string or by the harmonic at the 12 th fret?
with classic drapes, classic lighting, very old
shouldn’t be using a fuzz.
school looking setup, I was able to get another
[David] I’ve always done just the open string. old school looking Flip Top which was black But that kind of goes back to me being very
I’ll check my intonation when I’m tuning just with a silver finish similar to the classic Silver intentional with effects, I don’t use it if it’s not
to be sure, because your bass can be in tune Face Ampeg look. So that’s what I’ve been meant to be there. Like take the fuzz out of the
in open string but if you don’t intonate it that using on the road, and if we do a fly date there bass line for an area and tell me if it doesn’t
could do some harm. I always just do open E. is always a Backline amp that’s just always a need to be there. Hearing ‘Hysteria” without a
Andy Elliott always taught me, he’s so particular part of my rig now, which is nice. Before I would bass fuzz sound on it doesn’t have the same
even with how you tune an instrument, that you have had to fight for it, so it is nice to get some effect, that’s why they put bass fuzz on it. That’s
tune it with the open string, don’t play eighth authenticity to the sound. Whether it’s a Tyler or how I treat my effects, if you take the effect out
notes just do one big whole note, and you an Ampeg, there’s just something there that’s of it and it feels like it’s empty then maybe it
always tune it down and then tune it up to get been tried and true since the Stones used it. should be there. Or vice versa, if I take the
it to unity. So if my E string was a little sharp,
effect off and it doesn’t do anything, maybe I
I wouldn’t just tune it down to the green, I’d [WM] What’s your approach for blending
tune it just a little past and then tune it up. He these sounds together?
said you always want to end your tuning by
save it for something else.
[WM] David, once again this has been
tightening it, you don’t want to just loosen it to [David] For a long time I used to have awesome! Are there any words of wisdom
unity, you want to tighten it. dedicated separate signals. I used to have just you’d like to share with the bass players out
a clean signal, and then just a dirty signal, and I there?
[WM] Can you tell us about the amp side of would blend those two. I think a lot of people do the equation and how you combine that with that. I actually didn’t like that sound, where you [David] It’s something I wanted to say in this
the DI? have just clean and just dirty, to me it creates interview but I wasn’t quite sure how to use it.
this really weird sound that’s not really what a I think maybe this is a good tip. Patience is like
[David] It’s been really great switching back bass sounds like. It feels like you’re cheating your best friend as a musician. You can take
into the amp world. I’ve used Tyler amps for a the effect in a weird way. It’s what people do that to any level. So many people, whether
long time, all of the bass tone from the previous when they can’t get an effect to fit in the mix, you’re a musician on stage, whether you have
three Elevation albums have been with different just throw the clean back in there so you can still a new gig, or you have a new song, at any level
DI’s, but the bass amp… I would always run a hear the bass and not really use the effect. No, you always want to put your impact on there as
bass line and an amp line. Pretty much from if there’s an effect on the bass that’s what it’s fast as you can. Whether just to say that you
“Here As in Heaven” all the way up to “There Is supposed to be. Like as a guitar player would made an impact on the song or whatever. So,
a Cloud” I used the Tyler Amp Flip Top as the you run a clean and also delay? It just kind of there’s always over playing, there could be the
amp tone. And that’s the thing I always loved defeats the purpose. If you have delay on your need to overplay. I think for a musician to not
about amps, what I loved about using both, is guitar just use the delay. With Lauren’s team, over play is self-control, but it’s also patience
the amp can get so dirty sounding and you buy they thought what would be cool is to use a DI because you might have some cool ideas but
so many pedals to try and recreate that sound. and use an amp, but use just the same signal. you’re going to save that for later. Or you might
It’s like this is what all those pedals are trying You’re still going to get tonal differences. An save it for another song that it fits more. That’s
to recreate, but they’re missing the speaker overdrive through a direct box sounds different where I feel like patience comes into play.
element. You can get so many dirt pedals but than a different overdrive through an amp. Get they’re never going to sound anything like a the highs and the brightness of the effect from Earlier in this interview you asked me about
dirty amp that’s just cranked you know, it’s just the direct box and get the growl and low end switching over to Lauren’s team and what that
not the same because you feel the speaker. from the amp and combine them, don’t feel like was like for me. I joined the team but waited
And that’s what I wanted in a band setting you have to have two conflicting sounds and a whole year to play. It was almost a whole
where we’re going back to basics. That’s what make that work, just try to have your one sound year between Lauren’s last date of 2017 and
we used was a Flip Top as the amplifier. The and make that sound good. I think that gives then when “Look Up Child” came out. It kind of
guys at Tyler Amps have been awesome, they more justice to the effect. Don’t use an effect if echoes when I joined Elevation’s team. I made
made me an 810 for when I was touring with it doesn’t sound good, if you use an effect that the team back in 2009 but I didn’t play my first
Elevation and I used it for the beginning stages should be part of the song. If I’m using a fuzz, Sunday until almost the end of summer 2010.
of Lauren’s touring season. But because of the that should be somehow incorporated into So it’s this whole patience thing. Me being
aesthetic they wanted, that classic aesthetic the mix. If the fuzz isn’t working then maybe I patient led to me playing on the last four or five
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