• TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
    Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
    Join freeLog in
    Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.

Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

I like B. After playing in D and C and my current badass guitarist playing in A, we compromised on B.

Which, I'm totally cool with. Gives me deeper vocals for my already higher pitched voice. I can't do Geddy, but I can get close as far as natural octave. Even in my 30s, I'm soprano. It's just weird because I'm not aware of anyone that sounds like me, but when you first here it, it takes you back. Or, it took me back a bit. Like whoa, I can't get my voice to sound like say, Scott Kelly or Dixie Dave, no matter what I tried. The strangest singer I can think of in this style that sort if has a higher pitched voice is the dude from Black Pyramid. And now you know what swims in my head... ;)
The vocals on Yob's Catharsis are really high sounding. But part of that is probably just effects and contrast, as they're in A.

With all the crap going on with the NFL nowadays, I'm very seriously contemplating quitting being a professional/college sports fan except for golf and auto racing. It's just seeming more and more that the d-bag quotient for all the other major sports is going up, up, up.
Yeah, same. I just can't give a poopie this year. College football is becoming more and more like the pros, which I find annoying, and the NFL has been disgusting lately. Ugh.

I recommend watching women's rugby, I guess. If you can find it on any channel, that is.

I quit caring years ago. When they started treating kickers and passers like princesses I knew it wouldn't be long before the whole team was a bunch of pussies.
When you pay your players for showing up instead of taking risks for performance you don't care about entertainment.
It's not that at all, for me.

It's the ridiculous lengths the NFL has been going to in order to make excuses for dudes who beat on their wives. When you're a muscular professional athlete, you need to be aware of how much damage you can do and have more self control when not on the field, not less. It's inexcusable in any circumstance, but even more so given that. When you're 300 pounds of muscle, you don't get to throw temper tantrums and start punching people for upsetting you.

Mpdd and CL400, I applaud you xD

I can't stand people who consider tasks too menial and "beneath them". I remember going to Burger King a couple months ago, and there were these middle aged pompous guys who were loudly complaining that they weren't being served their food in the order that they ordered it in when everything was super backed up and hellishly busy.

Some things take longer to prepare. Fat ********. I felt bad for the kid cashiering for taking on all the heat.
shag those shagers. Giving minimum wage employees poopie. Entitled fat shags.

Nice work MPDD and CL400. As you might deduce from my screen name - I used to be a janitor. That was many years ago and I've come a long way since then, but doing that kind of work stays with you.
I hear you. My first job out of high school was as a janitor. It's now a bit of a pet peeve of mine when people mess up public restrooms. I kinda react with a mental "who the shag is doing this?! Why?!"

A pirate ship is the perfect example!

I once saw a delivery driver insist that our chef take a big case of strawberries that were starting to mold. Chef wasnt going to pay him for it. Driver started getting belligerent and I told him it was time for him to head out. He shoulder checked me and told me and the chef to fuq off. As he was reaching to pick up the case of moldy fruit Chef whipped this paring knife across the kitchen in to the box about an inch from the drivers hand. He lost it and took off. The owners of the distributor and the restaurant decided it was better to settle with the driver and not screw a million dollar contract so no one went to jail. Yeah it sounds crazy, but the chef is psychotic and very very good at his job.
Serves the driver right for trying to unload garbage on a chef.

we made it to the Devil's Page... #666 . a first.

Gonna go listen to Satan Worshiping Doom now in commemoration .
Seems fitting, yeah.

I started a poll in the effects forum. I'd love to get your opinions.

http://www.talkbass.com/threads/do-...om-a-single-pedal-or-multiple-pedals.1102426/
I don't use effects for my main sound.

Lucy__Daughter_of_the_Devil_by_cinda7.jpg
I wish that show had stayed on longer. I thought it was really funny. Especially the Burning Man episode.

Eh, sorta close, but the god Hades (even as much as he's depicted as more devil-like in the ridiculous Disney version... in the actual mythology, he was one of the least jerk-ass of the Greek gods, and just had a crap job) isn't really much like the mythological figure of the Devil. Because the Greek underworld wasn't somewhere you were sent only for punishment. Almost everybody went there when they died, in that mythology. It had good and bad neighborhoods. Hades was less "evil force who tries to shag everything up for everyone" than "administrator tasked with a ridiculously boring, unglamorous, crappy jurisdiction." The deity that, in Greek mythology, was actually trying to shag Hercules up, was Hera.

So: I have a mesa diesel 215. Want to take the EV15L's and build two lightweight tl606 cabs for it. Worth the effort or no?

