I've always loved Fieldys tone, because since the guitars are already tuned to the bass register, Fieldy plays it more as a secondary percussive instrument rather than true bass
@@getshwiftygaming447 naah the had Ryan Martine from Mudvayne once and he was buried in the mix. Love or hate Fieldy's tone but you can hear it in the mix.
It’s a tone and sound that still works because instead of being a like a usual bass where there is more clean and clear tone for notes, Fieldy decided to not only go down to A Tuning with those crazy amp settings, but to bring the action as low as possible. Which turned it from a bass into a secondary percussion instrument.
Bass/playing aside. The trick is to duplicate the bass tracks so you have 2. Then with one you remove all the highs with a low pass at 150 and name it "Low" and the other remove all lows with a high pass at 150 and name it high. Then you can process the low end very mono with a limiter to keep the lows consistent and controlled and then using saturation and other fx on the high channel to give a best of both worlds... Similar results can be obtained from fabfilter Saturn as well by splitting the freq spectrum in 3rds and saturating the top 2 to taste 😊
Yes! One of the best bassists in the world, and a huge part of what makes Opeth special. His style is so jazz influenced, totally apart from almost all other metal bassists.
As much as I love mid-heavy McCartney and Jameson Lines, and bright, spacey, noodly Peter Hook stuff, I can't help but love Fieldy's tone. And it's not just the slap stuff, the sub bass coming from the intro to Freak on a Leash is what gives the song its eery and creepy feel. Anyway, this tone has too much gain and the strings aren't bright enough - probably need to be brand new (or really good coated strings).
So happy that finally Fieldy gets a spotlight on his bass tone... Now on behalf of Fieldy brother from Slipknot Paul Gray needs his bass tone spotlight.
I don't know why people 'hate' 5+ strings'. It's just more note options, that you obviously don't need. Some of us have to cover keyboard parts, so makes life easier. They are just an option you don't need. So I don't get the often aggressive hate towards them? Seems extreme
I read in an interview years ago that the unique rattle.sound at the top end was from the bass being run through a little speaker laying on its back, with a bunch of little beads sitting on the speaker. Then it was captured with a microphone and mixed with the main bass sound. Pretty brilliant.
Fieldy is known for having a percussive style instead of being a typical bassist. Plus using active pickups instead of passive help to get that clean pop.
Ayyy I was asking for this one a while back but gave up cause I didn't have time, but I'm glad there were a few legends that kept up with it, for a 4-string sounds pretty close great job as always~
ampeg svt paired with an orange amp. 8x10 cab and orange 4x12. dod 250 and boss ds1. flatwound strings and hit the strings hard. this guy wont help you
That's because Fieldy is a bass GOD and he likes to use the instrument to compliment the percussion, something that is usually highly impractical to do, but it works in the context of Korn's music.
@@conradmcdougall3629 I'm sorry you had a bad experience, for the one time I saw them live, they were incredible! With that being said, there is literally almost 20 years between you seeing them and me seeing them, I imagine since Korn still tours heavily to this day, almost every year, they have improved. If they were genuinely terrible live, nobody would see them and they are a band that tours just a little too often and sells out just a little too much to be considered bad live, even subjectively. Not your kind of music or kind of people, maybe, but I feel the proof is in the pudding that the members of Korn are not bad musicians.
@conradmcdougall3629 .... sorry dude.... they dont "suck".... they might not be the tunes you or i listen to, but they definitely refined an entire musical genre.... their first album 🤯🤯is amazing... all the rest are 'Korn' .... but i couldn't say they 'suk'
Make my behs tone Tune the E down to C Tune the A down to F# Tune the D down to B Tune the G down to E Amp set gain to 10 Set treble to 3 Middle to 8 And bass to 10 Use a p bass
Fieldy is not only my favorite bass player but he is one my two heroes in life. Hom ana Jen Ledger.(drummer and one of the singers of Skillet) Fieldy & Korn IS THE REASON I AY BASS. The first major purchase of my life was the Fieldy. signature Ibanez K5 base when I was 16. You tried your best. But his sound is so unique and it's equally about having literally zero mids full blast trouble and almost full blast bass as it is his extremely unique and difficult because of slapping playstyle. Like he's the only person out there that really does what he does and it really only works for stuff like korn
I got pretty close. I have an Ibanez SR300. I tuned to Drop A. Ran into an Ashdown Mag 420. Cut off the Lows on the preamp. had Mids in the Middle with a slight bump, and cranked the Treble. EQ'd everything on the Amp to 2-3 O'Clock, added some Sub and engaged the Shape, and added some Overdrive gained high but with the cleans overpowering to give off a slight Ampeg-ish growl.
