While I suppose I had to leave AZ for my life to unfold the way it has, and I am glad for that, in many other ways I wish I had never left and always hope to move back someday.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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While I suppose I had to leave AZ for my life to unfold the way it has, and I am glad for that, in many other ways I wish I had never left and always hope to move back someday.
The mooer tender octave had me interested and looking at videos. I saw a new mooer varimolo pedal, it's an interesting little thing. Tremolo with filter and variable rate? Weird
@askrere Those knobs I linked to a while back work just great on my Boss. Nice tight fit. Just remember to check that the shafts on your pedal are full ones, and not the half-shaft variety.
I used to think that my Wren and Cuff Pickle Pie B sounded heavy. Then I heard this:
Apparently he uses a Mountainking Electronics Megalith and I have GAS. Holy crap. The Pickle Pie just sounds straight up WEAK in comparison! Please someone tell me that I can get that tone with mine or that it's all in his playing so I don't have to spend more money I don't have!!
Apparently he uses a Mountainking Electronics Megalith and I have GAS. Holy crap. The Pickle Pie just sounds straight up WEAK in comparison! Please someone tell me that I can get that tone with mine or that it's all in his playing so I don't have to spend more money I don't have!!
He used Wino's Megalith in the studio, I think he uses his usual setup here: DOD 250 and Boss DS-1 through a lot of cabs.
Really?! But it sounds HUGE. I don't understand how anyone could get that tone from such tame pedals. Or is it all the amps/cabs?
That's a killer tune and my favorite Jackson 5 play along.
Does full shaft mean they have ridges the whole way down? Or that they don't have a notch in the middle?
Well, when you're running 3 SVTs through 3 810s...
Also, dimed DOD 250 can get pretty gnarly.
Haha That festival was a charlie foxtrot through and through. I was struggling to find ANYONE. I even got separated from my girl for a while and had to search for her.
I did end up meeting @Burnsy though, which was great. It was a great show I thought. C&C were a little more sloppy than times I had seen them in the past but it was still good. Primus was a little quiet in my opinion, but they brought the heat as always. Tool... what more can I say... Dressed as Led Zeppelin and opening with No Quarter, extended version of Opiate and all the best tunes. My chips are on black saying that was the last Tool performance for a long time, maybe ever. Stoked I got to see it. Bummed that by the time I worked my my way through the entrance line, the ID line and the beer line; the merch booth had experienced utter devastation. I was hoping for a poster (signed would have been dope) but those apparently were gone within 45 minutes of open.
The show was excellent, but my experiences in AZ probably topped my show experience. To all the AZ folk here and @Muddslide, y'all are right. AZ ****ing rules. Fast highways, block layout across the city, endless hole in the wall mexican food places that are amazing. Sedona was on another level. Cathedral rock was one of the most cathartic climbs I have ever made. I want to live in villa on top of a mesa in Sedona and that's that.
@Jolagh The Mostly Harmless wouldn't fit in my carry on so you lucked out. THIS TIME.
The AZ Monster Mash was something else. I virtually never go to "big" shows anymore, so I guess I was not quite prepared for the sheer level of clusterf'ed-ness. With family in town and kid Halloween stuff, getting there early was not an option. Missing the first two bands, we spent our 20 minutes in the entry line and our 25 min in the 21+ ID bracelet line during Coheed & Cambria's set. I had never really checked out their music, was pretty enjoyable, at least the ID line was in full view of the big video displays. Still took me about 15 minutes to comprehend that the vocals were not in fact emanating from a female person. While in the ID line, I looked over at one of the several parallel lines and recognized a certain shaved-headed, red-bearded individual from his Facebook photos. After getting my bracelet, I raced over and introduced myself to @Turkeypills, then raced back so as to not lose my wife and BIL. Sorry we couldn't hang out more! Still, nice to meet you!
After finally beering up, we (my wife and my bro-in-law) plowed into the thick of the crowd as far as we could get. I decided to detour out and try to locate my buddy who flew out from Iowa and who had checked into the fest a couple hours earlier. I found him out at the edge of the crowd and Primus started. They sounded terrific, the classic Les-Herb-Ler lineup. I was big into them in my day, I had only seen them once opening for Rush about '93-94 so seeing them do an hour+ set was a real treat. Eventually I led my buddy back into the thick of people to find my wife and bro-in-law, and after some delay was miraculously successful. Primus played all their "hits" (My Name Is Mud, Wynona's Beaver, Jerry Was Race Car Driver). Southbound Pachyderm and The Toys Go Winding Down were particular highlights for me. The sound was surprisingly great for a huge outdoor venue, maybe standing pretty close to the soundboard location helped with that.
TO BE CONTINUED
I'm torn, because I have the money now to buy a new amp for guitar. I was looking at those Peavey mini tube heads, trying to decide which clean channel I liked best between the Valveking and the Classic. Then I see those Orange Crush heads and I love the old school solid state tone of it, heard tons of good demos with people playing heavy riffs, but I honestly really don't need a loud gig ready amp. I'm just not gigging, much as I'd like to, but I am recording and making demos at home. Tough call, but I have the money saved up either way and they're both pretty affordable.
I played the 60 watt combo, and thought it was real sweet sounding, sounded good clean, and it had a sweet crunch to it. I really have no need as I have the Micro Terror and need to push founds into trying my hand at kava sales instead of gear splurges. I read they aren't very loud so maybe it wouldn't be overkill for your needs anyway.
I was thinking about the 120, there's a black tolex one for sale for a pretty good price used that I saw. I think that's probably a bit louder, but yeah, overall volume isn't a huge concern on the loud end. I still have my Carvin for now and I have Mr. Grumpy. Not to mention that my Atlas 612 cab makes EVERYTHING sound pretty loud anyway. The cleans on that Orange head were the big question for me. I haven't liked what I heard in demos on the clean channel, but that doesn't necessarily tell me its bad. The cleans on the Classic 20 sounded a bit too Tweed like to me (duh, by the look of the head), that kind of always slightly hairy tone my Traynor gets on guitar. The Peavey Valveking 20 head had pretty nice sparkly cleans, similar to the NMV channel on my Carvin, which intrigued me. That's also probably the most affordable out of all of them and I've seen some of those used as well.
Cleans were that typical Orange clean to me, on the sterile side. Not sparkly or janngly, no extra flavor to them, not terrible stale like a jazz amp, just a nice clean sound with no extra presence/flavor. I like Orange more for their bit of dirt to full on dirt, not so much for their clean, unless throwing pedals at it.
Whatever I get is probably primarily getting used as a pedal platform at home. That's why I've been leaning towards the Peavey. If I was doing any kind of gigging band, I'd probably snag that CR120h. I wish I could play one to see how it handles pedals, but GC was a bust for that last weekend as well.
Well, you can always slave either of those peavey heads out to a separate power amp, no need for a speaker or dummy load to be connected. Mr. Grumpy's power section would probably be plenty loud for guitar. Just saying...
What's wrong with the traynor? Seems like it's right in between 20 and 120 and it's not too big.
we're still using the vox vt 30 amp with the 12ax pre tube, got it for 99 bones used at gc, all the fx and amp modelers are pretty fun to play with at the house and it sounds pretty amazing for less than 100 bucks, indian jewelry uses one sometimes when they just want an on stage combo that they can mic at bigger venues
