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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#58,841
Kaa said:
Had a basement jam with some friends Friday night, the usual suspects. 2 guitars using 40 & 50 watt Marshall combos, me on bass using an ancient (and ungodly heavy) Peavey Combo 300, a 5 piece drum kit (all a good drummer really needs, fight me), and a small PA for the 3 guys that sing. Butchering the usual songs, as is our style.

So, since I have tinnitus (my own damn fault) I use plugs all the time. Mostly the foam Hearos type. This is a good and bad thing. It save my ears, but makes it hard for me to hear myself except as kind of a mushy low tone. I can hear the guitar amps just fine. Well, Friday, I decided to experiment a bit. I have my amp tilted back about 30 degrees and leaning against the wall, so it put the toes of my foot against the front edge of the cab (for no apparent reason), and could feel the vibrations of the amp. And it made me hear myself better. "Hmm, that's interesting." I thought. So, I dragged a small unused combo amp to the front right corner of my amp, plopped myself down on it, and Shazam, I could hear myself perfectly in the mix. I felt like I played so much better that night, simply because I could hear myself. (Good notes and clams!)

So, now I'm looking at some seating options for myself, to park in front of my amp.
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These are great, and pretty darn cheap: https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-High-Fidelity-Earplugs-Standard-Packaging/dp/B00RM6Q9XW?th=1

I even like them better than a pair of custom fitted plugs I got made for a whole lot more money.
 
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#58,843
Kaa said:
Well, one would thing that if it's a splittable output, you'd be able to put it anywhere in the chain and get the same function.
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I sent an e-mail to send it back :(
Problem is, I liked the pedal and I needed something similar...
Any idea if there is any other chorus or reverb or anything to thicken the sound, with a crossover?:( I could also consider a delay if you can set a very short delay time...
 
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Made it back from my pilgrimage. Followed the smoke from Houston and ended up in Albuquerque. Best frickin 4/20 yet. My only complaint is that we didn't hear Dopesmoker on the holy day...

I wish I could show y'all pics but I was way too fried to even think about pulling out my phone while headbanging so hard. Al's double ric was awesome if not extreme overkill, he wasn't switching necks in the middle of songs or anything so I deduced he got it because it's awesome and because he can lol! He only played Leagues Beneath with the 5.

El rey in Albuquerque was an awesome venue, wood floors made you feel the vibrations from bottom to top, but I also was standing in front Al's rig about three rows back so I probably was getting blasted more than most.

Anyway it's good to be back home hope y'all have or will get to see them too if you can!
 
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ConfoundedBridg said:
Made it back from my pilgrimage. Followed the smoke from Houston and ended up in Albuquerque. Best frickin 4/20 yet. My only complaint is that we didn't hear Dopesmoker on the holy day...

I wish I could show y'all pics but I was way too fried to even think about pulling out my phone while headbanging so hard. Al's double ric was awesome if not extreme overkill, he wasn't switching necks in the middle of songs or anything so I deduced he got it because it's awesome and because he can lol! He only played Leagues Beneath with the 5.

El rey in Albuquerque was an awesome venue, wood floors made you feel the vibrations from bottom to top, but I also was standing in front Al's rig about three rows back so I probably was getting blasted more than most.

Anyway it's good to be back home hope y'all have or will get to see them too if you can!
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ABQ is AC's HQ, AFAIK.
 
#58,847
lucas303 said:
ABQ is AC's HQ, AFAIK.
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Damn I'm Gen Z and those acronyms still took me a minute to compute LOL!

Didn't know that though, I thought he lived in AZ. But wouldn't surprise me either way, he'd fit right in with the desert people. Albuquerque is a very cool and very weird town, weirder than Austin by a long shot lol. This was my first time being around desert people and I gotta say there's a lot of different types living out there! If I were to generalize them all together it'd be "retired deadhead selling turquoise and/or weed who like to mind their own business and some are on meth". TBH I wouldn't mind living in northern new mexico after seeing a little bit of it for myself
 
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ConfoundedBridg said:
Damn I'm Gen Z and those acronyms still took me a minute to compute LOL!

Didn't know that though, I thought he lived in AZ. But wouldn't surprise me either way, he'd fit right in with the desert people. Albuquerque is a very cool and very weird town, weirder than Austin by a long shot lol. This was my first time being around desert people and I gotta say there's a lot of different types living out there! If I were to generalize them all together it'd be "retired deadhead selling turquoise and/or weed who like to mind their own business and some are on meth". TBH I wouldn't mind living in northern new mexico after seeing a little bit of it for myself
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I've got friends from NM and from what they've told me there are some SKETCHY parts of it. On one side of the spectrum you've got the rich people in Santa Fe, then you go to places like Las Vegas and there are some nasty characters. New Mexico is a really interesting place. If you get the chance, check out the Earthships outside of Taos (I've stayed in them a few times through Air B&B).
 
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Kaa said:
When I think of modern day cannibals enclaves, New Mexico is one of those places I say, "Yep. Checks all the boxes."
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I remember seeing a documentary about an off grid community in New Mexico that was on some land in the middle of nowhere that was sort of in limbo in terms of who owned the land. It was a mix of old hippies, traumatized war vets, and the generally weird. I think in the end a bunch of crust punks came in and ruined the place, IIRC. I've never been able to find the documentary again.

But yeah, that's New Mexico for ya.
 
#58,854
Kaa said:
Man, the real world is just insane. I'm finding I can't hang anywhere anymore.
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I'm right there with you (virtually). I was planning on moving this year to somewhere away from people but one of my cats has a lot of health problems so I'm going to stay put while she's alive so she doesn't have to go through that added stress. After she's gone though, I'm out of here.
 
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thombo said:
Boss bass chorus, the line 6 stuff has a blend (M and HX series), or get a true bypass pedal w/ a blend knob l (like a saturnworks pedal) and you can use anything.
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I'll try with the boss pedal. I'm only looking for crossover pedals because I don't want to just retain the lows, for which a blend could help, actually I don't want to effect them at all. If I wasn't too scared to make a mess, I would just split the pickups into 2 different paths.
 
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ConfoundedBridg said:
Damn I'm Gen Z and those acronyms still took me a minute to compute LOL!

Didn't know that though, I thought he lived in AZ. But wouldn't surprise me either way, he'd fit right in with the desert people. Albuquerque is a very cool and very weird town, weirder than Austin by a long shot lol. This was my first time being around desert people and I gotta say there's a lot of different types living out there! If I were to generalize them all together it'd be "retired deadhead selling turquoise and/or weed who like to mind their own business and some are on meth". TBH I wouldn't mind living in northern new mexico after seeing a little bit of it for myself
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I posted once about my New Mexico land adventures, you might be able to essentially get free land like we did.
Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
 
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