The answer to your problem is Peavey...go to craigslist, search all categories for Peavey and find yourself that $200-400 amp+215 deal that I can almost garauntee is on there.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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The answer to your problem is Peavey...go to craigslist, search all categories for Peavey and find yourself that $200-400 amp+215 deal that I can almost garauntee is on there.
if we were ever to do american shows i'm pretty sure we'd just buy peavey stacks on one side and dump them on the other, vastly cheaper than any other option
the Halloween stickers didn't look so hot, here is the pumpkin pie bass without the retro Beistle stickers
Yeah, I like Peavey for amp gear. Hell, I gigged for years with a TNT 150, though it weighed 600 pounds.
Let's see...local CL has:
Peavey Max 110 (know nothing about these)
GK Backline 115 (know nothing about these either, but this has been on CL for months...guy's asking $200...could probably talk him down quite a bit...)
Peavey Black Widow cab...says 250W, 8 ohm...looks like a 15" speaker and a horn. Would need a head too, though...
Ha! There's also an old Peavey TNT 100.
Hmmm. Everything else is either some Line 6 or Crate stuff that looks pretty shabby or it's stuff I couldn't begin to imagine thinking about considering to begin affording.
The other thing I have to consider is that this drummer is pretty hooked up. He gigs and does studio work all the time. There's a chance that this could turn into a gigging situation and I don't want to spend $150-$200 now on something that might work for practice but not for gigs.
I'm a broke-assed man.
Only the Stoner/Doom forumites can solve all my first world problems!
That's hot! Man, those old Bullets have really gone up in price...used to see them for peanuts & pocket change...now they fetch $400+.
I used to have an old yellow Bullet guitar. It was a blast. Very cheap at the time, but well made, played and sounded great!
I'd sell all three basses or keep one of the cheapies and go for a new rig with said cash.
Get like $400-$500 out of that. Hopefully. Then come down to DFw or OKC and get some good deals.
Squier bass and head and cheap 4x10
Get like $400-$500 out of that. Hopefully. Then come down to DFw or OKC and get some good deals.
Squier bass and head and cheap 4x10
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Yeah, except you can use my gear...you just have to ask. I better be involved with you stateside...
Id wait on buying anything and see if something magical happens, but if you really wanna buy something, that TNT100 with an upgraded 15 if its not BW equipped already would probably be giggable.
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Tempe, being in the midst of a huge metro area and hosting a huge full-time college population, definitely has a lot more going on, especially in terms of job opportunities, music scene, and tight-bodied 20 year olds in jogbras, iPods, and painted-on spandex booty shorts twerkin' up and down the block at any hour of the day or night. Um what was I posting about? Oh yeah, Walla Walla. Well, for a small city in the midst of a sparsely populated agricultural area, it's got a pretty nice downtown. Tempe's downtown can be hoppin and all, but it does seem weird that such a huge college town has NOWHERE to buy a new book or a musical instrument downtown or within a mile and a half of campus. But there at least 7 head shops in that same area.
The town so nice they named it twice!
Well, I have the MIM Fender P, an old 70s Lotus P copy, and that's all that's playable now.
I have an old SX P bass also, but in pieces. Needs parts and work.
I could sell the Mexican for maybe $300-350 I suppose...put that towards an amp. Considering options. ..
That could definitely work if I could pull it off.
Really? You think so? Hmmmm...more to consider.
I've had similar problems with finding people to play with. It seems the only people that have the same mentality as far as large amps (half stacks, full stacks) are 'metalheads', but like not the good kind of metal (screaming, thrash-derived, etc, etc), and all have Mesas (not that I'm knocking Mesa, but not my favorite sounding amps). And people that are interested in the genre I lean towards (which I've settled with refering to as Acid Rock, essentially the heavier side of psych, Hendrix, Cream, etc) are pretty set on using small Fender combo amps and big bloody pedal boards. I just want to find some guys into using Marshall plexis (or similar) with a minimal pedal board (fuzz, wah, phaser/univibe). The problem is is most people my age (that's a played out trope, isn't it?) seem to think what I'm playing to "too angry and metal" and unnecessary to use anything more than a 25w amp, since 'rock' has become such an apparently wimpy shadow of its former self. But I'll gladly play with older guys in blues bands because at least they can do some soloing instead of just playing choppy chords and calling it rock. I mean, you think blues players like clean? You should hear what a lot of guys in bands I see at school are aiming for. Telecaster (or Jazzmasters) into fender combos with like no distortion, just comping simple chord progressions, with straight 8 bass lines. Gimme a blues band or cover band any day of the week over that.
