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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#50,343
lucas303 said:
As someone who has never played in a band, and who doesn't have any business doing so yet, these stories aren't giving me a lot of hope for when I do get enough skills to try playing with a band ;)

(I still look in the Craigslist musicians section, even if I'd hesitate to even call myself a musician at this point.)
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You'll get better a lot faster playing with people then practicing by yourself. As long as you're up front about your skill level lots of people will give you a pass and try you out if you seem like a cool person, especially for music that isn't super technical like what we are all doing in here. As long as you put the effort in you'd be surprised how much faster you get better. Honestly, I'd rather play with people I enjoy hanging out with then people that are good at this stage in my life, and plenty of people feel the same way.
 
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JBOWLES said:
Lmao I know it sounds odd, but I think it would be a neat little project to play our version of that Bassist Alliance album. Just an idea.

On another note, I finally got everything home to adjust and tweak for a bi or tri-amp setup. I figured since I had all that here I might as well pull out the basses for an unashamed glamour shot of my rig. If I ever figure out how I want to run everything it might actually sound good. We’ll see.
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sheeeeat, i'm in!
Also, why get better or dial stuff in when we can buy more gear!
:D
 
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Ok. I’m sure we all have different programs and such we record with. To eliminate that as an issue it will probably be best to record the bass, or whatever, track separate, sans other instruments, and save it as a format that will work for all DAWs. That way whoever ends up doing the final mix will just have to line up the tracks there. That sound feasible?
 
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socialleper said:
Do tell @hardtop. I've always had my suspicions.
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nothing special. just a heavy metal-ish band that has had ups and downs, like all of us here. just participating in the conversation as bass player and heavy music fan, learning a bunch, and trying to share my experiences for those that may benefit. we are not sleep or yob, so everything i write could be, and should be, easily dismissed. In this case, just sharing a little of my personal experience with a local (to me) bass player. To that point lucas303 mentioned Ghosts of Glaciers earlier.... I just returned from their record release show, and it was excellent. I really enjoyed it.
 
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JBOWLES said:
Lmao I know it sounds odd, but I think it would be a neat little project to play our version of that Bassist Alliance album. Just an idea.

On another note, I finally got everything home to adjust and tweak for a bi or tri-amp setup. I figured since I had all that here I might as well pull out the basses for an unashamed glamour shot of my rig. If I ever figure out how I want to run everything it might actually sound good. We’ll see.View attachment 3554163
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It's a beaut Clark. It's a beaut.
 
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hardtop said:
nothing special. just a heavy metal-ish band that has had ups and downs, like all of us here. just participating in the conversation as bass player and heavy music fan, learning a bunch, and trying to share my experiences for those that may benefit. we are not sleep or yob, so everything i write could be, and should be, easily dismissed. In this case, just sharing a little of my personal experience with a local (to me) bass player. To that point lucas303 mentioned Ghosts of Glaciers earlier.... I just returned from their record release show, and it was excellent. I really enjoyed it.
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Thanks for the input hardtop and everyone else. I'll keep scanning CL and throw my hat in the ring if someone is looking for a sub-mediocre bass player ;)

I couldn't make it to that Ghosts show...glad to hear it went well though.
 
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OK, I finally got some clips recorded and posted. Take a look/ listen :thumbsup:

Here's how I did this:

Summary
  • This is collection of short samples of 3 different instrument - a six string guitar, a four string bass and a five string bass - played through various OD/ Fuzz/ Distortion pedals. This was done to showcase the basic difference between the pedals and their rough overall sound.

Approach
  • I didn't dial in the 'best' sound for each pedal for each instrument, I quickly dialed in a sound that was OK but, I did my best to set each pedal to it's more 'extreme' settings. e.g. drive was always at max, most settings were maxed except for volume/ level which was used to maintain identical recording levels. To be clear, each pedal's settings were dialed in once per pedal.
  • Once a pedal's settings were dialed in, I used the same settings for each instrument.
  • I played the same short riff on each instrument, through each pedal to best allow for direct comparison of the pedal's tone versus the instrument or the song.
  • I chose not to use an amp because I wanted just the sound of the instrument and the pedal. I didn't want any coloring of the tone by an amp. However, there were many times during recording that I knew that a pedal could sound better with a bit of pre-amp EQ tweaking - especially some of the fuzzes, but in the name of science, I didn't tweak anything and kept to the procedure I'd laid out)
  • IMPORTANT NOTE: On the Les Paul, the riff was played with power chords on the E, A and D strings. On the Thunderbird, the riff was played on the E string. On the L-2500, it was played on the low B string.
Signal chain
  • Instrument: Gibson Les Paul guitar, Gibson Thunderbird Short Scale bass or G&L L-2500 bass
  • Tuner: TC Electronics Polytune3
  • Various OD/ Fuzz/ Distortion pedals - each track lists the pedal that was played through
  • Focusrite 18i20
  • Reason 11
Results
https://soundcloud.com/user-429233676-840487729/sets/pedal-demos
 
