Actually the reason why cliff stopped using the rick was because of malfunctions caused by too many modifications. Cliff liked the bright rick tone but he modified it by (rickenbacker purists look away) replacing the two stock pickups and adding a guitar pickup on the bridge of the bass that was activated by a switch. He made the switch to the aria pro and was eventually endorsed by them!
The actual bridge pickup was replaced with a J pickup and the neck pickup replaced with a Gibson muckraker humbucker. I've seen a Fender Jazz bass modded with mudraker humbucker replacing the neck pickup as a budget version of the Cliff Burton Ricky and thought it sounded pretty good.
I mean, he also said Burton’s Rick was jetglo, and that he didn’t gig with it because it was fragile. 1st, it was burgundy, and 2nd he didn’t gig it because of electrical issues.
SgtD it was an alembic that was stolen, his Rickenbacker needed maintenance constantly because of the upgrades he had installed: A Gibson Eb Mudbucker A Seymour Duncan Jazz Pickup And a Singlcoil stack right under the bridge pickup This was a diy upgrade nightmare considering he had to get it all to work, but it did
here's a list of future bassists you can tackle! Jack Casady - Jefferson Airplane Geddy Lee - Rush Duff McKagan - Guns N Roses Steve Harris - Iron Maiden Adam Clayton - U2 David Ellefson - Megadeth Gene Simmons - KISS Les Claypool - Primus Billy Sheehan - Mr Big John Entwistle - The Who Sir Paul McCartney - The Beatles Jack Bruce - Cream Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath John Paul Jones - Led Zep Lemmy - Motorhead Tim Commerford - Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave & Prophets of Rage Peter Hook - Joy Division Peter Steele - Type O Negative Andy Rourke Michael Antony - Van Halen Simon Gallup - The Cure Bernard Edwards - Chic Adam "Nolly" Getgood - Periphery Norman Watt Roy Justin Chancellor - Tool Chris Squire - Yes Sting - The Police Chris Wolstenholme - Muse Roger Waters - Pink Floyd Krist Novoselic - Nirvana Robert Deleo and my favorite, Phil Lynott - Thin Lizzy
Awesome to see the Bass getting the spotlight on this series! Now I hope if you could do this kind of variation with stuff like trying to sound like Flea or Steve Harris!
Cliff left behind a bunch of future bass players in that generation. One heck of a legacy. As a teen that man blew my mind. Had to ask my dad for a bass and he got right on it. Thanks dad
Dont play bass guitar myself but a really enjoyable video to watch. The guy playing bass has served me many times in the shop and is just as enthusiastic doing that. An asset to Andertons
@@chriscuthbertson Exactly. Lots of little twists missed out. Then again, I suppose this wasn't a Metallica Documentary as 50% of the presenters were Metallica illiterate :-)
All of Jason's stuff up to and including the Load album was recorded on a spector NS-2 and a 1958 precision bass. The Sadowsky stuff didn't come in till Reload.
Peter Hook: a small clone will get you most of the way there. EQ your amp bright, play in the upper register. Strum fairly hard. Lou: loudness is key. Hit the front of your amp hard, dime the gain, play hard. Dengler: Jazz bass, favour the neck pickup. Play with a pick. No effects. Think he generally played quite light strings and rarely changed them. Apparently not very interested in his equipment beyond the plainest functionality.
this would a great side series to have on the andertons channel sound like by busting or not busting the bank bass guitar version i think there would be a audience for that type of content hell i would inclined to watch them
He wasn't on any of the studio recordings but I think he was on the No Life 'til Leather demo and was on Metal Blade Records' Metal Massacre vol. 1 compilation... I think the song was Hit the Lights? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
@@jimobrien9104 No, you are correct. "They recorded several demos during this time, including one recorded in McGovney's garage, the Power Metal demo, and the live No Life 'Til Leather. A recording of the song "Hit the Lights" with McGovney playing bass was featured on a repressing of the Metal Massacre Vol. 1 album."
This was awesome, Cliff was one of the guys that made me want to play bass and he's one of my absolute favourite bassists of all time. He really opened my eyes to what the bass could do and he's also one of the guys that made me want to get a Rickenbacker (Edit: I now own one after buying it in the summer of 2020 and it’s still been my main bass since, and the one I play in a band with my friends)
Thanks for this! Cliff was my hero when I was a kid! I know all the jokes about Jason’s lack of volume on Justice, I loved his sound on Garage Days revisited. Awesome tones there if you haven’t heard those old cover tunes.
