Figure It Out - The Amazing Bass Tone Of Royal Blood (simple bass setup, tabs & tutorial)
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- This week we’re going to look at one of the most innovative bass players of the last 10 years: Mike Kerr from the band Royal Blood.
Mike Kerr creates a huge wall of sound with his bass guitar by splitting his bass signal and sending it to three separate amplifiers. Each signal can affected separately to give a massive guitar/bass combination.
In this lesson we'll work through a simple bass setup allowing you to replicate the Royal Blood sound before moving into a tutorial of the song Figure It Out.
Lesson Material: www.talkingbass.net/figure-it...
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0:00 Intro
1:50 The Royal Blood Tone
2:49 Gretsch Junior Jet 2
3:43 Effects Overview
4:29 Boss LS2 Setup
6:24 POG & Distortion Setup
8:09 Adding The Bass Signal
9:01 Figure It Out Opening
11:39 Opening With Bass
12:07 Figure It Out Pre Chorus
13:37 Figure It Out Chorus
17:04 Figure It Out Middle 8
19:56 Figure It Out End Riff
#royalblood #mikekerr #talkingbass
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Bass Gear:
► Enfield Lionheart Bass Guitar
► SIMS Super Quad Pickups
► DR bass strings
► Levy Leathers Bass Strap
► GRBass Bass Amps
► Boss LS2 Line Selector
► EHX Micro Pog
► EHX Pog 2
► EHX Big Muff (Bass Deluxe)
► Sonic Research ST-300 Turbo Tuner - Hudba
Lesson Material: www.talkingbass.net/figure-it-out-the-amazing-bass-tone-of-royal-blood-simple-bass-setup-tabs-tutorial/
Royal Blood absolutely blew me away! Thought me the lesson that bass players should start experimenting more and try getting out of conventional roles once in a while and experiment with effects more. Amazing lesson and video Mark!
Word!
As someone who’s just getting into playing and has been a MASSIVE fan of Royal Blood for years, I’m beyond stoked that I can get one of Mike’s guitars for a very affordable price, as my first Bass.
What a bass tone. Killer bass line too.
I saw them open for queens of the stone age and genuinely preferred them. They sound amazing, incredibly amount of sound, and super tight rythmically live.
hell yes, so stoked to see you put this vid together!
Fantastic lesson, very interesting to see the explanation about the setup and tone in addition to the regular stuff! Cheers!
Absolutely brilliant, thank you!
huge thanks to you! never listened to Royal Blood, but the setup explanation is really usefull. Gotta try it out!
Great tutorial Mark. Very useful, thanks!
this is what i've been looking for the entire time. thanks so much maannn
Nice job Mark, as always!
Great as always!!! ♥️♥️♥️🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I've been back to this many times while I waited for my Boss LS pedal to arrive. Set up now and it sounds amazing! Many thanks for the tutorial Mark, it was invaluable 👏🏻
amazing tutorial!
Really nice lesson. I ended up buying the Boss ls-2 pedal for this. Cool!
Btw, the bass line from @Am I really going to die” by White lies is awesome. Hopefully some day will get to a video lesson 😎
POG2 has presets so you could you it for both POG settings. No need for 2
Thanks Mark 🎵🎶🎸
Great job Mark.I'm a geezer but love good talent no matter the era This is such a fun band and they rock.I have that Epiphone and I love it.I also have a Bass Butler so I'm good to go with this sound.
Really cool video!
Not really looked at Royal Blood before… Must say it’s seriously cool.
MOST EXCELLENT
Спасибо большое за разбор, ваши видео помогают мне осваивать бас и не покончить с собой:)
thanks for the setup it help us alot! whooo haaa
Please please make more bass oriented Gear break downs! by the way the Tri-Paralizer Mixer from electro-hammonix should be a MUST for bass in Muse or Royal Blood covers
EHX tri blender is awesome to blend different distortions and synth sounds without making thems sound like a mush (like when they are in line).
Thank you bro A +++
This is the first song I learned on bass
Great video. I never heard of Royal Blood.
This tune reminds me of Death from Above.
Keep the groove and this awesome work, Mark. 🎸🇧🇷
Both Royal Blood and Death From Above 1979 have the bass/drum 2 member setup but they are pretty different stylistically. And obviously Mike and Jesse's bass setups are VERY different.
They’re similar! For me, DFA have 3 or 4 songs that I love, not really a fan of the rest. Royal Blood, however, I love 99% of their songs - all absolute BANGERS.
