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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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I don't make it here nearly as much as I'd like. So here are a few updates in the world of fuzzed out riffs

We've also had a string of very successful shows.


Here is a review of our last one:

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Doom Comes to Knoxville!

Mass Driver/O’Possum/Wampus Cat/Generation of Vipers
January 3, 2015
Knoxville, TN
The Concourse
Written by: Tommy Smith

Saturday night we had a night of doom, sludge and fuzz in Knoxville. Normally I like my metal with a little more spikes and leather than the fare here, but it was a great bill and it was a metal show on a Saturday night! I can’t miss that! This one was all local, and there was a good mix of metal heads, punks, regular dudes…and women! Ha.

Mass Driver

Mass Driver is a 3 piece fuzz rock band from Knoxville, kind of in the vein of say, Fu Manchu. Holy crap, did they rock! The music was high energy, and the way these guys played it really made for a great live experience. Such a charismatic band! The guitarist and bass player alternate vocals for each song, and were always moving. The drummer was strong, as is really necessary for this kind of music. His drum set was fairly minimal, but he does has a cowbell that he makes great use of. There was jumping, breaking of strings, hats flying, and even an appearance in the pit from the guitarist. Everyone really loved these guys and I can’t wait to see them again. They’re easily one of the best local live bands around, and were a tough act to follow. SEE THIS BAND.
 
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We're also running a contest for free merch


Giveaway! We'll send someone on planet Earth every piece of merch we have! That's a shirt, buttons, stickers, and our first album and live ep! All ya gotta do is put something in our comments section. Anything. You could type your name, maybe put pic of your El Camino or your girlfriend's ass! We'll pick one. Offer is good worldwide!https://www.facebook.com/massdriverband

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Blank_0101 said:
Tried making crock pot Mac n cheese, its good stuff.

Also trying peanut soup in a few days once I finish the pasta .

Collards sauteed in pork fat with garlic, jalapeno and dried chorizo with chili flakes. Put that over sticky rice with fried eggs. Good stuff.
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Next time you do collards, substitute one bottle of beer for an equal volume of water. Vastly improves the flavor IMO.
I love collards with doppleboch. Mmmmmmm.
 
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Sumbich that mention of DADGAD acoustic tuning has put me on a new brain rape mission of learning a new tuning on guitar, like the 3rd shift at the B string wasn't a pain in the arse already. But damn that drone sounds so good. Acoustic was getting boring for me because it seems like the chords always sound too pretty or too muddy in standard tuning, well the chords I know anyway LOL.
 
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Recording new music with my noisy post punk band, Prayer Flags in a few hours. Tracked my bass parts with my Gibson G3 and Reiner 6SL7 pre and was well pleased.

I have one doubling gig. I use a Michael Pope two channel pre to make switching over easier. Sounds fantastic on upright, but a tad sterile and plain for electric. Thinking of adding some sort of pedal in front for electric to give it some gas. Considering a Fairfield Barbershop or maybe one of those VT pedals? Don't want dirt, per se' but do want some edge and personality. It's a country gig. Open to suggestions!
 
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dukeorock said:
Recording new music with my noisy post punk band, Prayer Flags in a few hours. Tracked my bass parts with my Gibson G3 and Reiner 6SL7 pre and was well pleased.

I have one doubling gig. I use a Michael Pope two channel pre to make switching over easier. Sounds fantastic on upright, but a tad sterile and plain for electric. Thinking of adding some sort of pedal in front for electric to give it some gas. Considering a Fairfield Barbershop or maybe one of those VT pedals? Don't want dirt, per se' but do want some edge and personality. It's a country gig. Open to suggestions!
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Solidgoldfx Beta Bass Drive, gain is warmth to medium grit.
 
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dukeorock said:
Recording new music with my noisy post punk band, Prayer Flags in a few hours. Tracked my bass parts with my Gibson G3 and Reiner 6SL7 pre and was well pleased.

I have one doubling gig. I use a Michael Pope two channel pre to make switching over easier. Sounds fantastic on upright, but a tad sterile and plain for electric. Thinking of adding some sort of pedal in front for electric to give it some gas. Considering a Fairfield Barbershop or maybe one of those VT pedals? Don't want dirt, per se' but do want some edge and personality. It's a country gig. Open to suggestions!
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You heard the clips of JohnK' GK 800rb poweramp sim pedal? Low gain levels I'd call it thick and edgy. Really different kind of dirt pedal.
 
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mbelue said:
You heard the clips of JohnK' GK 800rb poweramp sim pedal? Low gain levels I'd call it thick and edgy. Really different kind of dirt pedal.
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I haven't heard that yet! Is he selling them? I have a couple dirt boxes that work well for me, but I kinda want an always on helper for the Pope pre. I'll do a search for the JohnK pedal, thanks!
 
