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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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- Sep 3, 2003
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- Endorsing Artist: Fuzzrocious Pedals
What's this 3 string thing you speak of?
My squiers aren't Junkers to me buddy lol
Black was my first choice but no one had one responded to my ad but this guy. They were cheap so couldn't say no.
This band uses a drum machine and kills it. New album is awesome: http://austerityprogram.bandcamp.com/
I dig both but the all white the best! It's like a Johnny Winter bass, just needs pink eyes.
I think you just sold it to me with that description.
Hey now. After a little work, my Squire plays and sounds better than 95% of the p basses on the wall at my local GC.
What drum program do you use Corey?
I was looking into this EZDrummer for writing recording at home.
I like tort or black on white. I currently have black, but all the hardware is blacked out too. I have wanted tort sometimes though. I need to rewire, restring and set that thing up.
I was looking into this EZDrummer for writing recording at home.
I like tort or black on white. I currently have black, but all the hardware is blacked out too. I have wanted tort sometimes though. I need to rewire, restring and set that thing up.
Kevin at Krappy Guitars made it to my specs/drawing. It's pretty much 1/4 of a 12 string bass. One standard bass string and two octaves, but the each octave is a different gauge to give it a slightly different sound. I haven't recorded anything with it.
It wasn't a junker because it was a Squier. I bought it super cheap for parts, for the previously mentioned 6 string octave bass idea. It had all kinds of weird things on it, I didn't even know it was a Squier because someone had done a weird laminate on the headstock that I removed. I failed trying to machine a bridge from scratch out of aluminum for the project, so the parts sat around for a long time. Then one day I just decided to buy the rest of what would be needed off ebay for as cheap as possible and flip it. I think I made $20 all told, but it was good assembly and setup practice at the time. Here's a pic of it:
I like Austerity Program. I haven't heard the new album yet, but Black Madonna was really good. Mental Waste is all drum machine and so is Gore Hog, much more obviously so with the latter (on purpose).
I use Superior Drummer 2.0, same developer (Toontrack).
This tort came off a classic vibe squier the dude said it has the tug bar holes. If you need it lemme know.
I decided to sell my Carvin SB4000, since I've come to prefer playing a P-bass over the past couple years. I've been wanting one of the new Carvin PB4's for a while, so just going to put it towards that. I put it up on the local CL, but if anyone on here is interested shoot me a PM. Deals for doombros, obviously.
Thanks Corey. How long did it take you to get comfortable with the program? I don't have much programming experience, besides farting around in Reason.
It didn't take me very long at all, but I already had a lot of drum programming experience. All the way back to doing it with standard notation on Cakewalk. So using Superior Drummer was just about learning how to dial in their kit setup, the programming still just occurs in whatever DAW you use. Although they do a standalone program for live stuff, but I haven't used it yet.
I'm in the honey moon stage with my P now. But the Carvin feels better. And it should. Considering it was 30 times more expensive...
Cool. One more question. Do you use Mac or PC? I have Windows 7 64bit, was wondering if that would work. Buying options say XP or Vista. I'm kinda of a noob when it comes to software. Especially this newer stuff.
I'm in the honey moon stage with my P now. But the Carvin feels better. And it should. Considering it was 30 times more expensive...
Yeah, I love the way it feels and plays, I just pretty much always want a P pickup over the Jazz configuration. So I'm going to sell it and get one of their PB4 models. I end up using my MIM Precision over everything I own that's more expensive (so everything I own that's not it), just because I prefer that tone. I now kick myself for not getting at least a PJ with my custom bass, though I can still put a EMG 35 sized "P" in the neck position if I really want. I just have no idea how well those reflect an actual P pickup.
So yeah, definitely love Carvin, just going to get a different pickup essentially lol. If they'd had the PB series when I bought my SB, I would have gone with that. I used to always play Jazz basses for years though, so it was a safe bet at the time.
