10 Worst Bass Tones in Super Famous Songs (as voted for by you)
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Published 2021-11-06
Some weeks back, I ran a poll on Instagram to find out which bass players currently rank as having the worst bass tone EVER on super famous songs, and in today’s video, I’m going to take you through the results. So, without further ado, here are the worst bass guitar tones of all time, as voted for by you…
Are there any bass tones you’d like to get on this list?
As always, see you in the shed…
Scott :)
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All Comments (21)
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That McCartney chap is never gonna have any success if he keeps playing like that.
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Jason’s tone was killer. Had we actually been able to hear it. I’ve said it a thousand times, they really should re-release a remixed version with audible bass for … And Justice For All
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“Are your ears drawn on” has to be one of the funniest insults I’ve ever heard.
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For a long time I didn't realize that was actually a bass in the Don't Stop Believing intro. I thought it was just the left hand of the piano. It blends so well
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I thought the Don't Stop Believing bass tone was really clever: It was enhancing the low notes on the piano. The chorus helped it mimic those low piano string sounds.
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There's no bad tone when it fits the song. All the bass tones in this video are unique.
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Hearing the isolated bass track from and justice for all is like seeing a picture of bigfoot. I really thought it was just an urban legend that there was bass on that album.
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This video could just as easily be titled: "10 most perfect bass sounds in the mix of famous songs!".
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i feel like everyone involved in voting must have been trolling Scott
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I think the people who voted just wanted to hear these isolated tracks and got together to vote for some the best bass lines ever made with great tones aswell
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This is one of the most validating videos I’ve ever seen if these are what people consider “the worst”. I really think people just don’t know how to create enduring art through music. A lot of these are classic tracks for a reason, including the bass part. I think the people calling a lot of these worst would replace the classic lines with something completely forgettable and not fitting of the song it’s for.
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As Scott says: sometimes the bad tone works within the mix. I have found that when recording, ive gone back and re-recorded with really bad/strange/ messed up tones after all the other instruments are in, in order to work better in the mix. The best bass tone is not always the best bass tone for the project.
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i feel like the clipping in "September" serves as a percussive value when played with the entire band. I've never heard it till ti was isolated.
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I think the big problem now days with peoples opinion with bass tones is they forget the tone with content of song and the era it was recorded it's almost like musicians in general are getting snobby like anyone is afraid to sound different
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I LOVE the bass in Don't Stop Believin', it sounds like its underwater, it has the same charm as a slightly out of tune piano, I've always loved that kind of tone, and it sounds great on that bass in my opinion.
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That wide open bass tone from Fieldy and Ibanez basses is tough to use correctly, but Korn pulls it off perfectly
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A detect a pattern here: anybody who diverts away from the average by adding a bit of character to his or her basstone gets shot down. (the one with the distortion of Flea in the last part I didn't like)
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All of these tones are absolutely banging in the mixes they were sculpted for. The hard part really is making these kinds of bass tones to be replicated live, with different acoustics every show. Bass players, communicate with your sound engineers!
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Entwistle live had such an awesome aggressive/clean bass tone, but in the studio, he'd always be at odds with the producer who always muddied his tone in addition to cutting all of the treble
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The only one that I have strong feelings about is the John Entwistle one. He seems to have agreed--when he remixed the Quadrophenia songs for the movie soundtrack in 1979, he re-recorded his parts with a much heavier & twangier Alembic bass. The songs therefore have much more wallop than the original studio recordings.
