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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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Questlove kit seems interesting in person, but would need like a few upgrades to be where it should be. None to pricey or hard to do though.

Apparently sonor has created four lines of drum kits with 14-16-18-20 based bass drums. The consensus seems to be these are better and cheaper. But the Questlove colors and shell sizes are great when TLC'd
 
#34,162
spent like 4pm-2am with very musically versed friend.

I asked every question under the sun. He's helpful but jazz trained so there's a hint of snobbery to it. Turns out Im not totally dumb. I guess most of what I've written in the last year and saved always seemed odd or limited in E. I'd try drop D but wasn't happy but appreciated the extra D I noticed. Now I'm in dadgad and my chord progressions and riffs sound right and I can add more easier. He says if I remember correctly, I write in the key of D and Dorian scale a lot. So I'm not aware, but I guess my ears do pick up on correct things.

Oh local drum shop says they just got in with sonor and can get me anything. Sweet. If I can't find anything used.
 
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Southwest Terror Fest
Tucson, AZ
day 3 (Saturday night)

The University of AZ school of Planetary Science sponsored an art exhibit "The Art of Plantery Science" Lots of things in various media, photographs, oil paintings, sculpture. Work by scientists, work by artists, work by students, all kinds of stuff, it was far out and a pleasant way to spend a few mid-afternoon hours.

Between grubbin, beerin, socializing, and watching the Cubs lose to the Mets, I missed 1sr band Languish. Got in for

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Goya ^, local stoner doom heros. They put on a typically awesome set. I couldn't hear the vocals much, which is too bad because Jeff is a really good singer. Bass rig (couple of SS Sunns) sounded huge up front, I had to walk to the right to hear any guitar.

Up next was
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Cult Leader^
I knew next to nothing about them. Doom-heavy hardcore grind, fast stuff, tempo changes , screamy harsh vox, lots of rrrrrrRRRAAGE. Tones were thick and nice. I guess they are largely ex-Gaza and from SLC, which explains the Hex Cabs, nobody wants to pay to ship those!! Anybody know anything about that dual P bass? Whole bass rig seemed to run off lil' Terror Bass head. Guitar was some kinda sparkly custom Prince thing.

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Brothers of the Sonic Cloth^
Tad's still got it. Damn this sh!t was heavy. Not much fffing around here, just supervolcano scale sonic devastation. Impressive to say the least.

Then the crew makes last minute adjustments..

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And some shirtless beer gutted snaggletoothed dude starts playing with the guitar rig
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And then SLEEP

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They were just as great as I could have hoped, my 1st time seeing them. Al appeared to be rocking 4 SVTs of various vintage plus a Marshall half stack. Beyond huge. Pike sounded absolutely glorious. I had to periodically remove my earplugs to stare straight into the sun and it was really hard to comprehend.

All in all a terrific time with great friends that I think I will mostly remember for a long time.

Acid King headlined Sunday night back at Club Congress, but I had to return to Tempe in the morning to re-immerse in the real world.
 

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Burnsy said:
Southwest Terror Fest
Tucson, AZ
day 3 (Saturday night)

The University of AZ school of Planetary Science sponsored an art exhibit "The Art of Plantery Science" Lots of things in various media, photographs, oil paintings, sculpture. Work by scientists, work by artists, work by students, all kinds of stuff, it was far out and a pleasant way to spend a few mid-afternoon hours.

Between grubbin, beerin, socializing, and watching the Cubs lose to the Mets, I missed 1sr band Languish. Got in for

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Goya ^, local stoner doom heros. They put on a typically awesome set. I couldn't hear the vocals much, which is too bad because Jeff is a really good singer. Bass rig (couple of SS Sunns) sounded huge up front, I had to walk to the right to hear any guitar.

Up next was
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Cult Leader^
I knew next to nothing about them. Doom-heavy hardcore grind, fast stuff, tempo changes , screamy harsh vox, lots of rrrrrrRRRAAGE. Tones were thick and nice. I guess they are largely ex-Gaza and from SLC, which explains the Hex Cabs, nobody wants to pay to ship those!! Anybody know anything about that dual P bass? Whole bass rig seemed to run off lil' Terror Bass head. Guitar was some kinda sparkly custom Prince thing.

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Brothers of the Sonic Cloth^
Tad's still got it. Damn this sh!t was heavy. Not much fffing around here, just supervolcano scale sonic devastation. Impressive to say the least.

Then the crew makes last minute adjustments..

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And some shirtless beer gutted snaggletoothed dude starts playing with the guitar rig
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And then SLEEP

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They were just as great as I could have hoped, my 1st time seeing them. Al appeared to be rocking 4 SVTs of various vintage plus a Marshall half stack. Beyond huge. Pike sounded absolutely glorious. I had to periodically remove my earplugs to stare straight into the sun and it was really hard to comprehend.

All in all a terrific time with great friends that I think I will mostly remember for a long time.

Acid King headlined Sunday night back at Club Congress, but I had to return to Tempe in the morning to re-immerse in the real world.
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Whole lotta cabs!
 
#34,173
Blank_0101 said:
What's the easiest most effective way to be able to play a part on guitar or bass, then play over it with another instrument? Trying to write bass of guitar parts over existing parts.
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If you have a bass riff, then use those notes as the base for your power chords on guitar, add a single string lead/melody line up an octave or two from that. Done.

Reverse process for playing bass along with guitar.

EDIT: Misunderstood the question. Get a looper or record riffs into your computer/phone, playback over speakers and play along.
 
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The_Janitor said:
If you have a bass riff, then use those notes as the base for your power chords on guitar, add a single string lead/melody line up an octave or two from that. Done.

Reverse process for playing bass along with guitar.

EDIT: Misunderstood the question. Get a looper or record riffs into your computer/phone, playback over speakers and play along.
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hmm looper would be best, but I'll go quick recording port to iPhone port to amp/speaker.

while I don't need that first part, that's a really concise good way to describe that.
 
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Blank_0101 said:
hmm looper would be best, but I'll go quick recording port to iPhone port to amp/speaker.

while I don't need that first part, that's a really concise good way to describe that.
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Record the first part through your $20 radio shack mic into your parent's tape deck onto cassette. Then put that cassette into the tape deck your Montgomery Ward bookshelf system and crank that to appropriate volume while you play the second part into the mic, recording it all onto fresh tape in the first tape deck.

When you get tired of that, save your pennies and pay $180 for a Tascam Portastudio that you saw advertised in the classifieds.. of an actual print newspaper!

GET OF MY LAWN!
 
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Burnsy said:
Record the first part through your $20 radio shack mic into your parent's tape deck onto cassette. Then put that cassette into the tape deck your Montgomery Ward bookshelf system and crank that to appropriate volume while you play the second part into the mic, recording it all onto fresh tape in the first tape deck.

When you get tired of that, save your pennies and pay $180 for a Tascam Portastudio that you saw advertised in the classifieds.. of an actual print newspaper!

GET OF MY LAWN!
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I got my fostex 4-track for $20 because one of the tracks didn't work.
 
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