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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#16,601
You mean @Sartori

D.M.N. said:
Very sweet man, congrats on joining the club! I may have another to complement yours tomorrow, guess we'll have to see. Make sure that the power tubes actually need replacing, those look like some nice RCAs in there, same as I had in a 200s, and they were some nice sounding valves. It also looks like someone did a nice solid job of securing down that one transformer. That faceplate looks nice and clean too, very cool. $900 is a pretty good price for them these days, it seems they're constantly edging on up towards the mid-$1000s. And don't be fooled by the "120w", as I think I mentioned earlier on in the thread.



Or two...or three and four and another 2000s...and...and...



Originally the 2000s cab came loaded with JBL D140s stock, though a few are believed to have been shipped out with Altecs (418? 421?) as star touring rigs. I believe @satori has EVs in his.



Exactly. Any good sound man will be totally okay with doing this, and if they balk, that's a sign. I've never had mine DI'd, and honestly most of the time have plenty of stage volume as to where the mic doesn't need to do much. I had a guy try to DI it once, was poking around trying to find the DI out and almost plugged into the 4 ohm extension output. I then told him, it doesn't have a DI, just mic it, to which his response was "What do you mean it doesn't have a DI, I can't mic this." I then told him that it was a 40 year old amp, so of course it doesn't have a DI out, and if he was going to be mic'ing the guitarists amp. "Well, of course." "Good, then you can mic mine as well." It's not the worst idea to eventually invest in a nice bass mic though, since these schmoes often don't carry any.

In fact, here's that very gig. Pretty much stage volume. Gives you an idea of what these things sound like cranked up a bit. The guy kept fiddly funking with the damn levels though, something about amateur sound men which will never cease to annoy me. Mind you, they can have WAY more bass than I have in that video, I usually set my bass knob at around 2, with the boost off.
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#16,606
Thus far I have decided that the sound I like best is running that titty wide open on volume and bass with the switch down (on or off) and the treble on 6 or 7 with contour around 4. D.M.N. how to I test whether tubes are still good? I'd still like to replace to something matched. Currently has two different kinds of 6550s. I feel like the consensus is to go with JJs but I'm open to suggestions.

Guitards seemed apprehensive about me micing. Thought I was loud enough. But they both rehearse with a single 412 and JCM2000. Loud rigs are 4 412s and 4 JCM2000s and small stage are full stacks so I doubt that would work. I'm assuming your 2x215 2000s rigs use 8 ohm 215?

It also looks like my SB2 pups are microphone as I was getting feedback if I didn't have my hand over the pups and wasn't playing. I'm going to look into repotting before replacing them.
 
#16,608
All this Sunn 2000s talk has got me hot to finish my clone. I declared an end to major aluminum munching operations over the weekend. Just now got all the terminal strips, sockets, jacks, switches, pots, etc screwed in. Ready for a blizzard of soldering!
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In other news, Hex Volt is set to invade the local sh!thole dive (Palo Verde lounge) the Tuesday before Thanksgiving... Our first show. yesssss!
 
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#16,609
Well, I took my J to the practice on Wednesday just to see how it fits in the mix. It was pretty OK, less lows than my P with flats (duh), but a lot angrier, especially with Joyo UD.
Then, I was told yesterday by our guitarist that J with fuzz sounded like gravel going through a chute on a construction yard :D I thought it was a good thing, but it turned out it was otherwise. Got told to use the P from now on. Oh well :D
I guess I'll just tune the J EADG again and use it in the other band.
 
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Speedor said:
Well, I took my J to the practice on Wednesday just to see how it fits in the mix. It was pretty OK, less lows than my P with flats (duh), but a lot angrier, especially with Joyo UD.
Then, I was told yesterday by our guitarist that J with fuzz sounded like gravel going through a chute on a construction yard :D I thought it was a good thing, but it turned out it was otherwise. Got told to use the P from now on. Oh well :D
I guess I'll just tune the J EADG again and use it in the other band.
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If I ever started playing my Jazz full time again, I would take out the blend knob, and put in a 4 way switcher. Parallel wiring has its place for pickups, but more and more I like to run them in series.

What I am trying to get at, is you may find tones more pleasing to your guitard if you play with your pick up balance a bit. Straight up, both on full puts a mid scoop to your tone, right from the get go.
 
#16,616
LMFAO... Saint Louis peer just called me seeing if I know where the safety allen wrench is for a LDC mount.

BTW I was on speaker phone at their end.

My reply.... "Are you forking serious, I"m in Californa!, I have no idea where the allen wrench is for that mount!"

Cheese and rice bat man.
 
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