How Marcus Miller Gets The Perfect Slap Bass Tone
Recently, I’ve been listening to loads of Marcus Miller recordings and performances. And I’ve deconstructed his slap bass tone into three simple steps that you can take and use right away.
No practice required!
Here’s the full performance I was analyzing in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqTCAZK9rzY
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Roger Sadowsky installed a preamp in his bass, but it was before he had his own line of basses or gear. The preamp was made by Stars Guitars, it burned out, and I think the second one was a Bartolini.
I hate to be a buzzkill but this video says nothing about equalization or the fact that you must have fresh strings to get the zing
Great video. Marcus has his original single coil pickups too, that helps with the open top end. Do you have singles in your Sadowsky? Also I noticed the missing knobs on your Sadowsky, curious as to why. I’m always accidentally knocking my Sadowsky volume knob down, ????.
Interesting video, I think the basics for Marcus Miller slap tone are: Jazz bass with maple neck and maple fretboard, 70's style pick-up position, stainless steel strings, scooped EQ (bass boost, mids cut and treble boost), softer attack with use of compressor and clean your fretboard regularly. With this you will have a very close approach of Miller's slap sound. I f you want as close to 100% then use the same Sadowsky pre-amp (or Baartolini??) he's currently using.
what about knob settings? Are both pups wide open?
Would it be possible for you to create a Quad Cortex “Marcus Miller” patch?
I appreciate the careful consideration you bring to teaching. I’ll listen through some of your videos today as I just found your channel.
a four string jazz with a maple neck and new roundwound strings is ingredient #1.
Man, the FIRST thing, and necessary in this case, to get that tone is to have a jazz bass (or a clone, jazz style whatever) with a 70's pu configuration (which means bridge pu closer to the bridge), then compressor (or eq then compressor if the bass is passive) with a slow attack, around 20/25 ms, and an eq
Your tone is not even close