@@ColinBoonstra honestly mate, I don't really care if it doesn't sound great these guys are really entertaining. plus, trying to get a sound as close to Cliff as possible is really difficult
@@maxgburton i mean ive done it with way cheaper gear then a Kemper wich was a dumb choice anyway but i get where you are coming from, if you dont believe me hit me up on facebook
@Colin Boonstra this one was NOT awful, it was awesome and the closest bass that'll get Justin's tone would be a spector, with a whammy pedal, not sure bout amp tho
Les used an ibanez musician bass back in the day, he has used a rickenbacker, a jazz in the music video for "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" but he mainly uses Custom basses by Carl Thompson he has the rainbow 6 for Jerry Was A Racecar Driver, My Name Is Mud, Shake Hands With Beef, ect. and the ones with whammy bars for Tommy The Cat, Wynona's Big Brown Beaver, The Awakening and John The Fisherman for amps i think he used ampeg from time to time but i'm not all sure he has an auto wah in the mix, a series of fuzzes and distortions, a line six DL4 i think and a flanger or phaser for the intro of John The Fisherman which he layers with a fuzz pedal so i reckon a six string bass and a fretless, any bass amp i guess, and whatever pedals come to mind
And please only do Harris on flat wound strings. The amount of people that are ignorant of that always blows my mind. Otherwise are they going to try and emulate his technique? Hmmm.
I'd love to see more of these but maybe try to take some cues from the guitar Sounds Like series Bea and Matt are doing. It'd be loads of fun to see you guys going through the store to choose your gear. They also have a very good balance of talking and playing. Especially the part where they show the tones first and then talk about them.
Love this idea to compete with Rabea and Matt although Matt often plays bass when its needed which is also great! Any chance of you two doing a video comparing all the low end basses of one type say a Precision bass, between Squier CV and Sire and a few others its hard to know which one to get especially for the online shoppers who dont have all these basses in stores near them
First time on this channel and this is about the only video I can stomach, the guy on the left literally makes me cringe on the inside which I didn't think was humanly possible.
Good idea, and good job! It’s almost impossible to do anestesia exactly like on the record, but you got it quite well. Those pedal settings and movements are not easy to replicate.
Sound Like Metallica (Bass) = Get a Kemper On a side note: Cliff's Rickenbacker was reportedly very heavily Modified. He changed pick-ups and even had an additional guitar pick-up somewhere in the bridge area.
You guys missed out the mods he put into the rickenbacker he had mudbucker style pick up in the neck and a jazz style pickup at the bridge he also put a guitar pick up under the bridge it was thanks to these mods that the bass finally gave up the ghost P. S. The technique cliff use was far closer to the bridge do love video though you still cliffs stuff really well
It was a rickenbacker 4001 and he wasn’t worried about it breaking on tour it did break due to the strat guitar pickup under the bridge but luckily he was endorsed by the Japanese company Aria and got the black and gold aria pro 2 used on master of puppets
Loving all the comments about using an air guitar to achieve the And Justice For All sounds! Well funny! On a serious note I still maintain hearing Cliff Burton's bass live is the best bass sound I have ever heard. Of course purely personal to me but I just loved it and (as yet) have never heard any better and count myself lucky I managed to see him live.
The Sadowsky basses didn't come until after the Black album. He originally used a combination of Alembic, ESP, Spector, and BC Rich. All of that of course going through his Ampeg SVT Classic and SVT-II PRO
Spector basses were used primarily on the Black Album tracks. He switched to using Sadowsky basses during that tour because moisture did not cause the electonics on the Sadowsky basses to fail during the live shows.
