I kinda do what I do, and I’m just being me. "So I’ll do that and I’ll go ‘Is that one good?’, and they’ll say ‘Let’s do it again’, and I’ll keep going until four or five are done. I’ll lay down the first one and say ‘Is that good, or do you want me to do it again?’ and they’ll be like ‘Give me one more’, and I’ll say ‘Okay.’ "Honestly, when I work with the producers over the last 450 million Korn albums that we’ve put out, the stereotype for the most part is that I say, ‘You have to tell me what you want.’ Basically, they all want four takes, even if the first one went down perfectly. You’ve got to be willing for a producer to give you a slight change in your riff or your style, or to suggest a slight movement change that is a game-changer."ĭo you require multiple takes to record the bass? He’ll be like, ‘What if you move over here?’ and ‘What if you move the timing just a little quicker so you can go over here?’ and things like that. The cool thing is that he’s a bass player too, and so he has an ear for bass. "Nick is hands-on, and there the whole time, encouraging you and helping you. Your producer Nick Raskulinecz did a great job on The Nothing, though. It’s challenging for anybody to mix Korn." "Oh yeah, it was tough, man, because we were trying to cut through a bunch of low end and the frequencies where we tune down, and to find that happy medium of being heard. Your sound is obviously a challenge for producers. But was it necessary for the process or the longevity of the ride?"Īt the end of the day there’s three or four notes that people use, but it’s not how you use them, it’s when you move to them It happened, and it could happen again, who knows? Look at Metallica, for example. They’re still Korn songs it’s just the bass isn’t my tone, it’s not there. But I still step back and I listen to them, because it was kinda necessary – it gave a change of flavour to Korn for a while. I’ve had it happen a few times, and on those albums, you can clearly hear that there’s no bass on them. That’s why I have that clicky, clangy, noisy string sound so I can kinda cut through and everything doesn’t get washed out."ĭo producers and engineers ever refuse to work with that tone? If you ask me, I have to compromise with too much low-end. We’ve never struggled to have enough low-end with Korn. You can always get enough low end from seven-string guitars and a five‑string bass. The band’s sound is so low, I need to know how to cut through and be heard, you know? I want it to be an almost percussion-sounding instrument rather than a bass, because I’m like, ‘If you guys need bass, you can get it from the kick drum’. Is that why your bass tone has so much top end? You’re in a band with two seven-string guitarists.
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