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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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Ron Now said:
Tuner after dirt because the Fuzzrocious has top mounted jacks, also I normally like that setup on my gigging boards so I can mute after my gain but leave my delay able to make sound to the amp. Sometimes gain pedals can hiss or make sound when tuning
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I actually like the different hisses my fuzz pedals make. Especially when combined with wah and reverb.

Lazarus.Bird said:
Back from vacation, no ****ing way am I going back and reading 40 pages. What did I miss?

Just found out two of my friends from Brimstone Coven are starting up a project with dudes from Arsis, The Absence and Black Dalhia Murder called Necromancing the Stone. Looking forward to seeing how that turns out.
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Not going to read 40 pages? Wimp.

Spidzior said:
My latest bass cover, "Loner" by Black Sabbath - ironically not really too doomy, but yeah, whatever.

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I have a hard time taking that song seriously because of the line "He's just a loner, he does things alone."
 
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On the EW.
The new bass players tone sounds decent. But the note definition is crap or he is playing to heavy handed and it's sputtering out. I don't know. He sounds lost half the time.
Either that or my ear is bad. Which is quite possible.
I'll probably pick up the album hoping that it sounds different than the youtube leak.

"Negative ghostrider the pattern is full."
 
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So I was pretty sure that once my MM basses sold I was going to pursue a NG-2. I think all the combustion bodies are routed with the standard, and close pick up positions. If that is the case, I may go for a V4 combustion, and get/cut a new pick guard for it after moving the pick up's for my self.

Hopefully I can get a natural finish, rosewood fingerboard, and a DG pre.
 
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Burnsy said:
Last time I put out CL ads (looking for a drummer for a bass-drums duo), I made it very clear what a lame 38-yo cubicle-dwelling married dad I was and the inherent limitations on my musical ambitions. I didn't put any age requirements on respondents but I made it clear what they were getting into. I wonder closely the 20-yo who responded read it. We set a time to meet up at a local fully-furnished rehearsal studio. Yeah, he could play the drums OK enough. But he was more interested in plugging in his 6-string and pedals and showing me his experimental progressive post-black metal licks. Which was totally cool, not really my main area of interest, but whatever. So after wrapping up, I asked him directly "I'm looking to get a DUO together. Bass and drums. I need a drummer. You have the skills. Do you want to do this?" "Yeah, sure, let's do it" he says. Okay, so we set a time to meet again a week later, this time in my garage. I'm sure you know the rest of the story… no show, no text, no call. Pretty much par for the CL course. I totally understand that someone would decide against jamming with a graying guy technically old enough to be his dad, on an instrument not of his first preference, in a genre not of his first preference, and I can understand how someone can fail to have the balls to say "no" face-to-face and thus choose to flake out later. I take no offense, really. But dude, didn't you read the ad?

But remember being a 18 yo college freshman, bass in hand, answering a posted ad and meeting up with a seemingly ancient member of the over-30 crowd. Nice enough guy. He was inexplicably married to a totally HOTTT girl about my age in my chemistry class. The needle tracks in his arm kind of weirded me out. But I was a nerdly virgin engineering freshman and weirded out easily. The jams were alright if I recall. But we didn't have a place to get loud, didn't have a drummer… it didn't go anywhere. Did I flake out on him?? Gee I guess I did. Karma goes around I guess!
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I've had similar version of the first story about a dozen times over the past year with Craigslist jams. Though it wasn't restricted purely to younger dudes. The drummer I'm playing with now has me a little version every once in a while, but he hasn't flaked so far. I'm going to try to move a lot faster than I normally would writing songs and getting ready to gig though, because I know if we already have a demo and have played out a bit, it will be easier to replace someone if they bail.
 
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Like I said - average. I didn't like Black Masses as it was outright boring.
The new one isn't bad. I put it on and kicked back with a book and it was good as a background music. Not planning to listen to it much, though. Got better stuff.

Also: two practices in two days, today and tomorrow. I'm pretty stoked, maybe we'll finally get the songs finished.
 

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