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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#41,861
Pelham Bleu said:
@Turkeypills Do you supply a storefront or other stores/restaurants? Wheres does all that dough go?
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We supply basically all of the mid level-high end restaurants around the St. Louis area and do large scale frozen orders for mainliners like US Foods and PFG. We also do bread for a few national grocery chains; Luckys, Fresh Thyme, Freshens. In addition we are picking up Primanti bros bread, currently in every store outside of Philly but in time we will do all of it. That's just the AM crew. PM shift does all of the fresh bread for some local eateries and local grocery chains.


CL400Peavey said:
I wouldn't want to just make bread all day, my add would kick in and I would fugg something up. I generally get my first 70 pounds of dough rolled out in 45 minutes by hand, but I have a big prep list to cover on top of that.
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I assure you, you would not get bored and would probably thrive and love it. There is always something to do. I am running all day basically. 70lbs hand rolled in an hour is almost as fast as I can go. I can hit around 100-110lbs in that time, but 70lbs/45min is still faster than a lot of people here.
 
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Turkeypills said:
I assure you, you would not get bored and would probably thrive and love it. There is always something to do. I am running all day basically. 70lbs hand rolled in an hour is almost as fast as I can go. I can hit around 100-110lbs in that time, but 70lbs/45min is still faster than a lot of people here.
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We used to race, see who could roll out half fastest. Bet lunch on it. None of the new guys fall for that any more... My boss wanted to get a rolling machine, but I laughed at him when he told me how much they cost.
 
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Korladis said:
Apparently Paul McCartney ruined his musical potential by smoking weed for so many years, according to the logic of regular talkbass. Such a shame, he could have had such a great career.

Oh wait.
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You've been going outside again! stop it! REMAIN INDOORS!
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Thinking about getting a new doom machine. Kinda want a /humbucker in the neck/ position flavor.......

Maybe a '70s Telecaster bass or a old Guild JS? Fenders are pricey, the JS's hover around a grand. The Guild usually has a coil tap for the pickup, so wondering if anyone has experience with it? I checked youtube for samples but there's just some fccckking Dad-Rock guy playing with his drum machine and another one is some hipster turdsnapper using only one tone setting (highs/mids all rolled off). I know the Guild is probably gonna neck dive like feck but it's shortscale so it might be ok. Never really liked shortscale but I played a Dano Longhorn a few months back and kinda liked it.

Don't want anything Gibson.
 
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Kaa said:
I will send you a $5 bill if you do.
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I would, but I'm too busy crafting the perfect post to demo my amp tone as recorded by my Motorola Startac from across the room so I can get suggestions on what fuzz pedal to buy to give me the authentic Geddy Lee tone that he used on his 1983 solo tour.

Priorities, bruh.
 
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cornfarmer said:
Thinking about getting a new doom machine. Kinda want a /humbucker in the neck/ position flavor.......

Maybe a '70s Telecaster bass or a old Guild JS? Fenders are pricey, the JS's hover around a grand. The Guild usually has a coil tap for the pickup, so wondering if anyone has experience with it? I checked youtube for samples but there's just some fccckking Dad-Rock guy playing with his drum machine and another one is some hipster turdsnapper using only one tone setting (highs/mids all rolled off). I know the Guild is probably gonna neck dive like feck but it's shortscale so it might be ok. Never really liked shortscale but I played a Dano Longhorn a few months back and kinda liked it.

Don't want anything Gibson.
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Go guild for sure. My main is a js-2 but i spend 90% of the time on the neck pup full vol and tone. The coil tap is a bass cut which i never use. The neck is narrow side to side but deep so it feels substantial. Much prefer it to the wide and shallow fender neck. Neck dive for sure but it's a light bass you can hold steady with a finger. All the trimmings aside, it sounds clear and deep, unlike the gibson mudbuckers and the like. I've never had a bass do such fundamentals with such clarity while retaining an inherent warmth. They really are one of the last underrated vintage instruments. Dont tell anyone until ive saved up enough for a backup tho.
 