Regarding Cliff, there was some misinformation: Joined ‘82, played on Kill ‘Em All (1983), Ride The Lightning (1984) and Master Of Puppets (1986), died in 1987 in a buss accident in Sweden. He used a mid 70s BurgundyGlo Rickenbacker loaded with a Gibson mudbucker, Seymour Duncan hot stack J and a hot Seymour Duncan Strat pickup under the bridge in place of the string mutes. He later switched to the Aria Pro II due to electrical malfunctions in the Rick after all his modifications. He used various amps, most notably Sunn O))) and Mesa Boogie, and his pedal board most famously featured a Morley power fuzz wah, a TS808, Biff Muff Pi and a CS-2
The Morecombe and Wise of bass playing. Totally brilliant. More clean Rickenbacker tones please (sound like Geddy Lee) the sound is monumental. Cant wait for the Christmas special.
I really hope this side of things doesn't end up in the same hole as the guitar "Sound Like" where they keep trying to replicate the same boring tones over and over again, and failing at the ones that are actually somewhat unique and warrant an actual video. As a bass player I feel this series has a dangerous possibility of getting stale fast, so please lads, pick the sounds well, even if it means more infrequent episodes. Thanks
We got any Cliff Burton nerds in the comments? (EDIT): Cliff didn't use the D-180 on any tour until 85. He also quit the Rickenbacker because there were technical problems with the heavy modifications. And I hate to be that guy, but its Compression then Morely Wah then TS9.
TheNirclex: Canal Morido first get an Aria bass with an MB-1 or MB-2 pickup, if there’s two pickups --> neck = 100% bridge = 75% tone 70%. Simple right? Now that you have that get a cranked Ampeg SVT with 1x15 and 8x10 cabs. Usually he would go DI into the board from his amp but sometimes you would find him micing it up, usually with a SM57. Almost forgot he 1 pickup config... crank it all except keep tone at 75%. Pretty simple guide... I will be back soon with some sound samples from this guide with this exact setup, just like cliffs. I hope you mean by his clean tone most of his MOP stuff cause that’s with the Aria and imo his best tone and best writing is there, though earlier songs don’t leave stuff lacking. I’m super board right now but I could tell you that my Aria bass was 700 shipped from Japan and it’s good :D
Your Prince cover was better. On a side note there were actually 4 bass players, Ron McGovney on their first demo, and then Bob Rock played on St Anger. But I get why they weren't included.
That's funny, my first ever bass (excluding the duct tape bass my unrelated brother gave me to learn on) was an Aria Pro II and I never once knew Metallica used them.
Makes sense as their live rigs are now 100% AxeFX. Saw them live a couple of times and Robert is frustratingly quiet in the live mix. I don't get why you have such a talented guy in your band and then don't let people hear him. Good video, more please!
Best way is getting a Spector Legend bass and a good fender Rumble amp and you can pretty much get Cliffs tone out of Spector alone, I played one and got even a Rick Tone out of it as well as Les Claypools and John Entwistles Buzzard Bass tones, also Jason used Spector and Alembic while with metallica too, can't believe they weren't even mentioned
FINALLY A BASS SOUNDS LIKE Some cool suggestions would be: Krist novoselic of nirvana Colin greenwood of radiohead Geezer butler of black sabbath Justin chancellor of tool Flea from rhcp
11:25 AFAIK Roger Sadowsky's shop is based in NYC, and have a Japanese line of instruments called Metro... Besides Warwick, the first famous "turbo-Fender" German brand coming to my mind is Sandberg, and they can look similar-ish. Funny story is there was an article on Bass Player circa 1996 when he was talking about his Sadowsky basses, saying that he bought a stock of 8 or so, made waterproof for him (he said he sweated a lot) and if memory serves me well he mentioned testing them immerging them into a pool of water, lol 😆 Anyway, what's curious is that he also had a trusted vintage specs P bass (58/59?) that made it to a lot of recording sessions for the Load/Reload era. You can spot an old sunburst P in studio footage from around November 95.
Cliffs Rick was retired because of all the mods. It had a gibson mudbucker on the neck, jazz bass pickup in the bridge and then he had a stray pickup directly under the bridge
You forgot to put the Volume on 0 at Jason's Rig.
a real pity, as Jason's (hidden) playing on AJFA was great: th-cam.com/video/u974znwnBj4/w-d-xo.html
@@johnwalliss Metallica has a bassist?!
unfunny
I came here just for these jokes
@@Josh-it6uy We know Newstead is amazing. That's the joke
Actually the reason why cliff stopped using the rick was because of malfunctions caused by too many modifications. Cliff liked the bright rick tone but he modified it by (rickenbacker purists look away) replacing the two stock pickups and adding a guitar pickup on the bridge of the bass that was activated by a switch. He made the switch to the aria pro and was eventually endorsed by them!