Great video! Going to buy a pog2 and ls2 and send the guitar player on vacation
Simply amazing. Bonus: now I know Royal Blood
i really like this track, any idea how to setup protools with this effect?
Lol I have to be performing this live in a month
As today is Primus EP release day...any chance we could get a song from it soon?
Follow the Fool? Pretty please?
thank you for this great tutorial, for amp you use a bass amp ?
merci merci merci
Si tu pouvais m'aider à comprendre quelque chose 😊 pourquoi l'accordeur est le switch ? Un switch a.b ou aby ne va pas ? Merci encore pour cette brillante vidéo et tes explications très utiles 👍👏👏👏
Is there any chance you could breakdown the solo in Antecedent by the omnific.
Man, so cool. Check out Trio VD for kind of the same thing just more free jazz (and sax).
Awesome Video!! I literally cloned your pedalboard!! Just one doubt, how to add a compressor, eq or distortion to the bass line? It would be great for those moments when the bass sounds alone to get more options beside just the bypass sygnal. thanks in advance!!!!
I thought Gretsches were expensive but this is a steal.
How do you experience that gretch bass ? Thinking of buying one !
You covered this beautifully. I always wondered what his set-up looked like. Question though, with the Pogs, if he played sloppy wouldn't the effects freak out a bit? How would you play a straight bass tone, click the LS-2?
The pog’s have close to perfect tracking because they’re digital. You don’t get any of the glitching you get in analogue octavers. For a straight bass tone you need a kill switch on the guitar line. Either a tuner or just a basic mute pedal.
@@talkingbasslessons Wouldn't just clicking the foot switch on the LS-2 bypass the A+B mix and send the clean signal straight to the output? Great video by the way.
@@bundyjd Yes it does which is fine if you want a totally clean bass sound. Notice how my bass side of the chain has no effects. If I want effects like compression then the AB bypass will miss all that.
I'm wondering, all those pedals are not really cheap could all this be achieved to some extent say with a stomplab 2b
Considering you can edit the presets fairly simple and there is a pitch shifter in there as well as a number of distortion drives , and you can change the amps and cabinets
The sound would be close for the guitar side of things
So the pogs and the muff would be taken care of.
with the bass side of things ,the sound would probably still need to be split.
The boss LS2 and the tuner are relatively cheap , if those 2 can work with the stomplab that means you can create that rig on a budget.
The stomplab is around $200 AU
Those 2 pogs and the big muff are at least $1200
Fantastic work by you as always.
Been trying to perfect this sound for ages and this video really helped. The only hurdle is the octave pedal I’m using is the TC sub and up. The sound is very electronic. Does the POG perform much better ?
The POG also sounds ridiculously digitial on it's own. As long as you use sufficient distortion it won't matter.
You can use a lot of octave pedals I use a digitech whammy but not just for octave effects
Great stuff - reminds me a bit of John Entwistle or Chris Squire. Does Royal Blood split the bass and guitar to different amps? Will be trialling what you did on some Multi FX pedals.
Mike Kerr uses a guitar amp and bass amp split with all the distortion going into the guitar amp I’m pretty sure. He mainly uses fender amps couldn’t tell you the models though. Each songs tone is always slightly different so it’s super hard to pin down everything going on especially when they won’t fully reveal how they do it😂
Mike has 3 amps a clean bass mixed with dirty signals a clean guitar and a distorted guitar amp
Can you do the Godflesh bass tone next?!!?;?;!
Kind of an obvious comment but you can also do this with an HX stomp or other multieffects pedal, as long as they have the feature of splitting the signal. The real question is, are there any affordable multieffects pedals that actually have that feature? For example, the Zoom B6 is very affordable ($500 I think), but I don't really know if it has that splitting signal feature.
can u share what is cheaper alternative recommendation to change pog ? can i use nux rotary and poly octave generator? thankss
I know you can use an oc-5 in poly mode and a mooer tender octaver most decent octave pedals will wirk even a whammy sounds pretty good
Well, damn. Do you have a wiring diagram somewhere for that setup? Need to see if I can get that setup using a hog 2.
I go through it in the vid.
PLEASE DO THIS FOR LOCAL H
Everyone should own a Gretsch g2220 if they can afford it. Aside from the fact that they are marketed as humbuckers and are really single coils, they sound and play fantastic. And for the price, it is perfect for beginners or professionals.
Short scales are fun to play. I have a ´75 Fender Mustang that I’ll bring to a gig every so often.
I was about to pull the trigger on one of these but now it's been acknowledged that it's a single coil I'm hearing awful stories about people who have had terrible problems with buzz and hum.....put me right off tbh. Seems to be luck of the draw if you get a good one or a dreadful one if you're buying blind.
would an A/B/Y pedal work as well? or is the line selector doing something similar?
