Rage Against The Machine - Microphone Fiend

WiresDreamDisasters

What am I hearing on the bass guitar on this track?? Around 2:20ish when the chorus kicks in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOwutDkZeUo

It sounds like a super fuzzed out rectified bass tone, but still solid AF in the lows.

ChrisCox1994

he has a few homemade blank silver boxed pedals which (i think) have remained secret for years - all his bass tones are amazing though, such a killer band. 

mike257

WiresDreamDisasters said:

It sounds like a super fuzzed out rectified bass tone, but still solid AF in the lows.

His live rig has always been either two or three sets of heads/cabs, with the first being an always on clean, the second being dirty that he'd add in on top, with the third (when he's used it) being another level of dirt.  I imagine he's taken a similar approach in the studio, an always-on clean for the big lows with the fuzz layered on top.

ToneControl

mike257 said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

It sounds like a super fuzzed out rectified bass tone, but still solid AF in the lows.

His live rig has always been either two or three sets of heads/cabs, with the first being an always on clean, the second being dirty that he'd add in on top, with the third (when he's used it) being another level of dirt.  I imagine he's taken a similar approach in the studio, an always-on clean for the big lows with the fuzz layered on top.

I was thinking that way too, split signal path

fretmeister

His rig rundown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsgUqLdgQ1U

WiresDreamDisasters

Thanks @fretmeister !