Bass Sound Quotes

You need to make people think about society in a less literal and more primal way. It's about using the least amount of sounds to make the most amount of noise and energy, and making a bass stab really feel like you've been punched in the face.

Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.

Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.

Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

Let there be bass.

Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.

I'm like soft Ray Manzarek. I think of the keyboard as almost like a bass or a lead.

More basses, because you are so far away.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

What it really comes down to, especially in metal, is that the bass needs to cut through, so you go to the pick for that effect. But when you have a certain feel about the music and really dig in to get a big growl, you have to go with the fingers, because you're not going to get it with a pick.

I find the production in 'A&E' very beautiful, it reminds me of Ace Of Base, the way the bass has that space and the reggae.

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

The sound of tap is not 'clickety clickety tap tap,' this monotone thing. The sound of tap has depth. We want you to hear the different highs and lows, the bass, the trebles and the melodies, if you can.