H*ck yeah!! I bought my Limited Edition Standard Telecaster Precision Bass because of Mike Dirnt. It's basically a cheaper version of his signature bass. You nailed his tone!
This is great! I have a Mike Dirnt bass coming....eventually via f'n FEDEX (lost for 2 weeks) so this is super info! I have a Rumble and play an Ibanez right now.
I didn't get a chance to do a cover along with this HTSL because I was working on a collab video. Which song from American Idiot would you like to see me cover?
Awesome video "very intuitive appreciate all you do to make chasing bass tones a lot easier!!!! I agree with you using the ZOOM B1 X4 is the way to go as it can get very expensive buying new gear in your other video. 🙂🎸👍
As you can see him, headed down the rabbit hole of your videos. Funny thing that you mentioned about not being able to afford his things often. When I was a kid, I remember, dropping my strings in a pot of water with Dash of dish soap and letting them boil for just a few minutes and I would throw them back on my bass Lol
Dang awesome tutorial dude! I wish they would release the Sansamp Bass Driver V2 as a deluxe, I hate not having a Mid Control on my pedal. Did you say you mic'd your Fender Rumble or used the XLR?
Did you use the '53 bassman amplitube head? I saw It's 35€ and without cab lol. Or it was a different one? I think it would be nice if you are more graphic/specific in your videos regarding of how you got the tone. I liked that tone you got but now I don't know how to recreate it... Thank you
Awesome video his bass lines are just the best, fav band. If you could find some way of replicating Matt Sharps tone on Pinkerton that would be great I haven’t seen anyone even replicate it accurately.
How comes I didn't find this video of yours sooner ?! Love it ! Just a few random thoughts after the video : first, a really great demonstration of how to replicate the "modern" Mike Dirnt tone, congrats and thank you for that ! Second, Mike Dirnt actually already had the G3 bass on Kerplunk but you probably try not to lose your viewers with details. Finally, I wanted to ask you how it was to have the Fender Rumble 500 in a flat. When you record it through the XLR out, is the speaker muted or do you use headphones ? I find it really hard to find the perfect compromise between a home-friendly and a gigable amp... Any idea ? Also, I do have a cheap squier P-bass but an affinity one, above my ATK300 one and don't know if I should upgrade it or get a Squier classic vibes or vintage... I am quite talkative about this video since American Idiot has also been a life-changing album for the 11 yeared old me ! Cheers !
Thanks so much! I love getting comments like this! For recording the XLR, I put a headphone adapter in the headphone jack to mute the speaker. Otherwise, the amp will still make sound when recording. When I practice at home, I find that I can get away with low volumes the 500 and it still sounds pretty good, but I do roll the bass way off on the eq because those are the frequencies that tend to penetrate walls. I used to have an ATK300 and I really miss it! Never get rid of it! As far as upgrading, I really like the Classic Vibes, but if you can stretch for a Player series bass or a used Mexican Fender, then that will be the last bass you’ll ever need. Thanks again for your kind words!
@@ampthebassplayer Thank you for your answer; I really love this channel and still don't know why I don't get all the notifications ! These are really interesting tricks ! Thank you. It is really facing a dilemma because I want to learn guitar and bass and can't choose between something for both like a THR10 or something bigger which wouldn't be gigable in the long run. But I don't want to race through steps and have to play better before that ! I really love the ATK300 and you've got to know that your review and Paramore bass cover (the bassist was also a Green Day fan and interestingly has a G3 !!) comforted me to buy it : since either a G3 or a fat-sounding stingray was pretty pricey. You should find another one (I have an indonesian one but japanese are known to be better), since they are criminally underrated ! As is your channel ! Cheers and I hope you never stop doing videos !
I mean, the results speak for themselves. If you want, you can actually take the isolated bass track and do an eq spectrum analysis in your daw and that will show you what frequencies are more present than others. I bet you’ll find plenty of low mids!
@@ampthebassplayer that's where I got fucked because indeed it sounds like Mike's tone! thing is I heard him say in a recent interview that he describes his frequency spectrum in a shape of M, meaning a big cut in the mids, getting the bass and as Entwistle turning the treble up!
