Suggestions for Lemmy's bass tone on this track?

Lokasenna · Apr 3rd 2014

For years, one of my dream bass sounds has been the beginning of Motorhead's Overnight Sensation - the very beginning, like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDVqI1epHyQ

I'm working with free profiles here, and I can get some pretty solid bass rigs set up, but I have yet to come anywhere close to the smoothness and thickness he's got going on.

His live rig has, for years, been a Marshall bass amp with the mids dimed, bass and treble turned down, and all the tone controls on his bass turned up, but since this is a studio album I'm assuming there's more going on.

Anyone up to the challenge?

Cheers.

londonjeepster · Apr 3rd 2014

I dont know,but many years ago i had Vic Maile as a producer and he worked with Motorhead a fair bit during the Ace of Spades era and he told me that they actually brought the pa into the studio and played through that, so maybe they continued with that technique.

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