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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

Poured down rain all night, we had a big bowl of candy and not a single trick-or-treater. Bummer, but my Fairfield Barbershop came in and our baby was being all smiley, laughing and adorable in a weird bat costume/hoodie my wife put him in, while we watched the Canadian horror anthology show Darknet on Netflix. Not really scary, but creepy and cool, I enjoyed it. Hope everyone had fun and safe nights.
 
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Happy Halloween

It's an acidic Halloween :woot:

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Not really anything tonight but I have a Halloween home brew beer costu me party tomorrow night. Going as Nick Miller as Bea Arthur
 
Geezer used a phaser on the intro solo to N.I.B.

I had considered a gate (either MXR or Boss) but had always heard of tone suck. Also not sure if this would achieve my goals.

I run tortuga fireant> EQD speaker cranker> BB. Primarily run the EQD for tone and the BB to add a tighter drive and bass bump. I use the Tortuga for a more raw grind and all out hellfire. The BB has the gain around 11:30 or noon, EQD at 2 or 3, and channel 1 of Tortuga at 9 or 10 with 2 wide open. I cannot run any combination withought feedback.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about Bassically. My version of Black Sabbath has all the tracks separated, so the "intro" isn't considered part of NIB.

Anyway, for the feedback, I'm unfortunately unfamiliar with most of those. What I did think of, though, was how close you're playing to the rig. Simple solution, but if you're too close, you'll get feedback. Also check other electronics in the area. I'm sure you know all of this already, but just in case. You never know what could cause the noise. Turn off lights?
 
HEY! So, life's been crazy and I haven't been on on MONTHS!!! However I have been keeping up with some of you on fb.

Still jamming, hoping to record soon!

Thought I'd share my current basement amp pile since I've finally had a chance to get everything wired up after the move. All 3 rigs are fed from an ABC switcher so i can send a signal to whichever / as many as I'd like. My 810 / Peavy 120/120 is at the practice spot, but here's everything else.
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I've been REALLY good, but got the GAS for an old Power Wah Boost this week. In an attempt to keep my pedals under control I'm thinking about making a band board (wah tuner, BB, & Meatsmoke) and a modulation board (moog, expressionator, exp, & sonic death ray) and wire them so I could patch the modulation board into the other one when applicable but be able to get by with just the one when I feel lazy.
 
I picked up a wenge 10 string with a stickup used for a price I can easily recover the funds from if/when I sell it.

Ive always wanted to try one, and dont know if I can do it... but I just sold off some gear abd got more moving soon so I figured it was a good time to drop the coin and take a chance on one. I could get my money back PDQ if I'm not feeling it.
 
Poured down rain all night, we had a big bowl of candy and not a single trick-or-treater. Bummer, but my Fairfield Barbershop came in and our baby was being all smiley, laughing and adorable in a weird bat costume/hoodie my wife put him in, while we watched the Canadian horror anthology show Darknet on Netflix. Not really scary, but creepy and cool, I enjoyed it. Hope everyone had fun and safe nights.
No activity here either. Daughter was done with her costume and face paint after the Halloween parade and wearing it all day, didn't want to go out in the rain.

I picked up a wenge 10 string with a stickup used for a price I can easily recover the funds from if/when I sell it.

Ive always wanted to try one, and dont know if I can do it... but I just sold off some gear abd got more moving soon so I figured it was a good time to drop the coin and take a chance on one. I could get my money back PDQ if I'm not feeling it.
Always good to try something new. Never know you may be the next stickman of doom.
 
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This. I just scored a Boss PH-3 and I love it. Really looking forward to hitting some of those old Geezer tones with it. Don't think the band will be down with it. They have a pretty limited view of what bass should sound like, not to mention the music that they write doesn't really allow for much besides OD/fuzz. I'll work her in there though.



I ransacked my dads basement for a suitcase from the 70s/80s. Used it for a long time until my collection got to big for it.



Question for you guys. It seems like you guys run two(or maybe more) fuzzes/ODs fairly often. How do you tame the feedback? Low gain? I really like the tones I get running my 2 to 3 ODs at the same time, but I feedback constantly when not playing. Guitar player wants me to only use one or turn the gain way down. Both options leave me feeling slightly neutered. How do you guys do it?

I use the cheap Behringer boss noise gate clone and it works great.
 
Geezer used a phaser on the intro solo to N.I.B.

I had considered a gate (either MXR or Boss) but had always heard of tone suck. Also not sure if this would achieve my goals.

I run tortuga fireant> EQD speaker cranker> BB. Primarily run the EQD for tone and the BB to add a tighter drive and bass bump. I use the Tortuga for a more raw grind and all out hellfire. The BB has the gain around 11:30 or noon, EQD at 2 or 3, and channel 1 of Tortuga at 9 or 10 with 2 wide open. I cannot run any combination withought feedback.

I run my Speaker Cranker first before all dirt and it works best for me that way. Then I make sure I set all the dirt I have that follows to volume unity with the amp. That seems to help with the feedback too.
 
So with this Chapman stick, it uses a split stereo cable to go into two different inputs on amps, one for the bass side, one for the "melody" side. Any of you guys have any pedal/whatever suggestions for me as a way to run into one amp only?
I could maybe run into my space echo stereo inputs... wait... I think I then need to do two outputs from that....
Hmmm...
Suggestions?
 
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So with this Chapman stick, it uses a split stereo cable to go into two different inputs on amps, one for the bass side, one for the "melody" side. Any of you guys have any pedal/whatever suggestions for me as a way to run into one amp only?
I could maybe run into my space echo stereo inputs... wait... I think I then need to do two outputs from that....
Hmmm...
Suggestions?
Won't it work on stereo chorus or stereo delays like your space echo with two inputs then just run it from the top mono output jack.
 
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Ive never done any stereo set ups. I figured if I plugged into the stereo "ins" I had to come out of the stereo "outs" or I would lose half the signal and that the mono "out" was a separate pathway... I may assume wrongly and will try that....
If I like this thing I wanna add effects...
Wait!... Could run into two separate pedal paths and merge em at the space echo then maybe! Like one set of effects on the guitar side and a fuzzed out bass side.... ooooooh... this could be good!