Example of High compressed bass on recording ?

[Clemouze]

Hello!

Have you any examples of high compressed bass track on a recording of a well known band ?

Not the whole master track like Californication, but only the bass

I'm curious to see if I can recognize big bass compression on recording in a band mix

 

[eriky4003]

Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway" cd has a song 'Brave and Crazy' where the bassist (Ken Spider Sinnaeve) is slapping during the chorus with no appreciable volume to his technique. I guess that's a good example of compression but I thought the bass could have come out a bit in the mix.

 

[India_Sierra]

'LD 50' by Mudvayne. Ryan Martinie established himself as having a monster tone with that record, helped in part by a soaking of compression that really makes the bass track fat.

 

[Clemouze]

'LD 50' by Mudvayne. Ryan Martinie established himself as having a monster tone with that record, helped in part by a soaking of compression that really makes the bass track fat.

Thanks ! A very midy and punchy tone to my hear

 

[LiquidMidnight]

Off the top of my head, Lottery by Kali Uchis has a bass that is squashed in a very particular and purposeful way. For an example of vintage bass compression, I think the bass on Merle Haggard's I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink is a great sample.

 

[Clemouze]

Off the top of my head, Lottery by Kali Uchis has a bass that is squashed in a very particular and purposeful way. For an example of vintage bass compression, I think the bass on Merle Haggard's I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink is a great sample.

Thanks !
The bass on lottery sounds close to a synthbass to me !
And I have some issue to well hear the bass on the Haggard one, it just seems very low and behind the drum

 

[LiquidMidnight]

Thanks !
The bass on lottery sounds close to a synthbass to me !
And I have some issue to well hear the bass on the Haggard one, it just seems very low and behind the drum

I'm not entirely sure if the bass is synth on Lottery, but the general tonality mimics a squashed bass for sure.

Another obviously compressed bass track I just remembered: One of These Nights by Eagles.

 

[Michedelic]

Let's go back, way, way back, to an obscurity from the beginning of Cream's recording career, a bit of pop fluff from outside writers that I think they were railroaded by management into recording...

Not an album track, sometimes a single B-side, obviously recorded in late 1966 during the "Fresh" sessions, Jack's Fender VI is totally squashed and rubbery-sounding, kinda McCartneyesque.

Lots of 60's bass intros were like that, The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" and "It's My Life" being a good example...


Sometimes the amp sounds like it's overloading/compressing rather than the studio outboard gear, but who knows...



Recording engineers in those days were quite compression happy, due to the dynamic range of the electric bass that they were just starting to contend with, the limitations of the recording gear of the time, and the playback systems(we're talking AM band car radios and all those lovely Penncrest and Silverstone portable record players...)

 

[LiquidMidnight]

I was just thinking today that for a real good example of obvious compression on a live recording, check out the bass from Frankie Goes To Hollywood's reunion show:



You wouldn't want the bass on a blues rock or folk gig squashed that much, but it's perfect for the slick 80s pop sound of FGTH. Whoever the engineers were for that performance, they knew what they were doing. Every note and nuance of the bass is clearly audible and you can close your eyes and easily tell that Mark O' Toole is playing a P-Bass (which is a big deal in this day and age where the engineering trend is to suck all of the life and timbre out of the bass guitar).

 

[shoulderpet]

The Beatles With a little help from my friends , when you listed to the isolated bass track it is very heavily compressed

 

[Ray man]

D'yer Mak'er by Led Zeppelin.

 

[Clemouze]

D'yer Mak'er by Led Zeppelin.

Isn't just foam mutting and flatwound ?

 

[India_Sierra]

I was just thinking today that for a real good example of obvious compression on a live recording, check out the bass from Frankie Goes To Hollywood's reunion show:



You wouldn't want the bass on a blues rock or folk gig squashed that much, but it's perfect for the slick 80s pop sound of FGTH. Whoever the engineers were for that performance, they knew what they were doing. Every note and nuance of the bass is clearly audible and you can close your eyes and easily tell that Mark O' Toole is playing a P-Bass (which is a big deal in this day and age where the engineering trend is to suck all of the life and timbre out of the bass guitar).

That just doesn't work for me! I guess O'Toole didn't actually play on the original recording but this sounds flappy and loose. The basslines on the record are super crisp and whilst that's hard to replicate live, it sounds as though a better job could have been done.