Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

[Niff]

Yep! Used the Wizard Fuzz for probably 80% of the time, have one riff where I stack the BB with the WF, and the rest is "clean" which is still pretty overdriven.

Not sure what your second question means!

terrible phrasing sorry, work brain failing me. i mean, did you find it difficult tracking individually? drummer to a click, you to the drummer afterwards, etc? i've only ever recorded live except for very early projects and the idea kind of it kind of scares me - like it'll ruin the 'feel' almost. was it hard to find a groove playing by yourself?

 

[The_Janitor]

T-40 alert!

Vintage 1977 USA Peavey T-40 Bass W/ Case Retro Nice! | Reverb

 

[Muddslide]

T-40 alert!

Vintage 1977 USA Peavey T-40 Bass W/ Case Retro Nice! | Reverb

That seems like a good price, for sure. They are gonna have to find just the right buyer who is looking for that "sword and sorcery / can I paint a naked chick riding a unicorn on the back side?" look.

There's a T-45 at a local pawn shop that is pretty nice. Am I wrong or are Peavey necks really thin, front to back? I've never owned a Peavey bass but I've played several T-40s.

One of my first decent guitars was a Peavey T-60 and I remember thinking the neck was super thin, like holding a yardstick.

 

[Korladis]

That seems like a good price, for sure. They are gonna have to find just the right buyer who is looking for that "sword and sorcery / can I paint a naked chick riding a unicorn on the back side?" look.

There's a T-45 at a local pawn shop that is pretty nice. Am I wrong or are Peavey necks really thin, front to back? I've never owned a Peavey bass but I've played several T-40s.

One of my first decent guitars was a Peavey T-60 and I remember thinking the neck was super thin, like holding a yardstick.

I'd rock it. Don't have the cash, though.

Also I'd want a rosewood fretboard neck to put on it eventually.

 

[Squanch72]

T-40 alert!

Vintage 1977 USA Peavey T-40 Bass W/ Case Retro Nice! | Reverb

That's not a bass it is a Larper's battle axe!!!

 

[Muddslide]

That's not a bass it is a Larper's battle axe!!!

 

[Squanch72]

View attachment 575709

 

[Pelham Bleu]

T-40 alert!

Vintage 1977 USA Peavey T-40 Bass W/ Case Retro Nice! | Reverb

Hopefully that's a vinyl decal that can be peeled off immediately.

 

[Lazarus.Bird]

terrible phrasing sorry, work brain failing me. i mean, did you find it difficult tracking individually? drummer to a click, you to the drummer afterwards, etc? i've only ever recorded live except for very early projects and the idea kind of it kind of scares me - like it'll ruin the 'feel' almost. was it hard to find a groove playing by yourself?

Not really, although I've been practicing to a click for years so it wasn't really anything new for me. All of our previous stuff has been individually tracked (no studio we can afford has the space/equipment to live track a whole band). Guitarist recorded scratch tracks to the click, drummer recorded to scratch + click, then we recorded the rest. One major bonus of playing to the click was when we went to add some spacey delay parts, we were able to dial in the delay using the click track so it was timed out perfectly.

 

[The_Janitor]

I don't think that it is. Otherwise why wouldn't they peel that atrocity off the bass before trying to sell it.

 

[Corey Y]

There's no way we live in the kind of world where that dragon art could just be easily peeled off that bass.

 

[Ramwhale]

I am starting a new 2 piece with a friend of mine. Just bass and drums with an aim to sound like a blend of Lightning Bolt, Sabbath and The Dillinger Escape Plan. Noisy, doomy and mathy with a lot of Sabbathy riffs. I have been thinking a bass VI may be pretty cool for such a project.

Yes! Two piece is the way!

 

[mbelue]

I grew up in northwest Florida. I've got love/hate feelings towards it.

Both me and my wife have family there, more so her than me. Although I probably would have killed some of them by now if I still had to put up with them.

In the summer there's afternoon showers where it'll get dark and rain enough to flood. Which was awesome cause generally there is good drainage everywhere and no body gets hurt but it cools off for a bit and folks can enjoy the thunder. (Doesn't rain like that here and it's depressing.)
The flip side of that is it's stupid hot and humid the rest of the time.
Another thing I miss is the cooking; those people don't give a poopie how healthy food is, they want it tasty. (@CL400Peavey , probably the only reason I'm not fat is I moved to Blandsville, WA)
I do miss how sociable the people there are, folks talk and get along even if they don't know each other.

I don't miss how mothershaging conservative they are. I might talk fondly about the fish frys, pot lucks and parties back there but at most of those events people are talking about religion and politics. Two subjects I'm predisposed to piss people off with. I can't tell you how many times I nearly ran off the road trying to "accidentally" clip some preacher screaming at cars from the shoulder.

I miss the swamps and knowing something about the local flora and fauna.

I don't miss the goddamn hurricanes. I got tired of putting roofs on the houses of my friends and family and cutting trees out of the road. NW Florida is a hurricane magnet.

