Help me get the Mudvayne bass tone

[Bassistent]

Hello everyone!
My birthday is in a couple of days and I've decided to buy myself a Zoom B1 Four. Does anyone know how could I get close to the Ryan Martinie sound? Ps. Any tips for playing the tapping stuff on Happy would be apreciated

 

[Correlli]

A lot of tone is in the hands and years of experience. Ryan probably plays his bass from day break, to dusk, and into the night. I personal don’t believe there is a formula that you can get that automatically gets you that tone. What I would do is get similar gear (scaled down version), and practice as much as you can, constantly using your ears, learning the tone you’re looking for. There is an AI tool that separates a track into drum, bass, guitar, vocals. It’s called Fadr.com I use it to work out what other bass players are doing in a song, and references for my own mixing and mastering. It’s really good and there’s a free version. Another website on the gear he might use. Mudvayne - Ryan Martinie Bass Gear Rig and Equipment. Looks like it’s Warwick > Wireless Input > dbx Compressor > SVT 4 Pro > 8x10 Cab, and DR Hi Beam bass strings. Pretty simple stuff which suggests to me the tone is in his hands. The SVT 4 Pro is a beautiful amp to use. I think the B1 Four has a SVT emulation.

Just practice your butt off and don’t give up. Really work your hands and ears.

 

[Seth DuSith]

Closest I've gotten is use a bass with jazz pickups, on both pickups, use the SVT amp Sim with the SVT cab Sim, and a dark... What they call it again. The darkglass style preamp. Dark drive?, anyway, that. Put it before amp sim, along with compression and noise gate, and keep the gain very low, scooped low mids, boosted high mids and the blend line... 45%. Put the SVT mid L's to like 1.5-2.5k and boost them (don't worry bout scooping, playing two jazz pickups scoop out all the mids anyway).

You want it to be mostly clean, but driven

Adjust everything else to taste. Depends on how your bass and pick up's sound and what you play it into


It won't get you exact. Not by a long shot. There is a reason he plays the gear he does. But it will get you in a similar sounding ballpark

As for how to play? Look up tabs, look up covers that have bass tabs, and practice. Practice slowly with a metronome/drum machine (the Zoom has one) and slowly boost the bpm as you learn to play cleanly

Rememeber. Simply playing the notes isn't enough. Practice till it becomes difficult for you to make a mistake