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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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No emulation here:
Wow. The word "awesome"" gets tossed around far too much these days, but...
Yeah, Suren is one of those guys that it seems like most local scenes (pre-internet, of course) had that was just a force...playing in bands, booking shows for other bands, writing for zines, starting a label in his case.
It's guys like him who encouraged and enabled little local bands to grow balls enough to book mini-tours, sell their tape albums in ads in MRR, etc. The entire American punk movement (for lack of a less pretentious term) would not have gotten far without guys like this.
I well remember back then playing around out-of-state shows and crashing in the apartment (or parents' basement) of someone from the local band you played with the night before, sharing beer money or whatever, then you return the favor when they'd blow through your town.
Really, in retrospect, it was a well-connected, DIY network that criss-crossed the US.
I didn't know about this book before now, but I will definitely track it down.
And Happy Late Father's Day!
So just found out I could have earned a $150 gift card. But I should have been done last month. Guess I'll get on it this next benefits year.
Bob is a great guy. He put some personal stuff in there that I had no idea about. Sound Idea happened about 2 years before I found out about it. Then I would go there a lot, until I got married. Then we moved from Florida and apparently, poopie hit the fan. He reached the pinnacle of business by doing what he didn't want to do, sell clothes. Clothing sales exceeded music sales and he know it was over. Bob has been a good friend for a long time. All the people in his book, are kids I grew up with. Sam, Pete, Bryan, and Pat, all great kids (now men). Spent many afternoons skipping school and listening to records.
Yes, that was also my assumption, but it doesn't stay in place to stay grounded. I toyed with it briefly and I can get it to be hum free, but only for a second or two. Not making good contact I'm assuming. I'm trying to think of a way to anchor it. Might try and desolder the other end, and feed it from the top of the threaded insert into the body, then screw the tailpiece back on with the ground still in the insert. That would guarantee solid contact!
Also, I'm thinking the "hot" may be wired incorrectly after reading some of your posts. The "big" wire is wired to the output jack, but not necessarily the little wire. I'll have to fix that today. After I mow. Blech.
Anyway, thanks as always for the help gentlemen! Doom on!
anybody using an ashdown mibass di/interface/headphone amp to record tracks to a samsung galaxy pad yo?
it's just for riff sharing and the like, not for anything cereal
it's just for riff sharing and the like, not for anything cereal
Aaargh! More amp help/advice needed prease!
What do you all think of this:
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$150 rig. Do-able?
If the head is a no-go (sells before I can get up there or you guys think it's lame) any other head recommendations?
Right now the only other real option I have is a like new Fender Rumble 150 for about the same price.
I think I'd like the portability of the Rumble, but I also hanker for the kick-@ssness of a Peavey 15" BW.
Ummm...how much volume could that 115 handle you think?
Thankee!
What do you all think of this:
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$150 rig. Do-able?
If the head is a no-go (sells before I can get up there or you guys think it's lame) any other head recommendations?
Right now the only other real option I have is a like new Fender Rumble 150 for about the same price.
I think I'd like the portability of the Rumble, but I also hanker for the kick-@ssness of a Peavey 15" BW.
Ummm...how much volume could that 115 handle you think?
Thankee!
Progress! Got my tune-o-matic bridge re-grounded! Had to remove the tail piece and the bushings, but found an easy way to do it. You put little electrical outlet cover screws in the hole, then insert the end pin and tighten with a screwdriver. It pulls the bushings right out! I had to use a few screws on top of each other, but it was simple. And to put it back in, you just put the two original pieces back together and use a rubber mallet to mash it back in the guitar. Awesome!
Now, I said progress, but I'm not done yet. I KNOW the bridge is grounded again, so why does my guitar still buzz like crazy? I think I've isolated it to the switch wiring. The buzz gets louder when I touch the metal around the switch, but when I do that it's also the only time that I can actually hear the guitar through the rig. Still fuzzy, but I'm getting guitar sounds! The first ones I've heard from this beauty, and they're pretty nice sounding. So that tells me it's not the pots, or the pickups or anything, right? Must be switch? I hope? As always, any help is appreciated, and thanks for those of you that have brought me through this far!
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And for clarity's sake, I grounded the bridge directly to the output. Is that correct? I'm now starting to think maybe I should ground it to the tone pot, and have the hot grounded there as well... Any input? (Haha! Puns.)
Now, I said progress, but I'm not done yet. I KNOW the bridge is grounded again, so why does my guitar still buzz like crazy? I think I've isolated it to the switch wiring. The buzz gets louder when I touch the metal around the switch, but when I do that it's also the only time that I can actually hear the guitar through the rig. Still fuzzy, but I'm getting guitar sounds! The first ones I've heard from this beauty, and they're pretty nice sounding. So that tells me it's not the pots, or the pickups or anything, right? Must be switch? I hope? As always, any help is appreciated, and thanks for those of you that have brought me through this far!
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And for clarity's sake, I grounded the bridge directly to the output. Is that correct? I'm now starting to think maybe I should ground it to the tone pot, and have the hot grounded there as well... Any input? (Haha! Puns.)
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Would be a nice little rig, however the amp is supposed to be marked at $175 (mentioned in the ad copy), look like he goofed on the price that shows on the header. No idea on the power handling of the BW cab.
Gonna quote myself here, instead of another edit. Did some snooping inside my buddy's guitar output. He's ONLY got the live wire hooked to the output! I just put the ground on a different pot, hooked up the hot like on that guitar, and BAM! Working guitar. Awesome. Best $25 ever! Thanks Doom Brethren! Now on to restringing, adjusting, etc. And deciding on a tuning... D standard? Decisions, decisions...
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Cone free, new toys and a bully stick. She don't know what to do with all that freedom.
Bully Sticks...that delicious beef jerky they sell down at the pet mart? It's touch, you really gotta gnaw on that sucker a while to get it started.
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Wiring up a smallish pedalboard for all these doubling gigs I've been doing. Probably gonna add an Empress Para eq for the upright...want a couple other things pretty bad, but I want to limit this board to the size it is now. Including the amp 
Got the GK MB800 in a trade the other day and it ain't half bad, at least until I can get my Reiner S1200 hybrid amp made
I've had a ton of those speakers. They are my favorite bass tone. Doom volume will require(IMO) at least 3 of them with any sort of bass boost.
At low volumes they can't be beat for tone, but as you start increasing volume/loudness/wattage you have to begin cutting the bass.
A good mid-forward, grindy punk tone can get you more volume out of less of these speakers.
Never use a sub-octave with them they'll die.(Hyperbole but mostly true.)
I've killed 5 of them trying to use them for crazy-loud-big-bottom-down-tuned-stuff.
Real world volume expectation: they can mostly keep up with restrained drummers and very lowwattage guitars.(<50w 112)
Beyond that volume you'll need to sacrifice low bass EQ for loudness.
Still love those cabinets even if they're weak and weigh around 70lbs.
So, I just found another Still Valley. They are pretty new. I posted my bandcamp page on their link for their downloadable EP. Magically, my post is gone.
