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Stoner/DOOM Bassists thread part 37: Ancient Alien Fuzz

#364
Ron Now said:
I recently drank the kool-aid over in the effects forum and picked up a Darkglass B7K. While initally the pedal didn't really interest me, after so many glowing reviews and endorsements (mostly of the B3K, but still) I decided I needed to at least try one out. It also doesn't help that I've been on a gain pedal buying binge and have wanted to grab some sort of dirty preamp to mess around with. Got a good deal with a black friday coupon off of rouge guitar so now I have one.

Gotta say, it's pretty damn awesome. Most of the clips and videos I've seen showcase it's upper midrange grind, kind of the scooped rise against sounding distortion, and while it does that to a T, that specific sound isn't really isnt my thing.

However, with the addtional EQ on the B7K I was able to dial in some pretty heavy gain tones, and by pretty heavy, I mean massivly huge sounding bass tones. With my Ric into my 80's GK combo at home the B7K made all my other pedals sound like they were coming out of a tin can by comparison. I am honestly shocked at how thick the low end is on this pedal.

I know I'm in the honey moon period with the pedal, but so far I'm really glad I gave in to the hype and grabbed one. I'm working on reconfiguring my board to make it a permanent piece of my setup. This also means I now need to find a new MXR/Boss sized pedal to fill a gap that my reconfigured board will now have. I'm thinking something practical like a noise gate (as my freqbox has a bit of hiss that I find annoying), or something impractical like a Freeze...

Also Rat into the B7K sound so damn gnarly, I'm stoked.
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Yeah I have a B3K and it is thick as hell with the toggle on the "fat" setting. Lows for days. They are awesome pedals for sure.
 
#365
twhitedc said:
The Spider gets really mixed reviews. I think it just sounds better with some amps than others. I've had setups that it sounds great with and others that it sounds like total crap with. That's a bummer, and quite the dilemma, while any tech should be able to fix a power jack, but I would want to send it back too. True about no, XLR on the MS, but it does have a 1/4" out with speaker sim. I have not used said 1/4" output yet, so no details on that. Good luck on the repair.
Have a great show tonight!
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I've had the same problem, it is definitely dependent on your amp / speaker setup. This will be my third one, my first one i bought to use on guitar and it did not mesh well at all, it sounded like pooh because my reissue model T could not handle the low end it put out. The second one sounded amazing through my AD200 and sunn 2x15, but a month after i got it I joined a new band under the assumption of being a guitar player so i sold it to finance some guitar stuff i needed. Then i ended up being more the bass player than the guitar player in the band so i decided to pick up another one and it still sounds amazing through my orange and 2x12.

As far as the power jack I'm gonna break out the multimeter and see if i can find the problem, as well as sending pics to Ben to see if he can identify the problem (i suspect a ground was misplaced). I hope i can just fix it myself with his approval so i dont void the warranty.

If you do end up using the speaker sim out on the MS please let me know what you think. It just boggled me why it was designed for that use and yet you would still have to use a seperate DI box to go to FOH.

Thanks my friend!!! I would invite you DC guys out to the show, but its sold out! :bassist: (its only a max occupancy 250 person club though so its not that big of a deal but its still nice to see that next to your band name in event listings)
 
#370
When we played w/ Dysrhythmia, Kevin Hufnagel was saying that they stopped touring outside of the Northeast w/ their own van. He said it's slightly more expensive, but it's totally worth it to have all of the roadside assistance, customer service, replacement protocol, and piece of mind to just rent a van.
 
#374
bassboysam said:
I think it's a Dopesmoker kind of day for me. Work rig all set up, time to fire it up.

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Note: Tube is for visual effect only :hyper:
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I just did some research on iBasso, their sheeit is legit! A lil pricey but only once you get into the uber audiophile stuff. I may have to watch ebay like a hawk for some used ones. I need something just like what you got in the picture for work.
 
#375
Ancient Tone said:
I just did some research on iBasso, their sheeit is legit! A lil pricey but only once you get into the uber audiophile stuff. I may have to watch ebay like a hawk for some used ones. I need something just like what you got in the picture for work.
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they have gotten a lot more expensive. I got mine around 3 years ago and i paid way less than $200.
 
#379
Ancient Tone said:
I just did some research on iBasso, their sheeit is legit! A lil pricey but only once you get into the uber audiophile stuff. I may have to watch ebay like a hawk for some used ones. I need something just like what you got in the picture for work.
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also the op-amp rolling kit is a nice touch, i don't really hear much of difference but it was an interesting to experiment.

Ancient Tone said:
they do have some budget ones now it seems, I'd probably be happy as a clam with the d-zero for 109$ and one of the 15$ ipod > 3.5 connectors. I don't have the need for an expensive setup, but it would definitely get good use between me and the wifey.
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they are very well built, and I do notice a difference compared to listening through the iPod jack...not with cheap headphones though.
 

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