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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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hydrohydra said:
So I'm currently hammer out the details to pick up a peavey classic 400 from Chicago, would be nice to have some tubes again,its missing the face plate and logo badge, might have to build a little grill cloth frame to pop in there, hopefully will be testing it soon!
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You wont be sad about the amp. Just make sure you have a serious 4 Ohm load to push with it.
 
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Kaa said:
You're always gloating about your length.
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In all seriousness, it does make a difference. There is some balance of string length, gauge, and tension that ends up sounding and playing really well. One of my best long term friends has a mid '70's musicmaster shortscale. Sounds fine in standard tuning, but there is no combination of strings that make that thing sound right in lower tunings. Doesnt help that the original bridge is very limiting.
 
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CL400Peavey said:
In all seriousness, it does make a difference. There is some balance of string length, gauge, and tension that ends up sounding and playing really well. One of my best long term friends has a mid '70's musicmaster shortscale. Sounds fine in standard tuning, but there is no combination of strings that make that thing sound right in lower tunings. Doesnt help that the original bridge is very limiting.
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I can imagine, like a grand piano, that the correct tensioning and extended lengths would make for a clearer "bell tone".
 
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Kaa said:
I can imagine, like a grand piano, that the correct tensioning and extended lengths would make for a clearer "bell tone".
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For me, one of the big things is the better tension. I used to chew my fingers up every week. Between practices and gigs, I didnt have much time where my fingers were at 100%. With the Dingwall I find that I dont have to dig in the same way to get the sound I want, and the strings are not as hard on my fingers. I have not had a single blister since I got the bass.
 
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Korladis said:
Drop C is basically the most annoying tuning to me. Hell, if someone insisted on it, I'd probably just set up for BEAD and capo the first fret, lol.
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We tune to Drop C for almost all of our tracks, but I'm too stupid to understand why. It definitely works though. However, I much prefer to be in standard tuning as I can improvise and write in standard much easier.
 
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mc_muench said:
So I uploaded the final mix version of Highway on the VEGA bandcamp. The double album goes out for mastering July 9th.

http://vegawi.bandcamp.com
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So, you ARE still in this band and I should still like them on facebook, right? Haha. Sounds great man. Looking forward to hearing the final version. It's a bit quiet/muffled on my crappy work speakers.
 
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Lazarus.Bird said:
We tune to Drop C for almost all of our tracks, but I'm too stupid to understand why. It definitely works though. However, I much prefer to be in standard tuning as I can improvise and write in standard much easier.
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Sounds fine so long as everyone is pushing the same notes. It's writing and improve that cripple me as muscle memory needs to remember where things are. I don't want to think about it I want to do it.
 
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