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Kriegs said:
OK, I finally got some clips recorded and posted. Take a look/ listen :thumbsup:

Here's how I did this:

Summary
  • This is collection of short samples of 3 different instrument - a six string guitar, a four string bass and a five string bass - played through various OD/ Fuzz/ Distortion pedals. This was done to showcase the basic difference between the pedals and their rough overall sound.

Approach
  • I didn't dial in the 'best' sound for each pedal for each instrument, I quickly dialed in a sound that was OK but, I did my best to set each pedal to it's more 'extreme' settings. e.g. drive was always at max, most settings were maxed except for volume/ level which was used to maintain identical recording levels. To be clear, each pedal's settings were dialed in once per pedal.
  • Once a pedal's settings were dialed in, I used the same settings for each instrument.
  • I played the same short riff on each instrument, through each pedal to best allow for direct comparison of the pedal's tone versus the instrument or the song.
  • I chose not to use an amp because I wanted just the sound of the instrument and the pedal. I didn't want any coloring of the tone by an amp. However, there were many times during recording that I knew that a pedal could sound better with a bit of pre-amp EQ tweaking - especially some of the fuzzes, but in the name of science, I didn't tweak anything and kept to the procedure I'd laid out)
  • IMPORTANT NOTE: On the Les Paul, the riff was played with power chords on the E, A and D strings. On the Thunderbird, the riff was played on the E string. On the L-2500, it was played on the low B string.
Signal chain
  • Instrument: Gibson Les Paul guitar, Gibson Thunderbird Short Scale bass or G&L L-2500 bass
  • Tuner: TC Electronics Polytune3
  • Various OD/ Fuzz/ Distortion pedals - each track lists the pedal that was played through
  • Focusrite 18i20
  • Reason 11
Results
https://soundcloud.com/user-429233676-840487729/sets/pedal-demos
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You make me GAS for a skinner box so bad!!! The Angry driver also sounded great to me :D
 
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not doom, but i had some drum patterns on my volcabeats for about 5 years. recorded 8minutes of them and layered some drone sounds that ended up lost in the mix after i came up with a guitar part. my second attempt at a bassline (first happened 6months prior. wondered why it sounded off until i realized c natural probably didn't belong in d). i tend to overplay so I'm happy how a little more restraint than usual worked out
 
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Kriegs said:
OK, I finally got some clips recorded and posted. Take a look/ listen :thumbsup:

Here's how I did this:

Summary
  • This is collection of short samples of 3 different instrument - a six string guitar, a four string bass and a five string bass - played through various OD/ Fuzz/ Distortion pedals. This was done to showcase the basic difference between the pedals and their rough overall sound.

Approach
  • I didn't dial in the 'best' sound for each pedal for each instrument, I quickly dialed in a sound that was OK but, I did my best to set each pedal to it's more 'extreme' settings. e.g. drive was always at max, most settings were maxed except for volume/ level which was used to maintain identical recording levels. To be clear, each pedal's settings were dialed in once per pedal.
  • Once a pedal's settings were dialed in, I used the same settings for each instrument.
  • I played the same short riff on each instrument, through each pedal to best allow for direct comparison of the pedal's tone versus the instrument or the song.
  • I chose not to use an amp because I wanted just the sound of the instrument and the pedal. I didn't want any coloring of the tone by an amp. However, there were many times during recording that I knew that a pedal could sound better with a bit of pre-amp EQ tweaking - especially some of the fuzzes, but in the name of science, I didn't tweak anything and kept to the procedure I'd laid out)
  • IMPORTANT NOTE: On the Les Paul, the riff was played with power chords on the E, A and D strings. On the Thunderbird, the riff was played on the E string. On the L-2500, it was played on the low B string.
Signal chain
  • Instrument: Gibson Les Paul guitar, Gibson Thunderbird Short Scale bass or G&L L-2500 bass
  • Tuner: TC Electronics Polytune3
  • Various OD/ Fuzz/ Distortion pedals - each track lists the pedal that was played through
  • Focusrite 18i20
  • Reason 11
Results
https://soundcloud.com/user-429233676-840487729/sets/pedal-demos
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My favourites were l2500 with pork loin and thunderbird with hm300
 
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