{"id":3973,"date":"2013-05-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2013-05-13T03:55:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T08:55:52","slug":"how-to-get-stoner-rock-bass-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/how-to-get-stoner-rock-bass-tone.html","title":{"rendered":"How to get &#8220;Stoner Rock&#8221; bass tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heavier, grittier side of bass tone is stoner rock. Definitely not a mainstream rock sound, not exactly grunge, not exactly heavy metal, not exactly blues&#8230; it&#8217;s just a decidedly &#8220;dark&#8221; hard driving sound. Stoner rock isn&#8217;t necessarily slow or fast tempo and it goes all over the place.<\/p>\n<h3>Early stoner tone<\/h3>\n<p>Some say the first stoner tone was from Black Sabbath. Others say it was Pink Floyd. Who was the first? Doesn&#8217;t matter, because they&#8217;re both great. But for this example, I&#8217;m using Pink Floyd&#8217;s <em>One of These Days<\/em> from <em>Live at Pompeii<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YgvAwBDbuIo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This stoner tone is total Fender all the way through. To get it, just crank your bass knobs up to 10, use a pick, add some light drive (<a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.3dcartstores.com\/Pigtronix-Bass-FAT-Drive_p_5205.html\">this pedal is a good choice<\/a>) and you&#8217;ve basically got it.<\/p>\n<h3>1990s stoner tone version 1<\/h3>\n<p>In the 90s, grunge was king for a while. However, there were a few popular songs that slipped through the cracks that weren&#8217;t grunge but rather stoner-sounding. <em>Rusty Cage<\/em> by Soundgarden is one of them:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBZs_Py-1_0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That sounds Geezer-like&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it does, but the difference is a more &#8220;thuddy&#8221; tone to it. Fingers are used here, and that used in combination with <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.3dcartstores.com\/Pigtronix-Bass-Philospher-Compressor_p_5208.html\">compression<\/a> and drive get that 90s stoner sound.<\/p>\n<h3>1990s stoner tone version 2<\/h3>\n<p>One word described this: Fuzz. And one of the better examples of this is Fu Manchu&#8217;s <em>The Falcon Has Landed<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UemrBH1AkY4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/dunlop-mxr-m84-compressor.htm\">Fuzz up with this<\/a>, rock out, play slow.<\/p>\n<h3>Modern stoner tone<\/h3>\n<p>The modern stoner sound is tuned lower and cleaned up a bit; it&#8217;s basically like early &#8216;Floyd and &#8216;Sabbath with lower notes used &#8211; and that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>A great example of modern stoner tone is <em>Down the Odyssey<\/em> by Palm Desert:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4UdG57P0QJY?list=PLLp0Ec7YRp0YLoEd4pxiEAXWfq040EVzk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The modern stoner sound uses the least amount of drive, mainly to let the lower notes be heard better. Basically what that means is to use the same rig you would for early stoner tone and just dial back the drive. Pick or fingers can be used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were there any variations of stoner tone I missed?<\/strong> I probably did. Probably missed a lot of them, but I have limited space here. \ud83d\ude42 Feel free to post a comment or two on what you think &#8220;true stoner tone&#8221; is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heavier, grittier side of bass tone is stoner rock. Definitely not a mainstream rock sound, not exactly grunge, not exactly heavy metal, not exactly blues&#8230; it&#8217;s just a decidedly &#8220;dark&#8221; hard driving sound. Stoner rock isn&#8217;t necessarily slow or fast tempo and it goes all over the place. Early stoner tone Some say &#8230; <a title=\"How to get &#8220;Stoner Rock&#8221; bass tone\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/how-to-get-stoner-rock-bass-tone.html\" aria-label=\"More on How to get &#8220;Stoner Rock&#8221; bass tone\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}