The actual bridge pickup was replaced with a J pickup and the neck pickup replaced with a Gibson muckraker humbucker. I've seen a Fender Jazz bass modded with mudraker humbucker replacing the neck pickup as a budget version of the Cliff Burton Ricky and thought it sounded pretty good.
How could you do this video and not play For Whom The Bell Tolls and Orion?
tglu87 cuz he played Anesthesia
I mean, he also said Burton’s Rick was jetglo, and that he didn’t gig with it because it was fragile. 1st, it was burgundy, and 2nd he didn’t gig it because of electrical issues.
@@davidpearson6346 he isnt wrong though.
Cliff didn't gig the ricky coz it and some guitars of james and kirk got stolen in 84-85
SgtD it was an alembic that was stolen, his Rickenbacker needed maintenance constantly because of the upgrades he had installed:
A Gibson Eb Mudbucker
A Seymour Duncan Jazz Pickup
And a Singlcoil stack right under the bridge pickup
This was a diy upgrade nightmare considering he had to get it all to work, but it did
you can definitely sound like ...And Justice For All without busting the bank
You can actually make a profit getting that sound.
Just dont play at all...
You can sound like and justice for all without leaving the house
You can hear bass on AJFA
On the remastered version
here's a list of future bassists you can tackle!
Jack Casady - Jefferson Airplane
Geddy Lee - Rush
Duff McKagan - Guns N Roses
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
Adam Clayton - U2
David Ellefson - Megadeth
Gene Simmons - KISS
Les Claypool - Primus
Billy Sheehan - Mr Big
John Entwistle - The Who
Sir Paul McCartney - The Beatles
Jack Bruce - Cream
Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath
John Paul Jones - Led Zep
Lemmy - Motorhead
Tim Commerford - Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave & Prophets of Rage
Peter Hook - Joy Division
Peter Steele - Type O Negative
Andy Rourke
Michael Antony - Van Halen
Simon Gallup - The Cure
Bernard Edwards - Chic
Adam "Nolly" Getgood - Periphery
Norman Watt Roy
Justin Chancellor - Tool
Chris Squire - Yes
Sting - The Police
Chris Wolstenholme - Muse
Roger Waters - Pink Floyd
Krist Novoselic - Nirvana
Robert Deleo
and my favorite, Phil Lynott - Thin Lizzy
you can't talk bassists and leave out sir paul mccartney
Paul McCartney!
Jack Bruce, Geezer Butler ... Duh ...
John Paul Jones?
Lemmy?
I applaud you for actually playing anesthesia!
Also loved the my friend of misery jam.
I was missing Orion, its got amazing bass by Cliff.
and For Whom The Bell Tolls, the infamous intro riff
Kristoffer Björk Orion was THE song I was looking forward to when I hit play for this video....
One of my favorite songs by them. Mostly just because of the time in my life I listened to it. But it hurts when they play it live and fuck it up
Awesome to see the Bass getting the spotlight on this series! Now I hope if you could do this kind of variation with stuff like trying to sound like Flea or Steve Harris!
sound like flea:
Fender Active Flea Jazz Bass
GK Head and Cab
Fuzz
Auto wah
EQ
there you go
@@sakimiyu4169 Ahh that has a lot of potential, but I would still like to see their interpretation.
@@sakimiyu4169 switch out that Fender for a Modulus Flea.
@Fuji Oxford Andertons don't do Modulus
at least i think they don't
Mike Dirnt.
i'd love a sounds like series just for bass. that'd be awesome!
Who knew the bass guys would end up being the most entertaining ones at Andertons?
Cliff left behind a bunch of future bass players in that generation. One heck of a legacy. As a teen that man blew my mind. Had to ask my dad for a bass and he got right on it. Thanks dad
Dont play bass guitar myself but a really enjoyable video to watch. The guy playing bass has served me many times in the shop and is just as enthusiastic doing that. An asset to Andertons
Jason also played Alembics and had a signature Spector bass before he moved on to Sadowsky.
Chris Cuthbertson Yes, the Alembics he was playing especially on the Justice tour sounded amazing!!
