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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

It's a pedal that changes what your playing into random Japanese syllables sing by an animated character.
Ha ha, what? Wow.

Okay, I broke down and watched.

It sounds like an oboe.

I kinda wonder what it would sound like with fuzz, wah, and reverb.

I want it now.
 
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Great GH practice last night, we only need one more song to have enough for our debut full length, would like to have that out before 2015 closes.

Did some board rewiring and actually using the FX loop on the Dunwich DI/preamp to lighten up some of the tap dancing. Starting to solidify what gets turned on where and when for each song. And getting better at singing and playing at the same time on one of our songs, only a struggle with a couple words in the verses. Next practice I want to actually start singing through the PA. And I would love to be able to sing that song when we play with Pelham Blue in laterish March.
 
Dudes, I'm putting together a new Jazz bass. Looking for pickups. Thoughts? I play doom in B standard, and love mids. My first thoughts were the SD "Hot" Jazz, as it's got a 4/6/4 tone profile. I've got a P Quarter Pounder in a different bass that I like, but the jazz quarter pounder tone profile shows scooped, not enhanced mids. Thoughts?

Body: Black Korina on Black Korina, Gotoh 201 bridge, rosewood control plate, Cocobolo knobs.
Neck: Wenge with Macassar Ebony FB, hipshot tuners


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The best J pickups I have used are the Carvin J99A. Granted, I haven't tried them all, but these are dead quiet, sound great in B and are as nasty as I want them to be.

Just in case you didn't have enough options to think about...
 
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Good point. Salinas is pretty far from everywhere. Monterey is notable and semi-close to it, but also very small.

Monterey is a step up from Salinas, in that they at least have music venues or bars that allow live music, but it's almost exclusively two 3 hour set bar band type stuff. There's some metal, but for some reason Monterey has always been really inhospitable to bands from Salinas. Some kind of self imposed segregation that I has never really made any sense to me. I only know anyone who plays music in Monterey because I have some friends who are FROM Monterey, but currently live in Salinas. That is weird.
 
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The current and former ladies in my life both hailed from the great state of WI. Because of them, I have travelled through much of the state and I have to say, I love Wisconsin. It is actually very similar to many parts of Missouri except the rivers and lakes in WI are glacial in origin and thus, better. I thoroughly enjoy every experience I have had there. The winter months kind of blow, but it isn't THAT unbearable.


Spent a summer at Ft. McCoy doing Army stuff and drinking Leinie's Red along the river in LaCrosse. Don't know what it was about that area, but I absolutely loved it. The rolling hills, friendly folks, good beer, and cheese curds. OMG, I'd do just about anything for REAL cheese curds. The ones at Culvers blow. Also Daves Guitars in LaCrosse is an amazing shop. I was tempted to move, but the GF(now wife) wasn't down for the winters.
 
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Monterey is a step up from Salinas, in that they at least have music venues or bars that allow live music, but it's almost exclusively two 3 hour set bar band type stuff. There's some metal, but for some reason Monterey has always been really inhospitable to bands from Salinas. Some kind of self imposed segregation that I has never really made any sense to me. I only know anyone who plays music in Monterey because I have some friends who are FROM Monterey, but currently live in Salinas. That is weird.
Weird. I'm so used to music being a "play this end of the area, then this end" and so on with nobody particularly caring which part of the area bands are from.
 
Spent a summer at Ft. McCoy doing Army stuff and drinking Leinie's Red along the river in LaCrosse. Don't know what it was about that area, but I absolutely loved it. The rolling hills, friendly folks, good beer, and cheese curds. OMG, I'd do just about anything for REAL cheese curds. The ones at Culvers blow. Also Daves Guitars in LaCrosse is an amazing shop. I was tempted to move, but the GF(now wife) wasn't down for the winters.

My sister live is LaCrosse now, it's a nice town - love the bluffs.
 
Yeah, drove up to the top of that look out one day, just GORGEOUS scenery. And the girls in town were very friendly :)

When I was just out of high school I made some friends that lived there, so I'd go up and visit on weekends. There's another bluff south of Grandad (the big one that's open to the public), that's on private property but supposedly awesome. So a bunch of us packed a backpack full of sandwiches and other provision, parked a few blocks away and started hiking in to the private bluff. About 3/4 of the way to the top a guy on a 4-wheeler pulled up and yelled at us to GTFO of his property. We played dumb and calmed the guy down a bit. Before he rode off he softened - "Alright, you can do your hike, just don't leave any trash and DON'T shagING FALL OFF THE BLUFF. I'M SICK AND shagING TIRED OF HAVING TO CALL THE COPS TO COME COLLECT BODIES OF DEAD DUMBASS TEENAGERS."
 
Weird. I'm so used to music being a "play this end of the area, then this end" and so on with nobody particularly caring which part of the area bands are from.

Social dynamics of this area are very strange. People consider Salinas to be some kind of ghetto and Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel and the surrounding areas to be some kind of exclusive country club or something. Even though they're all really the same people and most of entertainment is either completely DIY or pretty much bars for military/DLI type people and touristy places (in Monterey, there's no legal live music in Salinas). It means nothing to me, because I don't play music here and I don't socialize here. Every band I was ever in that did anything played more elsewhere than at home and all the bands that make a big deal about being "big" in this area are completely awful and I have no desire to go to their shows.
 
Anybody need a laugh?


Holy $hit, I can't even...
WHY!? I would have loved to been at the pitch meeting for this pedal.

If I got ripped and played with this thing, I very well might piss myself.
I would be on the floor giggling like a mad man. Uncontrolably. Also, the NYAN setting would be insane, I owuln't be able to handle myself.
 
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Holy $hit, I can't even...
WHY!? I would have loved to been at the pitch meeting for this pedal.


I would be on the floor giggling like a mad man. Uncontrolably. Also, the NYAN setting would be insane, I owuln't be able to handle myself.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
 
Social dynamics of this area are very strange. People consider Salinas to be some kind of ghetto and Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel and the surrounding areas to be some kind of exclusive country club or something. Even though they're all really the same people and most of entertainment is either completely DIY or pretty much bars for military/DLI type people and touristy places (in Monterey, there's no legal live music in Salinas). It means nothing to me, because I don't play music here and I don't socialize here. Every band I was ever in that did anything played more elsewhere than at home and all the bands that make a big deal about being "big" in this area are completely awful and I have no desire to go to their shows.
There's sort of a divide between SF and East Bay here, but it's pretty subdued. People play with everyone.

Holy $hit, I can't even...
WHY!? I would have loved to been at the pitch meeting for this pedal.


I would be on the floor giggling like a mad man. Uncontrolably. Also, the NYAN setting would be insane, I owuln't be able to handle myself.
Nyan setting through fuzz. And delay/reverb.
 
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So, I caved and bought one of these used for my guitar rig. You guys ever hear one?



It's the Rivera Metal Shaman. Even the "bad" videos I've seen - the ones where you can tell the recording quality is ****, sounded decent. The good ones sound AMAZING! So I pulled the trigger on one, and got it dirt cheap! Arrives tomorrow!
 
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