I'm using phone browser and there is a button for "upload a file" which goes to camera roll. You got that? Need gear porn.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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Squier VI is giving me fits.Random pops and hisses. I tried different cables, I think it's the input jack. If I'm absolutely stationary it seems to be okay, but moving causes havoc. Any thoughts?
sounds like an input jack to me, unless like askrere says it only happens when you have a certain pickup/combo going, then it'll be wiring.
those are the brand new neo 610s right? with the vintage grill? i was pleasantly surprised by the tone of the 810 when i had the opportunity to use one live. midsier/louder than an ampeg for sure.
i would consider one if the cabinet alone wasn't $2799 here.. (610 is $2499)
Yeah, I have it too but when you select the file the page refreshes as if to add it but instead does it as if you were never posting anything at all it all disappears!
Niff... yeah it's that one...but I picked it up new/used for 900.
Tightening it up cured most of it. It's still pretty noisy but I'm not getting those brutal pops and clicks. Playing it mostly clean, I forget how damn noisy it can be. Usually, with my board, I'd have my gate on to clean up the hum a bit. All that said, getting some synthy dirt goodness with just the VI > OC2 > WF > Vulcan. I like the VI with the OC2 because I can make more use of the 2nd octave down with those higher notes. Anywho, ramble over, thanks for the feedback.
I played a early 70's gibson EB-O that I loved other then the scale. I'm actually going to borrow my buddies EB-2D soon to give mudbuckers another shot to make sure still on board tonally. I know the fenders are a bit different tonally but I bet I can get some ballpark close to the gibson with the fender.
Just wanted to say that my G&L L1000 with pure nickel flats is pretty damn muddy. Mudweiser.
After jamming the VI > OC2 > WF last night, I also tried out my modded Blue Box. Also sounds great on the VI, espeically with those added high notes. I prefer the OC2 + dirt slightly. Blue Box is modded with a treble boost and also a toggle between 1 and 2 octaves down.
So, trying to play our songs to the click through the PA went shaging horrible haha. I would turn it up so loud to the point where it was painful to hear, but as soon as we started playing it would get buried. I think we're just going to say screw it and record like we always have.
I've played with a drummer who play to a click via ear buds then cover the ear buds with over ear hear protection to help him isolate it. If they are playing in time so is everyone else right?
Oh definitely. But in his 26 years as a drummer, he's never played to a click, so that will be quite difficult if he's the only one trying to do it
I think I'm REALLY over thinking all of this. We're a good band, we play tight and we do great in the studio. I think I'm just a bit paranoid since this is getting pressed to vinyl.Playing to a click is definitely hard if you're not used to it and requires practice. The best piece of advice I ever got about playing to a click was from my old drum teacher. He pointed out that when you're on time, the click disappears. So you only really hear it when you're off time. That obviously doesn't include volume issues in their own right, but no one had ever told me that before and it helped me immensely.
Probably didn't help that the first song we tried to play was 152 bpm.
It definitely doesn't hurt to start slower and speed up. Most music teachers will tell you that about practicing any instrument to a click. Once you're used to it, tempo isn't too big a deal. I played all the Mental Waste and Gorehog songs to a click and a lot of those are 180-200 bpm and up sometimes.
@Lazarus.Bird , pressing to vinyl doesn't mean your playing has to be technically perfect. Listen to the takes and see if they sound good to you even if the tempo swings. Sometimes a tempo change can enhance a song if it suits the mood of the song and players. Use your ears, if you find the tempo changes too much in a bad way then you just try again but be more aware of how fast/slow you're going. We've never used a click, yeah sometimes we'll listen to a song and say that's way too fast or too slow but we just try again it isn't that hard to adjust.
its hard to say! Ive been using the 300 pro with the 810 ALOT (well, exclusively) live this year. I havent had the superbassman with the 610 to practice yet, but I will this weekend. It sounds DAMN GOOD. I could see it getting ALOT of stage time. I, however, am a recent convert to the awesomeness of having those top two 10inch speakers of an 810 up near my ears and having my clothes pulse with the music. =)
