Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

[JoeVictim]

I'd like a tele with p90s. Or, SG and LP shapes with 90s. LPs are too heavy though.

 

[Corey Y]

I didn't know you sold your carvin sb.

Yeah, when they released the PB. I figured I would get a JB model to replace it eventually, but I was using my MIM P as my main bass over much higher quality instruments. I wish I had just got my Drake as a double P now. I'm thinking about putting some EMG 35P4's in it now.

 

[Blank_0101]

Thanks for the BDay wishes guys. Means more to me than all the Facebook well wishes. You guys are a cool ass group of people I'm happy to be a part of. I feel I could be real life friends with all of you.

You baking through the night or off for your bday? If I had to work I'd waste time and make some kind of mutant cake with the industrial equipment for myself.

I'd like a tele with p90s. Or, SG and LP shapes with 90s. LPs are too heavy though.

Les Paul is just tubby tele. The melody maker style ones aren't as heavy.

Back around 2009 rondo sold some solid mahogany double cuts in TV yellow and cherry with p90's for like $200. I didn't buy one as I felt I needed to practice more to deserve one and never seen them for sale since...

 

[Turkeypills]

Nah I'm off. I write the schedule so I make sure the days I need off are covered. I also don't make cakes. Just pretzels and bread. Dealing with specific gravity to get a high quality cake is tough.

 

[kleinenenten]

Thanks for the BDay wishes guys. Means more to me than all the Facebook well wishes. You guys are a cool ass group of people I'm happy to be a part of. I feel I could be real life friends with all of you.

Wait, who are you talking about?

 

[kleinenenten]

Well, about to start diagnosing and hopefully fixing my buddy's guitar here in a few minutes. Wish me luck!

Got it! He wanted to change pickups, but after trying for a long while to get the wires through the old tunnel to the cavity, it was impossible. And we didn't have an extra long drill bit to make room. So we just kept the stock ones in and cleaned up the shoddy wiring. He thought the pickups were bad, it was just bad grounding and shoddy soldering. Not too bad. Gonna tune it up and clean it up tomorrow. Should play much better after that!

 

[Blank_0101]

Nah I'm off. I write the schedule so I make sure the days I need off are covered. I also don't make cakes. Just pretzels and bread. Dealing with specific gravity to get a high quality cake is tough.

Specific gravity of cake? Just went over my head. You'll have to explain that. I assume it's something to do with it being hard to mass produce a cake with a texture and density people associate with "cake"?

As Alton brown says, cooking a an art, baking is a science.

 

[Turkeypills]

Alton Brown is correct. Baking is a balanced mesh of biology, chemistry and physics. Specific gravity is essentially a measure of how much air is in a batter within a defined pan size. It's not hard to calculate, but it is difficult to mix properly. Anyone can take a Betty Crocker box and make a cake, but to get a high quality and consistent cake with the correct freezing/thawing qualities and proper crumb characteristics is a whole other level. Cakes are actually some of the more difficult things to bake depending on the cake type. Bread is relatively easy, but again it depends on the type. Rye and pumpernickel are very difficult. Sourdough can take forever; a normal dough might proof for an hour-hour and a half, whereas sourdough can take 4-5 hours. Cakes and pastries though... The mixing is crucial.

 

[Muddslide]

Esquire for teh heavy, works for me and the guy from whores. Miss mine a lot somedays.

I've never owned an Esquire, but tons of Teles. Someday I might make that SX into an Esquire...I hear goid things about those Duncan Little 59 pickups...Tele bridge-sized double coil. But I love the straight Tele pickup.

I saw a guy on another forum who slapped Tele pups at the bridge position of all his Strats.

Are you keeping that Lyon Tele-ish guitar?

 

[Muddslide]

wrestling the basset hound to give him his ear cleanings, the vet said the infection is almost gone, thing is he'll accept the ear drops, but not the cleaning solution, the nikon Df is out for delivery, so hopefully it will arrive so i can take some pics of the church from john carpenter's the fog later this week in sierra madre to make some promo stuff or flyers

Just saw The Fog a couple weeks ago. We shut our cable off, but there was a station called El Rey that showed lots of 70s-80s horror and sci fi cheese movies, old spaghetti westerns and Shaw Bros kung fu flicks. Cool as hell...made for me.

Wanna see resulting pics when you take 'em!

Back around 2009 rondo sold some solid mahogany double cuts in TV yellow and cherry with p90's for like $200. I didn't buy one as I felt I needed to practice more to deserve one and never seen them for sale since...

Those were cool. GASsed a little for one. I heard the Rondo P-90s were excellent pickups. I used to have a TV Yellow Epiphone LP jr with a single P-90. Was a cool guitar. I just am more of a Fender guy I guess. I like the longer scale length for one thing.

 

[Bassic Playing]

2 tunes fully completed with the new band, and a bunch more just need lyrics. Very keen to get gigging.