@@ampthebassplayer ok because I bought a Squire Classic 60s P bass it's 430$ and a Fender Rumble 200 amp. I'm hoping to get a good sound with some strings I'm a complete noob and don't know what to buy string wise.
@@ogcodvideos6546 You should be just fine with the stock strings until they start to lose their brightness. Assuming you're playing every day, they should last several months, but some people go much longer than that.
just crank treble all the way up and put bass like a quarter of the way and put tone knob like half way and boom you're done, don't need all this gain or whatever
Great vid dude. Mike Dirnt was one of the bassists that inspired me to pick up a bass.
H*ck yeah!! I bought my Limited Edition Standard Telecaster Precision Bass because of Mike Dirnt. It's basically a cheaper version of his signature bass. You nailed his tone!
Nice! Yeah, I absolutely love his signature bass. Perfect instrument for him. Thanks for watching!
Awesome! I love his tone. Btw who stars out the word h*ck? 😄😄
bro how do you only have 3.7k subs u deserve 1 mil
This is great! I have a Mike Dirnt bass coming....eventually via f'n FEDEX (lost for 2 weeks) so this is super info! I have a Rumble and play an Ibanez right now.
The secret to Mike's tone is a boost at 2K, and a Yahama G100 guitar head. He used that on everything up to the trilogy
Criminally underrated bassist
I didn't get a chance to do a cover along with this HTSL because I was working on a collab video. Which song from American Idiot would you like to see me cover?
Letterbomb is amazing.
IMO Mikes tone is hiding exactly in boosting quite a lot in 2k. If you have opportunity to boost these frequencies specifically, go for it!
Awesome video "very intuitive appreciate all you do to make chasing bass tones a lot easier!!!! I agree with you using the ZOOM B1 X4 is the way to go as it can get very expensive buying new gear in your other video. 🙂🎸👍
It's amazing that Squier sounds like Fender
Eu uso pedal Overdrive kokko , perfect tone... Mike Dirnt my teacher forever.
Po, achava que esse pedal era pra guitarra. Pelo menos não tinha encontrado ng usando no baixo. Fica bão mesmo? Pq ODB3 tá caaaaaaro
@@gabrielcasagrande9463 cara compra o behringer Bass Overdrive BOD400 ele é a copia do boss ODB3
@@gabrielcasagrande9463 esse kokko é de guitarra mais hoje estou usando o behringer por que é a copia do boss odb3 e tem mais peso... é top man...
Mike was one of the reasons why I switched from playing guitar to bass
As you can see him, headed down the rabbit hole of your videos. Funny thing that you mentioned about not being able to afford his things often. When I was a kid, I remember, dropping my strings in a pot of water with Dash of dish soap and letting them boil for just a few minutes and I would throw them back on my bass Lol
I’ve done that too! Seems to work ok in a pinch.
You have a good fluidity to your speech and make for a decent video personality. good luck developing your channel!
Dang awesome tutorial dude! I wish they would release the Sansamp Bass Driver V2 as a deluxe, I hate not having a Mid Control on my pedal. Did you say you mic'd your Fender Rumble or used the XLR?
I can’t live without a mids control either! The Rumble is just DI’ed, no mic.
0:47 - Very good! Gave me a belly laugh. Yes yes. nice.
Dude, this is a great video. Just subscribed for more!
Awesome video and tone, thank you! 👏
Great video, liked and subscribed
Welcome aboard!
*_Mike Dirnt’s best bass tone on record is the song “The Grouch” from Nimrod. There’s an authentic instrumental of it on TH-cam._*
I’ll have to check that out!
How about paul simonon from the clash
I will add him to my list!
@@ampthebassplayer thanks
Did you use the '53 bassman amplitube head? I saw It's 35€ and without cab lol. Or it was a different one? I think it would be nice if you are more graphic/specific in your videos regarding of how you got the tone. I liked that tone you got but now I don't know how to recreate it... Thank you
I’m just using the free version of Amplitube. I have the patches available on my Patreon if you want to see them in detail.
I’m really loving your channel, i’ve shared it with with all my musician friends because you are criminally under-viewed. keep it up!
That is high praise! Thank you so much!
