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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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Most people have very little experience with death. Funerals do a terrible job of preparing you. The amount of work done to make a corpse presentable is very transforming.
I'm sure a lot of people freak out after seeing freshly dead people.
Still sucks for you though. Good luck
 
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mbelue said:
Most people have very little experience with death. Funerals do a terrible job of preparing you. The amount of work done to make a corpse presentable is very transforming.
I'm sure a lot of people freak out after seeing freshly dead people.
Still sucks for you though. Good luck
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You're not wrong. I still remember seeing my first corpse. At that point, the body had been dead for a few hours so the rigor-mortis and discoloration of the skin on the face had settled in. Definitely wasn't prepared for that let alone at 14.

I'm not a fan of corpses either and I still get a little uncomfortable whenever I see one or have to unfortunately handle one. My point is that if you're gonna work in a field like aged care you need to be able to process these sorts of things. Its all good feeding, toileting and giving residents a better quality of life when they're breathing but after they go is also a part of the job - and a very big one at that. Its kinda like saying you're a lifesaver at the beach but you're scared of swimming too far out. I know I'm probably sounding harsh and insensitive but the reality is people here will die much sooner than later so you need to be prepared before you dive into this job.

P.S. I'm just cranky and tired so I appologise right now if anyone's offended by my rants. I'm just not looking forward to getting home at whatever-the-shag o'clock only to sleep like..three hours and have to wake up to start the day all over again.
 
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El Raro said:
You're not wrong. I still remember seeing my first corpse. At that point, the body had been dead for a few hours so the rigor-mortis and discoloration of the skin on the face had settled in. Definitely wasn't prepared for that let alone at 14.

I'm not a fan of corpses either and I still get a little uncomfortable whenever I see one or have to unfortunately handle one. My point is that if you're gonna work in a field like aged care you need to be able to process these sorts of things. Its all good feeding, toileting and giving residents a better quality of life when they're breathing but after they go is also a part of the job - and a very big one at that. Its kinda like saying you're a lifesaver at the beach but you're scared of swimming too far out. I know I'm probably sounding harsh but the reality is people here will die much sooner than later so you need to be prepared before you dive into this job.
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Absolutely, but (and no offense intended) there are two ways of screening employees concerning death. You either question them thoroughly upon hiring interview and hope they are truthful and not overly confident, or expect a certain percentage to washout.
Lots of businesses will hire and expect washout.
For example there is an auto glass company back home in Pensacola that pays great and treats their employees well. First broken windshield and your fired, no exceptions. It's just their screening process.
 
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mbelue said:
Absolutely, but (and no offense intended) there are two ways of screening employees concerning death. You either question them thoroughly upon hiring interview and hope they are truthful and not overly confident, or expect a certain percentage to washout.
Lots of businesses will hire and expect washout.
For example there is an auto glass company back home in Pensacola that pays great and treats their employees well. First broken windshield and your fired, no exceptions. It's just their screening process.
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No offense taken, mate. The majority of our employees are contractors who are supplied by a training company which handles their education and qualifications. Basically, if there's an individual who the training company thinks would fit our bill, we're happy to bring them in a basic interview and practical trials. At this moment, the training company does all the screening and evaluation of staff competencies and they try to communicate to us as best they can regarding individual staff members but ultimately we won't find out how accurate their assessments are until they hit the floor running in our facility. For the most part we rely on their judgement since they're one of the best agencies in their respective field but I'm thinking that its time we invest in our own screening process so we have something to cross-reference with the training company's assessments.
 
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Blank_0101 said:
I feel like rotten the website and a few others desensitized me to that.
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ive seen every pic on rotten.com since i was ike 15.

i watched my wifes grandfather pass away in person about a month and a half ago.

the website and the real thing have absolutely zero in common haha. seeing a person "go" is very strange, and very hard to describe. looking at some brutal pictures on the internet is more just shock factor than anything. seeing it in person is another level of intensity.
 