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cornfarmer said:
Maybe a '70s Telecaster bass or a old Guild JS? Fenders are pricey, the JS's hover around a grand.
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Make your own? Buy a cheap Fender clone if that's your thing and just chisel a hole or poorly route it? If you don't care about perfect fit, it's pretty easy. I actually chiselled out a really good cavity on one (only to later use a router to make irregular holes because I didn't care and they were hidden under mounting plates, anyways).

I hate to be one of those people who constantly reposts pictures of my poopy insturments in every thread, but it seems appropriate here:
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There was also a Squier VM with the Fender mudbucker up in the neck. Well, two. One with the classic, proper, early Precision (example) and a medium scale that looked like a Telecaster guitar with the mudbucker in the neck and a jazz in the bridge ([Invalid or Expired Link Removed]).
 
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deathness said:
Go guild for sure. My main is a js-2 but i spend 90% of the time on the neck pup full vol and tone. The coil tap is a bass cut which i never use. The neck is narrow side to side but deep so it feels substantial. Much prefer it to the wide and shallow fender neck. Neck dive for sure but it's a light bass you can hold steady with a finger. All the trimmings aside, it sounds clear and deep, unlike the gibson mudbuckers and the like. I've never had a bass do such fundamentals with such clarity while retaining an inherent warmth. They really are one of the last underrated vintage instruments. Dont tell anyone until ive saved up enough for a backup tho.
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Thanks, I had an M85 for like 5 min. a few years ago, which the neck and bridge(?) broke during shipping to me, and was a complete hassle to get UPS/seller to set right, so I never gelled with it and I hastily sold it. The lighter JS sounds like a decent candidate.

Years ago I had an old Ampeg Little Stud that I converted to 8 string, stupidly sold it (W-T-F was I smoking). I bet another one of those cheapo plywood basses could be made into something cool by adding a humbucker at the neck, and done for very little dough.


*edit - I can't believe that Wha De Fu is censored here, jeeeesus
 
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cornfarmer said:
Thanks, I had an M85 for like 5 min. a few years ago, which the neck and bridge(?) broke during shipping to me, and was a complete hassle to get UPS/seller to set right, so I never gelled with it and I hastily sold it. The lighter JS sounds like a decent candidate.

Years ago I had an old Ampeg Little Stud that I converted to 8 string, stupidly sold it (W-T-F was I smoking). I bet another one of those cheapo plywood basses could be made into something cool by adding a humbucker at the neck, and done for very little dough.


*edit - I can't believe that Wha De Fu is censored here, jeeeesus
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Yeah TB auto-censor is a bit outta control. If that was a vintage M-85 destroyed by UPS, mark that down as a stone cold tragedy. There really aren't a lot of those floating around out there. I wish there were more like the JS-2 because that might mean they wouldn't be so damn expensive. I guess it's lucky they aren't 60s Jazz bass expensive. The JS *is* lighter though... and I've seen the single pickup versions for around $600-800. I do like the ability to use the bridge pickup from time to time, but I could live with just the neck pickup. It really is a remarkable pickup. I personally prefer the humbuckers over the older single coils (the darkstar-style ones) but they both have a great sound.
 
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Pelham Bleu said:
Shameless plug: peep the 70s Aria P or the 80s Warlock I have in the classifieds. Both are fantastic players. Shameless plug over. :dead:

For Sale - BC Rich Warlock NJ Series

For Sale - Aria Mach I (P-bass copy) MIJ 70s
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I'd be tempted with the Warlock, but it would just be to mod it and destroy its resale value. And I don't have the money to do that right now. Oh well.

gfen said:
Make your own? Buy a cheap Fender clone if that's your thing and just chisel a hole or poorly route it? If you don't care about perfect fit, it's pretty easy. I actually chiselled out a really good cavity on one (only to later use a router to make irregular holes because I didn't care and they were hidden under mounting plates, anyways).

I hate to be one of those people who constantly reposts pictures of my poopy insturments in every thread, but it seems appropriate here:
sR3FnLj.jpg



There was also a Squier VM with the Fender mudbucker up in the neck. Well, two. One with the classic, proper, early Precision (example) and a medium scale that looked like a Telecaster guitar with the mudbucker in the neck and a jazz in the bridge ([Invalid or Expired Link Removed]).
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That looks awesome.
 

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