No mention of his time with Flotsam and Jetsam either. Shame.
@@paul_grimsley Yep, or that he replaced Rob in Ozzy's band.
@@chriscuthbertson Exactly. Lots of little twists missed out. Then again, I suppose this wasn't a Metallica Documentary as 50% of the presenters were Metallica illiterate :-)
Chris Cuthbertson or his time in Voivod...
All of Jason's stuff up to and including the Load album was recorded on a spector NS-2 and a 1958 precision bass. The Sadowsky stuff didn't come in till Reload.
What alternate universe did I walk into!?
Yeh Lee is looking a little bit different in this one.
Trujillo was in Suicidal Tendencies as well prior to touring with Ozzy. Show some love for one of the best skate/punk/thrash/funk metal bands.
Infectious Grooves were better!
And credit to all, but Jason Newstead all the way for me, lockin’ it down like it needs to be.
Yeppp
Agreed.
A sounds like for the bass? I would love some more... Especially something for Peter Hook, Lou Barlow, even Carlos Dengler
PETER HOOK YES PLEASE.
Peter Hook: a small clone will get you most of the way there. EQ your amp bright, play in the upper register. Strum fairly hard.
Lou: loudness is key. Hit the front of your amp hard, dime the gain, play hard.
Dengler: Jazz bass, favour the neck pickup. Play with a pick. No effects. Think he generally played quite light strings and rarely changed them. Apparently not very interested in his equipment beyond the plainest functionality.
this would a great side series to have on the andertons channel sound like by busting or not busting the bank bass guitar version i think there would be a audience for that type of content hell i would inclined to watch them
Just to let u know, Lee. The first bass player of Metallica was a guy called Ron McGovney from 81 to mid 82 when Cliff joined
Indeed he was but he wasn't on any of the recordings, which is what they are probably going by.
He wasn't on any of the studio recordings but I think he was on the No Life 'til Leather demo and was on Metal Blade Records' Metal Massacre vol. 1 compilation... I think the song was Hit the Lights? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
@@jimobrien9104 No, you are correct.
"They recorded several demos during this time, including one recorded in McGovney's garage, the Power Metal demo, and the live No Life 'Til Leather. A recording of the song "Hit the Lights" with McGovney playing bass was featured on a repressing of the Metal Massacre Vol. 1 album."
@@jimobrien9104 It was actually James Hetfield who played bass on that, if I'm not mistaken
This was awesome, Cliff was one of the guys that made me want to play bass and he's one of my absolute favourite bassists of all time. He really opened my eyes to what the bass could do and he's also one of the guys that made me want to get a Rickenbacker (Edit: I now own one after buying it in the summer of 2020 and it’s still been my main bass since, and the one I play in a band with my friends)
Finally a bass episode! Love this and definitely hoping for more.
What about calling the series "Bass like........"
Hi cool guys \m/ Cliff and Jason, both mindblowing bass players.
Sadowsky is american brand btw
Thanks for this! Cliff was my hero when I was a kid! I know all the jokes about Jason’s lack of volume on Justice, I loved his sound on Garage Days revisited. Awesome tones there if you haven’t heard those old cover tunes.
The My Friend of Misery jam was killer!!
I was feeling watching them have so much fun jamming together.
What I love is when we get into this zone of music everyone is having fun. No pretense. Enjoyed this.
I really enjoy your series "All About the Bass", now I have another MUST WATCH! Thanks
Yay! More "sound like" for bass! Please do more of these!
How about a sound like Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy.
