Figure It Out - The Amazing Bass Tone Of Royal Blood (simple bass setup, tabs & tutorial)

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This week we’re going to look at one of the most innovative bass players of the last 10 years: Mike Kerr from the band Royal Blood.
Mike Kerr creates a huge wall of sound with his bass guitar by splitting his bass signal and sending it to three separate amplifiers. Each signal can affected separately to give a massive guitar/bass combination.
In this lesson we'll work through a simple bass setup allowing you to replicate the Royal Blood sound before moving into a tutorial of the song Figure It Out.
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0:00 Intro
1:50 The Royal Blood Tone
2:49 Gretsch Junior Jet 2
3:43 Effects Overview
4:29 Boss LS2 Setup
6:24 POG & Distortion Setup
8:09 Adding The Bass Signal
9:01 Figure It Out Opening
11:39 Opening With Bass
12:07 Figure It Out Pre Chorus
13:37 Figure It Out Chorus
17:04 Figure It Out Middle 8
19:56 Figure It Out End Riff
#royalblood #mikekerr #talkingbass
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Bass Gear:
► Enfield Lionheart Bass Guitar
► SIMS Super Quad Pickups
► DR bass strings
► Levy Leathers Bass Strap
► GRBass Bass Amps
► Boss LS2 Line Selector
► EHX Micro Pog
► EHX Pog 2
► EHX Big Muff (Bass Deluxe)
► Sonic Research ST-300 Turbo Tuner

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27 июл 2024

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@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

Lesson Material: www.talkingbass.net/figure-it-out-the-amazing-bass-tone-of-royal-blood-simple-bass-setup-tabs-tutorial/

@ObviouslyNotItalian 2 года назад

Royal Blood absolutely blew me away! Thought me the lesson that bass players should start experimenting more and try getting out of conventional roles once in a while and experiment with effects more. Amazing lesson and video Mark!

@ricardojmestre 2 года назад

Word!

@BeforeThisNovember Год назад

As someone who’s just getting into playing and has been a MASSIVE fan of Royal Blood for years, I’m beyond stoked that I can get one of Mike’s guitars for a very affordable price, as my first Bass.

@fivestring65ify 2 года назад

What a bass tone. Killer bass line too.

@sambeatty2312 7 месяцев назад

I saw them open for queens of the stone age and genuinely preferred them. They sound amazing, incredibly amount of sound, and super tight rythmically live.

@danielsetien7397 2 года назад

Great tutorial Mark. Very useful, thanks!

@TheUnofficialRose 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant, thank you!

@vasilynovozhenin9875 2 года назад

huge thanks to you! never listened to Royal Blood, but the setup explanation is really usefull. Gotta try it out!

@maks886 2 года назад

Fantastic lesson, very interesting to see the explanation about the setup and tone in addition to the regular stuff! Cheers!

@moesaurenman4734 2 года назад

hell yes, so stoked to see you put this vid together!

@paulsummerside Год назад

Not really looked at Royal Blood before… Must say it’s seriously cool.

@luqmanawalludin Год назад

this is what i've been looking for the entire time. thanks so much maannn

@MC-cl9ip 2 года назад

Nice job Mark, as always!

@pabloag5 2 года назад

Really nice lesson. I ended up buying the Boss ls-2 pedal for this. Cool! Btw, the bass line from @Am I really going to die” by White lies is awesome. Hopefully some day will get to a video lesson 😎

@gvngrave6698 2 года назад

Спасибо большое за разбор, ваши видео помогают мне осваивать бас и не покончить с собой:)

@kevmac1230 2 года назад

Great job Mark.I'm a geezer but love good talent no matter the era This is such a fun band and they rock.I have that Epiphone and I love it.I also have a Bass Butler so I'm good to go with this sound.

@leonardnovel 2 года назад

Great as always!!! ♥️♥️♥️🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

@jw112mail Год назад

POG2 has presets so you could you it for both POG settings. No need for 2

@themidwichaffair1571 3 месяца назад

I've been back to this many times while I waited for my Boss LS pedal to arrive. Set up now and it sounds amazing! Many thanks for the tutorial Mark, it was invaluable 👏🏻

@horrorshowbass 26 дней назад

Great lesson as always Mark

@BenKrisfield День назад

Great Demo!

