Same. Hasn't had much breakthough here in the States yet I think. I'm hooked now. This bass sound was something I was playing around with but damn. Love it, going to make a setup like this.
@Sam Parker no it didn't this rig sounded worse cos out of the black sounded like a wet fart when the bass gets palm muted and the pick attack was too clinky for figure it out
+Myke Koenen YESSUM PLEASSUM! :D Drop - C, low action, Carvin/marshall amps, Ibanez Iceman or SG (Strat if you go THAT far back) and a decent gainy distortion box. :D
I didn't realize how pleasantly simple Royal Blood's riffs are. Not to say they're bad, they're just not terribly technical except for maybe their timing. I have a new appreciation for their songs now, thanks guys.
Royal Blood often hit the sweet spot for complexity. Less is more, too many bands create a mess of sound that while technically impressive, is just white noise.
I know Mike is a less traditional and impressive bassist (in that he plays like a blooming guitarist), but I'd look forward to some bassist 'Sounds like' from you two. This was a really fun ep to watch under the premise of a bass guitar, and a few more would be cool.
Do Not Eat Studios Agreed. Lel Claypool, any of the Metallica guys (but especially cliff), Fieldy and Justin Chancellor would be a few good ones just off the top of my head.
Saki Miyu probably the whammy/pitch shift pedal they needed was too expensive. But with this kind of low budget you could easily get a great whammy pedal and still not bust the bank. Make yourself an arduino circuit to control the down/up setting and you’re good to go for pretty much all of their songs. It’s
Yeah, there was a huge missed opportunity for it when they did the bass solo of figure it out, cos the amp feedback would've been a great lead in for Ten Tonne Skeleton! Personally if I were to do this setup I would've gotten the following: Gretsch G2220 - £350 Fender Rumble LT25 - £210 Fender Mustang GTX50 - £400 EHX Nano POG - £200 Boss PS6 Harmonist - £150 EHX Tuner - £45 EHX Bass Big Muff - £85 clocking in at £1440
right, I've compiled a list of the suggestions I've seen the most: Hendrix Van Halen Metallica Avenged Sevenfold The Edge Gary Moore and i've forgotten the rest
lmao i could hear it in the background, in guitarguitar at newcastle i heard Velvet Revolver - Slither playing in the background, i can play it on guitar but holy crap i can't do Slash's solo cos it's pain on my fingers
An Epi Firebird and the CR60 with a fuzz and a ringwormy/phaser thing. The CR60 is really dynamic and any volume. You gotta crank the 120 for a good sound.
This was actually super close, I think it sounded perfect without the EQ, I think that tamed the bite too much. Their live setup sounds much more like you guys' setup minus the EQ.
Just a heads up for future videos, do you think you could do a full on camera shot of where all the cables are running in to? You do a good job of explaining what does what, but all through this video I was constantly wondering what the bass itself is plugged in to. Also, using both a bass and guitar amp, what is going in to the input sockets of each of those amps? A cable diagram would be very useful in these kind of videos.
Not sure how relevant my comment will be all these years on, but basically: I’ve been playing guitar 2 years and bit, last year about September I got into royal blood and still love them, and I’ve managed to hash together a really good sound for guitar instead of bass, as I’m limited heavily by budget due to still being in school and working part time. I borrowed a cheap multi fx pedal from school, as well as bought another one for myself, then I borrowed a Fender Frontman 212r which really helps the tone sound big. The rig (in order) is: Guitar Zoom G2.1u multi fx Zoom G3XN multi fx dual output from pedal goes into Fender Frontman 212r My crappy 1x8 practice amp For the g2.1u, most settings are off, apart from distortion, boost, Eq, noise reduction. The G3XN is as follows: TS drive, fender deluxe amp model, fender 1x12 cab sim, OptComp compressor, pitch shifter (for the octave) and then an EP stomp. As it has 3 stompbox panels on the pedal, I keep the last 3 pedals active so that I can change the tone for verse/chorus/instrumentals and all that. The tone changes for different RB songs (ie Boilermaker is very fuzzy, loose change is more octave-based, lights out ‘solo’ is more trebly etc. I was going to make an actual video on this instead of writing it all out, but I don’t wanna waste my time lol. Good luck
Also, you probably already kow this but, The pedals that royal blood use are. Boss Tuner, Boss Line selector, Boss graphic EQ, 3 Boss Harmonist, Strymon flint, ZVEX masatron Fuzz, 2 POG2, triage Amp seletor
Great video, big Royal Blood fan. I run a pedal board very similar to Mike's. Just one piece of advice. An extra distortion pedal is needed for a lot of what they play, or an overdrive with boost (I use the T Rex bass distortion and clicking off the boost for the verses for lots of their songs makes it sound great). If you had the extra money at the end, it wouldn't be a bad idea to buy a Boss PS-6 Harmonist pedal (Mike has two) which can help get sounds for song like Figure it out or Ten Tonne Skeleton. Great video though, really enjoyed it.
they should've done Ten Tonne Skeleton where they did the figure it out solo you know what i'm saying? start off with feedback and then kick into the Tom Morello like riff of Ten Tonne Skeleton
Even though this was a pretty good sounds like, and I understand you guys have a budget, you missed an entire half of the rig. He has a second guitar signal that goes through another amp and a zvex mastotron that makes it sound like there are always two guitars playing. If they played with the rig here, all the songs would sound very empty. Otherwise relatively spot on.
