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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

Thank you, assuming you meant mine.

Yeah hahaha, guess that happens when you start a post, then finish typing it days later. :smug:



I've never been crazy about trick or treating, but I'm going to be obligated with the little ones. First time we took em all more than a couple houses. Gotta say that even though we may be by far the lowest income family in our sub, and there do seem to be some yuppies (one of my adjacents has a loaded BMW & Range Rover, and an 80's Porsche that he leaves junk on... :bored: not comfortable talking to him), there's a ton of friendly, wrench turning, good music loving folks. Better yet, close to 10% of the houses had shots or the like for the parents. Definitely made it bearable, and a bit fun.
 
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Lol-I didn’t even turn out front porch light on (speaking of Bah Humbug)…

Wish you had my weekend which was spent mostly getting blazed and binge watching horror movies (although truthfully that is not that different from how I spend most weekends)…

At least Halloween is still a fun holiday…

Now this other holiday coming up on December 25th…F- that nonsense…

Pardon the rant, but I cannot STAND Xmas…

Thanks! \m/
Well, you need to watch, in order, these:
Nobody Sleeps In The Woods Tonight Pt. 1 and Pt. 2.
Polish horror, part one is good, part 2 is brilliant.
 
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Well, you need to watch, in order, these:
Nobody Sleeps In The Woods Tonight Pt. 1 and Pt. 2.
Polish horror, part one is good, part 2 is brilliant.
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Thanks for the suggestion-If it’s subtitled I will probably need to wait and watch it on my own bc my Wife doesn’t really like subtitled movies, but I definitely appreciate the suggestion…

Speaking of Horror Movies…

We watched Into The Earth a few weeks back…

Was one of those movies that looked really good on the preview and started with so much promise and then just sorta fell apart…

Thought of it bc of the title of the movie(s) you suggested…

I don’t know how many horror movies you watch on a regular basis, but really starting to wonder what I did with a large chunk of my time before before we signed up Shudder a few years back…

They have some really good Indie Horror movies on there and a decent amount of them are foreign films if you like horror movies and don’t have that service…

Subscription is totally worth it for access to The Last Drive In IMO…

Thanks! \m/
 
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Holy eff, this guy's a mad genius! Nice breakdown of the capabilities, but the sounds are better!

Super fuzz, tweakable, blendable HM tone stack, and a clean blend?!?!

Heheheh, that fuzz sounds great. But I kept expecting that box to be huge. Then I saw his hands tweaking the knobs and I realized it's no bigger than say, the Whataphaser.

Also, love the "Just walk away" printed on the circuit board. I'm a sucker for folks printing silly stuff on their boards.



In the world of unholy instruments that aren't a bass, this finally arrived.

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The built-in fuzz seems pretty devastating right now. I haven't really dialed in the "clean" sound of this pickup in my home recording rig. Even clean, this pickup is driving the pedals I'm running it though pretty hard. The first minute or so of this is it clean, but it's making either the Boss RE-201 I'm using for reverb or the EHX English Muff'n I'm using for a preamp to distort pretty hard when I have the volume pedal wide open. Everything after 0:51 is the built in fuzz. I fade the volume pedal out after each part, because it seems like it will sustain on forever. I'm just moving the bar between some major chords, for the most part, no pedals. So it's just a really beefy console steel in this recording. Sorry about the poor quality, I promise to do something more worth listening to in the future.

 
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Thanks for the suggestion-If it’s subtitled I will probably need to wait and watch it on my own bc my Wife doesn’t really like subtitled movies, but I definitely appreciate the suggestion…

Speaking of Horror Movies…

We watched Into The Earth a few weeks back…

Was one of those movies that looked really good on the preview and started with so much promise and then just sorta fell apart…

Thought of it bc of the title of the movie(s) you suggested…

I don’t know how many horror movies you watch on a regular basis, but really starting to wonder what I did with a large chunk of my time before before we signed up Shudder a few years back…

They have some really good Indie Horror movies on there and a decent amount of them are foreign films if you like horror movies and don’t have that service…

Subscription is totally worth it for access to The Last Drive In IMO…

Thanks! \m/
Already done! I watch horror probably75% of the time. In fact, I'm starting to get to the point via Netflix and Amazon Prime/Shudder that I've seen most of what they are offering. I will give the lesser known/indie/low budget fare a decent view before I click off, but I'm still starting to pump a dry well. Might have to go with a bunch of war movies to let them catch up to me. LOL.
 
Tried some fuzz pedals. The two I liked best were the Electro Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff and the Way Huge Pork and Pickle. Not surprising as they sound super similar. Decided they were too redundant to keep both, so going with the Pork and Pickle only because it has the extra clean tone and clean blend plus a switch for overdrive or fuzz. Using it as a fuzz. Listed the EH in the classifieds.
 
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Already done! I watch horror probably75% of the time. In fact, I'm starting to get to the point via Netflix and Amazon Prime/Shudder that I've seen most of what they are offering. I will give the lesser known/indie/low budget fare a decent view before I click off, but I'm still starting to pump a dry well. Might have to go with a bunch of war movies to let them catch up to me. LOL.
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Oh man I am right there with you-I would say a good 60-70% of the movies we watch at this point are horror movies…

We haven’t run thru quite that many movies that you mentioned across several apps, but I should’ve known that movie I was talking about was going to be sub par bc it was on Hulu…

I feel like for whatever reason Hulu never has very good horror movies (or we seem to have better luck on Shudder, Netflix, and HBO Max)…

I ended up watching five Rob Zombie movies this weekend (Halloween 1 & 2 and the Firefly Trilogy) & I’ve gotta say that I have some really …Mixed feelings about him as a director…

I will give him a pass on his Halloween movies bc I read that apparently both of those movies were heavily edited and recut by the studio…I do actually like his take on how Michael Myers turned into a psychopath, but I had a whole debate with one of my coworkers a long time ago about whether or not Michael Myers really needs a back story…I hadn’t watched his version of Halloween 2 in a while and it was much odder than I remembered (though it did make me wonder if the people that say they don’t like his version of Halloween are talking about the second movie and not the first one bc it feels a lot more disjointed)…

As for his other films…

Idk man…I appreciate that he offers up a decent amount of gore and gratuitous nudity which I feel like should be almost mandatory in a horror movie especially since he seems to lean heavily on the Grindhouse/Exploitation style, but I feel like he never quite closes the deal…It seems like his overall atmosphere is where it’s supposed but his films either aren’t tight enough or suspenseful enough…

Somewhat ironic that I say this now bc I wasn’t sure if I liked it the first time I watched it, but after a few re-watches I think Lords Of Salem might actually be his best film…

There’s a decent amount of suspense and character development and I feel like he finally was able to get enough creative control to make the movie he wanted…

Pardon the digression…

Lol-I also watched the remake of Evil Dead which I hadn’t seen in a while…

Movie is somehow always a step or two better than I remember…

Lol-Also a good reminder that using power tool safety is of the utmost importance when operating things that can cut you…

Thanks! \m/
 
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