Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread Part 43: Loud amps save lives!

[Ancient Tone]

I've got a set of mogami platinums (gig rig cables), mogami 2524's w/ neutrik ends (gig rig FX loop cables), lava ELC's (dunwich rig cables, to/from + fx loop) , Core X2 bass cables (bass rig cables), and a couple misc Lava cables (clear connect and some other, random use cables). Once you get into the upper end cables its no longer about capacitance loss (or "tone loss") IMO but more about build quality. I can't tell a huge difference between my ELC's and Platinum's tonally but they are built extremely well, the Core X2 Bass cables are built like freaking tanks, heaviest duty cable all around that I own. For my pedal boards I use lava mini-elc with solderless plugs and as long as you don't keep constantly rotating out pedals they seem to work great, atleast for me. Out of 12-14 cables I have one connector that sometimes works loose and I know exactly which one it is and i always tighten it up before practice and gigs.

[dunwichamps]

im still futzing with whatever random cables I have around. On the board I have a lava set i picked up off of Sonny

[Ron Now]

I use Mogami between my bass/pedalboard/amp but I use a random selection of cables for the pedalboard, I think currently it's a George L, and a Hosa.

[JoeVictim]

Originally Posted by Ron Now

I use Mogami between my bass/pedalboard/amp but I use a random selection of cables for the pedalboard, I think currently it's a George L, and a Hosa.

I'm using Live Wire Elite from bass to board.

Conquest cables from board to amp.

A mix of generic 1/4" to 1/4" barrel and pancake ended cables for pedal connection. I did want a wire kit to make custom lengths and what not, but I got things going so it would purely be a want and their are other things I want more, so...yeah.

Radical that Swarm of Arrows jumped in here to help out a fellow doomer!

[DethByDoom]

Monster bass series between bass/board/amp. George L's on board. Worried that if I get away from monster my jacks will be a little lose since monster stuff always seems to do that.

[CL400Peavey]

Originally Posted by DethByDoom

Worried that if I get away from monster my jacks will be a little loose since monster stuff always seems to do that.

*ahem*

Thats what she said...

[mc_muench]

Went rock climbing yesterday, my arms are ' sore and pretty stiff today, practice tonight should be interesting.


I use any cable that works well enough.

[Corey Y]

I use a mixture of Hosa and Monster for my cables. Hosa I've used for a long time, all my XLR, TRS and speaker cables for recording have always been Hosa and I've never had a single failure, also use them for all my patch cables on my boards as well. The Monster Cable stuff I use for my instrument cables and speaker cables for my amps and I've had them since 2004 or so. I got a gift certificate for a small music shop a few towns over and just went in and bought cables, strings and straps. Since they have a lifetime warranty I haven't bought any new cables since. I've had to replace a few, brought them into GC and did the quick exchange thing. At some point in the near future I'll probably replace them with more Hosa cables, as I have good experience with the brand and they're not very expensive. I've never noticed a difference in sound quality between any cables ever, unless they're shorting out and losing connection or something.

[Ancient Tone]

I did notice more audible and clearer high end when i first switched over to Lava ELC's, me and a fellow guitarist did an a/b comparison so that I could make sure it wasn't just in my head and we both agreed that to make them sound the same I had to turn down the treble on the amp with the Lava's. But as far as sounding better its all subjective, if you have a treble knob you can approximate the same tones regardless. Like I said it really just comes down to cable quality.

[JoeVictim]

Originally Posted by Corey Y

I use a mixture of Hosa and Monster for my cables. Hosa I've used for a long time, all my XLR, TRS and speaker cables for recording have always been Hosa and I've never had a single failure, also use them for all my patch cables on my boards as well. The Monster Cable stuff I use for my instrument cables and speaker cables for my amps and I've had them since 2004 or so. I got a gift certificate for a small music shop a few towns over and just went in and bought cables, strings and straps. Since they have a lifetime warranty I haven't bought any new cables since. I've had to replace a few, brought them into GC and did the quick exchange thing. At some point in the near future I'll probably replace them with more Hosa cables, as I have good experience with the brand and they're not very expensive. I've never noticed a difference in sound quality between any cables ever, unless they're shorting out and losing connection or something.

Heck yeah, +1.

The only time I have ever heard an audible difference was when I was using a freebie cable from Rondo. I've seen thicker guaged earings than this cable. When I was in a pinch, I used it. It wasn't horrible but changing from that cable to the livewire elite was night and day. It went from kind of a muffled tone, to being a lot more open sounding.

[dunwichamps]

i think im going to convert over to light modulation instead of using electrons to transport my signal. Each pedal will have a opto-modulator to convert the electrical signals into light waves to be received by a de-modulator at the input of the next pedal. Im really striving to take everything to another level, beyond true bypass, the real truthiest bypass I could achieve.

[Corey Y]

I'm converting all my sounds to a water based format, a la Dethklok. I'm going to need a quote for a Dunwich custom salt water aquarium.

[Ancient Tone]

Originally Posted by Corey Y

I'm converting all my sounds to a water based format, a la Dethklok. I'm going to need a quote for a Dunwich custom salt water aquarium.

[Lazarus.Bird]

I google image searched "wizard fish tank" expecting something hilarious to post here, but nothing

[dunwichamps]

put my mobius on the board this morning. Gotta go and redo every cable on it now.

[dunwichamps]

also shirt orders put in today with the maker. maybe I will see them early next week and begin shipping by end of next week

[mc_muench]

Originally Posted by dunwichamps

i think im going to convert over to light modulation instead of using electrons to transport my signal. Each pedal will have a opto-modulator to convert the electrical signals into light waves to be received by a de-modulator at the input of the next pedal. Im really striving to take everything to another level, beyond true bypass, the real truthiest bypass I could achieve.

Fiber optic fuzz?

[dunwichamps]

yea son

[JoeVictim]

Damn, slow day...

[OysteinosaurusG]

non-doom recommendation from the greatest decade in music history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLBO_iWVBwQ