How to Sound Like...Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses

AMP The Bass Player shows you how to get Duff's tone from Appetite for Destruction using inexpensive and readily-accessible gear.
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#HTSL

[patrickhunter]

Andrew and The Bass Channel together?? Oh hell yes!

[KyloNight]

I always loved Duff, but it was when my band played in a Guns N Roses tribute night that I fully realised how amazing Duffs bass lines really are and as well known as he is, I think he is an under rated bass player.

[danadane]

"Greater than sum of their parts" as bassist who is continuing to learn I can't agree more. Make the song as a whole sound that much better is ultimate goal.

[JonesHess]

I just bought that Yamaha BB735a as a birthday gift for myself. What a great instrument!

[MyBassistChris]

Awesome to see AMP on here, great way to introduce him to the channel

[johnjuan]

YES!!! More of these please!! AMP is awesome! Great match-up!!

[davedixon]

Welcome Andrew! I love your presentation and it sounded great, man! I am not a big GNR fan, but Duff is legitimately a player with great lines and tones, so, excellent vid!

[a.j.garrett]

Just before the 4 minute mark you talk about something that I think is SO important and I've never anyone else say it.
Finding your place in the mix vs cutting through.
I feel the same as you.
In my last band, that's the bass tone I used. Lots of mid. That way I was able to hear myself and the guitar player could do whatever he wanted. It wasn't a volume fight. I always head myself.

Now that's not at all the tone I would dial in at home by myself.
But in a band it works.

[ianmiller]

Nailed it! I'm also surprised no one mentioned the person in the back of the video just chillin/playing a video game.

[JK_]

Lots of people forget too that those studio tones (especially modern) have additional eq, compression and other effects added, and were possibly even signal split and processed differently. Sounded damn close to me all things considered.

[Wazza_]

That was awesome! Absolutely loved that episode. I'm a guitar guy but love the bass. You really did an awesome job. Thank you!

[GabrielRamirez-kimc]

This was great!! Duff is my favorite Bass player, thanks so much for doing this video! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[tristanbovee]

You did a damn good job capturing the thick roundness of duffs tone but with also the bright snap that makes his tone so unique

[darvinclement]

You were having way too much fun there! Loved it. How about Car's bassist Benjamin Orr?

[Therealchuckbailey]

This was great! Welcome my man and it sounded great! I’m not a GnR fan but I respect Duff tremendously and his contributions to bass! Nice job and looking forward to more!!!

[davidbaines]

I have that same Aria bass. All stock and it’s been fantastic since I got it new. Don’t see many of those.

[christophercheney]

And Duff just rules!!! Big reason as to why I started playing bass,

[johnwilkerson]

The Zoom B1 Four is the best $100 I ever spent on bass equipment.

[alexskibicki]

Awesome clip. 😎🤘🏻🎸I love yamaha basses and that is a nice looking yamaha bass. I too have a bb bass along with 2 trbx basses. And that aria bass looks awesome and has a killer tone. It especially sounds really sweet with a chorus effect.

Duff mckagen was one of my influences during my earlier days of playing bass. He’s definitely one of the reasons why I got into gallien-Krueger amps and I still rock out to those amps today. And he was one of my inspirations to use chorus on bass along with peter Steele from type o negative. Anywho, great video. Rock on, dude. 😎

[Wingman-ylqq]

This is impressive and a lot of fun to watch! Fantastic video bro!