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Distorted Tone
Room A Thousand Years Wide (Remastered 2016)
Soundgarden
Bassrock1990s
Original Gear
BassFender Jazz Bass (1972, passive, likely with Dean Markley heavy-gauge roundwound strings)
AmpMesa Boogie 400B head into Mesa/Boogie 4x10 and 2x15 cabinets (studio likely used a smaller version of this touring rig)
Amp Settings
gain7
bass5.5
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Notes
Studio recording, Badmotorfinger sessions (1991); gear confirmed for era, but studio rig may have been a scaled-down version of live setup.
Tone Character(8)
growly midrange snarlaggressive, biting attackfuzzy, saturated overdrivethick low end with defined punchslightly compressed sustainaudible pick attack and grindclassic 90s grunge bass distortionnotably present in mix, not scooped
Difficulty
The line features syncopated, driving rhythms and requires tight pick technique to maintain the aggressive, overdriven tone and articulation, but does not involve advanced technical demands beyond moderate fills and timing.
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Original Gear
BassFender Jazz Bass (1972, passive, likely with Dean Markley heavy-gauge roundwound strings)
AmpMesa Boogie 400B head into Mesa/Boogie 4x10 and 2x15 cabinets (studio likely used a smaller version of this touring rig)
Amp Settings
gain7
bass5.5
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Notes
Studio recording, Badmotorfinger sessions (1991); gear confirmed for era, but studio rig may have been a scaled-down version of live setup.
Tone Character(8)
growly midrange snarlaggressive, biting attackfuzzy, saturated overdrivethick low end with defined punchslightly compressed sustainaudible pick attack and grindclassic 90s grunge bass distortionnotably present in mix, not scooped
Difficulty
The line features syncopated, driving rhythms and requires tight pick technique to maintain the aggressive, overdriven tone and articulation, but does not involve advanced technical demands beyond moderate fills and timing.