Stoner/DOOM Bassists Part 83: WHAT YEAR IS IT?

[Ron Now]

I go back and forth on dirty tones. Some days I like a cleaner less dirty tone, other times I like things super dirty.

But the dirt is always there.

I don't like clean bass tones much anymore these days. Got have a little bit of grit no matter what.

 

[dukeorock]

I go back and forth on dirty tones. Some days I like a cleaner less dirty tone, other times I like things super dirty.

But the dirt is always there.

I don't like clean bass tones much anymore these days. Got have a little bit of grit no matter what.

I've been using a couple dirt boxes lately (Mesa Flux Drive, Pork Loin, Fulltone), but even my 'clean' sound isn't really very clean by a lot of standards

 

[mbelue]

Yes. Fretwork was alright. The neck was fairly chunky and the weight was up there too. Dropped a Seymour Duncan in it and it killed. Sold when the Carvin came.

CL has one local for $60, but there has to be a catch. That's awful cheap even for an OLP.
Been thinking about it all day.

 

[DethByDoom]

Anyone else have difficulty dialing dirty bass through their big rig by themselves? Any time I go to our jam spot by myself I can spend hours knob tweaking trying to find a precise tone. But with no band mix the bass always sounds either too hairy with not enough low end or too wooly with no definition. I'll drive myself mad doing this and never be satisfied.

Then next band practice everything sounds awesome. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself lol.

Sounds about right.

 

[DethByDoom]

Our CDs came in

 

[mc_muench]

Anyone else have difficulty dialing dirty bass through their big rig by themselves? Any time I go to our jam spot by myself I can spend hours knob tweaking trying to find a precise tone. But with no band mix the bass always sounds either too hairy with not enough low end or too wooly with no definition. I'll drive myself mad doing this and never be satisfied.

Then next band practice everything sounds awesome. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself lol.

Yup, every time, besides the tone I have right now. Running straight into my Peavey Standard its no where near a clean tone, but it sounds great alone as much as it does in a mix. If I'm running a fuzz or distortion by myself its just lacking, in a mix its great.


Didn't get the cabs done tonight, mostly because I forgot to bring a power drill and the cabs are rear loaded and have like 30 screws holding the back on. I took over half an hour to just take the backs off. Plus it was my first time ever sodering, by the end of the second cab I'm decent at it. All I have to do is finish screwing the backs on. I put enough screws to hold it on to try out the cabs. Sounds good, besides the ridiculous amount of chuffing. But I won't really comment until tomorrow when the back are fully on.

 

[D.M.N.]

Listened to the latest Kadavar on my way to work this morning for the first time in awhile. I'm not sure I even gave it justice putting it at #5 on my best of 2013 list. Album is so damn good. I think they do the 70s retro rock thing better than any other band, including Graveyard.

+100, both Kadavar and Abra Kadavar are great. Listen to the Blues Pills any? Been really into both of them lately.

 

[Low Sound Love]

Unless it encounters an icy stretch of road.

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That 33rpm Supervoid is amazingly awesome!

 

[CL400Peavey]

Good morning.

You're welcome...

 

[Squanch72]

Our CDs came in
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Cool, where do we buy them, on bandcamp?

 

[Squanch72]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/vagina-as-holster-675432

Speaking of dark stuff, my favorite authors ex wife's up to no good with her nethers.

When I saw the name of her ex it seemed more fitting, lol

 

[Ron Now]

Anyone who was looking to grab a copy of Hippie Killer, we have 100 records left, and our store will be reopening today at 10:00 am (roughly) chicago time.

 

[Timm Grimm]

My Peavey VTA 400 got here yesterday. I'm running a dual rig now. It slays. SOO stoked. I'm thinking one clean lows with slight grit and one dirty mids focused. But who knows, I have allot of knob turning in my future. Sh*tty part is, I'm leaving for school (I'm army) next week and won't get back till March. Already I have something to look forward to when I get home, never mind family.

 

[Lazarus.Bird]

I go back and forth on dirty tones. Some days I like a cleaner less dirty tone, other times I like things super dirty.

But the dirt is always there.

I don't like clean bass tones much anymore these days. Got have a little bit of grit no matter what.

Yeah, I never run clean bass. Even in parts that are pretty clean and laid back, I'm still using some wooly fuzz to add some balls to the bass. Glad to hear I'm not the only person who drives themselves crazy when knob tweaking by themselves.

Our CDs came in
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Nice! When's the release date?

+100, both Kadavar and Abra Kadavar are great. Listen to the Blues Pills any? Been really into both of them lately.

Only slightly familiar with them. I'll have to check it out. Brutus is another band similar to Kadavar that I really like.

 

[beebassdude]

i love clean bass for quieter spacy parts, i think grind or dirt during stuff like that just muddies it up.

 

[The_Janitor]

We practice in my guitar player's basement so I don't really get any full-volume alone time. Occasionally I bring the pedal board home and plug it into my behringer bass pod clone. I'll dial up a clean SS amp model, add a touch of ambient reverb to get some room sound, then **** around with the dirt settings. Surprisingly, the new settings translate really well to the full rig high volume band situation.

But yeah, I can drive myself nuts tweaking dirt settings. I've got 4 dirt pedals now, trying to cut it down but not having much luck. When I was using the ODB3 it was balls to the wall full gain gnarliness, these days I'm trying to learn to turn down the gain knob a bit.

Things changed when I got the ATK, I kept kicking on the dirt and finding the tone to be noticeably worse, more compressed, less low end, less note definition, etc. So I'm finding that lower gain settings work better with the active preamp. No sense paying for an active bass and killing all of that good tone with cheap dirt pedals cranked to full distortion.

I'm making progress, I think. I really like the OD setting on the Ibanez PD7, and I'm finding good low-gain tones with the US RAT2 that I got a couple of weeks ago...

 

[Squanch72]

+100, both Kadavar and Abra Kadavar are great. Listen to the Blues Pills any? Been really into both of them lately.

Just took some Blue Pills, good stuff.

 

[bassboysam]

quieter spacy parts

what are those?

 

[beebassdude]

what are those?

haha the parts in songs that make up DYNAMICS!

clean bass is awesome. im actually not into "dirt" very much. if youre gonna put on fuzz, put on the ****ing fuzz and kill somebody.

 

[bassboysam]

haha the parts in songs that make up DYNAMICS!

clean bass is awesome. im actually not into "dirt" very much. if youre gonna put on fuzz, put on the ****ing fuzz and kill somebody.

you wouldn't belieive how hard we try to add dynamics...somehow it always ends up too loud and too fast. Some one once described us as "high energy doom". I think that is the perfect description.