digitech synthwah boss ns2 noise gate tc polytune, and a black finger for the same reasons. Now im running a tech 21 qstrip parametric eq/ di, two notes torpedo cab, darkglass hyper luminal compressor, fortin zuul noise gate, morley mini wah/ volume, and a custom Verellen Meatsmoke tube preamp with in ears. This setup is a game changer

im about to move into bass only because this guy is an inspiration

Man, that massive, massive Dystopia slap line. I've been working on that, and I can see that he finds it as addicting as I do :D

He's an orchestral percussionist? Damn, I always pictured him to be classical or jazz bass player outside TesseracT!! I'm a classical percussionist and drum set player, very inspired by Jay from TesseracT but I've always wanted to learn guitar and bass in a more prog context. I guess those techniques can really cross over!!

I have never listened to a musician talk this deep and technically about the sound of their instrument. He is actually backing up what he says with frequencies and stuff that is not abstract or subjective. Most musicians nowadays can´t really explain to this degree the reasons of their gear. Also Periphery´s bassist is a beast when talking about his sound. They really know their shit.

OH MY GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS TO HPPEN

His voice is my ideal bass tone.

2:58 thought he was going to play Portrait of Tracy by Jaco Pastorius

Love your movies, mann. Especially About A Boy, It was awesome.

Your Bassist is evolving! Adam Nolly Evolved into...Amos Williams!

Brilliant musician with a fresh approach. Thank you Amos and have a great new year from "old man" Bruce Heffner.

I take lessons from jay, but man, Amos is a great bassist, cant wait to meet him

Great interview!

I really miss you playing Warwick basses, Sir Amos Williams!😭

at 0:30, is every bass player when you ask them "So you play bass?"

I keep expecting him to break into the parallax monologue

His descriptions are so deliciously scientific it literally got me wet.

I don't usually like headless basses, but that guitar is GORGEOUS and holy shit that distorted tone!

This guy is on it! His knowledge is amasing!

Wow, how he uses the darkglass on the high mids is great!

asmr? more like Amosmr...I'll leave now

Bringing *that playing and tone* to the mainstage of the mix, made *_Polaris_* outstanding. So enjoyable in a dense-heavy and powerful way, which almost reverberates like atoms literally. • If you haven't seen *TESSER/\CT* live, it's time you did. Every instrument, including the vox, is its own obelisk, in the *T* entity. No exaggeration. • Saw them for the first time opening for *Devin Townsend* [Mr. IV-D]. Ran down from a mezzanine to buy some merchola and a CD, and I was face to face with the singer explaining that they were sold out of *EVERYTHING* . Mind blown. Looking around at everyone wearing tasty shirts laughing in down-pitch slow-motion... ¹ "Everyone?" ² "EEHHHHHVVVVRRRRREEEEEEWWWWWUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!"_

I have no clue what he's talking about it, but somehow I love it

This man plays on a different level, and thats why he's the best

It says 'Smile' on the green tape, like the name of the new single

Ed O'Brien's long lost metal brother

Amos' sound is so good... dear lord!

Wow, Amos’ analysis and understanding of the signal chain seems almost like PhD level, especially as compared with mine, which is more crayons and coloring book level. Between this and trying to figure out the polymeters in TesseracT’s music, my brain just feels woefully inadequate, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find it kind of an enjoyable state.

Made my day!

Amos sounds exactly like Peter serafinowicz and I love it

Amos and nolly in one room must be incredible

Amos is a really fitting name for a prog metal band member

This guy has brought the whole thing a step further

man that first and last riff is sick! new album material?

I keep watching this video eagerly anticipating my own AW5 from Kiesel. :D

Hearing him swear was so unexpected XD

What a fucking voice. Smart man too.

asmr with bass

just learnded a lots

damn that darkglass' low end sounds gnarly

Brilliant

He's put a LOT of thought into his sound - love it. (Also, can anyone place his accent? It strikes me as the sort of one that happens when someone from the South of England has lived in a bunch of different places for a long time... Not important, I'm just kind of intrigued!)

Such a badass

i like the tone

That Kiesel Vader bass. !!!!!!

I'm gay for his voice

Okay anyone know where I can find this strap though?

Dang, thx for that 200Hz and ear distance thing. My inner producer and my inner scientist are now kissing eachother! XD

Anyone knows about the music at 3:00 please ?

Probably one of the 'sexiest' bass tones in any metal band, imo

I want to say I know what he's talking about. Anyway, totally bomb musician and fun to listen to.

this video has more views than most of tesseract songs

jeepers hes intoxicating

Amos with shoes on.... wtf

But are the pedals first in the chain or is the Avalon di first?

Yes

I want this man read a bedtime stories for me

I wish I had his composure

Thanks Lord Elrond

the bass even sounds good on my phone 👍👍

Is it just me or is he a rather attractive individual

a 200hz waveform is 1.71 meters long using the calculation of 343 (meters per second-speed of sound ) ÷200 (hz= cycles per second) Thats a big head....

I am not sure how I feel about the amputated headstock. I mean it's really cool but it feels like a date that when you bring her home turns out to have 2 belly buttons.

5:43 voice crack But jokes aside I love Amos and Tesseract

Please correct me if I’m wrong. It looks like he puts his Avalon at the end of his chain, which surprises me.

5:04, imagine having a serious conversation through a bass amp haha

The Elrond of prog metal

When Jason Mraz started play the base?

I want this man to read Donald Trump's tweets.

so which frequency range does he accentuate? :s

I just checked to be sure, but the wavelength of a sinewave (f=200Hz) is 1.67 meters. I haven't seen Amos IRL but I'm betting that he's not a giant, is he? But going down that logic, 1600Hz is about 21cm, so is bass everything down from 1,6kHz?

1:47 Did he say accenuate?

He’s got an interesting view on bass tone

I think everything above 600Hz is already longer than your head but perhaps below 200 it is significantly impaired.