Bass Cover: Slipknot - "Slipknot" (MFKR) 

I think the headstock says Carvin from what I can see.

+tomtik101 ahh ok i can see the kinda carvin shape now thanks !!!

Wow, I am TERRIBLE at keeping up with comments, haha! Sorry, man; but yeah, tomtik is right, it's a Carvin LB70P (but with the Icon's headstock, because I thought it'd look cooler).

Hey, thanks for watching! Most of what I can say I'm gonna copy over from an answer I gave someone on a different version of this video: The bass does have active electronics, but I don't think I fiddled much there, but I could be wrong since it's been a few years. I probably had it panned pretty evenly between the pickups; maybe slightly towards the neck since I was using a pick. Speaking of which, if you want tone that easily cuts in the low register and resembles the style of the original, I'd strongly suggest using a pick. But I guess you could also use fingers closer to the bridge and/or with a brighter EQ. As for amps, I was really lazy and plugged straight into the recording interface and just used and amp modeler in Logic Express. The amp model I used was called "American Scoop," and a brief description can be found here: [American Scoop: Based on the American Basic amp, but combines the frequency characteristics of the American Deep and American Bright, with both low-mid (from 500 Hz) and upper-mid (from 4.5 kHz) frequencies emphasized. Well-suited for funk and fusion recordings.] documentation.apple.com/en/logicexpress/effects/index.html#chapter=1%26section=2%26tasks=true It's somewhat of a pushed (very light overdrive) sound at low to medium gain settings. My settings were pretty neutral, but just FYI they were: gain 4.1; bass 5.7; mid 5.8; mid freq. 3(800Hz); treble 5.0. It gets into a mild overdrive at hight gain settings (8+) - I imagine it was modeled off an older tube amp, but I only have personal experience with a couple of solid state amps on bass, so idk really. If you have a drive knob or a pedal or something to add a little grit, it wouldn't be a bad idea. The best thing I can say for EQ'ing, is if you have one with a lot of bands, try boosting/not cutting some mid-range bands and cutting others (perhaps start by trying a boost of ~500Hz and ~4.5 kHz, like they listed). If its just a 3-band, don't automatically cut out all of your mids just because mid-scooping is "metal". I think a decent amount of the growl and punch is in the mids somewhere.

Ah, yeah, I agree. I haven't tried to transcribe or learn too many of Paul's parts as of yet, but from the bit I know I think he typically would match an octave below the lowest 4 strings of the guitar players. Typically lowered versions of drop-D: mostly (B-F#-B-E), occasionally (A-E-A-D), except on MFKR where it was (C-G-C-F). There are three low-tuning examples I can think of off the top of my head, though: 1) Scissors - This one's the most obvious, especially leading into and during the 1st verse where it's just bass and drums. Considering the guitar players are in drop-A down 1-1/2 steps (F#-F#-B-E-G#-C#), I assume his 4th string is also down to F# (or maybe he goes even lower? I've never tried to play this song). 2) Killers Are Quiet (& Iowa) - I hate to be an arrogant prick, but I went through like every tab of KAQ and Iowa on Ultimate Guitar (at least 8 versions) and I don't think a single one was completely correct. Of course, I could be wrong, too. So it turned into a transcription listening session, lol. Sorry if you didn't feel like reading a bunch. I'm not even sure what the guitar players were tuned to, but Paul's lowest string is definitely lower than C. To make sense harmonically, I believe it's A, though it's pretty difficult to discern (probably production quality factors, it is a demo album). I decided to just tab it below and pray the formatting doesn't get screwed up. Basically, I hear a C as the open 2nd string in riff 1, but the open 4th string is hard to tell (but my guess based on the tonality was A or craaazzy low D). But in riff 2 (starts ~1:23) it sounds like all the notes are different octaves of A. So I think his tuning was probably (A-G-C-F); basically the album's tuning with the 4th string lowered an extra 1-1/2 steps. Listening closer to Iowa (which has nearly the same-sounding riffs, but is 1-1/2 steps lower than Killers Are Quiet), he definitely has a low F# (same as Scissors). Riff 2 is played more aggressively and the production is a lot clearer, so I feel confident it's F#. This also boosts my confidence about the tuning of both songs, because taking (A-G-C-F) down 1-1/2 steps gives you a low F# (F#-E-A-D). (Riff 1) F --16---------------------------------| C --------0H14----------------------| G ----------------------------14-------| A -------------------0------------------| (Riff 2) F ---------------------------------------| C ---------------------------------------| G --14---------------------------------| A ---------------0-------12-----------| (Riff 2 - "Iowa" version) D --------------------------------------| A --------------------------------------| E -/14----14-----------------------| F# ---------------0------0------0----| (The 14th fret notes in riff 2 might be played on 2nd string fret 9, idk, I've never seen video of it) A fake-out one for me was Purity. The verse goes between a B for 6 beats and then an A# for 2 beats. When I was trying to learn that one as a 14/15 year-old, I knew the live/main tuning was with a low B, but it kinda sounded to me like the studio version went down to the low A# in the verse riff. Live he seemed to do an A# power chord rooted at either 3rd string fret 4, or 4th string fret 11 (depending however he felt in the moment, I imagine). But it's obviously possible to record little things that you can't/won't replicate live for the studio version of songs, so it wasn't an insane notion that they'd tune different to record the verse. But I just re-listened really closely to the studio version and I think it is actually the same power chord part heard live. Were there any others I missed?

@@UnbelievableRANTLERS Would you happen to know the tunings for Slipknot on MFKR aka sic

@@jamsession4247 As far as I know, the entire MFKR album aside from Killers Are Quiet is drop-D down a step (C-G-C-F)

Thanks! The tab I made isn't hosted anywhere online at the moment, actually, but I can email it to you (you can just private message me your email if you want). I made it in Power Tab (and old Windows only freeware program), but I can also export an ASCII version, if you don't want to bother with Power Tab.