Talk:Fuzz bass

I know, I know
Reliable secondary sources on fuzz bass are seriously needed for this article. I would love to find some stuff written by music critics about the use of the fuzz bass sound in the different decades. Hopefully other editors can help with this search! There are many types of fuzz bass sound, from a gentle growl to an in-your-face metallic grind.OnBeyondZebrax (talk) 00:02, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Discharge
On the amazing Discharge LP "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing", is there fuzz bass??? The whole album is such a wall of noise and distortion, so it's hard to tell. I think the bass player might have distortion happening as well. Does anyone know??OnBeyondZebrax (talk) 00:02, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Mean Mr mustart

 * Mean Mr Mustard from the Beatles' album Abbey Road does not have fuzz bass, thanks for that comment, and for removing it.OnBeyondZebrax (talk) 14:28, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Marty Robbins
The Youtube video for the Marty Robbins song has an unsourced claim that the instrument on the Robbins song is a baritone guitar. This seems plausible, since bass players at the time would have used flatwound strings, that would not be capable of producing such a buzzy fuzztone.At least this uncertainty should be notedOnBeyondZebrax (talk) 14:41, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Song Suggestion
What about Gratitude from the Beastie Boys? Since this songs starts off with a heavily distorted bassline (source: http://www.beastiemania.com/songspotlight/show.php?s=gratitude), I consider this to be a good example.--Einar Moses Wohltun (talk) 10:05, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Possible Expansion Involving the Evolution of Genre
This article does a decent job explaining fuzz bass in rock over decades, but the use of fuzz bass in hip hop or 'rap rock' should be mentioned. Artists such as Denzel Curry, Producer Ronny J, and XXXTentacion have used similar bass overdrive and the article fails to mention this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schaferb385 (talk • contribs) 16:43, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Create a List.
If this is about fuzz bass being misused to also include distortion and overdrive then reference must be made in the opening to Umbrella term.

Visually half of this article is a random list of example recordings. This ought to become a List page and subject to the rules thereof.

First, the list could be reduced significantly by removing padding, for instance fuzz bass and growling and heavy and grinding and hard and distortion and overdriven. The reader doesn't need reminding of the article title/theme every ten words. It is a failed attempt to disguise a naked bulletpoint list as prose.

There ought to be only one or two examples offered in Fuzz bass proper and those should be provided by credible sources not the research of editors. Nkofa (talk) 01:20, 2 January 2020 (UTC)


 * From the list headed Fuzz bass, i removed the excess information, as this is non sequitur here. Most of it was coat-racking, editor-induced essay and opinion. Please avoid reverting any of these, but consider instead providing a credible source to support the entry remaining on the list at all. Nkofa (talk) 02:02, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Rename to "Bass distortion"?
I wonder where the term "fuzz bass" comes from and if it is attested by sources. As a bass player, I mostly hear "bass distortion" or "bass overdrive", but these terms may refer to something else (i.e. the modern metal bass sound with overdrive, rather than a fuzz pedal or the sound of Lemmy Kilmister). As such, I wonder whether it would be more relevant to rename to a generic term such as "bass distortion". Skimel (talk) 09:34, 17 April 2023 (UTC)