@anidrid 10 месяцев назад

amazing tutorial!

@enduro-ventures9915 2 года назад

Really cool video!

@paultraynorbsc627 2 года назад

Thanks Mark 🎵🎶🎸

@markbass354 2 года назад

MOST EXCELLENT

@MikeMorrisBass 2 года назад

Please please make more bass oriented Gear break downs! by the way the Tri-Paralizer Mixer from electro-hammonix should be a MUST for bass in Muse or Royal Blood covers

@fredflea4038 8 месяцев назад

EHX tri blender is awesome to blend different distortions and synth sounds without making thems sound like a mush (like when they are in line).

@HeyScarlet 5 месяцев назад

thanks for the setup it help us alot! whooo haaa

@drewheinzketchup369 2 года назад

This is the first song I learned on bass

@MarvDawk Год назад

Thank you bro A +++

@paulmuselaers2603 11 месяцев назад

Great video! Going to buy a pog2 and ls2 and send the guitar player on vacation

@omegaprowler3683 2 года назад

Great video. I never heard of Royal Blood. This tune reminds me of Death from Above. Keep the groove and this awesome work, Mark. 🎸🇧🇷

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

Both Royal Blood and Death From Above 1979 have the bass/drum 2 member setup but they are pretty different stylistically. And obviously Mike and Jesse's bass setups are VERY different.

@BeforeThisNovember Год назад

They’re similar! For me, DFA have 3 or 4 songs that I love, not really a fan of the rest. Royal Blood, however, I love 99% of their songs - all absolute BANGERS.

@albibros87 2 года назад

i really like this track, any idea how to setup protools with this effect?

@duartebriz 2 года назад

Simply amazing. Bonus: now I know Royal Blood

@Oscaraha Год назад

Man, so cool. Check out Trio VD for kind of the same thing just more free jazz (and sax).

@alejandrabarron3977 Год назад

Lol I have to be performing this live in a month

@gregorycolovray4935 11 месяцев назад

thank you for this great tutorial, for amp you use a bass amp ?

@booty2k 2 года назад

As today is Primus EP release day...any chance we could get a song from it soon? Follow the Fool? Pretty please?

@chriscantor6852 2 года назад

I thought Gretsches were expensive but this is a steal.

@rosiebrightstar 2 года назад

Is there any chance you could breakdown the solo in Antecedent by the omnific.

@RhinoDioramas Год назад

Awesome Video!! I literally cloned your pedalboard!! Just one doubt, how to add a compressor, eq or distortion to the bass line? It would be great for those moments when the bass sounds alone to get more options beside just the bypass sygnal. thanks in advance!!!!

@oledbcreative9324 9 месяцев назад

How do you experience that gretch bass ? Thinking of buying one !

@costa7060 Год назад

I'm wondering, all those pedals are not really cheap could all this be achieved to some extent say with a stomplab 2b Considering you can edit the presets fairly simple and there is a pitch shifter in there as well as a number of distortion drives , and you can change the amps and cabinets The sound would be close for the guitar side of things So the pogs and the muff would be taken care of. with the bass side of things ,the sound would probably still need to be split. The boss LS2 and the tuner are relatively cheap , if those 2 can work with the stomplab that means you can create that rig on a budget. The stomplab is around $200 AU Those 2 pogs and the big muff are at least $1200 Fantastic work by you as always.

@FunkadelicPancho 2 года назад

Can you do the Godflesh bass tone next?!!?;?;!

@stevea4362 2 года назад

You covered this beautifully. I always wondered what his set-up looked like. Question though, with the Pogs, if he played sloppy wouldn't the effects freak out a bit? How would you play a straight bass tone, click the LS-2?

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

The pog’s have close to perfect tracking because they’re digital. You don’t get any of the glitching you get in analogue octavers. For a straight bass tone you need a kill switch on the guitar line. Either a tuner or just a basic mute pedal.

@bundyjd 2 года назад

@@talkingbasslessons Wouldn't just clicking the foot switch on the LS-2 bypass the A+B mix and send the clean signal straight to the output? Great video by the way.

