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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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just doesn't sound like sleep without the crappy production
Man, I called this. I bet my friend they would just release it on 4/20 with no real headsup.
Love the morsecode on their website and twitter just saying standby. Good stuff.
Ordered my green limited edition vinyl from Third Man minutes ago. Hooray
Also got the DOD 250 yesterday. Definitely what I was looking for. Overdrive with definition. Also I concur that it plays super nice with a big muff (and the pork loin!).
Who wants a boneshaker?
Also got the DOD 250 yesterday. Definitely what I was looking for. Overdrive with definition. Also I concur that it plays super nice with a big muff (and the pork loin!).
Who wants a boneshaker?
The old tracks definitely sounded better in crappy versions.
Now it's... just too sterile somehow.
De gustibus, I guess
I use a BYOC Large Beaver I built, it a rotary knob to select EQ mode - Scoop (EH stock), Flat, Mid-bump, or OFF. OFF is the only setting. Everything else sounds so dim and limp in comparison. OFF is huge. You literally get ALL the tone. Highs, mids, thundering lows. Yeah, i am definitely strongly in favor of minimizing the # of EQ controls in your signal chain. The amp always has an EQ section. How many more EQs do you need upstream? Sure, many overdrives get their character by trimming or boosting certain frequencies and that's fine. But I don't see a need for any more EQ between the final dirt generator and the amp.
so far the sleep album is very underwhelming and boring. maybe it will grow on me but it sounds like they just slapped it together to cash in on their new found popularity. nothing wrong with that. good for them.
Yeah, I love the 2 original songs with vocals but its a shame that almost half of the album is taken up by previous live tracks. That said I like it a lot.
it's like they are trying to make it soooooo stonerrrrr. from the songs to the release date, the grinder that comes with the record, the titles. if someone wanted to make a caricature if stoner/doom this would be it. it used to be electric wizard but sleep has out stoned them.
I'm on the fence about Sonic Titan and Antarticans Thawed too. Great tunes, and they both deserved to be properly recorded, but yeah those 2 make up half the album. Add in the 3 minutes of intro and the (very cool) jammy outro (The Botanist) and theres not a lot they had to write new for this 'new' album. That all said, I really really like it.
Even if they take the whole 'smoking up as religious rite' thing a bit too far, they seem to have a sense of fun to them that some in this genre (hell, in metal in general) just don't have.
And I must say the production is perfect and was very reminiscent of them live to my ears
New found popularity? They've been playing shows again for like 5 years now and haven't recorded anything other than the 1 Clarity track in like 20. Methinks you either have smoked too much...or not enough.
It sounds awesome to me.
Exactly. I don't want all my pedals to have EQs. I have an EQ on my amp already.
I completely disagree. I was very worried it wouldn't have those two. So I'm very happy that it does have them. It annoys the crap out of me when bands write songs but for whatever reason skip actually ever recording them and so there are only ever live versions.
I have no problem with better recordings of the songs, especially Sonic Titan, I just wished for more originals. Marijuanaut's theme is amazing.
