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Stoner/Doom Bassist Thread Part 8 - Insert witty title...

#184
After a long night of asking myself what I want to do gear wise I have realized that I have not been happy with my gear because I was trying to create a sound that was not me. I spent the last 5 years playing clean with flats and I’ve switched to rounds and dirt boxes because I felt I needed that for a metal band. I have decided that I will not use dirt to hide my sloppy playing and I’m going to put flats back on. I doubt the band would even notice a difference. I may get a decent compressor to keep the levels consistent but I think I’m going to move away from dirt pedals.

What sucks about this is that I just finished designing a distortion box I was really happy with. I plan to still have some nice dirt boxes in my arsenal but once I started thinking about going back to flats and playing clean I smiled and got really excited about practice next week. I tried to explain this all to my wife and she just thought I was super lame.
 
#188
father of fires said:
After a long night of asking myself what I want to do gear wise I have realized that I have not been happy with my gear because I was trying to create a sound that was not me. I spent the last 5 years playing clean with flats and I've switched to rounds and dirt boxes because I felt I needed that for a metal band. I have decided that I will not use dirt to hide my sloppy playing and I'm going to put flats back on. I doubt the band would even notice a difference. I may get a decent compressor to keep the levels consistent but I think I'm going to move away from dirt pedals.

What sucks about this is that I just finished designing a distortion box I was really happy with. I plan to still have some nice dirt boxes in my arsenal but once I started thinking about going back to flats and playing clean I smiled and got really excited about practice next week. I tried to explain this all to my wife and she just thought I was super lame.
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I was going to take the flats off my white Ric for a min. Then i took out a P bass to the next gig, it had rounds, and i played with the tone rolled off almost the whole night. When i realized 95% of the night it killed and sat well in the mix no brainer, flats stay. It's nothing a couple peds cant fix for the other 5%.
 
#193
hey im a new guy to this thread, have been loosely following for a while now but damn these threads move so fast its hard to keep up!!

i wanted bring up a topic that was being discussed several pages back...

Does anyone have any experience/knowledge of a venue in Grand Rapids, MI called Mulligans? im looking at you Jason!, heh heh

I play bass in a doom band here in Chicago and we had a gig scheduled at The Pyramid Scheme but it got cancelled and now were playing at Mulligans instead on Sat, June 2.

anyone play there or see a show there that could give me a heads up on what its like? sounds like Pyramid Scheme may have been a better venue choice for us.

BTW if anyone is interested in checking out the band i can post a link but really more interested in hearing about venues, not posting just for self-promotion. lol

i play a Schecter Elite 5 into an '87 "skunkworks" SVT by way of a Tech 21 VT Bass pedal if anyone is interested. (appears you guys are gearheads like me)

cheers and keep it low and slow!!
 
#196
christpncher said:
hey im a new guy to this thread, have been loosely following for a while now but damn these threads move so fast its hard to keep up!!

i wanted bring up a topic that was being discussed several pages back...

Does anyone have any experience/knowledge of a venue in Grand Rapids, MI called Mulligans? im looking at you Jason!, heh heh

I play bass in a doom band here in Chicago and we had a gig scheduled at The Pyramid Scheme but it got cancelled and now were playing at Mulligans instead on Sat, June 2.

anyone play there or see a show there that could give me a heads up on what its like? sounds like Pyramid Scheme may have been a better venue choice for us.

BTW if anyone is interested in checking out the band i can post a link but really more interested in hearing about venues, not posting just for self-promotion. lol

i play a Schecter Elite 5 into an '87 "skunkworks" SVT by way of a Tech 21 VT Bass pedal if anyone is interested. (appears you guys are gearheads like me)

cheers and keep it low and slow!!
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Welcome, be loud and proud, link away! And don't worry, this tread can be used as a DIY promotion and information tool.
 

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