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The_Janitor said:
Was driving to get my gear out of storage for this afternoon's jam and blew a tire an hour from town. Limped it to my parent's place ( was Damn lucky to be so close) and got a ride to the tire place. Currently waiting for a new tire. A FLAT TIRE WON'T STOP ME!
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That's what happened to our van the day we recorded. Then we went on to record 80 mins of riffage in 10 hours. So I'm sure you'll find your new band. Is your drummer in on this jam as well?
 
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Corey Y said:
I've started favoring OCD based overdrives over RATs for slow, heavy stuff. I still favor my RAT and similar pedals for faster stuff, with light OD, especially with pick playing, where I want some attack/clank. The OCD has a bit more saturation and smoothness to the gain, for better or for worse, depending on what you want out of it.

I've read and heard a lot of great things about the Greedtone. John K loves the hell out of that design, along with the Fairfield Barbershop, for that elusive "tube-like ovedrive" tone.
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Corey, are you using any type of compression, amp or otherwise?
 
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mc_muench said:
That's what happened to our van the day we recorded. Then we went on to record 80 mins of riffage in 10 hours. So I'm sure you'll find your new band. Is your drummer in on this jam as well?
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Yeah, Andrew is in at least for now, he may move this fall.

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You got a lot of car trouble it seems like. You gots the Gremlins
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Yeah, it never shaging stops.

Just got back from the jam, I think it went pretty Damn well. Just did two long Earthless style jams, which were actually pretty killer, good chemistry, vibe and skill all around.

Kept it short, but everyone was pretty happy with the results. Good direct communication about goals and expectations, everyone's on the same page.

The guitarist and i will get together soon, hammer out a few songs, then we'll go from there. I'm pretty Damn excited right now!
 
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Can't be at the rental house with keys til Friday, but I ran over and went all over the huge yard! Doom gardens. Mint and some dangerous looking basil plant all over the front. The guy who lived there before had a crazy bad taste, so a lot of yard redo. I'm gonna try to do it cheap via craigslist. People have nice free fencing all the time if you go get it. And plants and trees, time to take advantage and clean the place up for my stay.
 
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Ron Now said:
the high/low dual gain setting on a demon (or rat tail) works if you want your "cleaner" gain to be lower in volume than your "heavier" gain.

I've always setup my distortion to be louder than my clean tone, so this never really bothered me. Gave the appropriate amount of boost when going from low gain to high gain. But everyone likes different things obviously.
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I like the idea of having the actual db level to be the same as my clean to overdriven sound and even my high gain patch is only a few db higher. Being that I don't play with a guitarist all of the time, I don't feel the need to jump ahead of anyone sonically. I've kind of set up the colour changes with clean/overdriven/distorted in the same way as Jack White does with his guitar. Since I play the fretless most of the time, I start with the clean/chorused sound, then tap the over drive for some tubey warmth. The final distortion patch is really out of control. Just listen to some live White Stripes or even newer Jack White. It's a very flexible setup.
 
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LowF said:
I like the idea of having the actual db level to be the same as my clean to overdriven sound and even my high gain patch is only a few db higher. Being that I don't play with a guitarist all of the time, I don't feel the need to jump ahead of anyone sonically. I've kind of set up the colour changes with clean/overdriven/distorted in the same way as Jack White does with his guitar. Since I play the fretless most of the time, I start with the clean/chorused sound, then tap the over drive for some tubey warmth. The final distortion patch is really out of control. Just listen to some live White Stripes or even newer Jack White. It's a very flexible setup.
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I just think having the clean be the same volume sucks the intensity out of the changeover when people do go to the overdriven sound. Usually the overdriven tone sounds weak in comparison.
 
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Blank_0101 said:
Can't be at the rental house with keys til Friday, but I ran over and went all over the huge yard! Doom gardens. Mint and some dangerous looking basil plant all over the front. The guy who lived there before had a crazy bad taste, so a lot of yard redo. I'm gonna try to do it cheap via craigslist. People have nice free fencing all the time if you go get it. And plants and trees, time to take advantage and clean the place up for my stay.
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I see a house show when I come around town.
 

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