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Doug Pinnick Bass Rig: A Pic

#21
Originally posted by FiXeR
What's the use in having an SVP-pro when you have 2 SVT 4's ? In the photo ones on and the others off :hmm: . I'm imagining that a lot of this is just dummy stuff and backup gear. He probably takes everything he owns on the road whether he needs it or not. I know if I spent 9 months of the year on the road I'd miss some of my toys to if I left them behind. Just a thought..... :rolleyes:
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You would be insane to go on tour without a backup or two, especially if your amp is a (relatively) unreliable Cratepeg.
 
#22
Doug Pinnick is an immensely talented song writer, singer, bassist, and performer in a trio called "King's X".

His vocals are as good as anything I've ever heard in rock (and soul, for that matter) music.

His tone is uh....unusual. That huge rig was used when I saw them a few months ago and remarkably wasn't too loud. I stood within about 10 feet of it.

IMHO, Pinnick is a huge talent, one of the best performers I've ever seen and a wicked bassist.
 
#23
Originally posted by doc540
Doug Pinnick is an immensely talented song writer, singer, bassist, and performer in a trio called "King's X".

His vocals are as good as anything I've ever heard in rock (and soul, for that matter) music.

His tone is uh....unusual. That huge rig was used when I saw them a few months ago and remarkably wasn't too loud. I stood within about 10 feet of it.

IMHO, Pinnick is a huge talent, one of the best performers I've ever seen and a wicked bassist.
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Great minds, he's been one of my favorite bass players ever since my cousin took me to one of their shows when I was 11. I tried his tone approach for a long time too, it works great.
 
#24
He's also a really nice and funny guy. For those familiar with the King's X song "Over My Head", Doug once had this on his answering machine many years ago: "IIIIiiIIIii can't come to the phone! IIIiiIIiiii may not be home! If you! If you! If you leave a message, I'll return your call!"

A friend of mine used to talk to him alot, and I'm sure Doug probably was wondering what were all the blank messages on his machine were because we kept calling it to hear that message over and over because it cracked us up. :)
 
#26
I'd hesitate to use the word "limited" in any context when talking about Pinnick. He plays low (and I mean LOW) and high. He and the Ty Tabor, the guitarist, play unison and harmony parts all through their shows.

His long arms help make the reach.

btw: He's over 50 years old and still rockin' HARD!
 
#27
You just have to see Kings X to really appreciate Doug's performance ability and incredible monster tone. When I first saw them he played more Hamer 8 and 12 string basses than he does now, man what a sound! A lot of bands in the early 90's from Pearl Jam to Collective Soul "borrowed" from Kings X and were much more commercially successfull, but they are still around and still one of the best bands out there.
You can also check out DP's solo stuff on a couple of Pound Hound cds, and Ty Tabor has lots of solo material and plays with everybody.
 
#28
Doug's the man. I've always admired his appraoch to rigs ala Entwistle, Peterson, Sheehan, etc.

That YBA1 head all wound up gave him that killer grind using the 12'er on the old KX albums. I still drool over that sound.

The graphics remind me of what Entwistle used to do with his Sunn heads and then later with his graphics in setting them up as crossovers.

I saw Sheehan with Niacin and he had the multi-SVT cabs (one clean, one grind), a wound up Pearce pre and some other rack gear. It was loud as hell but cool !!!! I'm dying to see King's X.
 
#30
Originally posted by Planet Boulder
Is that a guitar POD Pro in his rack? Couldn't help but notice that. Wonder if he uses it for emulation or the effects?
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Probably emulation, his signal depends on guitar amps to get tone. I don't see his old lanely amp either, I guess he opted for presets. I seem to remember him using a SansAmp PSA-1 at one point too.
 
#32
Y'all are probably not going to believe this but... I met Doug Pinnick back in 1978! A Christian band called "Servant" came though our town and played at my church and at the Federal Prison in Lompoc, CA. and he was with them.

But he wasn't playing with them, and it appeared that he wasn't really a roady, he was just "with" them. The band had a fairly extensive sound system and setup in the local Boys & Girls Club to work out a few bugs, that's where I met him.

He had a really beat-to-hell early 60' right-handed P Bass that he was playing upside down. We had a nice conversation about basses and technique, I vividly remembered him because he really knew a lot of stuff and I was just a beginner back then.

I bring all this up, not just because I love to drop a name and look pathetically important, but I'm curious if anyone knows what happened to that band, and why Pinnick was with them (it has vexed me for many years!) Thanks.
 
#33
i run my rig like dugs but on the cheap. the bass plugs in to a boss line selector, running so that both channels are on. send A goes to the left side of an alesis eq setup the same as dugs so that its just the real low that gets through from there it goes in to a compressor 4-1 ratio and mess around with the attack/release times from there back into the line selector.
send B from the line selector goes to the right side of the eq again set up the same as dugs. cut everything except 1 -2 k so its just the high mid/ high that gets through from here again it goes to a compressor and out of the compressor in to a decent distortion. I used to use a guitar pod set to black panel with the gain cranked between half and three quarters which worked well ( I think dug orinally used a trainer head for the dirty) but I've recently replaced the pod with a blackstar distortion pedal - the one with a tube inside it from here back to the line selector. then just use the mix controls on the line selector to adjust the balance between the 2 sounds. the beauty of this setup is that you can get a nice dirty sound without losing any bottom end at all. I wouldn't bother trying the above unless you've got a valve head. I tried it on many solid state amps and it sounds shite. I use a tube path 5.1 and it sounds monster when you run it as above. Think Dinosaurs eating cars and you'll be pretty close. Rock On!!
 
#34
Psycho Bass Guy said:
Anyone else notice the naked Traynor YBA1 chassis in the upper part of the right rack?
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...saw it, but had no clue what it was other than a tube "something"

(Seen Doug and the guys a couple of times. Super talented group and they don't get anywhere near the exposure they deserve. After a show, Doug usually hangs out and talks to anyone who's willing to chat.

....and his rig sounds extremely full when played in the context of the band. Couple of times hearing a note between songs, not so much. Highly recommend checking them out live if they come through your town.
 
#36
Dug is a great musician and I've always admired Kings X a lot, but whenever I see that many sliders and knobs in a bass rig I have to ask myself what percentage of all that processing ever makes it out to the audience once it goes through the FOH system....

At the minimum, Dug has the most kick-ass stage monitoring setup EVER.

Also, you can just barely make it out in the photo but I believe part of his setup is a plain old little SansAmp BDDI like many of us mortals use. In fact, the little booklet that comes with them has a diagram showing you how to set the knobs for the "Kings X" setting. Or at least that was the case when I bought mine a few years ago.
 
#39
BigEarl said:
Y'all are probably not going to believe this but... I met Doug Pinnick back in 1978! A Christian band called "Servant" came though our town and played at my church and at the Federal Prison in Lompoc, CA. and he was with them.

But he wasn't playing with them, and it appeared that he wasn't really a roady, he was just "with" them..
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fwiw, Doug toured playing bass with Morgan Cryar back in the early/mid 80s. Ty Tabor and DP also put some tracks down on Morgan's album Fuel on the Fire.
 

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