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

@@bundyjd Yes it does which is fine if you want a totally clean bass sound. Notice how my bass side of the chain has no effects. If I want effects like compression then the AB bypass will miss all that.

@MrDusty609 2 года назад

Been trying to perfect this sound for ages and this video really helped. The only hurdle is the octave pedal I’m using is the TC sub and up. The sound is very electronic. Does the POG perform much better ?

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

The POG also sounds ridiculously digitial on it's own. As long as you use sufficient distortion it won't matter.

@alejandrabarron3977 Год назад

You can use a lot of octave pedals I use a digitech whammy but not just for octave effects

@ericrosillo1912 Год назад

merci merci merci

@ericvideo69360 Год назад

Si tu pouvais m'aider à comprendre quelque chose 😊 pourquoi l'accordeur est le switch ? Un switch a.b ou aby ne va pas ? Merci encore pour cette brillante vidéo et tes explications très utiles 👍👏👏👏

@thierry18 2 года назад

Everyone should own a Gretsch g2220 if they can afford it. Aside from the fact that they are marketed as humbuckers and are really single coils, they sound and play fantastic. And for the price, it is perfect for beginners or professionals.

@danmorrison8194 2 года назад

Short scales are fun to play. I have a ´75 Fender Mustang that I’ll bring to a gig every so often.

@davidphilpott1509 2 года назад

I was about to pull the trigger on one of these but now it's been acknowledged that it's a single coil I'm hearing awful stories about people who have had terrible problems with buzz and hum.....put me right off tbh. Seems to be luck of the draw if you get a good one or a dreadful one if you're buying blind.

@eljapel 2 года назад

was this an excuse to show your new bass? lol cool lesson by the way

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

Ha. No. Bought the bass for the lesson.

@ampthebassplayer 2 года назад

@@talkingbasslessons In spite of humbuckergate, even!

@stephenhookings1985 2 года назад

Great stuff - reminds me a bit of John Entwistle or Chris Squire. Does Royal Blood split the bass and guitar to different amps? Will be trialling what you did on some Multi FX pedals.

@morgan_newman_3448 Год назад

Mike Kerr uses a guitar amp and bass amp split with all the distortion going into the guitar amp I’m pretty sure. He mainly uses fender amps couldn’t tell you the models though. Each songs tone is always slightly different so it’s super hard to pin down everything going on especially when they won’t fully reveal how they do it😂

@alejandrabarron3977 Год назад

Mike has 3 amps a clean bass mixed with dirty signals a clean guitar and a distorted guitar amp

@raygen578 10 месяцев назад

PLEASE DO THIS FOR LOCAL H

@kikye6017 2 года назад

can u share what is cheaper alternative recommendation to change pog ? can i use nux rotary and poly octave generator? thankss

@alejandrabarron3977 Год назад

I know you can use an oc-5 in poly mode and a mooer tender octaver most decent octave pedals will wirk even a whammy sounds pretty good

@DavePhelps 2 года назад

Well, damn. Do you have a wiring diagram somewhere for that setup? Need to see if I can get that setup using a hog 2.

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

I go through it in the vid.

@Chinchu86 4 месяца назад

Kind of an obvious comment but you can also do this with an HX stomp or other multieffects pedal, as long as they have the feature of splitting the signal. The real question is, are there any affordable multieffects pedals that actually have that feature? For example, the Zoom B6 is very affordable ($500 I think), but I don't really know if it has that splitting signal feature.

@KellyEUTAH 2 года назад

Question(s): Is it necessary to have to use 5 peddles? Is there one or two peddles that can do all of that?

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

You could approximate it badly with a helix but the Pog has a very particular sound and it’s polyphonic so you can do chords which is hard to emulate using a modeller (which would be more expensive anyway). Whatever you do you’ll need a Ls2, a Pog and a distortion. Anything less and you need multiple amps like Mike Kerr does. To be authentic you need a lot more.