precision bass into a fender probably and a phase 90 or Micro Flanger for Waiting For An Alibi
Oooooh yeahhhh looking forward to Justin Chancellor! (Hopefully, keeping my fingers crossed)
Theyll probaply get it as awfull as this one
@@ColinBoonstra honestly mate, I don't really care if it doesn't sound great these guys are really entertaining. plus, trying to get a sound as close to Cliff as possible is really difficult
@@maxgburton i mean ive done it with way cheaper gear then a Kemper wich was a dumb choice anyway but i get where you are coming from, if you dont believe me hit me up on facebook
@Colin Boonstra this one was NOT awful, it was awesome
and the closest bass that'll get Justin's tone would be a spector, with a whammy pedal, not sure bout amp tho
@@sakimiyu4169 if you're looking at the cliff aspect it was
Soundlikes for the future:
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
Dirk Lance - Incubus
Stuart Zender - Jamiroquai
Les Claypool
Paul McCartney
Mark King
I mean, Mark King's brother is literally sitting right there, he should be able to do a pretty decent job of knowing the setup
Les used an ibanez musician bass back in the day, he has used a rickenbacker, a jazz in the music video for "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" but he mainly uses Custom basses by Carl Thompson
he has the rainbow 6 for Jerry Was A Racecar Driver, My Name Is Mud, Shake Hands With Beef, ect. and the ones with whammy bars for Tommy The Cat, Wynona's Big Brown Beaver, The Awakening and John The Fisherman
for amps i think he used ampeg from time to time but i'm not all sure
he has an auto wah in the mix, a series of fuzzes and distortions, a line six DL4 i think and a flanger or phaser for the intro of John The Fisherman which he layers with a fuzz pedal
so i reckon a six string bass and a fretless, any bass amp i guess, and whatever pedals come to mind
@@widowmaker5544 The sound he's been using for a while now for the intro on John The Fisherman is the Jet Fuzz setting on his Line 6 DM4
Steve Harris is easy, it's just a Fender Precision with heavy flatwounds played fast as hell
And please only do Harris on flat wound strings. The amount of people that are ignorant of that always blows my mind. Otherwise are they going to try and emulate his technique? Hmmm.
It really sounds like metallica indeed, especially since in 99% of the video, we're not hearing any bass being played at all
cripple horse that’s how Metallica did it. 😅
I’m a bit of a gear head that’s a new sound but it’s not an old sound. It sounds like rob not cliff
Not that there was audible bass all the time... The first sound was authentic until the Wah came in!
Mac Crazy It sounds too saturated or something. Cliff's wah was more of a top boost while maintaining some clarity.
Didn't Cliff use a standard guitar wah? Bass ones are probably tuned differently.
@@rkan665 yea the dry tone is similar in volume as without the wah and the wah sits kinda on top, this one seems to suck away everything thats there
@@Tehstroyer Yeah, he used a normal Morley Power Wah... Nice thing but I prefer my Bad Horsie II :-D
To be fair, crybabys are s lot different to Morley wahs. And the bass crybaby is actually a low pass filter not a wah (bandpass)
Literally been waiting ages for a sound like for bass
You guys nailed it absolutely at it was a pure pleasure to watch!
I'd love to see more of these but maybe try to take some cues from the guitar Sounds Like series Bea and Matt are doing. It'd be loads of fun to see you guys going through the store to choose your gear. They also have a very good balance of talking and playing. Especially the part where they show the tones first and then talk about them.
Love this idea to compete with Rabea and Matt although Matt often plays bass when its needed which is also great! Any chance of you two doing a video comparing all the low end basses of one type say a Precision bass, between Squier CV and Sire and a few others its hard to know which one to get especially for the online shoppers who dont have all these basses in stores near them
How can you know nothing about Metallica?
Seriously how??
They're probably one of the biggest bands in history
First time on this channel and this is about the only video I can stomach, the guy on the left literally makes me cringe on the inside which I didn't think was humanly possible.
Sadowsky has nothing to do with Germany. Roger has been building instruments in New York City since day one.
It's not even german name lol
I guess he mixed it up with Sandberg🤔
Was thinking the same
what were the settings for cliff's rig ????
Who clicks “no” on this???? Between a killer Portrait of Tracy duet with Marcus Miller and this, Lee is becoming one of my favorite bass players.
How about a “Sound like Mark King” episode ? I bet Nathan knows a thing or two about that😁
2:09 Pretty close, Kill 'Em All is 1983
You forgot to crank the bass amp volume up so high that it tears down the building
@@ammarD he's talking about cliff, the bass was a huge part of the band until 1986
@@maxjudge020 I just love people that take every single Joke seriously.
@@ammarD how is that even a joke
This was awesome please keep doing these base segments
From the man , Cliff, on what he uses.
th-cam.com/video/Dxaut6XsM_E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=MNl6UFjmJYrfE5a0
Well done guys! Don't forget the Suicidal Tendencies for Trujillo!
xeniousAR he really made their sound. His work in Infectious Grooves was spot on.