I still remember reading in an Ibanez catalogue (2003, I think?) that Fieldy's Bass tone has absolutely no mid range. In his words: "Take the midrange and turn that %*&@ off." Combine that with like a Drop A tuning, and mild distortion, and you're pretty much there
So actually you’re close, the Fieldy sound is more about where you place the microphone in the studio, from what I’ve read they mic’d the cabinet for the recording, which is funny cause such an unorthodox sound comes from the best traditional way to record a bass. The only difference though however is that korn decided to mic the horn of the speaker resulting in a massive gap between the low and high end which only gets more accentuated by the extremely low tuning!
Like you, I hated 5 and 6 string basses. Then I spent a handful of years with a Yamaha 5 and boy oh boy. I’m not going back. The ability to drop to the lower octaves workout needing to tune down is helpful when you’re playing a wide variety of styles like in a church setting.
I met him after a show, and as a behs player myself, I asked him "how do you get that tone?" He replied, while wiggling his fingers, "its all from here".
When i was a kid, before the internet, first time hearing Korn, I was so confused, like ''what is that clicking sound?'' I wouldn't accept that it was the behs. Behs no make that sound. Behs go bummbummbumm not takkatakkatakka
Fieldy used two sound tracks in whole track - 1 slap bass sound and another where he played clean with fingers track to compensate losses of slap low frequencies
Perfect example of a bass tone that only works in context of the music
it doesn't work at all imo, Fieldy's tone is one of the reasons Korn sounds awful
@@johnjson Or it's GREAT, and it wouldn't work with what you would call a "good" tone. Hey, it's all perspective.
It’s so bad it’s good
@@WilDBeestMF I would argue that a bass tone that sounds less like more percussion would make them easier to listen to. maybe I'm wrong though
@@johnjson the guitars have more bass in them lol i think that how it works tough?
I've always loved Fieldys tone, because since the guitars are already tuned to the bass register, Fieldy plays it more as a secondary percussive instrument rather than true bass
It's so unique
exactly..
It's the worst thing in metal music 😂😂 Korn would be a good band with a real bass player.
@@getshwiftygaming447 naah the had Ryan Martine from Mudvayne once and he was buried in the mix. Love or hate Fieldy's tone but you can hear it in the mix.
@@getshwiftygaming447agree to disagree I guess
“That’s certainly a unique sound.” 😂😂😂Lol
How to produce crap in 30seconds.
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@@orbiccachdigitalmarketing5865your father failed you.
Sounds like someone forgot to tighten the strings let alone tune up and left a pick stuck in the strings 😂
Fieldy’s tone is all play style
you can’t be sitting straight all dainty if you want that fieldy tone!!
No it ain’t bass down treble takes 5 seconds
@@prepperandson1399he uses his whole hand for slapping, it's definitely playstyle.
It’s a tone and sound that still works because instead of being a like a usual bass where there is more clean and clear tone for notes, Fieldy decided to not only go down to A Tuning with those crazy amp settings, but to bring the action as low as possible. Which turned it from a bass into a secondary percussion instrument.
With still some background notes you can hear. And that's why I like fieldy.
If there's one thing I always loved about Korn, it was Fieldy's bass playing.
Mixed with David's drums, killer backbone to the original Korn sound.
Fieldy doesnt use his thumb when he slaps, he uses the whole hand like a cave man
When they blew up in the 90s I hated it, now I love everything about his tone. Unique, propels the music, and is just felt!!!
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YESSS
HELL YEAH
join the force I'm on day 24 of asking
Ive been saying that too!!
I stand with you!!!!!