The other problem is there really aren't a lot of good paying jobs. Florida isn't friendly to industry. They want to make their money off tourism, which doesn't do much besides create minimum-wage-no-hope-for-a-future-jobs-for-teenagers.

This is bullshvt, all this bitching about Florida is making me homesick. I'm sure when I go back in September I'll get my fill.

 

[Korladis]

Not really, although I've been practicing to a click for years so it wasn't really anything new for me. All of our previous stuff has been individually tracked (no studio we can afford has the space/equipment to live track a whole band). Guitarist recorded scratch tracks to the click, drummer recorded to scratch + click, then we recorded the rest. One major bonus of playing to the click was when we went to add some spacey delay parts, we were able to dial in the delay using the click track so it was timed out perfectly.

I think I'd find it harder to track as a group... because then if anyone shags up even a little, everyone has to do it over.

Then again, I've played to clicks for years, even before playing bass, so it's pretty easy for me. We recorded the first album the same way you did. Scratch track and click for the drummer, then everyone else to that, individually.

 

[Kaa]

Grass!!! I see grass!!! Wooohooo!!!

 

[mbelue]

Grass!!! I see grass!!! Wooohooo!!!

Light it up, it's 4:20 somewhere.

 

[Muddslide]

...folks can enjoy the thunder. (Doesn't rain like that here and it's depressing.)

Yeah, when I lived out East and the West Coast regions, I missed storms. I mean, it would rain, and in the East we got terrible snow and ice storms, but I never heard thunder and rarely saw lightning, even in Portland where it rains 6 months solid out of the year.

My whole family missed that. Oklahoma doesn't offer much beyond a low cost of living and friendly people (even though, as you mentioned, I am 180 degrees away from where most citizens of this state are as far as religion and politics.)

But, especially come Spring and Summer, we get some absolutely hellacious thunderstorms. When I was in college, when a storm was brewing, we'd go climb a fire escape up on top of this old building and drink beer and fire up and watch the storm roll in. It was a flat part of the state so you could see it coming for miles, lighting up the sky and the sound of rolling booms, and we'd hang out there until the storm was almost right over our heads and you could literally feel the electricity, and get drenched on the way back to the dorms. Ah, fond memories.

Another thing I miss is the cooking; those people don't give a **** how healthy food is, they want it tasty...

Ha! that reminds me of New Orleans. That town, you are more likely to see a tubby drunk guy scarfing a plate of fried oysters at 9 AM than you are to see people jogging. I know there are health food folks in N.O., but overall, it's a place where people believe in indulging themselves, not jogging through life eating lettuce.

 

[The_Janitor]

Can't wait for the first big thunderstorm here - going to sit on the screen porch and drink a few beers and watch it come down.

 

[bassboysam]

what makes the snow worse is the darkness. that really gets to me like never before. it's quite depressing and I can't imagine those that live even further north and get even less or no sunlight at all.

 

[Korladis]

Yeah, when I lived out East and the West Coast regions, I missed storms. I mean, it would rain, and in the East we got terrible snow and ice storms, but I never heard thunder and rarely saw lightning, even in Portland where it rains 6 months solid out of the year.

My whole family missed that. Oklahoma doesn't offer much beyond a low cost of living and friendly people (even though, as you mentioned, I am 180 degrees away from where most citizens of this state are as far as religion and politics.)

But, especially come Spring and Summer, we get some absolutely hellacious thunderstorms. When I was in college, when a storm was brewing, we'd go climb a fire escape up on top of this old building and drink beer and fire up and watch the storm roll in. It was a flat part of the state so you could see it coming for miles, lighting up the sky and the sound of rolling booms, and we'd hang out there until the storm was almost right over our heads and you could literally feel the electricity, and get drenched on the way back to the dorms. Ah, fond memories.



Ha! that reminds me of New Orleans. That town, you are more likely to see a tubby drunk guy scarfing a plate of fried oysters at 9 AM than you are to see people jogging. I know there are health food folks in N.O., but overall, it's a place where people believe in indulging themselves, not jogging through life eating lettuce.

I guess, for me, the friendliness can't really make up for the terrible politics. I have friends who are gay, friends who are transgendered, friends who have had abortions. So friendliness coming from the same people that would vote to, in my view, take away my friends' rights, just comes off as fake facade level crap to me. Maybe my worldview is too simplistic, but I'm very loyal to my friends, and so people who would oppress them, given the chance, can only be my enemies. I've kinda learned that for the people that such laws actually directly affect, there can't really be an "agree to disagree" on those issues, the same way I suppose there could be for me. So I prefer rude, ******** who acknowledge the people I care about as human beings deserving of equality to polite, 'nice people' who don't.

*gets off soapbox*

We actually used to occasionally have thunderstorms and pouring rain. We didn't really have a winter this year, so I think there was... like one single storm. While it was dramatic, I'd prefer the north coast's whole "having enough water" thing.