I actually usually just don't plug in when I'm practicing by myself. Or I'm at my computer so I just use garageband.
Cult of Luna is awesome and I just started getting into them more. I love this live set, even though it's not the full lineup.
If you're tuned in B, I recommend playing in the keys of C# and E. Gives you room to go below the tonic.
As for more exotic-sounding riffs, I recommend listening to some Melechesh (especially the songs "Rebirth of the Nemesis," "Ghouls of Nineveh," and "The Epigenesis"), Through Silver in Blood era Neurosis (especially the title track of that album, and also "Aeon"), and mid to later Yob (specifically "Grasping Air," "Burning the Altar," and "Before We Dreamed of Two"). When you do, listen to the ways they deviate from the standard minor pentatonic/natural minor scale type riffs, and what those deviations do to the sound.
Yeah, craigslist sucks sometimes, but people do reply. Eventually. Sometimes.
What are you selling, anyway? I can't buy it, anyway, but I'm curious.
A micro terror?That sounds like a cool idea. I remember seeing a photo somewhere of someone mounting a micro terror to their board and running is as a preamp/pedal, too.
Eh, I've been given a line of ******** where it wasn't immediately apparent at first, too. People are sleazy on craigslist.
I kinda want one like that, and I want to paint it like a rocket ship.
I think you're overly worried that an 810 won't have enough low end. Dave Edwardson from Neurosis uses just a regular old SVT rig, and his sound has earth shaking lows. I've seen Aaron Reiseburg from Yob use one, too, and his sound isn't lacking in low end. In fact, lots of doom bands I've seen have used Ampeg 810s, and none that I can recall were low-end shy. Including Sleep. Al Cisneros' bass tone when I saw them at the Fox in Oakland was huge enough that if there'd been an earthquake, I doubt anyone would have noticed.
The 810 isn't really a clank machine. My rig, with the Mesa head on top of a Sunn 2000S with EV drivers, is really more clank central. The times I've played through an Ampeg 810, there was less clank and more fatness. There is a little bit of clank, but it's higher up than the really obnoxious clank I go for. More of a light "plink" on top of punchy fatness than a real "clank."
Eh, I wouldn't have. Cold can be very uncomfortable, but I can deal with it better than I can deal with heat and humidity. Given how humid the east coast is, in terms of my own weather preferences it kinda astonishes me that the first Europeans to get the Americas didn't go "you know what? shag this place" and turn right back around.
Me, too. Cold I feel like I can take measures against. Too much heat and humidity is hard to get rid of. If I'm already wearing nothing and it's still too hot, there's not much more I can do.
Yeah, a studio like that would be cool. And it does seem kind of appealing, but the lack of plumbing would be a problem for me. Some of those tiny houses have plumbing, but most are of the motor home variety, and I don't want to live in a trailer park.
Pretty damn nasty (in a good way), if you ask me. I like Ed, as while he clearly has personal preferences, I get the impression that he likes a lot of different bass sounds other than the main ones he uses, including sounds that people look down on elsewhere on TB a lot.
There's something to be said for simple aesthetics, in amps.
Is the headcase of your Dunwich "Mr. Grumpy" all black with a black grill, too?
I wore shorts basically all the time when I was a child.
Then I hit puberty and somehow they became unappealing to me. Dunno why. I haven't owned a pair of shorts in years.
Agreed on the half-stack bit. I get a little annoyed when people post "just got a new half stack!" on the Amps subforum and it turns out to be a measly little 410 or 212.
A lot of 412 cabs are voiced very prominent in the mids, so they sound a bit louder to the ear.
I'm kinda interested in both the Bergantino NV412, and also the Mesa 412. Don't have the money for either, though.
Ugh, semi-tropical. I can't stand humidity.
I also have never gotten a tick, despite tons of camping and even backpacking in boy scouts when I was a teenager. Then again, I never wore shorts on such trips...
We don't have poison ivy here, just poison oak.
Hell yeah, dude.
I don't get Bassmec or what point he's trying to make. The newer drivers are about the same sensitivity as the old ones, but with more tolerance for low end, and higher power handling.
Agreed, 100%.
Cold I can do something about. I can keep adding layers (within reason). Even without modern heating, I can light a fire. If I'm going to do anything active, I prefer the weather to be cold. While the gig in the Mojave Desert, with the winds between 30 and 50 mph most of the weekend and the temperature below 60 was really, really cold, once we were playing, it was actually probably the most comfortable gig for me.
Heat, I can't do anything about after a certain point. If I'm sitting around wearing basically nothing, with all the windows open for cross-ventilation, and it's still too hot, there's really not much more I can do about it. This especially true if there's no wind, and even more so if it's humid and so my sweat doesn't evaporate as easily. I'd put up with a brutal winter if I never had to deal with temperatures over 75. Then again, I'm a big chunk Scandinavian in descent, and another big chunk Scottish and Irish, so I suppose it makes sense.
