Looks very older with beard, he seems to be 65 years old.

Without his beard he looks 30 years younger r

@Aadith Narayanan. IRK.

It makes him look like the grizzled death metal legend that he is. \m/

and he looks so hot!

Absolutely and it inspired me to do the same thing when I upgraded my bass rig this year. Created a 4 stompbox pedalboard going tuner to clean preamp to compressor and overdrive and using additional distortion and compression from the bass head to make the sound more aggressive and sit better in the overall mix next to the guitars and triggered bass drum sound of my band

He does sound like a real good, nice person 👍

I mean he uses an overdrive

I mean, it just makes sense, since the guitars are already distorted - otherwise you'd just add more fuzz and end up with a frequency salad. A bass is made for low end and that way it just does that, without making everything muddy... I suspect it kind of would, if it weren't a little "gnarly" in the low end - so it still shines through (just like he said)

Yea it's a unique and interesting use of the B7K and even more when he had the B3K. It's an overdrive pedal with distortion but he dials it in such a way that he gets the aggressive attack but no fuzz or distortion. It I find it sits way better in the mix than going more crazy with the OD effects. It's inspired me to setup my darkglass pedals in a similar way where when engaged, nothign is fuzzy but it's articulate, especially with my 2 other guitar players. The B7K gives him alot of options, but also to avoid getting the fuzziness, when he had the B3K, I recall him saying he'd go into a compressor, and use that to lower the signal so he wouldn't get too much distortion from the B3k. Once again, very unique use. It's also funny how his B7K has his blend setting set at 100% wet and no clean signal. Very counter intuitive and it's what I can only describe as a clean OD metal tone, which is a contradictory name.

Same. It's a mission to toy with that line of aggressive clean vs distorted and push it as far as you can.

Alex is a truly awesome bassist and definitely one of the reasons why I started using Spector basses with my band. He has a great tone and playing style plus a very strong knowledge of music theory which is explored a lot in his book "Extreme Metal Bass" which has helped me a lot with my playing/writing

@@chrishampton1981 any idea where i could buy it? Like Amazon etc?

@@prashanthpadmarajan Hi! Yes, you can get Alex's book via Amazon. Definitely worth having

He was cute in his 20s nohomo

I met him a show yrs ago at a show in Tampa Florida . One of nicest guys on the plant and very very smart. The same night I also got to hang out and drink beers with George corpsegrinder . That dude is awesome to hang with .

a lot more bro....

And John Campbell too, but he's been like that for a while

He looks more like Jesus now. Like especially facially not just cus he has long hair and a beard, but like really like jesus

and now Robert Trujillo becoming Danny Trejo

Hell ya brother love your music🤘🤘

I think it could be better to line out his signal directly from the amp. He got a great head why dont using it for the PA?

he sounded monstrous when i saw cc it was like a bloodied chainsaw gunng gungg gunggg

I have to agree with this from my own experience seeing them live.. The sound was all over the show and Alex didn't have his spot... Shame.

as talented as Alex is, he truly needs to be mixed in a bit better. but like he said with the guitars being G#/ a# standard its fucking hard to fill him it without it being too much.

If you're at the front at a CC gig you won't hear the the true Alex bass sound/ tone. Go further towards the back and you will!!

Spector basses are the best, I have a Euro 5LX and it sounds deadly through my bass rig

@@chrishampton1981 My dream rig would be a spector 5- or 6-string through a Trace Elliot amp and cabinet. I think Mike Starr formerly of Alice in Chains had a similar setup, and that sound was amazing!

@@Gourmet_Goon80 Ah nice combination dude! Mine is a Euro 5LX through a Peterson StroboStomp HD, Darkglass Harmonic Booster, Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor and Darkglass Microtubes B7K Ultra into a Darkglass Alpha Omega 900 head and Darkglass 4x10 cab

@@Gourmet_Goon80Mike Starr used ampeg

LowMan Josh he runs just the neck or just the bridge? Sounds like neck pickup.

@@SlipperyDucky its both but he runs his signature seymour duncan pickups (hammer smashed pickups. )

@@SlipperyDucky check out his bass set up there are vids of the tech doing everything.. Even installing a 18 volt double battery box and the tone capsule

Check out granville guitars the guy has been setting up alex websters basses for a long time.

@@Jihadbearzwithgunz haha thanks man it was the next video down below this one 👌

Yeah, the amp is pretty much just for stage

@@Noah-oh7nm yeah but even in his other sig bass (the black one) he is using DG preamp! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abyCgKx3p669dXk.html But hyped or not, I think it would make sense for Spector to use DG tone capsule into at least his blooded spitted bass signature (and his SD pickups too!)

It's interesting that he goes from the Bassbone preamp into the Darkglass. He did that when he was still using the old B3k too. I have the B3k and I've always plugged my bass into it then going from the pedal to the preamp stage of my Little Mark II and then to a Mooer Radar cab simulator (not using a real cabinet). Apart from lowering the volume before hitting the pedal as he says, are there any tonal differences going bass > Preamp > darkglass vs. the more typical bass >pedal > preamp? is that a signal chain that could/would work with other pedals as well (e.g. envelope filters, chorus, flanger ecc.)?

Yeah! And also he didn't even talk about it (which is part of the gear)

For the PA signal I think he uses de cab sim from the B7K, corrige me if I'm wrong... there is more info of that feature on Nolly's demo

It's the wise nord shaman

It's sooo heavy, you've shat yourself...

Not super technical? 😝

@@inigograu1628 I was going to say he is a God but I figured ppl would talk shit. I seriously think he is one of the best bassists we have and has influenced a ton of ppl.

@@AaronMorgan666 He's technical as hell but never wanky, which I love.

Plenty of evidence out there that you don't NEED a clean sound to cut through overdriven guitars

@@elpeluca7780 I made that comment well over a year ago. I'm a student of the bass love playing/learning all aspects of the instrument. Of course you can cut through with a dirty tone. However a clean tone is preferential to me. Even for ultra heavy music.