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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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It's a fight stick! Based on old arcade cabinet controls, mostly used for competitive fighting games nowadays! I thought it would be neat to play with one but couldn't find anything that would quite fit my desires, so I designed one for myself! I initially commissioned artwork for it, but that fell through, so I picked it up myself a couple of weeks back. So far I've been playing a bit of Celeste with it"Yawning Design"
It looks gorgeous, YJ. But..... what is it??
That's rad! I miss going to the arcade back in the day.
My kids love spinning records and whatnot, hope to introduce em to my nintendo soon.
My kids love spinning records and whatnot, hope to introduce em to my nintendo soon.
Damn that is a savage bass.Fun times at House Fakenbacker. Dudeguy local to me built his own 4030 from scratch and did a great job. I'm weird and somehow more attracted to the (good) copies that are out there, like the Czech bass on the left.
Tempted to go troll the Ric club thread now......already got in trouble this week for my naughty c o v i d - 1984 post
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But I agree, don't bother trolling the Rick club, they spend enough time trolling themselves.
There WAS a quite civil and informative Rickenfaker club but I guess the All Seeing Eye alighted on it for too long...
Club RickenFaker / FakenBacker - Show Your Fake Rics!
Aww man that's a bummer. My conspiracy theory is official Ric infiltrators coming along and narc-ing on people, they're like the Karen of the bass world.
I'm watching The Americans right now so I'm pretty sure everyone is a spy. I suspect half of you for spying on behalf of the praise & worship club
The only praise and worship I do is of Papa Al!I'm watching The Americans right now so I'm pretty sure everyone is a spy. I suspect half of you for spying on behalf of the praise & worship club
... Same. I feel very fortunate that my last show before everything fell apart was Om.
I built the fEARful on the bottom. There's a link to my build thread somewhere in here. The guitar cab on top I got for cheap on Craigslist and fixed up a little bit along with putting in the speakers. The cat came pre-assembled.
recorded something for a songwriting prompt. was given a drum track and went from there. I'm sure for tighter players it could've been a tech-y death metal song but I'm more in the crossover thrash/powerviolence camp (partly because I'm sloppy lol)
got tired of writing verses so recorded a bunch of nonsense guitar solos
Dropbox - Perineum - Home Dental Extraction.mp3 - Simplify your life
got tired of writing verses so recorded a bunch of nonsense guitar solos
Dropbox - Perineum - Home Dental Extraction.mp3 - Simplify your life
Needs louder bass IMO. But I like the melodic counterpoint in the middle part and the runs in the outro.
i actually ducked down the bass a little bit and raised the guitars after listening to an earlier mix in the wife's car (stock toyota system. my truck has a sub and mid bass drivers that would make the bass more prominent)
i appreciate the listen. that's basically the style of bass i play, more melodic. which is why I've had issues being told to just pound the root
i appreciate the listen. that's basically the style of bass i play, more melodic. which is why I've had issues being told to just pound the root
Noise issues continue... trying to diagnose a noisy guitar. Taken it to a tech, twice, and am getting nowhere. The last time I noticed that the guitar wasn't noisy when the pickup selector was on neck only (leading me to believe it was a bridge pickup ground issue or a faulty switch). He checked the connections, rewired it, and found no noise. Said it was solved. I bring it home, and the noise is greatly reduced, but not solved. I spend nearly two hours disassembling my pedal board piece by piece to find out that those are exacerbating the noise, but not causing the noise. Time and time again, I plug directly in to the amp, and find the noise is still there. It is of course, much easier to hear with distortion, which I play with all the time, and in heavy amounts. The noise is always stopped by me touching metal on the guitar.
I just recently noticed that the noise is once again gone entirely when the neck pickup is soloed (again, grounding issue on the pickup switch?). I think it may be a bad switch. I then touch the height adjustment screws and get a very loud hum from the bridge pickup one instantly (there's that bridge pickup again!). The neck screw has no effect on the sound. When I'm not touching the bridge screw, I get the same slight buzz as before, and like before it goes away when I touch metal. I check the other positions of the switch and touch the height adjustment screws and find that in 2 positions, I get that hum, but in the third position (once again, neck pickup soloed, removing the bridge from the circuit) it is silent, as is the hum. But when I touch the screw now, I get a similar noise to the background buzz, but a little more intense.
Any input? Does this make sense? Could it be a bad switch? I HATE excess noise in my gear... Might try and replace the switch myself since I have an extra around here somewhere, or maybe take it to another tech.
I just recently noticed that the noise is once again gone entirely when the neck pickup is soloed (again, grounding issue on the pickup switch?). I think it may be a bad switch. I then touch the height adjustment screws and get a very loud hum from the bridge pickup one instantly (there's that bridge pickup again!). The neck screw has no effect on the sound. When I'm not touching the bridge screw, I get the same slight buzz as before, and like before it goes away when I touch metal. I check the other positions of the switch and touch the height adjustment screws and find that in 2 positions, I get that hum, but in the third position (once again, neck pickup soloed, removing the bridge from the circuit) it is silent, as is the hum. But when I touch the screw now, I get a similar noise to the background buzz, but a little more intense.
Any input? Does this make sense? Could it be a bad switch? I HATE excess noise in my gear... Might try and replace the switch myself since I have an extra around here somewhere, or maybe take it to another tech.
Doubtful - my other guitars don't suffer this issue. This guitar does it with all amps, and regardless of the ground setting on the amp (they have a - + and neutral switch on the back on the amp).
Ok. Was reading back through the thread. So bass does it on all amps, different plugs/circuits, is gone when touching metal on the bass, is quieter with some cables, has been checked out by a tech and shielded. What kind of bass and how easy is it to get to the input jack?
Bass is a separate issue... I'm pretty sure that noise is related to the output jack going bad. The pressure on a cable makes for better connection in the jack, but it seems that any cable can be the culprit, though some fit better than others. But all are "fixed" by pressure. But that noise is constant (when the plug isn't getting pressure), and doesn't change with distortion or anything.
This is a guitar (yeah, one of those skinny string ones) that has its own issues... But yes on everything else. Constant low noise unless bridge is soloed. When neck is soloed, perfectly quiet, but with slight noise (similar to the noise that is stopped when touching metal) when I touch the bridge pickup height adjustment screw. When the bridge pickup is in the circuit, it makes noise that can be stopped by touching metal. When I touch the bridge pickup height adjustment I get incredible noise/static.
Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the assist.
Sounds like a switch to me, but before you replace it, do you have any contact cleaner to try to spray it out? Could just be some dirt or something in the switch that’s causing the issue.