But I get what you mean about using heavy blues rock as a descriptor though. I usually describe what I play as heavy psych blues, but that's why I've switched to using Acid Rock as a description because when people hear blues they think of old white dudes playing in bars just doing the same bloody 12 bar progression over and over with slightly different lyrics.
And band management? Don't even get me started. Maybe it's just what I got used to playing with older guys when I started playing out, but I got very used to a fairly business like way of running a band. Democratic, but no nonsense, as in we will play this song over and over in rehearsal until it's nailed down, and everyone should have a decent concept of how the song goes before arriving at practice. Right now, I'm playing with some decent players, but they haven't really played in bands before, so it often feels like I'm pulling everyone along, and have to teach them the song structures and everything at the practice. And then there's always the guy suggesting songs way out from left field. Not that I'm opposed to incorporating a myriad of influences, but suggesting songs that would be pretty difficult for a 3 piece power trio to pull off and are totally outside of the scope of what we're aiming at just ends up getting tiresome (yes, we can incorporate some funk into this psych jam, but a full cover of Flashlight by Parliament, including bringing in a 3-piece horn section for a single song, is not really in the ballpark).
I'm a fan of buy once, cry once. I am also broke. I'd put my money towards a peavey or Hartke rig. I wouldn't waste time on the combo. Combo would be after I had my gig amp.
If you have no attachment, sell everything and get the SX running. Use the $400 and get yourself a couple 15s and a few hundred watts. $400 and patience will get you a lot of rig
Yeah, quickly looked at prices. I'm thinking Supa Puss is out. Echo Puss, however, is currently leading my race. Any experience, fellow doomers? Again, a guitar rig, not for bass.
Mudslide- the 70's lotus might be the keeper if it's as solid as a few 70's guys I have seen. It might even be better built then the mim. What's the sx need to get working ? Depending on the lotus I would sell the mim, use a little money to get some used parts from a local shop, and sell the sx to get a rig. Dont forget to check out local pawn shops for gear.
Depends...For a LOUD rock band no, but for a rock group with guitar dudes kinda like D.M.N. described with combos and such I think a TNT100 with a nice 15 would do fine if the places you play have decent sound systems. But then your dropping an expensive speaker in a "cheap" combo. That money would be better spent on a full rig.
Tried the DOD250 alone at GH practice tonight...it almost pushes my 800 Booster enough and its a little lacking in the lows, all of which I totally expected. So an EQ afterwords will probably do the trick to pump up the signal and bring those pummeling lows back.
I do believe thisll replace the Dunwich and free up a bunch of space on the board so now Im back to using only my big board, no secondary board, which makes the tap dancing less spread out.
I do believe thisll replace the Dunwich and free up a bunch of space on the board so now Im back to using only my big board, no secondary board, which makes the tap dancing less spread out.
Well that was a bust, one guitar player showed up, he wasn't familiar with the music. Which goes against the drummer's ad. Aside from that he just wasn't very good, couldn't follow along to simple stuff and didn't recognize a certain Black Sabbath song. Oh well, 4 other guitarists are lined up.
Any more cathedral reverb experience? I Think I will try any snag one used when it shows up in my local market. I read it's 9v, so I'm sold. My biggest worry was that it would take some weird voltage like most big box EHX.
This got me yesterday, now I needs it.
it will replace that Dano spring King I had on the dano lineup. I know this miscegenation is typically verboten by me, but the spring King was too weak for what I want.
In the meantime that bad stone can't come soon enough!
This got me yesterday, now I needs it.
it will replace that Dano spring King I had on the dano lineup. I know this miscegenation is typically verboten by me, but the spring King was too weak for what I want.
In the meantime that bad stone can't come soon enough!