@@kiltymacbagpipe I loves me some Infectious Grooves!
The plague that makes your booty move.
Now that was an awesome sound like video!! hella fun guys nice work . :)
Good idea, and good job! It’s almost impossible to do anestesia exactly like on the record, but you got it quite well. Those pedal settings and movements are not easy to replicate.
Sound Like Metallica (Bass) = Get a Kemper
On a side note: Cliff's Rickenbacker was reportedly very heavily Modified. He changed pick-ups and even had an additional guitar pick-up somewhere in the bridge area.
You guys missed out the mods he put into the rickenbacker he had mudbucker style pick up in the neck and a jazz style pickup at the bridge he also put a guitar pick up under the bridge it was thanks to these mods that the bass finally gave up the ghost
P. S. The technique cliff use was far closer to the bridge do love video though you still cliffs stuff really well
Love how you didn’t mention AJFA, truly nailed the sound on that one
Great video! You need to do more of these along with the history lessons.
I dont think you guys understand how amazing this video is
It was a rickenbacker 4001 and he wasn’t worried about it breaking on tour it did break due to the strat guitar pickup under the bridge but luckily he was endorsed by the Japanese company Aria and got the black and gold aria pro 2 used on master of puppets
nice, finally a bass version of this series!
if I am not mistaken, Cliff changed rickenbacker because the number of customizations (pickups) he did on it caused the bass to underperform :)
Loving all the comments about using an air guitar to achieve the And Justice For All sounds! Well funny!
On a serious note I still maintain hearing Cliff Burton's bass live is the best bass sound I have ever heard. Of course purely personal to me but I just loved it and (as yet) have never heard any better and count myself lucky I managed to see him live.
My dude! Absolutely KILLING Anesthesia!!
got me chills that bass play, stunning!
Love the energy boys, good video
Ron Mcgovney was the first bass player in Metallica and Kill em all was July 1983
I know was driving me crazy XD
The Sadowsky basses didn't come until after the Black album. He originally used a combination of Alembic, ESP, Spector, and BC Rich. All of that of course going through his Ampeg SVT Classic and SVT-II PRO
Get a sounds like Level 42 bass pronto
This would have been fun to do the whole, in the store looking for gear thing. Do the whole sounds like experience.
Sound like Al Cisneros from Sleep/OM.
I will not stop commenting this until you do it
Waited for this for soooooo much
Spector basses were used primarily on the Black Album tracks. He switched to using Sadowsky basses during that tour because moisture did not cause the electonics on the Sadowsky basses to fail during the live shows.
Regarding Cliff, there was some misinformation:
Joined ‘82, played on Kill ‘Em All (1983), Ride The Lightning (1984) and Master Of Puppets (1986), died in 1987 in a buss accident in Sweden.
He used a mid 70s BurgundyGlo Rickenbacker loaded with a Gibson mudbucker, Seymour Duncan hot stack J and a hot Seymour Duncan Strat pickup under the bridge in place of the string mutes. He later switched to the Aria Pro II due to electrical malfunctions in the Rick after all his modifications. He used various amps, most notably Sunn O))) and Mesa Boogie, and his pedal board most famously featured a Morley power fuzz wah, a TS808, Biff Muff Pi and a CS-2
Best andertons upload evah!
Didn't Jason play Lakland as well? Load/reload days?
Sawdowsky basses in the load and reload days, he used Lakland like later on i think
The Morecombe and Wise of bass playing. Totally brilliant. More clean Rickenbacker tones please (sound like Geddy Lee) the sound is monumental. Cant wait for the Christmas special.
Do Sound Like Placebo please!!
@@davidpearson6346 OMG :O thanks I've been waiting for it long time ago
I really hope this side of things doesn't end up in the same hole as the guitar "Sound Like" where they keep trying to replicate the same boring tones over and over again, and failing at the ones that are actually somewhat unique and warrant an actual video. As a bass player I feel this series has a dangerous possibility of getting stale fast, so please lads, pick the sounds well, even if it means more infrequent episodes.
Thanks
We got any Cliff Burton nerds in the comments?
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Cliff didn't use the D-180 on any tour until 85. He also quit the Rickenbacker because there were technical problems with the heavy modifications. And I hate to be that guy, but its Compression then Morely Wah then TS9.
