Joey De Maio (MANOWAR) How To Build The Perfect Bass - Studio Report - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2023
- Ready to go behind the scenes of what I do in the studio?
Then join me as I go on the journey of designing and building a new bass guitar together with my brother, Dan “The Man” Austin! I am sure our fallen brother, the late and great John "Dawk" Stillwell is smiling at us from Valhalla! 💪
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This was really unexpected, like a Christmas gift that came early! I can't believe that you're sharing this, Joey! Documenting even parts of what makes Manowar sound like it does is simply GOLD for the metal legacy. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you that’s a great complement. Really appreciate it. Please subscribe to the channel. Tell all your friends to do the same and join us
Thanks so much
I could listen for Hours and Hours to Joey talking about his Gear
Glad to hear that there is more on the way thanks so much and please subscribe and spread the word and tell your friends to join us
I can't wait for more of this behind the scenes stuff. Keep them coming!
Hail from Germany!!💪
We will! And there’s more to come, so please tell your friends to join us and subscribe
That's real dedication! A true artist invests lots of time to get his tools right! Looking forward to more content! 😎💪🙏
Thanks so much for the comment and taking the time to write. I think it’s something that we all do naturally to try to find our own sound. It just takes time and experimentation. Please subscribe to this channel and tell all your friends to do the same. it’ll be amazing to put together a community of people that we can all learn from together.
I would love to own one of those beast basses!
I think the thing is just find a base that you like it doesn’t have to be expensive and then slowly add pieces to it. It’s a journey not a destination, but it’s a heck of a lot of fun I’m always taking stuff off and putting different stuff on kind of like Floyd Van Halen did to his guitars I don’t think we ever finish. It’s just fun trying and listening to different things please subscribe to the channel and tell all your friends the same and subscribe.
@@realjoeydemaio You are absolutely right! That's how one can achieve a trademark sound! Thank you for the response and the great advice!
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This is so great! I would like to see descriptions of all your eqipment. From the early days til today. 🤟🏻💪🏻🎸
That’s a great idea and that’ll be another one for the list of things to do in the future. Thank you for the suggestion, and please subscribe and tell all your friends to do the same.
Thank you for allowing us to take a look behind the scenes. Are you planning to build two versions (4 and 8 strings)?
Actually that's a good guess. Right now I am going to start with a stereo piccolo bass and then next will be a 3 way 4 string. Stay tuned and thanks for your support!
Very cool, I have to say the modified Rickenbacker is one of my favourite looking basses even without all the great music.
Thanks very much for the comment. I’ve done a lot of work to that guitar over the years at one time it actually had five pick ups on it with a military connector that would allow me to play through five separate Prius, five separate power, amps and five separate speaker cabinets. It drove Recording Engineer‘s crazy in those days. Thank you for your comment and for your support please subscribe and tell all your friends to do the same, trying to build a great place on the site for everyone of us to learn from each other.
Oh this is amazing - I'm thinking of upgrading the pups in my RIck. Can't wait for part 2! That is a monster cab BTW
Thanks a lot once again thank you so much for the comment. I keep spreading the word tell everybody to subscribe trying to get to 1000 as soon as possible and then as big as we can grow this thing together. Thank you so much yeah it would be a good idea to change the pick ups out the stock pick ups in a Rick are extremely bad.
it would BE great to see you and Jeff talking about Manowar equipment
That’s one for the list
Love it, so fun to get more insight into your gear related thoughts and such! Hail
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much for unveiling some of the secrets, it's a huge gift. Long live DAWK and BILL !!
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True leyend of world music , Hail Mr DeMaio!
Hail back to you brother! Thank you for your support!
This is bloody awesome. Can’t wait for more. Hail and kill.
Thanks more on the way !
I love these behind the scenes insights! Still buzzed from the concert in Finland this year, it was amazing and I just noticed that you added a date to Finland to your spoken word tour, see you there! Can't wait.
Thanks so much for your comment and support totally appreciated !!
Wow , this is so great , looking forward to see more stuff like this ! : )) Hail and kill !
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The true king of metal.
Thank you so much for your support, brother!
Wow, great! Being Manowar fan(and guitar and bass player) for 20+ years, I always wondering about their rig, both bass and guitar. THANK YOU! This video finally help me decide to experiment and split my pickups (ESP M-IV bass from 80s) in stereo - neck P for low /clean and bridge J for mid\high and overdriven. Can’t wait for more behind the scenes vids. Other bands play, MANOWAR KILL!
Thanks for the support and I think you will definitely have more options by splitting your sound and for sure more fun. Kick ass !!!! Please spread the word and subscribe to real Joey De Maio
This video feels like it’s illegal 😂, it’s so great that you share this with us! Your bass lines on the albums are the most unique in the rock music, especially on the older albums of Manowar at times where bass was forshadowed in rock/metal. I’m curious how music engineers reacted to your bass tone and playing back in the day. You are a living legend man!
thanks so much well some engineers had no idea and others embraced the challenge with a little encouragement please subscribe and spread the word and tell your friends to join us
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So much cool information here! Love this very interesting content 🔥
Thanks so much!!