This is the one
Bass/playing aside. The trick is to duplicate the bass tracks so you have 2. Then with one you remove all the highs with a low pass at 150 and name it "Low" and the other remove all lows with a high pass at 150 and name it high. Then you can process the low end very mono with a limiter to keep the lows consistent and controlled and then using saturation and other fx on the high channel to give a best of both worlds... Similar results can be obtained from fabfilter Saturn as well by splitting the freq spectrum in 3rds and saturating the top 2 to taste 😊
Does he use flats?
very interesting
Part 10 asking for mike starrs bass tone
gene Simmons bass tone
Yes keep going man
Hell you want help
next ringo starrs behs tone
Chorus effect, mids high and if using a pick, play at the bridge >.>
Dude is my favorite..love that tone and how he executes his licks..Crunchy af..
It's missing those "piano lows."
😭Glenn fricker
five-string bass - the best invention in the history of bass
Yeah I don't get why a bassist would hate a bass that goes even lower, that's just more bass. I love 5 strings.
@@DudeTotally1000even gives you a convenient thumb hold if you use it like 4-string.
six string is even better. it's versatile, since it's an even more extended range, and you can also play most guitar lines
@@noobynoob138 I agree, but their neck sometimes outweighs them
@@khristopherkomodoensis4734absolutely, that's the best part
Wait, why do you hate 5 string behses?
Still a nice video 👍
Behs
Ace of behs
He's scared of the extra string
5 strings make him feel 25% more inadequate than 4 strings.
He flehmin' hehts them!
I think Fieldy sounds more like percussion than any other bassist I've ever heard. He slaps the absolute shit out of that bass.
Day 32 of asking for Opeth bassist Martin Mendez's bass tone
Fender Jazz in an Ampeg or Fender Head with 8*10 Ampeg. He also uses a Line 6 multi effect board. So he's got a wide variaty in tones
Yes! One of the best bassists in the world, and a huge part of what makes Opeth special. His style is so jazz influenced, totally apart from almost all other metal bassists.
As much as I love mid-heavy McCartney and Jameson Lines, and bright, spacey, noodly Peter Hook stuff, I can't help but love Fieldy's tone. And it's not just the slap stuff, the sub bass coming from the intro to Freak on a Leash is what gives the song its eery and creepy feel.
Anyway, this tone has too much gain and the strings aren't bright enough - probably need to be brand new (or really good coated strings).
Yea, im thinking Fieldy uses flats....
Ive been asking for months for this, AMAZING!
fieldy is like the marmite of bass players i love him cause he works in the context of korns songs and tuning in drop a (seeing them this sunday)
Didn't he take a leave of absence for personal issues? Is he back?
@@weilim10 nah he isn't back it was someone covering for him
@@thatguy99-061 I could've sworn he left like 4 years ago.
@@weilim10 nah he is gone but cause of "personal issues"
So happy that finally Fieldy gets a spotlight on his bass tone... Now on behalf of Fieldy brother from Slipknot Paul Gray needs his bass tone spotlight.
Never been a fan of his tone but I appreciate the intention to be unique
Pls do Chris Squire's bass tone
Danny!!! Love your content, thank you for all you do... 👌
Just throw a filing cabinet down a steel fire escape and youve got Fieldy's tone
I laughed way too much at this 😂
He's tuned so low all you hear is the strings rattling against the frets lol
@@dflt5thnot true at all lol.
You're right. I forgot about the meth. You need plenty of that to sound like fieldy lol
@@dflt5th😭😭😭
This is the only time ive ever seen this guy actually nail a tone
Thank you bro persistence is the key and also happy Halloween
Love it I’m a big fan of Korn and I love your videos
I dare you to get a 5 string behs
For the behs gods
You NAILED that tone
I don't know why people 'hate' 5+ strings'. It's just more note options, that you obviously don't need. Some of us have to cover keyboard parts, so makes life easier. They are just an option you don't need. So I don't get the often aggressive hate towards them? Seems extreme
Dave Case from Helmet would be a dope bass tone to do next.
Day 2 of asking for paul mccartneys beatle bass tone
Thought he already did that?
@@friendlyjvckYep, that's it
@@friendlyjvck he did the bass tone for the rolling stones bass solo that he played
Love Fieldy❤ You sounded good with your 4 string bass
“How to get the tone!” Avoids crucial tools to get the tone and doesn’t get it. Great job, that’s a wrap!
I read in an interview years ago that the unique rattle.sound at the top end was from the bass being run through a little speaker laying on its back, with a bunch of little beads sitting on the speaker. Then it was captured with a microphone and mixed with the main bass sound. Pretty brilliant.