Why did he put bass->wah->compressor->TS9? Was that the original configuration Cliff had?
As soon as the friend of misery jam came in I was hooked. Super entertaining to watch and listen too 🤘
I've wanted this for a long time
*Serious question, how do you get cliffs clean tone?*
Use a compressor and the neck pickup, to start
TheNirclex: Canal Morido first get an Aria bass with an MB-1 or MB-2 pickup, if there’s two pickups --> neck = 100% bridge = 75% tone 70%. Simple right? Now that you have that get a cranked Ampeg SVT with 1x15 and 8x10 cabs. Usually he would go DI into the board from his amp but sometimes you would find him micing it up, usually with a SM57. Almost forgot he 1 pickup config... crank it all except keep tone at 75%. Pretty simple guide... I will be back soon with some sound samples from this guide with this exact setup, just like cliffs. I hope you mean by his clean tone most of his MOP stuff cause that’s with the Aria and imo his best tone and best writing is there, though earlier songs don’t leave stuff lacking. I’m super board right now but I could tell you that my Aria bass was 700 shipped from Japan and it’s good :D
Your Prince cover was better. On a side note there were actually 4 bass players, Ron McGovney on their first demo, and then Bob Rock played on St Anger. But I get why they weren't included.
Your Cliff bass tone was bad sorry. The best gear are amp< tube screamer ts8
That's funny, my first ever bass (excluding the duct tape bass my unrelated brother gave me to learn on) was an Aria Pro II and I never once knew Metallica used them.
Cliff's Rickenbacker bass was stolen, it also had a strat bridge pickup wired in there somewhere, thats why he had the Aria basses
the guitar pickup was under the bridge of the bass, there was a Gibson pickup in the neck and a standard one in the middle
Cliff's Rick wasn't stolen lmao, it's in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame
Cliffs bass was heavily modified and it was having issues with the touring life thats why he replaced it was due to all the mods
Just turn it down really low in the mix.
first bass player in metallica was Ron mcgovney
Cliff joined A bit later
That wah was a trainwreck
Bullshit! it was a masterpiece
Nice to see some bass love. I must ask though, am I weird for only wanting to sound like myself?
Makes sense as their live rigs are now 100% AxeFX. Saw them live a couple of times and Robert is frustratingly quiet in the live mix. I don't get why you have such a talented guy in your band and then don't let people hear him. Good video, more please!
Best way is getting a Spector Legend bass and a good fender Rumble amp and you can pretty much get Cliffs tone out of Spector alone, I played one and got even a Rick Tone out of it as well as Les Claypools and John Entwistles Buzzard Bass tones, also Jason used Spector and Alembic while with metallica too, can't believe they weren't even mentioned
This is a really good way to show how important bass was to punctuating their sound. And I'm a guitar player lol
What is the distortion or the amp for the ironcross
FINALLY A BASS SOUNDS LIKE
Some cool suggestions would be:
Krist novoselic of nirvana
Colin greenwood of radiohead
Geezer butler of black sabbath
Justin chancellor of tool
Flea from rhcp
was Royal Blood not a bass sound like? well technically not cos it's a bass sounding like a guitar
I wanna see them do N.I.B if they do geezer
Great show thank you guys!👍 Who are Nathan’s bass player idols?
11:25 AFAIK Roger Sadowsky's shop is based in NYC, and have a Japanese line of instruments called Metro... Besides Warwick, the first famous "turbo-Fender" German brand coming to my mind is Sandberg, and they can look similar-ish. Funny story is there was an article on Bass Player circa 1996 when he was talking about his Sadowsky basses, saying that he bought a stock of 8 or so, made waterproof for him (he said he sweated a lot) and if memory serves me well he mentioned testing them immerging them into a pool of water, lol 😆
Anyway, what's curious is that he also had a trusted vintage specs P bass (58/59?) that made it to a lot of recording sessions for the Load/Reload era. You can spot an old sunburst P in studio footage from around November 95.
There’s bass in mettalica?
Cliffs Rick was retired because of all the mods. It had a gibson mudbucker on the neck, jazz bass pickup in the bridge and then he had a stray pickup directly under the bridge
What about And Justice For All tone?
Worth mentioning that among Rob's Jazz basses is Jaco Pastorius' Bass of Doom