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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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Speaking of low-watt tube amps. My Ampeg AC12 is starting to fade in and out, time to stop dicking around and order the caps I need. I also need to swap out the 12ax7 and see if that fixes the effects. If not, I'll need to order the trem module as well. All in all should come out to $100 in parts. Not bad.

Trying to decide if I want to change the speaker, nothing wrong with the one that's in there, but I'm tempted to stick something a little newer and nicer in there. I would save the original.

Also need to decide if I want to do the GU12 modifications, it just adds a couple of components, supposedly it adds a tiny bit more harmonic content. Not sure if it's worth the effort.
 
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The_Janitor said:
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...
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That's the reason I got Mr. Grumpy with a Slave In jack. Any smaller amp I like the sound of at home with a fx loop or preamp out, I can just plug in and make insanely loud.

Blank_0101 said:
What's wrong with the traynor? Seems like it's right in between 20 and 120 and it's not too big.
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It seems that way on paper, but the Traynor isn't really low wattage or clean. It's maybe just a hair quieter than a 100/120W head and not too much headroom at all really. I posted a head to head shootout with it against the clean channel on my Carvin recently and you can really get a sense of how different it takes pedals. It's awesome if you want a really thick, slightly scooped and really pushed sounding tone, but at this point I really like sparkly clean and relatively mid forward or just flat for my clean tone, to run pedals into. If I was playing guitar in a gigging band and was building my tone around that amp, it would be pretty killer, but it's not great for me as a kind of all purpose pedal platform at home, for recording demos and such. I really notice I've just moved to preferring that kind of 6L6 tube based Fender/Mesa kind of cleans for building up pedal dirt.


Here's the clip in question. Joyo UD into each amp. In a perfect world, stereo rig with one of each would be killer. Nice contrast against each other.

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Well, after today's practice we've got two tracks finished, around 22 minutes of music. At this rate, if we make 2 more, we'll have an album instead of demo EP :D
It might take us another 1,5 year, though...
Also, I'm sharing vocals with guitarist now, he did the vocals on the new one and it clicked together nicely.
 
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Well, in GC news, apparently the staff member who told me that the old DOD Octoplus was headed my way was lying. It was sold an hour before I placed my order, and it's not coming my way. At least I didn't get charged, but they could have notified me. You know, like they said they were gonna do. Ah well. Back to Octoplus hunting.
 
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Burnsy said:
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
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Keeping our spot and inching forward, eventually out comes Tool, all dressed just like Led Zeppelin circa The Song Remains The Same film, and they open with their version of No Quarter. That was pretty awesome. Again, the sound was really good for a huge venue. After a brief pause afterwards (Justin and Adam got out of the Zep duds, Maynard and Danny kept them on), they kicked off the rest of the set with The Grudge. Wife and I had both seen Tool once before, about 1999, at the Santa Barbara bowl with Melvins opening. Tool was bar none my favorite band in the early-mid 90's for sometime after Undertow. That and Opiate were my angsty late teen jams. I liked Aenima OK, but I never really bonded as hard with that and the later proggier stuff. I knew going in that there wouldn't be much of the older stuff in the current set. They played an extended version of Opiate but that was it. No Undertow whatsoever, but I wasn't really surprised. The band wasn't quite as tight as Primus, Adam flubbed a few times, but they were excellent and sounded great. It was cool to really pay attention to Justin doing his bass stuff and Danny was incredible on drums as expected. I mean, really not rusty at all. Both of those guys looked like they were having a blast. Maynard, well.. Yeah we all know he lurks in the back of the stage out of the lights so he can "emotionally get in his special place he needs to be in to perform" or whatever.. but.. I mean, he was okay, he sang in tune, audibly (most of the time), but he did avoid high notes, and he never really came close to maxing out the intensity. I mean, during that peak climax part of Vicarious (def my favorite post-Undertow song BTW), he TURNED THE MIC TO THE CROWD. Thanks Maynard for inviting us to join, but everyone was singing already and WE PAID HELLA $$ TO HEAR YOU DO IT. Goddamnit dude YOU HAD ONE JOB... okay I wasn't really that pissed but it was still disappointing. I do understand he was scheduled to do a Puscifer set the very next day so he can't go ALL crazy but really come on. That and there was other weirdness like in Aenima he stopped and instead of singing "...millions of dumbfounded dipsh!ts" like the other 30,000 people in the park he just awkwardly stopped and blurted out "..Sorry." Okay.. he feels bad about hating on SoCal after all these years? Who knows. The set ended with an extended Stinkfist and... no encore. Danny, Adam, and Justin came out for a curtain call and soaked up the audience love and hugged each other and everything. No Maynard.

So yeah I got to strongly agree with TurkeyPills here that I definitely have a feeling that this may well be the last Tool show for a long time and maybe forever. In any case it was a good show and I'm glad I got to witness it. Like I said I don't go to huge shows really at all, and it was kind of a trip standing in a flat field surrounded by the mob in all directions, not at all able to tell where the edge of the crowd was, while active forestry activities all around created an ever-present thick pungent haze. I swear, now I've been to plenty of concerts and stuff, and I wouldn't have thought you could hot-box an open field, next to a lake, under the infinite cloudless Arizona sky, but.. yeah.
 
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Primus:
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Tool (gettin the Led out):
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