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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#41,142
Turkeypills said:
Now we all have different tastes, and I respect all of your opinions regarding your own equipment.

But shag... @Pelham Bleu you have the best taste in basses. I don't think there is an axe in your herd that I wouldn't want to play/own. Every time you get a new lute it gives me insta GAS.

I'm currently dealing with heavy restraint avoiding an impulse buy of an Epi EB-3.
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Gracias! The one I nabbed (via TB classifieds) was a nice EB-0, short scale, w/upgraded Hipshot bridge. That last bit was the clincher for me. After setting the action a little lower, I dig it! It'll probably see some use at a couple MDT sets. I didn't really dig the pickguard, so it went. I think it looks much better without it.

Pic for the others...

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mc_muench said:
Id dig on some Corey surf doom stuff for sure!!!
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I haven't put too much thought into it lately. I definitely intentionally tried to work that influence into one of the songs on the Warp Rig demo. I was playing around with meshing some surf rock and noise rock influence in the past year, but I never found anyone that was really interested in the idea.
 
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Not bass or doom related, but since the surf rock talk got perpetuated a bit...

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I finished this last night. It's a standalone reverb tank unit. A JFET and mu-amp recreation of the old 63 Fender Reverb unit, with a real spring tank. Nick (from Dunwich) helped me out with trouble shooting the PCB kit and getting it working correctly. I designed and built the shell and finally painted it yesterday. Flat black, rat rod style. I already changed the knobs to black vintage Fender Showman style knobs (has kind of MXR style knobs in this pic). It's been working for a long time and I've used it, but I was procrastinating on completing the shell for a long time.
 
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Corey Y said:
I haven't put too much thought into it lately. I definitely intentionally tried to work that influence into one of the songs on the Warp Rig demo. I was playing around with meshing some surf rock and noise rock influence in the past year, but I never found anyone that was really interested in the idea.
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Id be totes in your reverb unit if that ever hits the chopping block...after I climb myself out of this SVT sized hole in my savings.
 
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Korladis said:
I kinda want an Orange "O Bass" to do all sorts of modifications to.

I need to stop thinking of things that it would be cool to have, because I cannot afford to buy things just because they'd be "cool."
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Samsies. But the struggle is real.

mc_muench said:
Id be totes in your reverb unit if that ever hits the chopping block...after I climb myself out of this SVT sized hole in my savings.
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After selling off my Kramer I am just about out of my CL400 foxhole. It ended up being beneficial that when I sent the money, it pulled straight from my checking account despite me trying to put it on my credit card. Thankfully I had just gotten paid, but after bills that was every dime I had. I lived off of my credit card for 2 weeks but that Kramer covered those charges Which were much less than the cost of the amp.

Survival+cool amps.
 
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mc_muench said:
Id be totes in your reverb unit if that ever hits the chopping block...after I climb myself out of this SVT sized hole in my savings.
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I'm trying to hold onto this one as long as possible, since it was an inexpensive DIY project and sounds really good. It's meant to sound exactly like a vintage tube driven Fender spring reverb unit and by all accounts it does. I got it after listening to some really well done shootouts on the surf rock guitar forum I post on. It's really highly regarded there, which is saying something since it's not a piece of gear you can just up and buy ready to play. As far as I know, no one is building out and selling them as completed units, unlike stuff like Weber amp kits. I want to mess around with a different tank in it though. The tank in there now sounds really good for slow, haunting stuff, but when I play faster guitar it gets a bit muddy as the trails are kind of long. I played it last night with my baritone tuned guitar through my Cthulhu Fuzz and it sounded killer for really vibey stoner/doom riffs too.

I'd actually like to get a decent slapback echo/delay to put in front of it. I'm never messing with actual tape machines though, I'll probably just pick up a Carbon Copy or maybe an old Dan Echo or something whenever I have a little extra money. A friend asked me to sell some new in box Lace pickups for him and split the money with me, which might cover most of that.
 
