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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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@CL400Peavey I thought you might dig this. I never heard of them but a kava buddy sent me their link, Doom Jazz they call themselves. Bass player uses a upright or double bass, whatever the eff those big bastards are called?
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I think that the guitarist is using an old Traynor head Corey.
 
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Turkeypills said:
Has anyone any experience with the EHX 44 magnum?

Seems like a cool solution for someone who might want to use smaller power section for home practice without another amp taking up space or turning down.
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They seem interesting, almost picked one up used, but went in another direction with my gas. I had planned to put one inside a cow skull I have to make a skullifier.

I assume bass might breakup or fart more/earlier due to tiny tiny transformers.

Someday I'll do the skullifier. Needs a trem or fuzz to make diode clipping eyes.
 
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have a happy new years everybody!!! new direction: playing really trebly piano type leads in the new year, cause the guitarist is going all sunn 0: on me, yesterday i finally secured a live drummer (the producer who did our demos last year)

last week somebody od'd and was revived pulp fiction style at my friend's wake, been kinda offline for a little while

bought myself a vintage nikon superzoom, so if you see me in your neighborhood with a camera lens the size of somebody's arm don't be alarmed, just photographing birds and police helicopters,

don't eat the yellow snow, mike
 
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I have my basement shop / music room. It's small and messy but it's mine.

Mike, condolences about your friend, and i hope the other friend gets better. Tough sh*t to deal with.

Home sick today, against my better judgement spent some time at the bench with the AC12. I had replaced all the electrolytic capacitors but when I turned it on it wasn't making sound. Just a barely audible, super distorted signal coming out of the speaker.

I rechecked all the wiring, reflowed a couple of solder joints and tried again- nothing. I decided to connect it to one of my 15" bass cabs with a long cable so i could leave it on the bench, turn it on and start tracing. So I did that, turned it on and noticed that the 12DW7 in V3 wasn't lighting up. Praying to the god of the tube amp gremlins, i ordered a replacement tube.

Tube got here today, i plugged it in, fired it up and the amp works! Just spent about an hour and a half putting it through the paces and it sounds SO killer. Not having to worry about blowing the vintage driver i put the amp on ten and got a decent amount of OD. Much more than before, but i did swap the old weak 12AU7 in the preamp for a new JJ 12AX7, with probably helped it overdrive a bit.

Guitar with superfuzz, homebrew rat and od glove just sounded amazing and running at 8 or above yielded beautiful blooming feedback. Plugged in the ATK, no effects and boom - poor man's B15. Diming it offered fairly aggresive od that would work well for noise rock, which was a surprise. Pushing mid and low eq on the bass drove the input harder and gave me even more distortion. Low end was huge and present, especially for an amp with only a tone knob. Part of that it's due to the bass cab, but it sounds full.

All in all pretty pumped!
 
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Squanch72 said:
@CL400Peavey I thought you might dig this. I never heard of them but a kava buddy sent me their link, Doom Jazz they call themselves. Bass player uses a upright or double bass, whatever the eff those big bastards are called?
STINKING LIZAVETA » ABOUT US
I think that the guitarist is using an old Traynor head Corey.
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Love the Milestone! I saw Stinking Lizaveta at another club here in Charlotte this year and they were rad. Really fun to watch.

Edit: I think I played that show if I'm not mistaken; we opened up for Felix Martin, that crazy 14 stringed tapping prog-metal guy.
 
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Happy new year, doombros! Hope everybody had a safe and fun night. Wife and i stayed in and watched bbc detective shows. I got blasted on kava and herbage and slept like a rock for 10 hours. Turning the corner on the virus and heading to the hardware store for some crimp on ring terminals. Replacing the 2 prong cable on the AC12 today and putting it back into the shell.

Trem still doesn't work, so I'll need to order a replacement module from fliptops.

After that I'll just have the speaker left to replace and it'll be good to go for another 45 years. I'm having a blast with this project, super fun and satisfying!
 
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