New fuzz is done too. Cheers to whoever suggested the tarot etch (think it was squanch?) It looks awesome.

As for guitars, dont know how anyone can go past an SG. They are too sweet

 

[CL400Peavey]

Specific gravity of cake? Just went over my head. You'll have to explain that. I assume it's something to do with it being hard to mass produce a cake with a texture and density people associate with "cake"?

As Alton brown says, cooking a an art, baking is a science.

Alton Brown is correct. Baking is a balanced mesh of biology, chemistry and physics. Specific gravity is essentially a measure of how much air is in a batter within a defined pan size. It's not hard to calculate, but it is difficult to mix properly. Anyone can take a Betty Crocker box and make a cake, but to get a high quality and consistent cake with the correct freezing/thawing qualities and proper crumb characteristics is a whole other level. Cakes are actually some of the more difficult things to bake depending on the cake type. Bread is relatively easy, but again it depends on the type. Rye and pumpernickel are very difficult. Sourdough can take forever; a normal dough might proof for an hour-hour and a half, whereas sourdough can take 4-5 hours. Cakes and pastries though... The mixing is crucial.

Baking is science. Where there is real art in baking, is taking environmental changes in to account. Humidity changes can really mess with your recipes. The reason why somebody's grandma never needs to use a recipe when she bakes, is because she can feel the differences in the dough and intuitively make changes.

 

[mc_muench]

Alton Brown is correct. Baking is a balanced mesh of biology, chemistry and physics. Specific gravity is essentially a measure of how much air is in a batter within a defined pan size. It's not hard to calculate, but it is difficult to mix properly. Anyone can take a Betty Crocker box and make a cake, but to get a high quality and consistent cake with the correct freezing/thawing qualities and proper crumb characteristics is a whole other level. Cakes are actually some of the more difficult things to bake depending on the cake type. Bread is relatively easy, but again it depends on the type. Rye and pumpernickel are very difficult. Sourdough can take forever; a normal dough might proof for an hour-hour and a half, whereas sourdough can take 4-5 hours. Cakes and pastries though... The mixing is crucial.

Happy belated B day man!!!

Everytime you post about baking I...1, get really hungry for some real bread, and 2, makes me want to be a baker.

Did you go to some sort of school? Or did you just find a shop that took you under its wing and showed you the way...

If I dont get this Sprinklerfitter apperenticeship I have no clue what I want to do...I be back at square one. Why cant i just stumble into some aging master of a random skill thats wants to pass on his wisdom to me. Beekeeper, Syrupmaker(@bassboysam), cheesemaker, baker, luthier...anything.

 

[mc_muench]

As per dream guitar discussion...

Flying V with the pups from my Hondo LP, weird 70s hum sized SC in the neck and a SD in the bridge.

 

[CL400Peavey]

Did you go to some sort of school? Or did you just find a shop that took you under its wing and showed you the way...

If I dont get this Sprinklerfitter apperenticeship I have no clue what I want to do...

I just showed up to a restaurant and applied. The owner hired me because I was smart, and I was fortunate to train with the chefs there, no school. Since then I have worked with a lot of people that have come through culinary school. Some of them are really great, some of them not so much. For the most part, they cant hang with me when it gets crazy on the line. They may be able to make one plate super extravagantly, but takes them 20 minutes. In that time I can crank out 50 plates, and I am consistent.

 

[Kaa]

I just showed up to a restaurant and applied. The owner hired me because I was smart, and I was fortunate to train with the chefs there, no school. Since then I have worked with a lot of people that have come through culinary school. Some of them are really great, some of them not so much. For the most part, they cant hang with me when it gets crazy on the line. They may be able to make one plate super extravagantly, but takes them 20 minutes. In that time I can crank out 50 plates, and I am consistent.

Man, the greasy spoon that I haunt with friends on Sunday mornings needs you. They can't get an egg right to save their lives.

 

[Squanch72]

All this talk of bread and food, so stoked I will be back in PA tomorrow eating real food. Virginia food can suck it.

 

[CL400Peavey]

Man, the greasy spoon that I haunt with friends on Sunday mornings needs you. They can't get an egg right to save their lives.

Last mothers day I made about 450 omelettes, and another 300 orders of eggs. You start to get "tunnel vision" on orders because they are all special. I work in a call kitchen, so I dont see any orders. The chef calls back in to the kitchen and you cook what he calls.

 

[CL400Peavey]

All this talk of bread and food, so stoked I will be back in PA tomorrow eating real food. Virginia food can suck it.

Michigan food isnt too shabby....

 

[Squanch72]

Michigan food isnt too shabby....

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Yummy, is that a potato pancake as a side on a high end dish, awesome! I am actually stoked to eat the simple every day food back home. So many good and different styles of pizza, potato pancakes, kielbasa, steak hoagies, ice cream stands, Northern BBQ(smoked with seasoning and sweet relish instead of sauce!!!)