How Marcus Miller Gets The Perfect Slap Bass Tone

[@OnlineBassGuitar1]

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[@BrianPellerin]

I appreciate the careful consideration you bring to teaching. I’ll listen through some of your videos today as I just found your channel.

[@OnlineBassGuitar1]

Cheers Brian! Great to have you here

[@sampowellmusic]

a four string jazz with a maple neck and new roundwound strings is ingredient #1.

[@OnlineBassGuitar1]

For sure it is! To be honest, I always find these videos tough because on the one hand, I want to provide advice that anyone can follow and not everyone has a maple neck etc. But on the other, as you rightly point out, it’s a huge part of the sound. Next time I’ll add a disclaimer. Thanks for your comment! 🙂

[@ccherryii]

Would it be possible for you to create a Quad Cortex “Marcus Miller” patch?

[@OnlineBassGuitar1]

Awesome idea! I’ll get to work on that 🙌

[@ccherryii]

Looking forward to the patch. Thank You!

[@eknight101]

what about knob settings? Are both pups wide open?

[@tondenotter8109]

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.

[@OnlineBassGuitar1]

Totally agree with you! I have to be honest, this was a tough video to make. On the one hand, there are certain things that are crucial like the maple neck, 70’s pick-up position etc. But on the other, I wanted to give tips that anyone with any bass could follow. I always think it sucks a little when the first tip of a video implies “unless you spend X-thousand dollars on new gear you can’t do this” but I see what you’re saying. It still makes a difference!

[@andreaperelli5323]

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

[@OnlineBassGuitar1]

Noted for sure but I guess this is why I wanted to make the video. Those are things a that are very specific to Marcus’ bass. And not everyone might want to make some of the permanent changes you point out (pick-up placement etc). Granted the tone is not spot on but I felt it was better to point out some of the things that everyone could do, no matter what bass they had. You make a solid point though. I’ll keep it in mind for the next video!

[@AcousticMusicPage]

​​@@OnlineBassGuitar1hey bro, I respect and appreciate the humility in your reply. I will add 2 things tho. I do understand why you didn't specify a bass... because not everyone is gonna own a 70's or MM Fender Jazz Bass, which unfortunately makes your title click baity (It should be "How to get closer to the Marcus Sound"... and (2) Marcus actually had in a Bartolini TCT preamp installed by Sadowsky... at the time Sadowsky installed the preamp he didnt have any of his own yet.. he was only a luthier/bass tech. But overall.. Great video, you looked at stuff some people won't... like slapping softer then compressing. P.S the bartolini preamp had a dip at 300HZ which aids in the "hifi" sound

[@OnlineBassGuitar1]

@@AcousticMusicPage likewise I appreciate the reply here too. It def helps with future content. Cheers for your replies!

[@andreaperelli5323]

@@OnlineBassGuitar1 appreciated your video anyway, keep experimentig and training your ear, it's not easy at all

[@andreaperelli5323]

@@AcousticMusicPage the preamp with treble and bass booster, unlike a similar pu's configuration, is not necessary to get that tone, like I said, we exist in 2023 so we can easily put an eq before the compressor in our chain if we have a passive bass, and boost treble and bass, which is equal to a preamp with a treble and bass booster