In light of me picking up 2 cab's this weekend I'm putting a few pedals on the chopping block to help offset the cost. I've got a black on black BOE Mantra and a black on green EA Supercollider v2 i'm gonna give dibs to the doom room on. 106$ each shipped in the con-us, and I'll post pics tonight. Get at me if your interested.
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A few months back I traded a guy a Nobels ODR-1 for a Acoustic combo the B100 with the 15 inch speaker. Not my main amp but I really like it's old school tone. I would definitely consider more Acoustic gear now.
Cool. Any other amp you would say it is similar to? I have been looking for a decent combo amp for home use/noodling. I was pretty sold on the Ampeg BA100 but, the Acoustic is a lot cheaper.
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Holy crap, internet was down at work for 4 hours. All my desk work is internet server based pricing programs too, so I just had 10 minutes of work and sat waiting a few hours to hit "save". Good thing I had a couple walk-ins to pass the time. On the upside I tabbed out these riffs I'm working on with GuitarPro, in my downtime:
Cool. Any other amp you would say it is similar to? I have been looking for a decent combo amp for home use/noodling. I was pretty sold on the Ampeg BA100 but, the Acoustic is a lot cheaper.
Hmm, hard to compare it to another amp. has a deep vintage tone but with mids, not a mid cut type vintage sound. Though this could be the way I set my amp's EQs lows 10/11 low mids 1, high mids flat or 11, and highs 11. I usually use a Hartke 2000 over a Genz Benz 410 with tweeter rolled back and can get a similiar tone from the Acoustic. I have owned SWR, Markbass, Ampeg B100R, in the past. I guess I hear a little SWR and Mapeg in the Acoustic. Hope that helps.
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So, a little pickup discussion... I e-mailed Kevin at EGC today to see if I can still change my mind about my pickups. I originally chose single coils, but lately I've been kind of wanting humbuckers. Watching the Sandrider studio videos has me wanting a Stingray again, and it would give me more tonal diversity compared to my Ric. What do you guys think?
Thanks! One of the basses I regret selling. I probably wouldn't be using it too much, but I still miss it.
I had a '95 ATK and kinda regret selling it now. There's something really intense about the attack of the notes you get - it really lives up to the name. See the entirety of '...And the Circus Leaves Town' for examples - although I do prefer the ric tone on 'Welcome to Sky Valley'.
Question on vertically stacking cabs. If you've got a vertical 212, or 215 or whatever, how do you ensure stability? How do you compensate for light-weight cabs that can put out big noise? Any worries about tipping themselves over? Would clamps holding the two cabinets together help? Are indents for legs or skid rails enough to keep them together?
I've been thinking about doing a JohnK style build of a 215, but then I realized that a vertical 212 might be more my speed (ie, fit in my car with the proper aesthetics I wanted to add) and would make a vertical stack possible. So, anyone have experience with vertical stacks and any engineering issues I should keep my eyes out for?
Our last show my guitarist's full stack was super wobbly on stage. Hard to predict uneven surfaces... we balanced it best we could and had faith it wouldnt topple. I know this wasn't helpful at all, but I assume guitarists w/ light full stacks have this problem alot, so there may be other answers out there (blocks or skids, etc.)
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Is it satan worshiping doom? Then I am not interested.
So, a little pickup discussion... I e-mailed Kevin at EGC today to see if I can still change my mind about my pickups. I originally chose single coils, but lately I've been kind of wanting humbuckers. Watching the Sandrider studio videos has me wanting a Stingray again, and it would give me more tonal diversity compared to my Ric. What do you guys think?
In my experience, the Music Man pickup is a lot different than just an average humbucker. My Drake Custom has 2 Nordstrand DC pickups passive and it sounds NOTHING like my Ray34CA. Granted the preamp is also a big part of the MM sound too. All the basses I've had with humbuckers are a little more hi-fi sounding to my ear, a little more mid scooped. There's a lot of versatility in soloing and mixing the two pickups, but each pickup never really gets that bite that a solo single coil does. Not better or worse really, just different.
I don't think you'd get very close to a MM sound using a HB, without the preamp and the bridge PU in that sweet spot position.
In my experience, the Music Man pickup is a lot different than just an average humbucker. My Drake Custom has 2 Nordstrand DC pickups passive and it sounds NOTHING like my Ray34CA. Granted the preamp is also a big part of the MM sound too. All the basses I've had with humbuckers are a little more hi-fi sounding to my ear, a little more mid scooped. There's a lot of versatility in soloing and mixing the two pickups, but each pickup never really gets that bite that a solo single coil does. Not better or worse really, just different.
I don't think you'd get very close to a MM sound using a HB, without the preamp and the bridge PU in that sweet spot position.
That Sandrider video is a perfect example of the kind of tonez I squeeze out of my passive Ray35, so I think its more the positioning of the pickup than the preamp. Straight into an amp my passive Ray can't do the "Ray style" super mid scoop or super dub wobb, its a 1 trick pony for sure but its 1 trick is full-range MM tone, perfect for our purposes
Laz you wanna jam around on mine before pulling the trigger on a MM pickup? You were planning J's before, right? Somehow I predict that you'll play it with both full-on, its just sort of your tone with your band. I was using the bridge J pup on my Carvin solo'd with Mechanized Man before I got my Ray, the solo J pup had the tone but didnt have the range and balls that the Ray's HB has. That nasally Stingray tone just seems to fit really well with us.
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Is it satan worshiping doom? Then I am not interested.
I have a passive Fernandes Atlas X with the humbucker style in the sweet MM spot. Doesn't have the scooped sound mid but I still dig the sound. Actually trying out an alnico pup in it this weekend to see if there is a big difference between ceramic or alnico. I have been digging on growly humbuckers lately. Want to route my Yamaha BB300 that I just swapped to BEAD to hold a exposed pole humbucker in the same area of the stock reverse P to make a poor mans G&L L1000 sort of.
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Yeah, was originally planning on J's. And yeah, I would likely run it wide open like I run my Ric. I'm not really sure what I want. Got bored at work and started thinking about it and now I don't know what to think haha.
Does EGC use a pretty common size pickup? If they're using a size that fits say a Bart sized PU, you could have a lot of options for changing it out later. In retrospect I wish I had went that direction with my Drake, instead of EMG 35 sized humbuckers. I can still get a lot of different pickups in that size, but half of them are special order. Where as it seems like a lot more companies make single, dual and split coil pickups in that standard Bartolini size soapbar. I did a lot of research beforehand, but it tied my brain up in knots too. I already ended up changing pickups once and I'll probably do it again, as I've been wanting to replace them with regular single coils or a P/J style configuration lately.
No I believe he uses box looking aluminum enclosures for the pickups that he makes himself. Honestly I'm not that picky, I will probably be happy either way...
I'm putting a few pedals on the chopping block to help offset the cost. I've got a black on black BOE Mantra and a black on green EA Supercollider v2 i'm gonna give dibs to the doom room on. 106$ each shipped in the con-us, and I'll post pics tonight. Get at me if your interested.
