How To Sound Like...Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath 

Geezer said he changed strings every 10 months, only when he broke a string Which means he broke a freaking bass string every 10 months. Absolute maniac

All I can say about Geez-Tone is don't be afraid to fuck around with the tone knob. Fucker is the only bass player in history to occasionally set his tone below ten and you can hear it in his tone that's woolier than gunked up flats can provide.

Geezer was the reason I picked up bass and you pretty much nail the tone here!

Nice job. Geezer is one of my favorite metal bassist. You tone was great. 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

So,- now we´ve got two quotes in the metal world: "Louder is better!" - Geezer Butler "More is more!" - Yngwie Malmsteen With these words of wisdom you can build whole careers. Stay Metal! \m/ \m/

The intro to N.I.B. When it starts the riff has the wah half cocked thats why the distortion is so heavy on it

nice vid! sadly not a lot of vids on geezer. like the whole band, he’s severely underrated

Your playing on bass in awesome especially on a 4-string bass guitar! I've learned how to play bass guitar starting out with a 4-string bass & now I play a 7-string Ibanez BTB7E BASS GUITAR & I've tried playing what Geezer played but I do it on 7-string's! Jim Greszczuk

Great video! Direct to the point!

Great video and awesome tone! Geezer started as a guitarist explains his phrasing and that's one of the reasons why Sabbath never felt missing out on the second guitarist.

I have a fender p bass (designed just like the one he originally had) and a fender rumble 500, so thus was perfect for me. Thank you

Cool video !!! Thank you for sharing 🙏🙌

Great content!!!

brother thank you so much for this video

Great video. Love Buttler, he’s the king.

Nailed it!!

I tried the amp settings on my Fender Rumble LT 25 with a Fender Jazz bass front pick up turned off and got a similiar sound for NIB, thanks for the research. Fun!

it sounded fantastic!!!!

i like Geezer's sound and gear and your gear and playing is awsome!

Great video, you did a good job explaining what you do and how you got to the results you present. This kind of transparent approach is really useful and I appreciate it a lot. Regarding the sound you get out of the bass itself, I feel like yours is consitently a bit more exaggerated or "extreme" (for lack of a better word) than Butler's original playing. I feel like overdrive and "attack" in the original recordings sound more subtle than your sound does. But the way you explained so well what your goal was and how you got the sound you have is the more important aspect, anyways. What I'm trying to say is: as a big fan of Butler's sound and your approach to it, I really enjoyed your video :D

great job

Wow, nailed it!

Great job with what you had to work with🤙👍🎸

Great note you’ve found here. Many thanks 😄

Love Geezer's sound on the 1st 4 albums. Always played my basses at the base of the neck whether fingerstyle or pick. Full rich, slightly rubbery tone. Never liked the sound of playing near the bridge.

Sounds good

A great loud band is Blue Cheer. Thundering low ends screaming highs.

Awesome video, Geezer is one of my fav's! A couple names I'll throw out there for future vids; Steve Harris, Lemmy, or if you want to move away from metal Chris Squire or Flea

3:45 i believe he actually used roundwound strings, its just that, as you said, he rarely replaced his strings, making them sound super dead

um.... When I met them on the Heaven & Hell tour, Tony and Geezer both told me that for the first couple of albums, they were both tuned a whole step down.

Heck yeah!!!

Nice video! How about a video of Mel Schacher bass tone? I would love it.

Geezer has said the strings were just old and needed to be replaced but he didn’t have the money for new strings

He also on his old base one of them he took out the pickups unwrap the coil with a thicker wire

Do Al Cisneros of sleep and OM

according to geezer he didn't use flat wounds,just dead round rounds

i think i know why Geezer said that the louder pickup is the better pickup. From the days of using 100W tube amps, he cranked them to get his overdrive, but there’s only so far you can take an amp by itself. Using an overdrive or treble booster would mean losing low end ( i don’t even think overdrives were a thing yet ), so using a hotter pickup would mean more overdrive and/or more volume.

And the WAH !, He has a signature wah with Dunlop, I own one... I also use the Emg geezer pickups as wlll

So when it comes to hitting the strings that hard, which I can see you ate doing, is there a setup specific to avoid also sounding like Steve Harris

Thanks for your video :) I'll see what I can pull with my MM Sterling loll

I will start off by saying I love that digitech synth wah pedal. If I had more of a need for it I would buy without a second thought. Digitech makes the best pedals IMHO. I have their bass chorus pedal and digitech grunge pedal for the rare times I switch to guitar (rhythm). Secondly you came very close to Geezer sound. Closer than countless bassist I've seen cover Black Sabbath basslines. What I'm most impressed with is your playing. Musicans who aren't bassist often times don't appreciate how demanding Butler's basslines are.

how to do you get that overdrive tone?

I don't have a P bass, but I have a Schecter Stiletto and a Rumble 40, so I should be able to get close enough for rock-n-roll.🤘

A big fat speaker helps. Most of us don't have a wall of 10s. A couple of 15s or an 18 can make a close proximity of that old school thud for us that don't have a couple of Sunn amps with two or more 8x10s.

pretty close indeed

I had a SABBATH tribute band for 11 years! I played a custom made bass from Jackson. Fretless with whammy bar! Korg digital 9 programable foot pedal!

Where is the link to the video you mentioned

Hi what overdrive pedal are you using? Thanks

he also uses wah on sign of the southern cross

do a vid on jack bruce or john entwistle please thanks

Nice video. Would love to see some how to sound like Les Claypools fretted 4-string sound.

So he was a Guitar Player Before playing a Bass, No wonder the basslines in those albums are so melodic.

you do realize they weren't satanic right

“supernaut” has the nastiest bass of all time imo

Do you have the settings for Zoom BX1 Four? Also have you tried JJ Burnells tone?

Hey I have a question for you friend. How important is it to have a clean blend when you use distortion? I personally like the sound with no clean blend.

thunder god gezzer bass style

I've been watching the few videos available that show some good Geezer footage and I don't see him playing at the end of the neck, he seems to be playing over or just in front of the pickups. Not argueing, I just haven't found any evidence.

The one thing about Geezer's isolated bass tracks is he's never perfect. Which to me sounds awesome. Modern music is so cut and paste, clean and perfect.

Saw thumbnail pic thought sweet Spinal tap🤦‍♂️

Acid bath or ac dc bassist or maybe megadeth

Very good, but Geezer used a pick on Children of the Grave and its Downtuned to C#

Can I ask what DAW you use?

nexr how to sound steve harris or cliff burton

name song 7:10? please

Ahh I see, a face making bassist

Here are my suggestions. John entwistle. Steve Harris. Phil lynott. John myung.

You look like John Bonham

250 quid i think

r u Lemmy ?

Pretty damn close I will say this though. To any one who plays a P bass do yourself a favor crank the tone and rip that knob off. You can play with the volume but that tone doesn't move.

Mids!!

Brexit has indeed got us messed up! But Geezer will always make it better.

UK used pounds before and after Brexit.

Hah! Shillings.

He is now after more than 40 years talking about how Dio did the (🤘) cause of him and then he try to ease things up by saying Dio made it popular, Ok Gezzer..Dio is Dead now and you come up with all that?🤔Yessss is true there is photos of you using it in 1971 but the Beatles did it too and Coven too but everyone knew that for many years and Dio never once said he was ever the first to use it on stage but now you feel the need to talk about it? How much did they pay you? Its all over Twitter and social media! What a shame now you decide to talk about it. 👎

Listen to Johnny Blade Terry IS GOD BASS!

Get two and a half finger's cut off. Easy, man!