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Effects for heavy music without a guitar???
- Thread starter father of fires
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The bass and drums band seems to work just fine for OM.
There secret seems to be a lot of big cabs with tube amps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Cisneros
There secret seems to be a lot of big cabs with tube amps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Cisneros
Didnt go to the gig but saw a picture of the OM pedalboard from last nights gig here in Leeds and the dude was rocking one of those Moog Minitaurs as well! upset i didnt get to hear how it sounded!
The Japanese prog band 'Ruins' is another good example of this kind of arrangement:
Unfortunately I have no idea what kind of setup any of the 4 bassists that played in the band over the years used as far as amps or basses go, but there is definitely a pitch shifter, digitech whammy, and bass overdrive/distortion pedal involved (though not all necessarily in the same tune).
Unfortunately I have no idea what kind of setup any of the 4 bassists that played in the band over the years used as far as amps or basses go, but there is definitely a pitch shifter, digitech whammy, and bass overdrive/distortion pedal involved (though not all necessarily in the same tune).
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we thinned the main bass sound out to give the chorus some OOMPH
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skulletwhip said:
Oopsypoodle.
Looks like my low reading comprehension scores were more accurate than I gave them credit for.
Example with a Solo
Example with clean and dirty tones
I've played a few shows with my band without the guitar. I usually add a microPog, but this is my normal sound without one.
I think it fills the sound fairly well while still retaining definition.
As always your mileage will vary.
Example with clean and dirty tones
I've played a few shows with my band without the guitar. I usually add a microPog, but this is my normal sound without one.
I think it fills the sound fairly well while still retaining definition.
As always your mileage will vary.
Wait, doom? Just bass? Why has this been a hard question?
1) Get a Green Russian Muff
2) Play real loud
3) Keep playing all the time
1) Get a Green Russian Muff
2) Play real loud
3) Keep playing all the time
I've played in a metalish bass/drum duo occasionally (sometimes very occasionally) for a few years. Fuzz (from a black Russian big muff) is definitely the core sound, and I could probably get away with it alone but delay and octave down (from a boss rv-3 and oc-2 respectively) see a lot of use as well. Chorus (from a boss ce-b3) is used on a couple of riffs, but that's it. Having some type of octave up has always been on the list, and I recently picked up a boss ps-3 that will probably replace the oc-2. Other things I've been wanting have been some type of phrase sampler and a volume pedal, but I never seem to have the spare cash. All that being said, however, we're moving in an almost exclusively doomy direction that (so far at least) might require nothing but the muff.
My only overdrive is a Trex BassJuice and I rarely turn it off due to being in a trio. Amps are a SVT-CL and a Vox AC30. Bass is a 97 Corvette Standard with flats.
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Its really overdriven, but it still cuts through the mix pretty easily even with semi-busy basslines.
All good ideas.
I have a bluebeard and an 8x10 and access to several big amps. Do you think it is inevitable that all bass/drum bands will become Om worshipers? It’s not a bad thing but I have hope that something more sonically filling can be achieved.
Hell, even Big Business had to add a guitarist.
I think I’m going to write my tracks and then spend some time in my friend’s studio coming up with a fulfilling tone. I’m not afraid to use some studio tricks but I won’t want to play anything that can’t be reasonably approximated in a live setting.
On a side note: At Giza is probably one of my favorite songs and there's barely any fuzz (until the end).
I have a bluebeard and an 8x10 and access to several big amps. Do you think it is inevitable that all bass/drum bands will become Om worshipers? It’s not a bad thing but I have hope that something more sonically filling can be achieved.
Hell, even Big Business had to add a guitarist.
I think I’m going to write my tracks and then spend some time in my friend’s studio coming up with a fulfilling tone. I’m not afraid to use some studio tricks but I won’t want to play anything that can’t be reasonably approximated in a live setting.
On a side note: At Giza is probably one of my favorite songs and there's barely any fuzz (until the end).
is that distortion and flanger or envelope filter, or distortion, flanger and envelope filter all together at once?
