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Episode 88: S/D thread - No Hope
- Thread starter CL400Peavey
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How many times can I haggle and price match between places? They have they always beat competitor price banners on both sites, but I doubt I can play them off of each other forever but I'm trying to get this bass vi as cheap as possible.
This is the case on the Hartke LH1000? I'm hoping to get mine back from the shop soon... good to know!
father of fires
Commercial User
Dimed on the AD200 is not boosted and if the bass and treble are above 0 then your are officially cutting your mids.
Well, I'm also running my Wizard Fuzz in front of the Orange, which is essentially a preamp itself. By the time my EGC and WF tone hit the front of my TB, it's already pretty fuzzy and middy. I definitely still have a lot of mids in my tone.
Yeah on 4 band EQ's I bosst low mids a bit and cut high mids and highs. And on guitar maybe a touch cut but that depends on pickups, the EQ on the Terror is just a different beast to work with. I never go for a ****** Korn tone or a TS808 guitar tone. I hate ice pick on guitar so sometimes excessive highs and highs mids go bye bye.
I boost mids on my amp, and on my bass. Then I play through a fEARful.
I love my mids as much as I love my bass.
It's been a long time and I don't even remember what the flat setting is on the AD200 anymore. I'll see if I can dig that up. I may have a chance to squeeze more mid boost if my bass and treble are boosted, too.
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So have I shown you guys a pic of my current rig yet?
Got the Acoustic running the 2x15 (replacing speakers in one today, so actively 4x15 by tonight) and the Butcher running the 4x12 column. I'm running the Bass channel 100% clean and have all my effects going to the guitar amp, and I gotta admit, I am f**king loving it.
The Acoustic + 15" drivers is such a good aggressively-vintage Mountain / Led Zeppelin tone that I'm actually happier not feeding it fuzz. The guitar amp has the Low turned down to min, and Mid and Treb to taste, gain around 4... with no pedals on, it adds a nice clean upper mid high end to my clean tone. Unlike all yinz debating mids over the last 4 pages, I f**king love upper mids, it gives me a Claypool boner every time. The Rat, Grey Stache fuzz, and old school Small Stone give me alot of sweet tones and is full/thick enough to keep our band sound as full as if we had a rhythm guitarist... our sound is becoming very psychedelic / jammy and our guitarist has alot of pedal-toys, so being able to hold down a thick rhythm on my own gives him alot more air to breath without worrying about us sounding overall thin like some 3-pieces when the guitarist breaks into a solo.
One day I'll put a push-pull and cap in my Ric and fix the Ric-o-Sound so I can do this bi-amp rig the proper way... but for now I just use a cheap ABY pedal. I'm slightly worried that still too much low end is getting to the guitar amp, so I'm looking for an EQ pedal or drive pedal with good EQ to cut some of those lows out. Laz suggested the Fdeck, may give that a look.
Have any of you guys seen these Sunn 4x12 columns??? They came up on CL and I got a pair for $150 total. One is serving our PA duties and 1 obviously has become part of my bass rig. I couldnt imagine how loud a 100 watt amp would be into both at once. I consider these a steal for what I paid and how good they sound. Just gotta dig in there and disconnect the tweeters...
Got the Acoustic running the 2x15 (replacing speakers in one today, so actively 4x15 by tonight) and the Butcher running the 4x12 column. I'm running the Bass channel 100% clean and have all my effects going to the guitar amp, and I gotta admit, I am f**king loving it.
The Acoustic + 15" drivers is such a good aggressively-vintage Mountain / Led Zeppelin tone that I'm actually happier not feeding it fuzz. The guitar amp has the Low turned down to min, and Mid and Treb to taste, gain around 4... with no pedals on, it adds a nice clean upper mid high end to my clean tone. Unlike all yinz debating mids over the last 4 pages, I f**king love upper mids, it gives me a Claypool boner every time. The Rat, Grey Stache fuzz, and old school Small Stone give me alot of sweet tones and is full/thick enough to keep our band sound as full as if we had a rhythm guitarist... our sound is becoming very psychedelic / jammy and our guitarist has alot of pedal-toys, so being able to hold down a thick rhythm on my own gives him alot more air to breath without worrying about us sounding overall thin like some 3-pieces when the guitarist breaks into a solo.
One day I'll put a push-pull and cap in my Ric and fix the Ric-o-Sound so I can do this bi-amp rig the proper way... but for now I just use a cheap ABY pedal. I'm slightly worried that still too much low end is getting to the guitar amp, so I'm looking for an EQ pedal or drive pedal with good EQ to cut some of those lows out. Laz suggested the Fdeck, may give that a look.
Have any of you guys seen these Sunn 4x12 columns??? They came up on CL and I got a pair for $150 total. One is serving our PA duties and 1 obviously has become part of my bass rig. I couldnt imagine how loud a 100 watt amp would be into both at once. I consider these a steal for what I paid and how good they sound. Just gotta dig in there and disconnect the tweeters...
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Now I'm confused, from the hunting I just did it looked like 9-12-3. FWIW, I run it 3-dimed-3.
Beastly.
Basically a free case and delivery. Good deal! You'll probably want to swap out the strings, at least the low E.
father of fires
Commercial User
I am kind of confused about this:
I read a bench test of the Orange Terror that said flat is 0-10-0, then I hear the Fender tone stack is 2-10-2. And if you turn the bass and treble down to 0 it seems like a volume drop to me, is it really still flat at 0?
I read a bench test of the Orange Terror that said flat is 0-10-0, then I hear the Fender tone stack is 2-10-2. And if you turn the bass and treble down to 0 it seems like a volume drop to me, is it really still flat at 0?
Yea, hopefully it fits it's a universal bass case she says she's sold many times with the bass vi so if not I'll just take it back to the store and it was only $290...
I'll probably grab a set of la Bella flats for it or something. Joe gave me a set of rounds so I'll probably play it stock see if I bond, then do a string change to those rounds and do all the setup work (flip bridge around etc). After that I'm still loving it, I'll get the flats, new pickguard, wire it for series and some other stuff and add a mastery bridge
I believe so, yeah. Searching TB and Orange forum I found, L to R, treble at 9:00, mids noon and bass 3:00.
If these amps have passive tone stacks, wouldn't they completely change your tone regardless of what's running in front of it? Like if it's always cutting mids does a prior mids boost really matter or do what it's technically supposed to if it's running right into a scoop? I know it might sound cool but I mean is it actually working as intended?
