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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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these arrived today. the kaleidoscope is an awesome reverb. slightly lo-fi with just enough character and noisey artifacts. extra bonus points for seperate gain and master volume. has a momentary switch for oscillation and a dry signal kill switch.

the fernweh is for my guitarist. 2 cascading delays, unfortunately 1 of the delays doesn't work so we're waiting on a replacement. the 1 working delay sounded awesome though.
 
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bassboysam said:
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these arrived today. the kaleidoscope is an awesome reverb. slightly lo-fi with just enough character and noisey artifacts. extra bonus points for seperate gain and master volume. has a momentary switch for oscillation and a dry signal kill switch.

the fernweh is for my guitarist. 2 cascading delays, unfortunately 1 of the delays doesn't work so we're waiting on a replacement. the 1 working delay sounded awesome though.
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Whqt company are they from? The delay sounds interesting.
 
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Something to be said for living life simply. :cigar: I'm waiting on bass #13 to show up (the cheap Boult RD knock-off from many pages back), I probably need to assess the need to have this much crap.

Mostly Santa brought me another friggin cold this year. Buh harmburgs.
 
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Kaa said:
Did you happen to peruse my thread over in "Basses"?
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Yeeeeeeeeeep.

Anyways, hope yall had a good solstice, yule, Christmas, whatever. I'm off to go find a smaller pedal board for my pre/X/tuner because traveling with the big board is a pain in the arse with the wah on it... Also in crazy ideas I'm going to start looking for a fretless jazz neck for my P bass and then tune that sucker down to BEAD. Should be weird and fun.
 
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Kaa said:
Did you happen to peruse my thread over in "Basses"?
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I know where you're coming from, because as much as I'd like to buy something new and different, I can't possibly justify a 4th at my skill level, there's simply no reason and I'm emotionally attached to the only one of mine I don't really care for and won't sell it.

However, my desire to own another bass is simply because I want something completely different than what I have, snd you're actually kind of in that spot.

You *should* start looking for a new bass, but go different. Get a standard 34" scale bass with a sound that appeals to you. There's definitely a difference in playing a 30 vs 34, and making a mild quality jump from SX to a nice Squier or a Mexican Fender (or even a nicer Fender) will give you another instrument to carry you along for the next 14 years, or even go all in and buy a Rick.

Or even go so far as to start buying pieces and Frankenstein something cool unique up.
 
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What @br1qbat said. I'd never worry about skill when determining whether I should or could own an instrument. Get what you like/want. There's some phenomenal artists out there that aren't proficient on their instrument andr/orplay cheap ones. The music you make with it is really all that matters.

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hmm... I got some ideas.
One of the things with passive eq circuits is you can only cut, you can't boost the signal at all... but you could say have a high cut, low cut and switching to do series/parallel for the pups. Active pre-amps tend to work better for tone shaping because you can boost stuff a lot easier and it allows more options. Downside of course is dealing with the battery and getting a clean pre-amp that sounds good takes a fair amount of work.
I don't know squat about tbird pups so i'd have to dig into that a bit, but i think there would be a fair amount of options available for passive tone shaping options with them... You thinking humbuckers or single coils?
So far i'm thinking neck/bridge pickup switches, parallel/series switch, vol and tone to roll off highs and leaving the lows alone. Could be interesting!

What are you doing for necks on those basses? planning on doing any fretless ones? ;P
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Definitely plan on having a fretless. One of the things I want for this idea is for many parts to be swappable. There's still much to figure out logistically, but I will probably match warmoth's neck pocket since they seem to be one of the few that churn out a decent amount of medium scale necks.

I plan on doing 32" as the main offering for basses, but also doing 34" and 30" fretted and fretless. I have a feeling it will mostly be 32 & 34 for basses and 25.5" for guitar since most SS players are open to 32" but not all long scale guys are.

I'll send ya a message, I'm open to active too.
 
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br1qbat said:
I picked up an old Boss BF-2 Flanger from the local Music Go Round. But now I'm GASing for the 80s Aria CSB-300 they have for $250. Cool 32" doublecut with a pbass-ish pickup.
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I have to avoid my local MGR, or I may not be able to afford my groceries. They recently had (may still have) a T-40 Bass, SWR 550X (I think?) head, and a G&L. The basses sounded great, as did the amp. If only I had a few hundred or thousand to spend...

