How to get this clean yet dirty slap tone - advice?

  • Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, i wasn't sure where to put it.


    Check out the video below. I can do the slap technique well, but I've always struggled to get a tone I love and this guy has a great one. Really clean, with just a bit of grit, but super tight. I can get it to sound great with a purely clean tone, but It's that tightness around the dirt I can never get dialed in when I try to add some. Any EQ or effects tips here? I'm guessing a compressor is one, though no idea what settings. Any effects or settings tips to try welcome!


    I'm currently using a Bert Meulendijk Princeton profile with the Green Scream, which I can get an ok tone with, but nowhere near as good as in the video.


    https://youtu.be/Kg2L4M4zxiw

  • Compress, compress, compress. Make sure the Sustain parameter is turned down if you have that. I use a Keeley compressor in front of Kemper because I have more options with it than just the Kemper compressor stomp.


    That tone is pretty popular for bassists.

    Larry Mar @ Lonegun Studios. Neither one famous yet.