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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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Turkeypills said:
No poopie. Google hadn't shown me such a thing, I must delve further. I saw that Demeter makes something close, but it was $2600 or something silly.


Looks like Ampeg made the SVP 1600 power amp. Essentially the power section of the 4 pro.



Electric makes some 200w power units but I have heard they have questionable business practices.
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SVT-300
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mbelue said:
Thanks for the well wishes folks, but there's nothing to be done.
Something happened a couple of months back and i haven't dealt with it well.
Truth be told i made a mess of things with my wife and job.
Been trying to make amends where i can. Not really sure how.
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Hang in there buddy. Tried to text you, think who ever has your old number was intrigued by the TB jargon.
 
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jollygiantchris said:
I just wanted to weigh in because I am a sleep tech but a lot of sleep labs are un-accredited and some of the techs in the industry really are terrible at their jobs. There's been a big push to get everyone registered and certified nationally but you might want to make sure the place you went to have your study and your sleep doctor was ABSM certified and the doctor an ABSM diplomate or some of your issues might be the machine not being calibrated properly. There used to be a lot of doctors that weren't board certified in sleep that ran their own un-accredited sleep labs and would put everyone on auto PAPs instead of actually setting the devices because the reimbursement for sleep studies used to be extremely high.

That being said my only other comment is because kava is a sedative it most likely affects your muscle patency and taking it would make your obstructive sleep apnea more acute which means your CPAP might require a higher pressure when taking it. I'd also assume, like other sedatives, that it most likely significantly affects your sleep staging which can be either a good or a bad thing, most sedatives are REM-supressants. It's entirely possible you are experiencing more lucid/vivid dreaming on it because your OSA is worse in REM while taking kava and you are actually having apneas/microarousals which is why you are semi-concious and remembering your dreams. There doesn't really seem to be much research on it and sleep from what I can tell. I'll ask the doctors here what they think of it next time I run into them but you should always at least ask a physician before taking something like that especially for drug interactions.
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Thanks for the advice. I got to a hospital with a team of neurologists and the sleep center is in there also. I only have borderline apnea, going on the machine was a migraine treatment hail Mary throw by my neurologist, our team didn't win :(. I also had a deviated septum that blocked my left nostril most of the time, worsened with migraines. I had the surgery done and it only blocks with extreme migraines so that helps too.
I don't take any daily medications. I have a script for tramadol and for imitrex for when I get a migraine. Granted I get lots of migraines so I take imitrex pretty often. Tramadol rarely. So not really worried about drug interactions with kava. I don't drink with kava either. I actually completely stopped drinking(though I rarely drank anyway) when I started on kava. I have been seeing this doctor for five years with no migraine relief, though he is highly recommended and really, really trying with me, but I am his hardest migraine case and he admits that. Since I have been seeing him for years and only drinking kava daily for 6 months, I am not bringing up the kava too him unless he tries me on something new that would react say like with my liver. I don't want him to have a scapegoat like kava to blame the migraines on, I want him to keep troubleshooting.
 
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jollygiantchris said:
you are actually having microarousals which is why you are semi-concious and remembering your dreams.
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I'm no doctor @Squanch72 but it sounds like he's saying your getting dirty dream semi chubs from your Hawaiian hooch.


@Sartori power tubes are more likely to die quicker. If there is not a lot of noise or issues caused by physically prematurely ending a preamp tubes life, I'd assume a steady quietening was the power tubes.

Unless suddenly your amp is not as adequate as you always say it is volume wise your fine I assume.
 
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I almost never remember my dreams. Every so often I have a lucid dream that I remember faintly upon waking, but I wake up with zero recollection of the past nights dreams.



Good show on the SVT 300. I wonder what value those have. I imagine it was discontinued relatively quickly.
 
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Turkeypills said:
I almost never remember my dreams. Every so often I have a lucid dream that I remember faintly upon waking, but I wake up with zero recollection of the past nights dreams.



Good show on the SVT 300. I wonder what value those have. I imagine it was discontinued relatively quickly.
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Me too, I rarely remember then. Just slightly remember the ones right before waking up, like I knew I was dreaming but not sure about what.
 
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mbelue said:
Thanks for the well wishes folks, but there's nothing to be done.
Something happened a couple of months back and i haven't dealt with it well.
Truth be told i made a mess of things with my wife and job.
Been trying to make amends where i can. Not really sure how.
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But this means you have to vacate TB? This place really helps me when I'm down. This thread at least, I should say. I hope you can at least check in now and then. PM me if you wanna talk off board or if there's anything I can do.
 
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Muddslide said:
But this means you have to vacate TB? This place really helps me when I'm down. This thread at least, I should say. I hope you can at least check in now and then. PM me if you wanna talk off board or if there's anything I can do.
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I'm going to say Mudd speaks for us all, regarding any PMs or help we can offer.
 
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Korladis said:
EV RE20.

You can also use an SM57 in conjunction with a DI or kick drum mic for the lows.
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I'm leaning. Towards the ev re20, I've thought about doing the 57 with a di, but something about the magic that happens with a volt thrower driving the verellen with power tube drive is just hard to replicate. It's a totally different sound than just di'ing my signal. So because of that I've been looking for a good option for capturing that bass tone.

Edit: And I'm not sure if the SM57 would capture that or not.
 
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