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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

Bridge and pickup covers for anything with 4 strings if possible. However I think fender covers offer the exact areas of the string Id pluck anyway without them.

6 stringers needs the openness of no covers.
This... is actually pretty much exactly my opinion.

Didn't use a pick for the first 9 years I played bass but made the switch last winter and haven't looked back. I like the extra attack I get.
I'm the opposite. I started as a pick-only player. Now I play mostly with fingers, still occasionally with pick if the part needs one. There are some things that I haven't figured out how to do with fingers really well.

I prefer a pick. Admittedly, I don't play as well with my fingers.
Lol, I still don't play as well with them, either. Just, for Catapult stuff mostly works better with fingers.

Gave it a clean up today, plugged it into the wall, and it powers up! The guy who gave it to me said some tweaker left it at his house years back and almost certainly doesn't even remember it's there, so I could have it. He also said it it didn't work, but I'm willing to bet he didn't know that you couldn't just plug an instrument straight into it. So any of you KVLTists (@mc_muench ) have any info or recommendations on using this thing? It was covered in Cthulu-knows how many years of grime, but it's actually pretty clean with a scrub and some Pledge. Insides full of spider webs so I'll get around to cleaning it some other time. Thing has a cantaloupe of a transformer in it, and some of the biggest can caps I've ever seen.

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Also might snag a good deal on a 4001v63 in a couple weeks, if I can swing it financially.
Man, I'd love to have a V63.

Splitting off from this vital dairy anthropology and genetics discussion,

Do you guys reckon using a hollow or semi-hollowbody for doom would result in:

A) Awesome amounts of feedback and doominess

or

B) Uncontrollable, horrible feedback that kills everyone in the near vicinity?
What's the difference?

I tried an acoustic bass once at war volume: impossible feedback. Feedback That overcomes any fuzz dirt tone etc. Very disappointing considering acoustics can't hang acoustically either. Almost worthless instruments, even if at intermediate volumes they sound killer.
My fretless acoustic actually hangs quite well with acoustic guitar.
 
Man, I'd love to have a V63.

Yeah, they're the main Rics I'm been looking at, one popped up in classifieds and the owner price dropped to $1880. He's on vacation right now but I told him to contact me when he returns to see if we can work something out. Might need to sell my T-bird to swing it though...
 
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Was walking Leela down town, and a guy screamed "don't touch my wife!" And charged across a busy street and smashed a dude straight in the head with a beer bottle. Bloody police filled way to end the day.

I wonder if he's in the drunk tank realizing that whoever might be touching his wife, is gonna have like 1-2 years to continue doing so now.
 
Haven't been on as much because I spent most of the weekend at the Oakland Metro for California Deathfest...

Please tell me you dropped some acid.

Well here she is... Just a year shy of being old enough to drink. Clear coat is far from flawless, but it sure is a player.

The body shape is badass, but the finish and grain are just gorgeous. Congrats. Well-earned.

82% on that goddamn math test. I'll take it, poopie was hard.

You'll always be an A-minus with us! Even when you downtune.

@Bassic Playing -- "Yamaha0)))" had me lmfao!
 
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Haven't been on as much because I spent most of the weekend at the Oakland Metro for California Deathfest.

So ****ing tired now. Feet hurt a lot. But goddamn.

Highlights were Noothgrush, Morbosidad, Dispirit, Antediluvian, Aevangelist, Ghoul, Lycus, Loss, Worship, Gnaw Their Tongues, and Nader Sadek.
You go to all three nights? Found out about it late, plus a daughter weekend = no go for me.
 
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