@KellyEUTAH 2 года назад

@@talkingbasslessons Omg! Thank you so much for clearing that up. I'm out of the loop where these peddles are concerned. And frankly never thought to use them with a bass. I would love to try out these peddles. Would it be possible to list them in the videos description, so I can look into purchasing? I am still a beginner, so I can use all the help I can get.😆

@Facu_Roldan 2 года назад

@@KellyEUTAH *pedals

@alejandrabarron3977 Год назад

@@KellyEUTAH you can do it with 2 pedals but only if you have like a spyder line 6 guitar amp that has insane distortion already on the amp I would say you need a minimum of if 3 pedals but some dude made a video where he does it with 2 amps 2 pedals

@DH-vs5mt 2 года назад

would an A/B/Y pedal work as well? or is the line selector doing something similar?

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

It'll work well if you're using multiple amps. If you're using one amp you need a 2 channel fx loop like the LS2.

@alejandrabarron3977 Год назад

@@talkingbasslessons I have 3 amps that I can use a bass amp and 2 fender amps with a switch blade if I wanted to I could put outputs A abd B to the guitar amps and tuner out to a tuner to bass amp

@saemikneu 11 месяцев назад

The effect side is not completely accurate: The POG2 is not a good option. Mike Kerr uses a fifhthpitch shifter. So the already octaved signal is shifted a perfeth fifhth and ads it to the signal. So you get a power chord on the guitar signal. But he does this only on some solos and chorus sections of a song.

@paultraynorbsc627 2 года назад

Big shout for Big muff pi

@Twittler1 2 года назад

I really like Royal Blood, got into them not long after they emerged. As a bass player, I’m always interested in people who try something different, go out on a limb a bit. I use a Yamaha Attitude, Billy Sheehan signature. 2 pickups - big, bassy humbucker at the neck, single coil, growly P-bass type at the body centre, each with its own isolated output jack. They can be mixed; each p/up to both outputs, each p/up only to its own output, both p/ups to both outputs. I’m thinking of adding a jazz type p/up at the bridge, and mixing it in with the centre p/up using a 4 way selector - each, both, both out of phase. This circuit to be wired in to the P-Bass output, in place of the P-Bass alone. We’ll see. Back to Royal Blood - sorry about drifting off! - one thing though, and it’s not a criticism of them - we all have influences, and some are stronger than others. A while back, I was catching up with Queens of the Stone Age, and bought CDs of their first two albums from the 90s. On the strength of a few tracks off each album, I think Royal Blood could well owe Qotsa a few quid in royalties!!!!! Strong enough likenesses to startle me when they started playing!!!!!!

@pabloadrianfelice412 2 года назад

You only need a bass amp? It doesn't "ruin it" with the guitar tone?

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

It’s not perfect obviously. Mike Kerr uses 3 amps. But this is a good approximation. As for bass amp vs guitar amp, if you’re not using the guitar amp for its preamp qualities (overdrive) then, no, a guitar amp won’t make much difference.

@pabloadrianfelice412 2 года назад

@@talkingbasslessons Thanks.

@alejandrabarron3977 Год назад

@@talkingbasslessons how much does the setup in the video cost?

@MrBlowncat 9 месяцев назад

🤓🙌🏼🌟

@deangullberry5148 4 месяца назад

Help me understand: I don't claim expertise, but I've been playing for more than a few years. I'm more of a hard rock/ metal guy, so I don't pay much attention to Royal Blood. Bass players have been bi-amping for decades. What's the big deal?

@talkingbasslessons 4 месяца назад

Bi amping is usually done to fill out the bottom end while applying tone difference to the top end. That’s a totally different thing.

@deangullberry5148 4 месяца назад

@@talkingbasslessons I always wondered if my music teacher was a flake. The more I reach out on social media, the more my suspicion is confirmed. Thanks for answering.

@talkingbasslessons 4 месяца назад

@@deangullberry5148 The key part here is the Pog combined with the Big Muff. That gives the illusion of a distorted guitar. Bi-amping is usually a way of creating a bass sound. Not a simultaneous bass and guitar. There are examples of this effect in the past but it's not the norm because you'll usually be stepping on the guitarist's toes.

@deangullberry5148 4 месяца назад

@@talkingbasslessons Thanks for the clarification.

@BassRTA84 2 года назад

You didnt finish the song.. missed the little bit at the 12th fret 😉

@talkingbasslessons 2 года назад

Yeah, I missed quite a lot but it wasn't intended to be a cover or a full song tutorial. It's about the gear and the riffs I used were good examples of different combinations.