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dukeorock said:
Recording new music with my noisy post punk band, Prayer Flags in a few hours. Tracked my bass parts with my Gibson G3 and Reiner 6SL7 pre and was well pleased.

I have one doubling gig. I use a Michael Pope two channel pre to make switching over easier. Sounds fantastic on upright, but a tad sterile and plain for electric. Thinking of adding some sort of pedal in front for electric to give it some gas. Considering a Fairfield Barbershop or maybe one of those VT pedals? Don't want dirt, per se' but do want some edge and personality. It's a country gig. Open to suggestions!
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I'm looking forward to hearing the new Prayer Flags material. I'll throw in a suggestion for the EBS Multi drive for adding a little bite and character. I keep mine on the active mode, since it gives more headroom. I didn't like the Barbershop when I had one, just made everything sound darker and squishy.
 
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Corey Y said:
I'm looking forward to hearing the new Prayer Flags material. I'll throw in a suggestion for the EBS Multi drive for adding a little bite and character. I keep mine on the active mode, since it gives more headroom. I didn't like the Barbershop when I had one, just made everything sound darker and squishy.
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That's good to know, Corey! Dark and squishy ain't what I'm after. I don't want it to sound like a pedal at all since its a country gig. I just need some character and a tiny amount of growl. Basically I want my Pope to sound more like my Mesa M9, which is what I'd use on that gig if I were only playing electric. I could just buy a bigger rack and run my Reiner 6SL7 pre, but I don't really want to get into an 8 space rack for around town gigs since Im loading in and out so much in an average week
 
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This is my typical around town country/rockabilly rig. Add in an upright, of course and minus the Reiner pre
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dukeorock said:
That's good to know, Corey! Dark and squishy ain't what I'm after. I don't want it to sound like a pedal at all since its a country gig. I just need some character and a tiny amount of growl. Basically I want my Pope to sound more like my Mesa M9, which is what I'd use on that gig if I were only playing electric. I could just buy a bigger rack and run my Reiner 6SL7 pre, but I don't really want to get into an 8 space rack for around town gigs since Im loading in and out so much in an average week
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Everything is subjective in tone, but I think the EBS Multidrive fits that descriptions pretty well. I don't have much use for low gain overdrive most of the time, but I did in the last gigging band I was playing in. I just wanted something to give me a little edge to my tone without completely changing the sound and I stopped looking when I tried the EBS. With the caveat that I found keeping it on the active mode sounded best, regardless of whether I was using an active bass. I used mine when I couldn't push my tube amp quite as loud as I wanted to get a bit of grindy breakup and had my fuzz and distortion pedals for the heavy stuff. When I use it, it's my always on tone base for just getting a slightly more "pushed" sound without changing the tone. They go for about $80-100 used, they have a small footprint on a board and have a simple control layout. I tend to use the "standard" mode, but it has a "flat" mode and a "tubesim" mode, which make the tone a bit thinner or a bit fatter respectively.

Try before you buy, your mileage may vary, etc, etc, not valid in all states.
 
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Auspex said:
Quick review of the Carvin B2000:

1300W@4ohms, 2050@2ohms. Fender Blacktop P -> Akai Headrush 2 -> Fuzzrocious Demon -> Carvin B2000 -> GB Dually

Got it this weekend and was able to fudge around with it and even got to use it during last nights practice. I don't have the best ear; I usually am happy with an amp if it's loud enough and not brittle. That being said, this thing gets STUPID loud and sounds like it has balls the size of an elephant. Right now I'm just cab'd into my dually (3015) and was able to make it knock **** off walls that I wasn't able to get with the TB1000. And the tone is pretty fantastic. Low end feels powerful rather than being washed out. Very stoked.

Knobs/controls are plenty simple. I put everything at noon and it sounded badass just like that. I was a hair disappointed that the drive function didn't do a whole lot, but it sounded good as is, so I said, "fvck it for now!" For $600 it's a pretty amazing deal.

Will be ordering a 2nd Dually (Faital) at the end of the month to run beast mode.
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Hmm, maybe I'll pick one of these up at some point. I've been wanting a 2U rackmount Class D amp to throw back into my duratexed Carvin rack shell. Sounds like something I'd be pretty interested in.
 
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dukeorock said:
Recording new music with my noisy post punk band, Prayer Flags in a few hours. Tracked my bass parts with my Gibson G3 and Reiner 6SL7 pre and was well pleased.

I have one doubling gig. I use a Michael Pope two channel pre to make switching over easier. Sounds fantastic on upright, but a tad sterile and plain for electric. Thinking of adding some sort of pedal in front for electric to give it some gas. Considering a Fairfield Barbershop or maybe one of those VT pedals? Don't want dirt, per se' but do want some edge and personality. It's a country gig. Open to suggestions!
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So let me get this straight...there no room for fuzz in country?

Also hows that sealed 218 coming along? Do you have a thread for that project or is it all secret until its complete?
 

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