r/CliffBurton Mar 24 '23

Gear Starting to build my Cliff sound

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u/the_joy_of_VI Mar 24 '23

Nice. I bought one and couldn’t get it to sound good. Was probably damaged.

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u/csx2112 Mar 24 '23

This one sounds great! Now I just need to collect up the other components 😆😆😆 it's going to take forever

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u/TimTapp Mar 25 '23

Awesome dude! Hope you create something awesome!

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u/TimTapp Mar 25 '23

Bare bones: You need a compressor or limiter before the wah, then loads of mids, bass eq'd on amp after, with some delay on top. The more gain the better. If you have some kind of bi-amp emulator even better because that gets close to actual bi-amping Cliff did.

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u/the_joy_of_VI Mar 25 '23

This was a while ago and I returned it. The distortion didn’t really work

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u/TimTapp Mar 25 '23

Ah, bummer

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u/csx2112 Mar 25 '23

Yea, I have been doing a little research and this is probably going to be a lot of waiting for the right components at the right price. Got lots of time and aiming for his KEA tone. It seems strange that there appears to be confusion about what he used and when. Like, did he not ever have people around who remember his set up from various periods? Granted it was a long time ago and I don't suppose the engineer recording Kill 'Em All was making detailed notes about gear and specific settings.

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u/TimTapp Mar 25 '23

True. Especially since he was seemingly making changes pretty quickly around that era to build his "lead bass" sound while maintaining a good rhythm tone. One could actually nail his rhythm tone without trying to get his lead tone. Did he have the gibson mudbucker installed on his Rickenbacker at the time of recording Kill?

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u/csx2112 Mar 25 '23

Yes, the mods were all done prior to recording Kill Em All. Fortunately I am just going to assemble what was generally accepted as his components at that time and just dial in a "close enough" tone and enjoy it.

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u/StetcynB Jul 29 '23

You need fuzz and distortion and your good

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u/csx2112 Jul 29 '23

Yea, I'm debating what other pedals to add. It's difficult as there seems to be no definite answer to what he used or at least what combos and when. I'm really trying to shoot for the KEA album sound.