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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#33,501
D.M.N. said:
Yep. There's also my homemade cab that's currently disassembled which isn't in this pic.

Interestingly I was doing some side by sides on the heads today, and noticed the 2000s with the tube recs actually stays cleaner farther up the dial than the other two. At 7, it's about the perfect crunch, whereas the other two (both SS rectified) at the same exact settings are noticably more distorted/driven. The other two are louder, which is to be expected, but like I said, also more distorted. Idk if it has to do with the rectifiers entirely though, as when 2000s #1 was serviced by Conrad some years back, he said it had a different gain stage setup in the front end in order to stay cleaner longer, though I've never had this verified by any other tech (haven't needed to have it worked on since).
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Interesting. Maybe part of that is compression?

I guess maybe the solid state rectifiers wouldn't have had the alternate gain stage setup to stay cleaner longer, since it wouldn't have been as much of an issue with them? Have you experimented with preamp tubes at all or just left them as is?

So when my guitarist's dad passed away, he discovered that he'd inherited a workshop with a respectable table saw and drill press. He and I are planning on building some cabs. The first (practice) ones will be using the six Sunn guitar speakers I had leftover from modding my cab. Not sure how many watts those handle. Basically planning on making a 4x12 and a 2x12 that will be 2/3 and 1/3 of a 1200S cab, respectively.


Unrelated, but when tubes are on their way out, how can you tell if none are actually microphonic or anything?
 
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#33,502
D.M.N. said:
So I had some time on my hands a few weeks back and figured I'd make a henge.

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Hnnnngggg my pants.

Bassic Playing said:
I think there's some kind of difference between them
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Yeah, he changed it to cat tail a few weeks ago. Purely legal reasons, it's the same circuit.
 
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Korladis said:
Interesting. Maybe part of that is compression?

I guess maybe the solid state rectifiers wouldn't have had the alternate gain stage setup to stay cleaner longer, since it wouldn't have been as much of an issue with them? Have you experimented with preamp tubes at all or just left them as is?

So when my guitarist's dad passed away, he discovered that he'd inherited a workshop with a respectable table saw and drill press. He and I are planning on building some cabs. The first (practice) ones will be using the six Sunn guitar speakers I had leftover from modding my cab. Not sure how many watts those handle. Basically planning on making a 4x12 and a 2x12 that will be 2/3 and 1/3 of a 1200S cab, respectively.


Unrelated, but when tubes are on their way out, how can you tell if none are actually microphonic or anything?
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Tubes should be fine unless it's noticeably quieter or dead or microphonic. If you don't notice, it's not worth noticing!

A tester would tell you the life left, but it's not necessary. If you were to go pay $10 bucks to get them tested, just spend the $20 and get new preamp tubes.

Edit: you might always want to keep a set of extra tubes around, since you only have the one amp.
 
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Anyone ever use an old DOD DFX9 Digital Delay pedal? I want a delay for my bass, and happened upon the Boss DD-3 which I really liked, but the DOD is/was its direct competitor and there's one cheap locally. What do you think? Should I save/wait for Boss or just go for DOD? It's not gonna be a huge part of my sound, but I'd like some repeats for slower ambient intro type stuff. I'm wanting clarity in the repeats as well.
 
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kleinenenten said:
Anyone ever use an old DOD DFX9 Digital Delay pedal? I want a delay for my bass, and happened upon the Boss DD-3 which I really liked, but the DOD is/was its direct competitor and there's one cheap locally. What do you think? Should I save/wait for Boss or just go for DOD? It's not gonna be a huge part of my sound, but I'd like some repeats for slower ambient intro type stuff. I'm wanting clarity in the repeats as well.
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Haven't used that one, I'm sure it's fine, another good cheap delay is the digitech digidelay.

Corey Y said:
ElectroVoice RE20 or Shure SM7B for me.
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This.

kzr750r1 said:
Yes they had to....


....because of this.
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That blows.
 
#33,516
Korladis said:
Interesting. Maybe part of that is compression?

I guess maybe the solid state rectifiers wouldn't have had the alternate gain stage setup to stay cleaner longer, since it wouldn't have been as much of an issue with them? Have you experimented with preamp tubes at all or just left them as is?

So when my guitarist's dad passed away, he discovered that he'd inherited a workshop with a respectable table saw and drill press. He and I are planning on building some cabs. The first (practice) ones will be using the six Sunn guitar speakers I had leftover from modding my cab. Not sure how many watts those handle. Basically planning on making a 4x12 and a 2x12 that will be 2/3 and 1/3 of a 1200S cab, respectively.


Unrelated, but when tubes are on their way out, how can you tell if none are actually microphonic or anything?
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Yeah, I'm not sure. One thing might be that the speakers are starting to drive more since the SS heads are noticably louder at 7? I haven't tried much preamp rolling, I should get around to it at some point. I've just left the tubes in that were in the amps when I bought them, so I think a mixed bag of RCAs, GEs, IEC Mullard and JJs. I want to say there might be a Sylvania in there somewhere too? Some day I'd also like to standardize the power valves as well, currently one has OG Tung-Sols, one has New Sensor Tung Sols, and the other has...Svetlanas? Maybe it's Sovteks, I can't recall.

That modded 1200s cab sounds cool. I'm thinking about building another cab as well, either another 2x15 or 6x12. The only thing is idk if I want to drop cash on a bunch of 12s, you know? (JBL 120s aren't cheap, and neither are any of the Weber's intended to replace them).

Pelham Bleu said:
Gig was great! Muchos volume.View attachment 701715
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AWW YEEEAH, VOX COILY CABLES FO LYFE.
 
#33,517
D.M.N. said:
Yeah, I'm not sure. One thing might be that the speakers are starting to drive more since the SS heads are noticably louder at 7? I haven't tried much preamp rolling, I should get around to it at some point. I've just left the tubes in that were in the amps when I bought them, so I think a mixed bag of RCAs, GEs, IEC Mullard and JJs. I want to say there might be a Sylvania in there somewhere too? Some day I'd also like to standardize the power valves as well, currently one has OG Tung-Sols, one has New Sensor Tung Sols, and the other has...Svetlanas? Maybe it's Sovteks, I can't recall.

That modded 1200s cab sounds cool. I'm thinking about building another cab as well, either another 2x15 or 6x12. The only thing is idk if I want to drop cash on a bunch of 12s, you know? (JBL 120s aren't cheap, and neither are any of the Weber's intended to replace them).



AWW YEEEAH, VOX COILY CABLES FO LYFE.
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fo sho
 
#33,518
Guys it's October. The faitals for my dually were back ordered until early October. The anxiety is overwhelming. It was easy to just kind of put September out of my mind because I knew I had a wait, but the countdown is on. Super pumped.

Having it delivered to my parents instead of my relatively ok street a few blocks from some really not so nice streets. I'm going to load up on heads and blast that fuqer into the woods.
 
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does this Kava stuff help you sleep?

I have bouts of insomnia, sometimes 3-4 nights with little to no sleep in a row, but in between those (usually a few weeks) i sleep fairly well. I've used a couple different sleeping pills and while they work the sleep is not the same as real sleep, and i find them pretty addictive.
 

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