All these years I thought he had his strings just loose enough to buzz on the frets slightly.
So they do this live? It sounds the same
Mark Sandman’s bass tone.
Literally impossible to get right.
a slide helps
it's a 2 string clean tone with a slide
Fieldy is known for having a percussive style instead of being a typical bassist. Plus using active pickups instead of passive help to get that clean pop.
Far too many bass players scared of more than 4 strings.
Far too many bass players scared of any note lower than D
Ayyy I was asking for this one a while back but gave up cause I didn't have time, but I'm glad there were a few legends that kept up with it, for a 4-string sounds pretty close great job as always~
day 19 of asking for al cisneros’ bass tone
you cant ignore me forever
I hope he does lol.
YES
yes
ampeg svt paired with an orange amp. 8x10 cab and orange 4x12. dod 250 and boss ds1. flatwound strings and hit the strings hard. this guy wont help you
dont forget a clean blended ampeg svt. back in the day he used orange amps only and green matamps
THANK YOU!
Day 31 of asking for Ryan Martinie’s bass tone
I second this
Most of his sound comes from the Warwick Thumb. These basses have a very unique growl.
Oh, that first album still blows my mind
Always loved the clicky sound from fieldys bass playing hes like a second drummer rather than a bass player
Day 3 of asking for RATM's bass tone
Paul greys bass tone. He is a Icon to slipknot and metal fans ❤
That's because Fieldy is a bass GOD and he likes to use the instrument to compliment the percussion, something that is usually highly impractical to do, but it works in the context of Korn's music.
Korn sucks. Always have. I saw them open up for Megadeth in 1995 and they sucked back then too.
@@conradmcdougall3629 I'm sorry you had a bad experience, for the one time I saw them live, they were incredible!
With that being said, there is literally almost 20 years between you seeing them and me seeing them, I imagine since Korn still tours heavily to this day, almost every year, they have improved.
If they were genuinely terrible live, nobody would see them and they are a band that tours just a little too often and sells out just a little too much to be considered bad live, even subjectively.
Not your kind of music or kind of people, maybe, but I feel the proof is in the pudding that the members of Korn are not bad musicians.
@@pustulioyoThat comment was coming from a Megadeth fan, so I think his taste speaks for itself 😂
@conradmcdougall3629 .... sorry dude.... they dont "suck".... they might not be the tunes you or i listen to, but they definitely refined an entire musical genre.... their first album 🤯🤯is amazing... all the rest are 'Korn' .... but i couldn't say they 'suk'
@@raulfigueroa588god i hope this isnt a rip on Megadeth 😢
Heavy bro, well done
Tetsuo Sakurai basstone please!
Mudvayn's bass player is top notch as well.
Make my behs tone
Tune the E down to C
Tune the A down to F#
Tune the D down to B
Tune the G down to E
Amp
set gain to 10
Set treble to 3
Middle to 8
And bass to 10
Use a p bass
30 seconds is also how long it takes to learn every bass line he's ever written
Now that would be a viral video
bass and treble at 11, mids at 0. Down tune till flopping instead of an actual note occurs on B string. Play as percussion instrument.
Done.
Literally sounds like the bass isn’t plugged into anything. Pretty cool.
That sounds utterly dreadful.
I never thought much of his as a bass player but he's an important part ox his bands trademark sound
the real question is WHY would you want to sound like fieldy? 💀
Because he has a really unique tone
To play Korn’s music I’m assuming? In the context of that, then yeah that makes sense
Because they like the tone? Hrrrrr
agreed but in this case it’s about the context of the rest of the band… perhaps an even better question, why would you want to sound like Korn😬😂
It sounds fun for sure.
Fieldy's bass tone is stupid easy. Just super aggressive mid scoop. Down tune to B and drop A. Nailed it.
Fieldy is not only my favorite bass player but he is one my two heroes in life. Hom ana Jen Ledger.(drummer and one of the singers of Skillet) Fieldy & Korn IS THE REASON I AY BASS. The first major purchase of my life was the Fieldy. signature Ibanez K5 base when I was 16. You tried your best. But his sound is so unique and it's equally about having literally zero mids full blast trouble and almost full blast bass as it is his extremely unique and difficult because of slapping playstyle. Like he's the only person out there that really does what he does and it really only works for stuff like korn
Close, just scoop the hell out of the mids and you nailed it
I got pretty close. I have an Ibanez SR300. I tuned to Drop A. Ran into an Ashdown Mag 420. Cut off the Lows on the preamp. had Mids in the Middle with a slight bump, and cranked the Treble. EQ'd everything on the Amp to 2-3 O'Clock, added some Sub and engaged the Shape, and added some Overdrive gained high but with the cleans overpowering to give off a slight Ampeg-ish growl.
