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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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cornfarmer said:
found this how-to from a few years ago.....looks like a lot of hassle.

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Yeah that's about how it went. Quicker than building a pedal from scratch, but honestly, boxing pedals can be tougher than populating the board. I had been dorking on pedals pretty hard when I did it and was really comfortable with it. It'd take me a bit longer now.
 
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Re-housing stuff can be a total nightmare and as such I try to never do it.

In actual music news, Wifey and I saw Year of the Cobra and some friends local acts last night at a tiny venue here in the south bay. Amy's bass tone is friggen killer. Super chunky and thick, it was awesome. The turn out was meh because it was a Sunday night and San Jose/Cupertino aren't exactly hot beds of loud stoner rock.
 
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rutrho said:
Re-housing stuff can be a total nightmare and as such I try to never do it.

In actual music news, Wifey and I saw Year of the Cobra and some friends local acts last night at a tiny venue here in the south bay. Amy's bass tone is friggen killer. Super chunky and thick, it was awesome. The turn out was meh because it was a Sunday night and San Jose/Cupertino aren't exactly hot beds of loud stoner rock.
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Hoping they make it out this way, on the bucket list for sure.
 
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Bit late to the party but add me to the nerd list. Love me some sci-fi and fantasy. Huge Tron, Star Wars, MechWarrior, Tolkien, Asimov, and Terry Brooks fan.

I nerd out on most everything I get into. I was always the nerd on the sports team and band too haha. Oddly though, I was the least nerdy Chem major...

Need to get back into reading, thanks all for a good list to start with.

In other news, I will be delving into opamp fuzz soon. And started to get lost in looping the other day. Gotta build a bigger pedalboard.
 
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Finally got around to looking for a driver... So I ran the Thiele and Small parameters on a few drivers and settled on a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]. Hopefully this one sounds better than the other one that came out of cab. I'll be trolling CL for something else to go with it so I don't have to push it as hard. Prob something sealed as those seem to "yell" or at least have a punchier lower mid range which is what I want vs a ported cab. idk, i'll see whats out there.
 
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bassboysam said:
had the cb158 in my sealed 215s. lots of power handling and pretty clean sounding but pretty aggresive in the mids (500hz range) which got kind of honky if i was not careful. needed a prarametric eq to smoothen them out a bit.
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Great to know, this is going to be in a ported cab. I tend to bump the mids in that range a lot so this might work out pretty well. Clean is a huge positive!
 
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themarshall said:
Yeah that's about how it went. Quicker than building a pedal from scratch, but honestly, boxing pedals can be tougher than populating the board. I had been dorking on pedals pretty hard when I did it and was really comfortable with it. It'd take me a bit longer now.
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I found an enclosure that should be just tall enough to mount the PCB w/ the pots vertically, and still be able to use the original PCB's for the jacks & switch, etc. without de-soldering anything. Just in case I flipped the PCBs around to find the best layout and mocked it up in a box just for laughs. Not sure if I care about rewiring the LED off the board, I'll probably just leave it there. I used a MXR Dist+ without any LED for years so I guess I'm used to it.

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rutrho said:
Finally got around to looking for a driver... So I ran the Thiele and Small parameters on a few drivers and settled on a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]. Hopefully this one sounds better than the other one that came out of cab. I'll be trolling CL for something else to go with it so I don't have to push it as hard. Prob something sealed as those seem to "yell" or at least have a punchier lower mid range which is what I want vs a ported cab. idk, i'll see whats out there.
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But, but, but.. you promised you were going to put any old 15 in there wily-nily to freak out the squares!:bawl:
 
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Speaking of random speakers;), I gotta give Mesa a call. The factory parts retailer doesn't have speakers that will work for my cab which is 4ohm (2 8ohm 12's in parallel right?).

So either I buy 2 powerhouse 12's and the cab will no longer be 4ohm. Or I see if the 8ohm WA Scout neo speaker is compatible. If it doesn't get overworked compared to the stock speaker, I think I'll go this route as it could save some weight. Same power handling supposedly.

Any thoughts? It has crossed my mind to just grab 2 "random" 12's of CL on the other hand.

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Better than I. Criminal Justice and Sociology didn’t help me not being a nerd. Lol Just a people nerd instead of hard sciences. I don’t math.
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Yeah I hate math. I'm great at mental arithmetic and trouble shooting, but eff math. The insane pages long equations I'd be working with are a major reason I didn't go further than undergrad.
 
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rutrho said:
I'm pretty sure just mentioning that in the amp forum would still cause that to happen..

"omg its not a GK speaker everything its going to
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Pretty sure this type of reaction accounts for at least 50% of the reaso why I have GAS for an old Gibson Eb-0L longscale. The one with only the big honking mudbucker, that nosedives, and has the loathed 2 or 3 point bridge. Lol
 
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br1qbat said:
Pretty sure this type of reaction accounts for at least 50% of the reaso why I have GAS for an old Gibson Eb-0L longscale. The one with only the big honking mudbucker, that nosedives, and has the loathed 2 or 3 point bridge. Lol
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Cool! You have found the most unacceptable bass around. Looking forward to your NUBD.
 
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Pedalthought: Somebody really ought to slap an HM-2 eq section onto a Brassmaster style fuzz circuit. Is there a good reason this hasn’t been done, other than the fact that I am, as far as I know, the only person who wants it?
 

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