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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

I suggest this allot but it's perfect for my purposes,Zoom BFX 708.
You turn on the metronome and there are three knobs, volume, tempo and beat. Sounds cheap and synthetic but it keeps time and couldn't be simpler.

Yeah that is more my speed, not looking to record, just training to time. I have a cool old school wooden metronome but want to play to a drum beat.
 
With all the heretical talk on here lately of guitar rigs and such maybe this would be of interest for those harboring a secret blasphemous itch to stretch beyond the bass dooooom kvlt...

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LOL. Acid washed jeans and mullets come to mind...
Lots of guys I went to high school with still post spinning hair metal band records and going to hair metal concerts on Facebook.
 
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found a sweet looking candy apple red squier affinity p in the desert with a mint pick guard for 90 bones, set up was really good, didn't plug it in though, because i was too busy shooting photos and such to check it out thoroughly, shot at an abandoned turquoise mine at twilight and radio free joshua tree later at night
 
I had one and sold it a few years back when I saw how big the instruction manual was LOL. But I read that the drums sound good and you can add extension pedals to start fills.

Yeah, a footswitch can be used to switch between A and B variations of a pattern, which also throws in a fill.

I never tried to learn how to program the thing, I just used the preset patterns to jam along with.
 
I used to have an Alesis SR16. Sisters of Mercy in a box! I sold it in the great I'm-about-to-become-a-dad-so-I'm-liquidating-the-rack-o'-synths-and-committing-to-only-stringed-instruments fire sale of 2008. I miss it, though, and am sort of interested in a simple beat machine that can be footswitched into fills to switch between patterns.

Before the Alesis SR16, I had a Yamaha RX-17. Man I can't believe I programmed two full length albums (well, cassettes) of metal/grunge/punk/post-hardcore songs, complete with fills, tempo changes, etc. manually into that thing through that tiny 0.5" x 2.0" LCD screen. Uphill both ways! Through the snow! get off my lawn!
 
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