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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

So at night I feel kinda worried if I'm being to loud when I practice. I just use the peavey musician into the bassic. Problem is at low volume it's not articulate at all. Practice amps suck too for this. Is there any head that sounds clear and defined at all volumes?

I'm playing with the bronco with the Ric bridge low cut engaged and stainless strings so the bass isn't the issue.
Turn the treble up.
 
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Yup, but I have no foundation nor do I have insulation. My rental house is very old.
 
I own my house, but mostly wish I didn't. Purchased like 8 years ago, then immediately lost like $30k in value when everything went kaputz. Now I'm stuck until home values get back to where they should be. The nice thing about owning a home is that I can do whatever I want. The not so nice thing is that everything will break and it will be expensive.

I don't plan on living in this house for 30 years (at which point my modest lil' house would need to be valued at like $400k for me to break even over the life of it) but if I can put some $$ into it, I might be able to get it to be worth what it should.

Got divorced last year and had to take over the mortgage AND pay child support - I"m a broke mother ****er now and can't get out it easily. I also have kids so getting a roomy might be a little weird
Pretty much a parallel to me. I told the stepson at the beginning of the month he has 30 days to go. I need some real income from the place to keep it. I'll give up my master with bath to keep their business out of my business till the market recovers some more. I give it another 10 years until the girl is out of high school. In the mean time some sweat equity and hope I can keep my crap together that long.
 
Ya know, I appreciate the discussion of home ownership...it's an odd place to have such a discussion, but whatever...

It hasn't solidified my desire to own really. Maybe someday in the right circumstances...right place, right kind of income, etc.

The biggest block for me is the idea of staying put. In my entire life I've never lived in one house for more than 3 or 4 years and very often I was moving to an entirely new state every 3-4 years.

The concept of a "permanent home place" is pretty foreign to me and I don't know if I'll ever get the hang of that. I feel like once I got "settled" and saddled with a house/property, some opportunity would arise or I'd get a wild hair to move again, but then I'd be SOL...

I still see the benefits of owning. Just not sure if it's for me. Maybe if I ever get to retire...
 
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Forgive my ignorance, but why wouldn't a 4X10 PA cab work? Is it somehow designed to not handle lower freqs or something? Or is it that your head doesn't agree with it?

They are these old vertical cabs. They can handle my baritone no issue.i just know they are from a time where you mic'd vocals, maybe guitar. I'd hate to blow them and have to fork out for 8 speakers when I only paid $40-$80 for the pair.

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It gets drafty I'll be honest. ;) But I needed a carb
 
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I do raise treble and mids Max, hell and cut the bass considerably sometimes. I have a headphone amp but it's meh.

I should also mention this is me trying to play in the living room in front of the TV so it's getting dangerously close to first world problems that don't need to be solved. As I could go in the other room and stack up with my dually.
 
I do raise treble and mids Max, hell and cut the bass considerably sometimes. I have a headphone amp but it's meh.

I should also mention this is me trying to play in the living room in front of the TV so it's getting dangerously close to first world problems that don't need to be solved. As I could go in the other room and stack up with my dually.
My avatar reflects my look at this first-world issue of yours.
 
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I wouldnt worry to much if your only using them for low volume practice...

I'll try it with my g40v. Thanks for promising me your vulcan if your prediction proves incorrect.

Is that Musician a good Peavey? I think theres's one on local CL. Actually this one looks diff...

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That's the 300 series, mines the 400. I think it's older and is the "tuxedo" face style Nax refers to. I almost got one from a friend of a friend then his dad said $300 and I walked on that "deal".
 
Fvck yes, the new Acid King is finally streaming in full!
Glad I bought the vinyl.

As for the house issues: Provided I'm on the other side of the world from the majority of you guys, it's the same shvt here. I've been renting for 10 years and have my own apartment for 2 years now. The difference is stellar.
 
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So at night I feel kinda worried if I'm being to loud when I practice. I just use the peavey musician into the bassic. Problem is at low volume it's not articulate at all. Practice amps suck too for this. Is there any head that sounds clear and defined at all volumes?

I'm playing with the bronco with the Ric bridge low cut engaged and stainless strings so the bass isn't the issue.
If it's a SS head, get a Rolls PM52 and use headphones. I just did this for my guitar rig. Basically, it's designed to take a speaker level signal and turn it into a headphone signal. Can also be used as a quick monitor. But it's gotta be a SS head. Works on bass and guitar.