Stoner/Doom Bassist thread Pt. 46: In Soviet Russia Bass Plays You

[bassboysam]

Originally Posted by Lazarus.Bird

Trying to write all new stuff? Or working on existing stuff as well? Nights like that can be depressing. Jamming is supposed to be fun.

Bit of both, but the bass sounded off the whole night not quite sure what it was. i had my two Js and the CIJ just sounded terrible. some notes just dissapeared others were too loud, i think i need some fresh strings. the MIM was ok but none of us were on our game so that did not matter anyway.


Also not sure how long the delay pedal will last. the guitar parts use a lot of delay and i am not finding any sonic space for it. i'll give it a few more practices. i used a BAT Revelation Superbass too. pretty cool pedal but i don't think i need it. it gives a nice clean bass boost and/or add some drive. if anyone is interested let me know.

[twhitedc]

Originally Posted by dunwichamps

Orange or OrMAT?

I don't totally remember cause I didn't have close to the money to consider buying it.. But I think it was OR... Maybe only 100w though...
Again, I'm justbguessib @ this point

[The_Janitor]

Originally Posted by Road Bull

Not sure if you mean a blending pedal, or something else, but I picked up an Xotic X-Blender a few weeks ago. It is a very straight forward pedal. It has an "in and out", as well as a "send and receive" path. So I go bass> tuner> blender > M-80 DI > amp for clean, and for effects loop I go VT > RB > BB > The Elements > B3K > back to blender.

I was on the fence about how much I liked it when I got it, but it is a force multiple for sure. Some effects can take in a new personality with blending, and others I like to run solo, like the BB. I ordered an OSD from Ryan, so when that comes something will be voted off the island.Attachment 317304

Well, what I'm doing now is using a small 5-channel mixer (really small) on the pedal board. I run the dry out of the BBM to one one channel and the effect out to another, EQ and mix to taste, then mono main out of the mixer to the rest of my pedals.

Other distortion pedals don't have the dry out, so I'm going to try a simple Y splitter before the dirt, one leg goes into dirt, the other bypasses it to the mixer.

It's somewhat janky, but I wanted to experiment with clean blending other pedals before I drop the money on an LS2 or X-blender type pedal.

[Kawai-chang]

Janky is good. Janky smells doomy.

[The_Janitor]

Originally Posted by Kawai-chang

Janky is good. Janky smells doomy.

Made me laugh like a weirdo in my cubicle. I agree.

It's gotten good results with the BBM, it's finally somewhat useable. It's nice having the 2-band EQ on the fuzz channel.

[dozicusmaximus]

This bass is sick!
1982 Guild X-702 - Rare and Mighty Wicked!

[Lazarus.Bird]

$1000? Seen em go for half that.

[dozicusmaximus]

If it was 500 I would have already bought it. haha. I don't see myself paying 1500 for a Ric or any bass for that matter... Maybe, someday.
These Gibsons are getting out of hand too. Everything I think is cool, is way to expensive.

I'm looking for a short scale now...

[Samsquanch1972]

Originally Posted by Lazarus.Bird

$1000? Seen em go for half that.

Laz,
I remember you had that Guild B301 I think for sale, are they a heavy or light bass? Never saw one in person.

[Lazarus.Bird]

Can't remember what my B301 weighed. Probably around 9.5 lbs? Kind heavy, but at the same time average for what I've owned. The neck dive was pretty annoying, and tonally it was similar to the Ric with me preferring the Ric, so I sold it. Awesome bass though. Real great player.

[Toastfuzz]

Originally Posted by Road Bull

Rusty Box...

LOVE this little pedal, so useful. I used to use a VT Bass as a toneshaper, but every jam/gig/practice I found myself twiddling knobs to balance out my tone. I can't find a bad sound with the Rusty Box.. even at extreme settings like max drive, max bass+mids, and zeroed treble, it sounds awesome.

In other news... MXR's new Bass Chorus is giving me a chub. Flanger function, crossover so you get a clean signal under 100 Hz. Sounds very....useful.

[Samsquanch1972]

Thanks Laz, those Guilds sure look Killer.
Bouncing around from band to bands on myspace this morning I landed on these guys pretty fun Tuesday morning tunes, great name too.
Phased
http://www.myspace.com/phasedphased

[Lazarus.Bird]

EGC made a Guild copy awhile back and it is incredible:

[dozicusmaximus]

BEAD Pbass> byoc rat> vb2 was sounding pretty good the other night.

I'm going to bring down the Ibby 6 string and see how that works out. Never tried that thing with pedals yet.

[Samsquanch1972]

Originally Posted by Lazarus.Bird

EGC made a Guild copy awhile back and it is incredible:

Incredible, is EGC a forum member or a builder?

[Ron Now]

Everytime I see an ECG I think about how I need one...it's an awful feeling.

[Lazarus.Bird]

No, Kevin doesn't post here. I think he is way too busy with his business to poke around here.

Surprisingly I don't think there are that many EGC owners on TB. I think I've seen maybe one or two. OldCrow should have his very soon, I should have mine next month.

[Toastfuzz]

Originally Posted by Lazarus.Bird

No, Kevin doesn't post here. I think he is way too busy with his business to poke around here.

Surprisingly I don't think there are that many EGC owners on TB. I think I've seen maybe one or two. OldCrow should have his very soon, I should have mine next month.

Thats cuz anyone else who wants to play a highly conductive lightning rod of death already has a Kramer

[Lazarus.Bird]

Meh, Kramers and EGCs are way different. EGCs are much closer to Travis Beans.

[Ron Now]

Yeah, I had a Kramer for a little while. It was cool, but hated the bongripper tuning, so off it went. But it was no bean, that's for sure.

Is it weird, that I like really bright signals, being run into dark sounding pedals and amps. Seems redundant, but it works well for me.