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how do you get bass guitar to sound harsh?

i’m trying to figure out how to get the bass guitar to play and sound really low, scratchy, trashy, and percussive.

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if anyone knows how to do this, please lend me some advice. thanks.

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Justus_Merchan #
An Unknown Location | 2 months ago (1 minute after post)

Overdrive… and screw around with the EQ

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at_the_gates_9621 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months ago (8 minutes after post)

oh really? i guess it makes sense something had to be added to it. thank you.

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An Unknown Location | 2 months ago (1 hour, 2 minutes after post)

slap the strings use a slap method its what i heard

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An Unknown Location | 2 months ago (1 day, 17 hours after post)

downtune it as well. Drop B/Drop C + overdrive sounds pretty awesome on a bass

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