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The_Janitor said:
Yeah, I have a friend that's an expert on all things tape and has offered to help me fix up one if I bought one. If I didn't have that resource I'd be a lot more hesitant to dive in. Too much mechanical stuff going on ...
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Occasionally some manufacturer makes an updated tape machine that uses cartridges or something, that's meant to be more reliable and service friendly. Then they discontinue it and I just think it's another ticking timebomb piece of gear. Tape machines sound amazing, but they usually need active maintenance and when they fail it's not like you can easily fix them before going on stage or something. Same with recording. I used to have an 8 track 1/4" reel to reel machine, but once someone else I knew with the same machine had to figure out how to get maintenance done on it, I became super paranoid about what I'd do if it broke down in the middle of a recording session. No regrets there, I like the quality of my digital recording setup(s). I'd be cool with a decent analog of digital pedal that makes tape echo sounds convincingly, even though I know the real things sound better.
 
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Corey Y said:
Occasionally some manufacturer makes an updated tape machine that uses cartridges or something, that's meant to be more reliable and service friendly. Then they discontinue it and I just think it's another ticking timebomb piece of gear. Tape machines sound amazing, but they usually need active maintenance and when they fail it's not like you can easily fix them before going on stage or something. Same with recording. I used to have an 8 track 1/4" reel to reel machine, but once someone else I knew with the same machine had to figure out how to get maintenance done on it, I became super paranoid about what I'd do if it broke down in the middle of a recording session. No regrets there, I like the quality of my digital recording setup(s). I'd be cool with a decent analog of digital pedal that makes tape echo sounds convincingly, even though I know the real things sound better.
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Yeah - here's the latest and greatest in actual tape echoes: REPLICATOR

Cool, but expensive. My friend owns something like 8 or 9 2" machines and was a broadcast engineer for years so he knows what he's doing. I certainly do not know what I'm doing. I could fix the electronics but the mechanical stuff is way out of my range of ability.

If I were to get a tape echo I wouldn't be bringing it out for shows or anything, it would just be a fun toy to have for basement noodling or the occasional recording.

...and as much as I'd love to record an album to tape - I'm certainly not qualified enough to operate or maintain a tape machine. That takes serious skill and experience. Digital recording sounds just fine to me.
 
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The_Janitor said:
Yeah - here's the latest and greatest in actual tape echoes: REPLICATOR

Cool, but expensive. My friend owns something like 8 or 9 2" machines and was a broadcast engineer for years so he knows what he's doing. I certainly do not know what I'm doing. I could fix the electronics but the mechanical stuff is way out of my range of ability.

If I were to get a tape echo I wouldn't be bringing it out for shows or anything, it would just be a fun toy to have for basement noodling or the occasional recording.

...and as much as I'd love to record an album to tape - I'm certainly not qualified enough to operate or maintain a tape machine. That takes serious skill and experience. Digital recording sounds just fine to me.
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A lot of my journey as an owner and operator of audio/musical gear has been something like:

I need to get some gear so I can play music.

I NEED BETTER GEAR SO I CAN SOUND BETTER

GOTTA FIND THE BEST AND COOLEST GEAR FOR THE SPECIFIC SOUND I WANT

THIS NEW GEAR IS SOOO COOOL!

Hmmm...now that I play them back to back, this really super nice gear is about 1-10% better sounding than the cheap old stuff I already had.

I could sell this expensive gear and keep my cheap stuff...AND BUY THIS OTHER REALLY COOL PIECE OF GEAR.


I still get GAS, even after I figure out that some stuff is really nice, but overrated or maybe just not really necessary to get good sounds (unless you just want it, which is cool). So I would probably buy a tape machine, only use it at home or for recording, then pick up a pedal to get a similar sound live...then figure out that sounded fine and sell the tape machine so I can finance a different gear chase elsewhere.

That's kind of how I was with Gibson gear. I was obsessed with Gibson, bought really nice stuff new and vintage, then sold it all and just played a Carvin super strat haha. Then I got another vintage Gibson SG for free and f*ck me if I'm not going to play THAT, so hey. Doesn't really matter either way.
 
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Haha, yeah I get it. It's a constant struggle with me to keep the excitement and GAS in check.

I separate my gear into two categories - practical gear that I'm going to use in a band - recording and playing out - and just for fun gear that probably won't leave the basement/house. Just for fun gear tends to be cheap, janky, ugly, etc but fun to mess around with.
 
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