It'll work well if you're using multiple amps. If you're using one amp you need a 2 channel fx loop like the LS2.
@@talkingbasslessons I have 3 amps that I can use a bass amp and 2 fender amps with a switch blade if I wanted to I could put outputs A abd B to the guitar amps and tuner out to a tuner to bass amp
Question(s):
Is it necessary to have to use 5 peddles?
Is there one or two peddles that can do all of that?
You could approximate it badly with a helix but the Pog has a very particular sound and it’s polyphonic so you can do chords which is hard to emulate using a modeller (which would be more expensive anyway). Whatever you do you’ll need a Ls2, a Pog and a distortion. Anything less and you need multiple amps like Mike Kerr does. To be authentic you need a lot more.
@@talkingbasslessons
Omg! Thank you so much for clearing that up.
I'm out of the loop where these peddles are concerned. And frankly never thought to use them with a bass. I would love to try out these peddles. Would it be possible to list them in the videos description, so I can look into purchasing?
I am still a beginner, so I can use all the help I can get.😆
@@KellyEUTAH *pedals
@@KellyEUTAH you can do it with 2 pedals but only if you have like a spyder line 6 guitar amp that has insane distortion already on the amp I would say you need a minimum of if 3 pedals but some dude made a video where he does it with 2 amps 2 pedals
was this an excuse to show your new bass? lol cool lesson by the way
Ha. No. Bought the bass for the lesson.
@@talkingbasslessons In spite of humbuckergate, even!
The effect side is not completely accurate: The POG2 is not a good option. Mike Kerr uses a fifhthpitch shifter. So the already octaved signal is shifted a perfeth fifhth and ads it to the signal. So you get a power chord on the guitar signal. But he does this only on some solos and chorus sections of a song.
Big shout for Big muff pi
🤓🙌🏼🌟
I really like Royal Blood, got into them not long after they emerged. As a bass player, I’m always interested in people who try something different, go out on a limb a bit. I use a Yamaha Attitude, Billy Sheehan signature. 2 pickups - big, bassy humbucker at the neck, single coil, growly P-bass type at the body centre, each with its own isolated output jack. They can be mixed; each p/up to both outputs, each p/up only to its own output, both p/ups to both outputs. I’m thinking of adding a jazz type p/up at the bridge, and mixing it in with the centre p/up using a 4 way selector - each, both, both out of phase. This circuit to be wired in to the P-Bass output, in place of the P-Bass alone. We’ll see.
Back to Royal Blood - sorry about drifting off! - one thing though, and it’s not a criticism of them - we all have influences, and some are stronger than others.
A while back, I was catching up with Queens of the Stone Age, and bought CDs of their first two albums from the 90s. On the strength of a few tracks off each album, I think Royal Blood could well owe Qotsa a few quid in royalties!!!!! Strong enough likenesses to startle me when they started playing!!!!!!
You only need a bass amp? It doesn't "ruin it" with the guitar tone?
It’s not perfect obviously. Mike Kerr uses 3 amps. But this is a good approximation. As for bass amp vs guitar amp, if you’re not using the guitar amp for its preamp qualities (overdrive) then, no, a guitar amp won’t make much difference.
@@talkingbasslessons Thanks.
@@talkingbasslessons how much does the setup in the video cost?
Help me understand:
I don't claim expertise, but I've been playing for more than a few years. I'm more of a hard rock/ metal guy, so I don't pay much attention to Royal Blood.
Bass players have been bi-amping for decades. What's the big deal?
Bi amping is usually done to fill out the bottom end while applying tone difference to the top end. That’s a totally different thing.
@@talkingbasslessons I always wondered if my music teacher was a flake. The more I reach out on social media, the more my suspicion is confirmed.
Thanks for answering.
@@deangullberry5148 The key part here is the Pog combined with the Big Muff. That gives the illusion of a distorted guitar. Bi-amping is usually a way of creating a bass sound. Not a simultaneous bass and guitar. There are examples of this effect in the past but it's not the norm because you'll usually be stepping on the guitarist's toes.
@@talkingbasslessons Thanks for the clarification.
You didnt finish the song.. missed the little bit at the 12th fret 😉
Yeah, I missed quite a lot but it wasn't intended to be a cover or a full song tutorial. It's about the gear and the riffs I used were good examples of different combinations.
Another bass guitarist who "gets it". The difference between playing bass and play the bass guitar
Still a little too fast for a beginner