Disclaimer: I don't play stoner or doom (but I can dig me some), mostly mathrock, but you guys seem to be the most open to discussion on 15" speakers and good music.
What is the purpose of putting them in two cabs instead of one? Personally, I'd rather wheel a 215 around than deadlift two single 15s, but I can see the appeal, somewhat. Especially as it will likely sound exactly the same, since the Diesel 215 is already a TL606 design.

Do you have the wood already?

Not worth it. If you are building TL606's around EVM's you should use the Proline B's. The L's are voiced for guitar, and wimp out compared to the B's.

And you should covert to 1/2", build out of void free baltic birch, and add bracing. (which is negated by using heavy drivers designed 30 years ago)
Yeah... a cab with EV 15Bs or 15Ls will sound good, and be really loud... but it will not be light.

It's clearly a rocketship.
Everything was, back then.

I can't think of any gig I've ever played that I could have gotten away with using only a 1x15 cab. Then again, I've never worried about being too loud, I don't care if anyone likes the music I'm playing and I've rarely been paid to play. So take my opinions for what they're worth.
I use my single 15" for folk/rock gigs sometimes.
 
I've been keeping an eye out for an Ibanez Roadster bass lately. Particularly the burst finish one with the maple board. To pair with the ST50 guitar I just got and love. They go for pretty cheap, but every time I find one someone has done something terrible to it, like drilled holes in the face for something.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Squanch72
Didn't entwistle have a bass with that headstock?

Obviously that's not it, but interesting.
I think so. The guitarist from Nile has a few. But waaay pointier.
This isn't even the pointy one.
muso-top-muso-pic_karl-sanders.jpg


There never was a composition that deserved the fidelity of vinyl more than this.
He has a lot of cool stuff. I think the Rocket Ship song is in Futurama.
 
Probably a RAT, maybe an OCD, depending on the type of bass used. He plays a Jazz right?
Cool I have both of those. haha.
Not sure on the bass. Never really listened to much from these guys.
Looked up a recent vid. Jaguar... so yeah pretty much.

So out of curiosity I searched the model number of my Technics towers - nothing but audiophile forums full of guys pissing all over them. Oh well, they sound pretty good to me.
Sounds about right. haha.
 
Cool I have both of those. haha.
Not sure on the bass. Never really listened to much from these guys.
Looked up a recent vid. Jaguar... so yeah pretty much.


Sounds about right. haha.

I was just listening to Pissed Jeans on the way to work this morning. I like their sound and their stage presence is funny to me, in that they don't care at all about being normal dudes rocking out (no dress up, no pretense). The singer reminds me of Anders from Workaholics or one of the McPoyle's from It's Always Sunny. He's kind of a goof.
 
  • Like
Reactions: dozicusmaximus
Cool I have both of those. haha.
Not sure on the bass. Never really listened to much from these guys.
Looked up a recent vid. Jaguar... so yeah pretty much.


Sounds about right. haha.
Pissed jeans plays power violence with Ultramantis Black, now. (Some members of pissed jeans), and they are god damn awesome.
 
  • Like
Reactions: dozicusmaximus
Fellow doom amigos. As some of you know, since my stage volume issues at my last show I have been on a quest for a rig of more. I picked up a USA 4 Pro at a steal of a deal and have shifted toward cabinetry. I know the stock(for good reason) response for a cab to match this head is the 810e. My feeling on the 810e are this, I have previously owned a 410he and I was really not super pleased with its tone. It lacked the ass. I know that the 810e has much more low end than the 410he, but I am hesitant to go with another sealed cab. Because of this I am investigating other options; the 810e is not out of the question though. I am talking with a TBer about buying his Aguilar DB810. Do you guys think this is a good idea? Has anyone used one of these cabs in this context? I have heard that they are like an 810e on steroids, but have also heard that 810es are some of the more underrated (in terms of power handling) cabs. Funds are somewhat limited and all of the local used 810es I have tried to seek out have been owned by CL BSers and flakes.

I am just really torn about cabinets. What I currently have at my disposal are 2 x Acoustic 115s and one Avatar 115. Maybe I should grab another 15, run 2 15s on each side of the amp and save some money, or maybe I should grab this 810 and run it bridged, or on one side with the 215s on the other. Maybe I should do both and run the 810 on one side and 415s (2 ohm load) on the other side and biamp or dual mono?

Stay dark. Stay sinful.
 
  • Like
Reactions: JoeVictim
So out of curiosity I searched the model number of my Technics towers - nothing but audiophile forums full of guys pissing all over them. Oh well, they sound pretty good to me.
Same with my Technics towers. They sound great for home theater stuff, so I use em for that. Rarely does any of my audio gear have great audiophile reviews, since it can be found cheap. For audiophiles, $=better sound.


Cestus Progress. Hand drawn faceplate is temporary. Will be laser etched soon:
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

I want to see this guy finished. That's one sexy brown amp head ;)
 

Latest posts