Fightstar Equipment

Patricide

Ok, i know ill prolly get slated for this but after being blown away by the fighstar album yet again and searching for what equipment they use yet again i have come here to ask the question.

Ok i know the guitarists use mesa tripple rectifiers, prs and fender guitars but thats not really what im interested in.

The bassist uses a warwick corvette $$(just like me haha) but what amp does he get to use that smooth fat bass tone.Seems too clean to be an ampeg and too warm to be a mesa, anyone know this.

Also the drummer, he uses meinl cymbols but anyone know what kit or snare he uses?

Doctor J

Probably just DI'd straight into the desk. Bass differs from guitar in that most if not all the tone come from the instrument itself, not the amp, so a lot of the time you'll just plug the bass straight into the desk, there's no point in putting it through an amp or else blend some mic'd amp with DI'd bass.

Patricide

I gotta disagree here J, well to some extent cause lets face it an ampeg sounds MIGHTY different to say somthing like an Eden and an orange amp isnt exactly gonna sound like an ashdown. But yea that seems pretty logical there but the fudger gets the same tone live with a stack of some sort behind him so the quest to find the tone continues!!!

feylya

He could just be DI'ing it live too...

Doctor J

Yeah, bass amps do sound different but most of the tone comes from the bass and if the bass sounds good you'll use it, even live. You'll often see no mic in front of the bass amp at gigs, the amp is really just acting as a monitor for the bassist, the sound of the bass through the PA is usually sourced from a DI. Sometimes it's post amp, sometimes pre, but I don't know one live engineer who'd take a mic'd bass amp over a DI to put through a PA. Long story short, if the bass sounds good there's no need to **** about looking for something you already have.

Doctor J

Anyway, don't go on what you see in music videos, generally that's just what they're paid to be seen in public with, not always what they actually use in a studio.

Doctor J

Hell, it might not even be them playing in the studio

feylya

Doctor J wrote:

Hell, it might not even be them playing in the studio

Post of the month

Doctor J

Just telling it like it is

There are countless albums out there with uncredited session musicians doing the playing for the pretty gimps who can't walk the walk.

judas101

Doctor J wrote:

Probably just DI'd straight into the desk. most if not all the tone come from the instrument itself, not the amp, so a lot of the time you'll just plug the bass straight into the desk

yup, he's telling the truth.

still preferd the ashdown tho Doc

Patricide

Doctor J wrote:

Anyway, don't go on what you see in music videos, generally that's just what they're paid to be seen in public with, not always what they actually use in a studio.

i knew that was coming somewhere, there my gulty pleasure band. the ****ers def playing the wick in the studio.Yea he might be di'ing live alright too just having an amp for show. Im still acheing to get the bastards tone myself, i dont have the luxuary of di ing live like he does

The Freeman

Doctor J wrote:

Hell, it might not even be them playing in the studio

class!:D