Posted by Slapmonsta on 12-11-2009 10:57
#19
"Muse-speak"..what Chris "my head is stuck up my arse alongside my Behringer overdrive pedal" Wolstenholme really meant.... "And then just as a joke, somebody said, “Why don’t you just try playing slap bass?” So I did it, and initially everyone was laughing their asses off. (at my utter ineptitude) Then we went back and listened to it, and we thought, “If we make the sound edgy enough, it could actually sound quite cool.” (I actually quite like the sound of this,but I'm a little out of my blinkered little bass "zone" so I better not enjoy it too much) So we put a Hematoma pedal on it. I had a very slight, top-endy distortion to crunch it up a little(and make me feel like I'm back in "control" again-in case the label and my cool art student Coldplay mates laugh at me for ruining my "originality"
Obviously the danger with slap bass is if you go for that super-clean, twangy, “nice” bass sound, it ends up sounding like Level 42."(and I certainly don't want to be thought of as one of the most popular and inspirational British bass players of all time-no sirree.)
Or something like that...