Those wooden blocks are genius. I wish I would have thought of that when I was testing out pickups on my guitars. Taking off all the strings, installing them, giving them a test run, then taking back off the strings, uninstalling them was so time consuming and a total pain. I ended up going with the classic EMG81 in the bridge and a 60 in the neck. The EMGs are mid focused which I like because I don't like a lot of bass hitting the preamp as it makes the distortion too flubby buzzy and muddy.
Another interesting thing I learned about EMGs is they clip if you only use one 9V battery. If you have them set close, within 2mm down from the strings and you play hard, it overloads the battery and it gives a nasty solid state clipping distortion. I then wired up the 18V mod, two 9V batteries wired in a series and it took care of that. Now they are as clean as a bell and very high output. I also agree you shouldn't use a tone pot. In my experience they reduce clarity and output, as you mentioned in your other video. If you need a tone roll off pregain, an EQ pedal or an onboard preamp EQ is much better than wiring a tone pot into your bass or guitar.
Great stuff here. Cool too see you with your own youtube channel, I subscribed. BTW, a certain hospital saved my life back in 2016-2017. You gave me and my FATHER inspiration that day to keep on FIGHTING. I'm still alive and well and thriving with the spirit of true METAL, and not cancer, in my blood. I hope you recall that memory. 🙏🤟💪👊
Why would an amazing post and story glad to hear your feeling better it sounds like you're on the right track with your equipment too congratulations keep on kicking ass and stay strong we need people like you in this world there's too many assholes good people gotta stick together
will be awesome to hear a new sound from you cant wait to hear it in a new record or live
Thanks so much, brother! I can't wait to play this new guitar myself. But it's gonna take a lot more experimentation and work. So stay tuned ...
@@realjoeydemaio as a bass player myself who modifies his basses i know that to good but damn its always worth it greetings from Germany
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thanx Joey for sharing 👍
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@@realjoeydemaio I did it! Ad it will be absolutly an honor if you take a short look to mine. Cheers!
I did take a look at your site. Lots of cool gadgets. I hope these companies are sending them to you to evaluate. You don’t have to buy them all nice work.
Great!
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@@realjoeydemaio already done. Enrica Steel darling here! 😉
Well, nice to see that you are here welcome
Very interesting, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
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great video Joey! Thanks for sharing, are you going to use three different amp sections to feed the 3way cab? what drives are you using? you are the best!
I’ve always had my bases in stereo that had three signals for subs, mids and highs. No I’ve decided to complete that using three pick ups, 3 3 A three power amps actually began this quest 30 years ago or more when I had five pick ups on the base that 5 preamps, five power amps and five sets of speaker cabinets.
@@realjoeydemaio First, I'm honored to have a response from you. You have no idea how big of a influence you are in my life. I play a few instruments, but mostly guitar and bass and I'm a "tone chaser" I really try to understand what makes great tone great and use that building blocks to create my own tone. Your bass tone is my reference as "greatest bass tone ever", followed by Lemmy and Entwistle. It is so hard to get any information regarding your gear, specially because it is all custom, how you recorded it, how you use it live. It would be great if you could share this knowledge with us. I have experimented with stereo setups for a while, nowadays for the sake of simplicity I'm using darkglass stuff, in the last years I'm only demoing my songs, so making it simple makes me focus on songwriting, but I'd love to see how you do it, maybe I'll borrow a thing or two to the final bass tone. keep the good work, Manowar Kills!
I don't think there's any real secrets I think it's all in the way a person plays and here's what's in their head I think that translates from the hands through to the instrument in the final analysis just keep on trying to get what you hear in your head you see what I'm doing is basically changing everything everyday whether it's pickups or strings or nuts or Bridges or even guitars preamps amplifiers anything and everything thanks for your support brother spread the word about the channel
Awesome!👍 As a guitar player l really appreciate you sharing this! Very insightful! 🤟🎸
Thanks for saying so I believe that guitar and bass share more than people think
Yes, absolutely!
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Hi Mr Joey. What speakers do use nowdays on your cabs : 12 or 15 or 18 ? How many cabs do you use on the shows? Thanks.
All of the above and on stage a minimum of 16 x 18 16x15 and 8 to 12 x 12 in thanks so much and please subscribe and spread the word and tell your friends to join us
Hi Whats the brand and gauges of your Piccolo bass strings nowdays? Do you remember what was the brand of the Piccolo strings that you had on your old Gibson EB-3 modded by the late Dawk ? Thanks.
Actually, I haven’t finalized ASAP because I’m building a new bass with an aluminum deck which will allow me to use bigger strings with more tension. That’s part of the process. I’m going through right now I’m waiting to get the fretboard out so I can actually begin evaluating string tension. It’s very exciting. Thank you for your support. Please subscribe and tell your friends to do the same.
R.I.P. Dawk.
Yes, there will never be another one like him that's for sure. Thanks for writing. Please subscribe to the channel and tell your friends to do the same.
I know how to built a Flute,but how to built a Bass thats interesting much more.
yes, lots more information on the way. It’s a slow process. Thank you for your support.
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