Top man
you had me at forty two seconds lmao
Awesome video his bass lines are just the best, fav band. If you could find some way of replicating Matt Sharps tone on Pinkerton that would be great I haven’t seen anyone even replicate it accurately.
could maybe please do a video of Mikey Way's (bassist of My Chemical Romance) tone?
How comes I didn't find this video of yours sooner ?! Love it !
Just a few random thoughts after the video :
first, a really great demonstration of how to replicate the "modern" Mike Dirnt tone, congrats and thank you for that !
Second, Mike Dirnt actually already had the G3 bass on Kerplunk but you probably try not to lose your viewers with
details.
Finally, I wanted to ask you how it was to have the Fender Rumble 500 in a flat. When you record it through the XLR out, is the speaker muted or do you use headphones ? I find it really hard to find the perfect compromise between a home-friendly and a gigable amp... Any idea ? Also, I do have a cheap squier P-bass but an affinity one, above my ATK300 one and don't know if I should upgrade it or get a Squier classic vibes or vintage...
I am quite talkative about this video since American Idiot has also been a life-changing album for the 11 yeared old me ! Cheers !
Thanks so much! I love getting comments like this!
For recording the XLR, I put a headphone adapter in the headphone jack to mute the speaker. Otherwise, the amp will still make sound when recording. When I practice at home, I find that I can get away with low volumes the 500 and it still sounds pretty good, but I do roll the bass way off on the eq because those are the frequencies that tend to penetrate walls.
I used to have an ATK300 and I really miss it! Never get rid of it! As far as upgrading, I really like the Classic Vibes, but if you can stretch for a Player series bass or a used Mexican Fender, then that will be the last bass you’ll ever need.
Thanks again for your kind words!
@@ampthebassplayer Thank you for your answer; I really love this channel and still don't know why I don't get all the notifications !
These are really interesting tricks ! Thank you. It is really facing a dilemma because I want to learn guitar and bass and can't choose between something for both like a THR10 or something bigger which wouldn't be gigable in the long run. But I don't want to race through steps and have to play better before that !
I really love the ATK300 and you've got to know that your review and Paramore bass cover (the bassist was also a Green Day fan and interestingly has a G3 !!) comforted me to buy it : since either a G3 or a fat-sounding stingray was pretty pricey. You should find another one (I have an indonesian one but japanese are known to be better), since they are criminally underrated ! As is your channel !
Cheers and I hope you never stop doing videos !
Would you consider doing Gang of Four???
You could have boiled your strings, or even just loosening them significantly and giving them a violent shake down works!
Mige Amour from HIM band please?!
Are you using 45 or 40 bass strings?
Does mike use flatwound or roundwound for strings??
Round wound
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Have you done Nolly?
that's awesome! but I'm not so sure about boosting the mids instead of bass and treble!
I mean, the results speak for themselves. If you want, you can actually take the isolated bass track and do an eq spectrum analysis in your daw and that will show you what frequencies are more present than others. I bet you’ll find plenty of low mids!
@@ampthebassplayer that's where I got fucked because indeed it sounds like Mike's tone! thing is I heard him say in a recent interview that he describes his frequency spectrum in a shape of M, meaning a big cut in the mids, getting the bass and as Entwistle turning the treble up!
@@RankielGuitar That's super interesting! It must be a very narrow cut.
His best sound was by far through Mesa Boogie amps.
this is more like "How to Sound Like...Krist Novoselic of Nirvana"
I'll be happy to give you 12 dollars for a HTSL video about the bass tone from Modern Baseball's 2014 Youre Gonna Miss It All
What strings?
I usually just go for Ernie Ball Slinkies because they’re cheap, but any roundwounds should be fine.
@@ampthebassplayer ok because I bought a Squire Classic 60s P bass it's 430$ and a Fender Rumble 200 amp. I'm hoping to get a good sound with some strings I'm a complete noob and don't know what to buy string wise.
@@ogcodvideos6546 You should be just fine with the stock strings until they start to lose their brightness. Assuming you're playing every day, they should last several months, but some people go much longer than that.
Not even close.
The main thing that making his tone is his pickup.
just crank treble all the way up and put bass like a quarter of the way and put tone knob like half way and boom you're done, don't need all this gain or whatever
jesus of suburbia
How to sounds like Mike puten
they are considered pop punk? That sucks. Dookie era was awesome though.