Related question - for those of you with tube and SS heads, is there a huge difference tonewise between flats and rounds? I love my flats, and have a 700RB that I also love. But darn it if those two basses didn’t sound great! Is it the tubes or the rounds you think? Maybe I should bring my own bass in for comparison...
 
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kleinenenten said:
I have to avoid my local MGR, or I may not be able to afford my groceries. They recently had (may still have) a T-40 Bass, SWR 550X (I think?) head, and a G&L. The basses sounded great, as did the amp. If only I had a few hundred or thousand to spend...

Related question - for those of you with tube and SS heads, is there a huge difference tonewise between flats and rounds? I love my flats, and have a 700RB that I also love. But darn it if those two basses didn’t sound great! Is it the tubes or the rounds you think? Maybe I should bring my own bass in for comparison...
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May be the rounds. That Aria had brand new rounds on it and I was playing thru a partially tube mesa walkaround combo. It really didn't like a G&L L1000 they had (signal too hot, but italso had some flats). I'm kinda wondering if I should pick up some rounds for my main squeeze jazz bass and do a comparison. I too love flats and have a 800rb. I actually don't think I've played rounds thru it. The tube head I have (superbass clone) I know has not had rounds played thru it. I thought that Aria with rounds was perfect. Great bass - light, great neck profile, bright but not harsh p bass pickup. Dammit, I'm thinking about it again. Maybe I'll just sling the rounds on the BC Rich thats nearing completion and call it a day. P basses and rounds are a great sounding combo to my ears
 
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kleinenenten said:
I have to avoid my local MGR, or I may not be able to afford my groceries. They recently had (may still have) a T-40 Bass, SWR 550X (I think?) head, and a G&L. The basses sounded great, as did the amp. If only I had a few hundred or thousand to spend...

Related question - for those of you with tube and SS heads, is there a huge difference tonewise between flats and rounds? I love my flats, and have a 700RB that I also love. But darn it if those two basses didn’t sound great! Is it the tubes or the rounds you think? Maybe I should bring my own bass in for comparison...
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I think it is all personal preference. I use my tube head (Fender 100T) with stainless steel roundwound strung basses. On the side, I play in a country band and use a flatwound strung bass but with a solid state head for size/setup.
 
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I feel like testing an amp can be a bit harder for me if they don't have a bass like mine on the floor. Glad I'm not really looking for one right now.

Is that MGR the one by the Oakland mall? Or is there another one round here I don't know of? I try to avoid looking to hard/long in any used section at music shops. I would easily end up with an empty wallet if I did.

I've been tempted by a Reverend p bass the troy shop had for a long time. Not sure if it's still there. Had the headstock repaired at Reverend was new otherwise, said they were willing to go down to $600 at one point. Hell of a steal...
 
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Novarocker said:
I feel like testing an amp can be a bit harder for me if they don't have a bass like mine on the floor. Glad I'm not really looking for one right now.

Is that MGR the one by the Oakland mall? Or is there another one round here I don't know of? I try to avoid looking to hard/long in any used section at music shops. I would easily end up with an empty wallet if I did.

I've been tempted by a Reverend p bass the trot shop had for a long time. Not sure if it's still there. Had the headstock repaired at Reverend was new otherwise, said they were willing to go down to $600 at one point. Hell of a steal...
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Yep. The guys there are great. I've bought and sold stuff there quite a few times. That Rev is gone, but they have a Reverend Thundergun and one of the Mike Watt signatures. Theres an epi violin bass that was surprisingly nice. I've played $3000 Hofners and could never get along woth them. But that Epi played pretty well. I'm just not a hollow/semi hollow guy.

There is another MGR all the way in Ann Arbor. Been there once or twice. They occasionally have some neat stuff. I got my 90s small stone out there for peanuts ($35 I think). Service stunk though.
 
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NOLA Bass said:
If you are trying out an amp, using your own bass really helps (and vice versa) whenever possible.
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They had a bass very close to mine there, but with rounds. Sounded very much like the other two basses through the SWR rig. So I’m nit sure it was the amp or the strings! I know I recently tried rounds in my bass again, and it didn’t sound like “me” anymore. But dang if it didn’t sound good in that store.
 

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