Flea played a fair bit of Spector NS2 and Wal basses in the studio in the early years. BloodSugarSexMagic is almost entirely recorded with a four string Wal and a five string Stingray.
Great video man , you get very very close to fleas old sound with the sterling . The envelope filter effect you're running is also great with the overdrive. Flea actually plays the around the world verse with his finger just an fyi , it does sound cool slapped though albeit much harder to do the fills.
@@ampthebassplayer id send you mine, but I modded it with the wampler suggestions from his .pdf he used to sell... and with radio shack parts... yep, im old!
@@davedixon2167 I'm right there with ya- i don't think i'll ever replace mine. I've got it set up the same as you described and it sounds fantastic in a mix (new or dead strings), and it records great. I saw the bassist from Easy Action (John Brannon's band) play through one and he sounded incredible. It brings this warm, ampegy grind to my sound- tons of character.
That 410 cabsim really does change the tone quite drastically from the comp+head alone! Sounds like you had to re-EQ a little between that and some of the initial samples?
The patch building process is a very holistic thing. Lots of nip and tuck as you go along. The clips I showed are just where everything ended up. I didn't realize how much that cab was doing until I was pretty far along into building it.
Wanna sound like Flea? Grab a stingray or a MM pickup in the “sweet spot” and a J on the side I’m the same way a stingray or a MM pickup is my sound, with at times the Darkglass Xultra You nailed his “around the World” intro tone for sure!! Nice!
@@bassimprovjams3772 Yeah I've seen it a long time ago, but there weren't any amp setting or something explaining how to really sound like Cliff. It was more gear related
AMP you're such a sneaky good bass player. I've been watching u here and your channel a few years. And you're always consistent. I love 🦞 and 🐂 and Jonny Dibble. I know u guys are all friendly all so different. A quad of amazing men period
great vid🖤 it would be even more perf if the sterling pickup was rewired in parallel like a stingray. zingy fresh strings and parallel pickups give it that super bright clarityy
Llevo tiempo buscando patchs para ese pedal, estoy empezando y quiero los sonidos de RHCP, Faith No More, Infectius Groove, entre otros. Muchas gracias por el aporte, lo haces genial. ya tienes un seguidor mas!!!
You have a lot of forearm movement when slapping. It doesn't matter if you slap like Flea with the thumb down or parallel to the strings it's always just a rotation of your wrist. And that rotation improves if you have your thumb further away from your index finger. I started slapping the Flea way and managed to copy his style really good but he has a unique ability to slap the bass that is not for every one. And when practising in the sitting position it doesn't feel that comfortable, so this is where i started practising the classic way of slapping and man this is so much more comfortable.
Flea is great and I've always liked his playing and the old Chile Peppers. I've been playing bass for 16 years now and have always played with my fingers. But I don't slap. I'm more of a Steve Harris style of player.🤘
I am looking for options. I've been looking for options to get a modern metal clank clank tone. Darkglass is very expensive, so my options are zoom B1x4, or Demon FX A3k
sorry but it doesnt sound like flea, and let me tell you that even flea doesnt sound like flea anymore. He needs to get back to modulus, thats the most powerfull sound ever!
