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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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He has returned from the internet wasteland...
(currently watching the liked posts counter tick up as Satori works his way through like a month worth of posts from his ban, welcome back)
We shall honor his return with a bombardment of posts related to the topic!
no students, gonna just leave when the traffic dies down a little, maybe i can play a little when i get home to hasten the settling down of the new flatwounds, kinda liking the lynx through the ibanez ddl dealy into the overdriven d180 for that illusive jesus and mary chain bass sound that i'm always trying to get without getting a swollen pickle
There are way better cheapo basses than Rogue. Avoid.
That Dunwich. Do you ever run it and the Megalith at the same time?
My Dunwich muff does that, with the mids switched on. In some settings it sounds like a Soviet Tu-95's engines.
Nah, it was for linking a Louis CK bit entitled "you're an *******," when someone was calling me too PC. I guess people don't like it when I get real with them.
All I do is call people out on their douchebaggery. But that's what I get for going into the general population on this site. Dudes will boast about how un-PC they are and then get all flabbergasted about their own sacred cows. It's weak.
Oooh. What do all the preamp controls do?
Oh man. This is excellent news.
Nah. I don't have any "always on" fuzzes, and the dirt on my head is not so over the top that it squeals when I'm not playing, as long as I'm muting the strings. I like being able to get feedback when I want it.
I stay on facebook largely for band promotion.
Get Dunwich to make a copy of the modified muff he built for me.
Probably with different art.
But seriously, it lays waste to all before it. It's kinda like the Swollen Pickle (also a great pedal), but with the mids emphasis being more in the lower-middle mids, rather than in the high mids. It's also a lot less glitchy on low Bs, and has less uncontrollable low end (though still quite a bit). As mentioned above, in some settings it sounds like a Soviet bomber. Really is the pinnacle of fuzz for me. I don't even have the mids all the way up and it can still crush a mix if I'm not careful. Unlike a lot of fuzzes, the amount of distortion is pretty variable; I can get almost none at all, or full-on fuzz (most fuzz pedals I've found that after the first little turn of the fuzz/sustain/distortion knob, don't really change in sound).
Other pretty good off the rack muff fuzz pedals are the Way Huge Swollen Pickle, and Russian Pickle, the Wren & Cuff Tall Font Russian, the Mountainking Megalith, and tons of others, really.
Yeah, I don't even have a rig at home, for this reason. It lives at the rehearsal studio.
Yeah, my upstairs neighbors get pissed when I even listen to music loud. Especially, apparently, if it's Chelsea Wolfe.
Nice texturing on the black Meatsmoke. What cabs are those?
The Dunwich custom muff I described earlier in this post.
In terms of low end loss, I think a lot of people try to set their clean volume and fuzz/distortion volume the same, and that's why there's a perceived loss of low end (although some pedals like the regular Rat do actually cut it a bit, I think). What drive/distortion/fuzz pedals do is add a crapload of signal in the mids and highs, which increases the overall volume. So if you dial the volume back so it's the same loudness as the clean tone, you are in effect cutting the low end.
Thanks, it's good to be back.
This and the Dunwich thread are the only threads I bothered getting completely caught up in.
Got two gigs coming up.
Sunday the 7th at Winter's Tavern in Pacifica.
And then Wednesday the 10th at the Hemlock in San Francisco.
Sunday the 7th at Winter's Tavern in Pacifica.
And then Wednesday the 10th at the Hemlock in San Francisco.
Well, it looks like I have an audition tonight after spending the last year+ band-less. Pretty straightforward but decent fuzzed out rawk. I don't feel as excited as I was last week.
Lol, mkay. Just bringing the BlowerBox tonight with the Ampeg SVT Pro 3 and my two Schroeder 15's. There's two guitars to contend with.
Funnily enough, a different guy on craigslist I responded to called me a bozo after I told him 'No thanks, have a good one' about playing in his band. This was after 5 days of one liner emails offering zero info on what his band/project was all about...until just now when he told me who they actually were. Wouldn't ya know it, they're this pretty terrible band that's been posting/looking for guys for years, and I bet they weren't getting any responses, so they put up a vaguely interesting but ambiguous ad.
Part of me wants to rip this guy a new one just for the satisfaction of it, the other part realizes that would be a waste of my time.
Funnily enough, a different guy on craigslist I responded to called me a bozo after I told him 'No thanks, have a good one' about playing in his band. This was after 5 days of one liner emails offering zero info on what his band/project was all about...until just now when he told me who they actually were. Wouldn't ya know it, they're this pretty terrible band that's been posting/looking for guys for years, and I bet they weren't getting any responses, so they put up a vaguely interesting but ambiguous ad.
Part of me wants to rip this guy a new one just for the satisfaction of it, the other part realizes that would be a waste of my time.
Welcome back. You know to stay here in the dungeon where its safe. Thats what you get when you leave
I dont in any of our music. I prefer what they do seperately to what they do together. The vplt thrower just makes the megalith fizzier. Which isnt terrible. But not really what im looking for. It also makes the feedback pretty uncontrollable.
So last night's audition went ok, it was one of those deals where I only played for 30-40 min. because they had another dude coming after me to try out. This would be a pretty easy gig musically, nothing too challenging, so it has the potential to become boring if I was asked to join. We'll see who they choose and if I'm still feeling it at that point. Ampeg sounded good even though I didn't really get to dial it in...
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Fuzzed out rock can be a ton of fun, but only if you can get creative with it from time to time. Doing straight ahead can get boring no matter how much energy there is to it.
Miracle happened yesterday. 69 days after being stolen from me, I drove to Kentucky to pick up my dog Stella! I have no idea what happened to her over the last 2 months or how the hell she got to Kentucky from St. Louis but I am so happy to have her back!
On a topical note:
I hate nickel strings. They always sound dead to me within 3-5 days and they make my fingers stink.
Hi/fat beamz 4 lyfe
I hate nickel strings. They always sound dead to me within 3-5 days and they make my fingers stink.
Hi/fat beamz 4 lyfe
Maybe your fingers are stinky for a different reason?
