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Stoner/DOOM Bassists thread part 37: Ancient Alien Fuzz

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There's actually a really awesome place in Pittsburgh I just found out about last week when I went to a record release show. You walk in and there's a small bar area with some seating, walk in further and there's a giant room. Room is split in half with a mesh screen. One on half is a pretty big stage with standing room for probably 400+ people. On the other side are tables, pool tables, lounges areas with TVs, pinball machines, and another bar. They don't take money from the door and the acoustics are pretty good. It's pretty freaking awesome.

Oh! And Tia Carrera - Cosmic Priestess just showed up.
 
#983
Toastfuzz said:
Morning dudes. Coffee is hitting ze spot today.

So last night I opened up the Ray35 and did some hackin at the stock electronics with my shiny new $14 Amazon soldering iron. Figured out a clean way to disconnect the preamp from the pickup, set up the coils in parallel and wired the hot straight into the output jack. Results were surprising and very satisfying!

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I recorded 3 clips in active mode, then 3 clips in passive: first clean in, then Rusty Box, then Grey Stache -> Rusty Box. Recording direct into PC through M-Audio interface. Fingerstyle in Drop B tuning.

The active clips are parallel mode, max volume, flat EQ (at center detents)

Passive clips are direct pickup to output jack in parallel coil setup.

Pretty surprised the output wasn't any lower in passive mode and the tone was very full range but didn't seem to lose any bass. Definitely has some additional high end as Ancient Tone mentioned a few pages back, but it seems really easy to dial it out at the pedal and amp stages. First impression, I love it because it has the exact Stingray sound I was going after, but without always hearing the preamp kind of squashing it. Seemed no matter how I set the pre, the bass was woofier than I wanted, midrange honkier than I wanted, and treble had a click/envelope effect. Just sounded artificial when cranked up to high volume. The 1-trick-pony passive tone just sounds more... natural I guess. And immediately I found that the Grey Stache and Rusty Box sounded better pretty much any way I set em, where before different settings would be fighting the bass pre.

I started jammin around with a thin guitar pick and the Rusty and it sounded bad-A so I recorded some of that too: bass is pretty nonexistent with that pick I was using.

http://www.soundcloud.com/toastfuzz/ray-35-rusty-box-thin-pick-jam
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it all sounds great. i especially like the last part with the fuzz and tone dialed down on the GS.
 
#984
Lazarus.Bird said:
Well, when I reached out to a lot of the blogs, it was along the lines of "here is my band, we just released our debut demo EP and would love for you to check it out" which is a lot more professional than here's some tracks we recorded with a zoom. That doesn't mean you can't get good sounding cheap recordings. But when you "release" tracks, it is a bit more newsworthy and says "hey look at this".
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Yeah, better to come correct.

:D
 
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So my 15" box is too small, so it looks like I'm going to need to build 2 cabs or just one big one:bassist:...I'm taking ideas!
 

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