I've heard his tone described as, "throwing a handful of quarters down a concrete stairwell."
Fieldy has one of my meanest Slap Pop techniques in the game.
Flea from RHCP is nice with it too.
I still remember reading in an Ibanez catalogue (2003, I think?) that Fieldy's Bass tone has absolutely no mid range. In his words: "Take the midrange and turn that %*&@ off." Combine that with like a Drop A tuning, and mild distortion, and you're pretty much there
This sound somehow always reminded me of an old, rusty metal fence.
Fieldy is the epitome of clank 🤘🤘
Back in the 90s he explained it in a video. Boost 80hz and boost 6khz. Done.
So actually you’re close, the Fieldy sound is more about where you place the microphone in the studio, from what I’ve read they mic’d the cabinet for the recording, which is funny cause such an unorthodox sound comes from the best traditional way to record a bass.
The only difference though however is that korn decided to mic the horn of the speaker resulting in a massive gap between the low and high end which only gets more accentuated by the extremely low tuning!
Fieldy is a drummers bass player. I've always viewed his work as a procusive player
I'd love to see you do a video on the bass players of killing joke like Youth, & Paul Raven they always have the grooviest basslines!🎛️🎧👌
Like you, I hated 5 and 6 string basses. Then I spent a handful of years with a Yamaha 5 and boy oh boy. I’m not going back. The ability to drop to the lower octaves workout needing to tune down is helpful when you’re playing a wide variety of styles like in a church setting.
Fieldy’s nuts gottem
I met him after a show, and as a behs player myself, I asked him "how do you get that tone?" He replied, while wiggling his fingers, "its all from here".
Love the vids. Can you do Tina Weymouth’s bass tone next?
This bass tone works absolutely amazing with munky's 7 string tho
Bass tone from Easy E's Real Muddaphuckin Gs.
90s rap bass was awesome
If i wanna say. The best tuning is D tuning dropped for over all. But Bb tuning is type o negative tuning and miss them.
Cut the mids out. Remember emulating it back in the day. Weird or not,he definitely has his own sound.
This is a best bass
Just throw the bass down a flight of stairs……tone achieved.
See if you can get the best bass tone from the 70s. Tom Sholz off of Bostons debut record. Absolutely perfect tone
When i was a kid, before the internet, first time hearing Korn, I was so confused, like ''what is that clicking sound?'' I wouldn't accept that it was the behs. Behs no make that sound. Behs go bummbummbumm not takkatakkatakka
Experimental Tone: 4 string bass tuned as low as a 5 string. Use heavy strings and forget about the upper register.
Fieldy used two sound tracks in whole track - 1 slap bass sound and another where he played clean with fingers track to compensate losses of slap low frequencies
All you have to do is detune enough that the strings rattle against the frets and slap all of them at the same time with your hand
Imagine hating a bass for having more bassing potential.
New listener so I’m not sure if you’ve done this already, but Peter Hook of Joy Division / New Order has a bass tone I really love
We gotta get matt freeman's tone on here 🙏
Use high tension strings like DR Lo Riders or Nickel Lo Riders to improve the detuning.
I wanna see you try Ash Kabosu’s bass tone, he’s one of my biggest inspirations when it comes to playing bass
Is that Fieldys legs looking like cheetah spots or spandex with zebra stripes patterns LMMFAO 🤣
Queens of the stone age, my man. I'll keep on asking for it
Just turn up the low and high, kill the mids😂🍻
A lot of Korn would not be nearly as good without that bass tone
Fieldy tunes down to A standard with fairly light roundwound strings, and on top of those he has extra low frequency cabs.
certainly a unique sound lol
Sid vicious bass tone 😂
Don't be afraid to expose him, man
"Ah dont hev ah fahve string behs beecos ah hayte thum"
I had to watch it twice for the final smirk