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moshnot

Feb 24, 2008
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hey, i just downloaded dopethrone by electric wizard, and im about half way through weird tales, and this album is IMMENSE!!!
i was just wondering if anybody knows what kind of distortion pedal would get me a sound like the bass in some of their songs, like the kind of funky distortion used in the hills have eyes, because I've been meaning to get a decent distortion pedal for a while (at the moment all i have is a behringer OD100)
thanks
 
#2
I'm not particularly a fan of Electric Wizard, but the traditional SR bass sound is a Sunn amp with everything at ten.

To get as close as you can with a pedal I'd suggest you want a tube overdrive.
 
#4
Yep. That band did take their name from the amps, which were bought out by Fender some time in the 90s. They no longer use that name (sadly), they're not very common on eBay, and they fetch a pretty penny.
 
#5
Many high-powered all-tube amps, including ones by Ampeg, Sunn, Peavey, Orange, Traynor, and a few others -cranked to max- will get you that sound. While there is no pedal that absolutely identically cops that sound, the expensive and rare BJFE Blueberry does a heroic job of trying to. Your best bet otherwise is to combine a couple of other pedals, for example a grindy distortion and a fat furry fuzz. If you run them in parallel (not in series IMO) you can get even closer to the complex gnarly tone of a massive tube amp in "doom" mode. You end up buying three pedals: a dist, a fuzz, and a blender, so it becomes complicated and not cheap. But the plus sides are (a) you don't have to hunt for rare or expensive individual pedals; (b) you have a lot of versatility of tones available; and (c) it's still cheaper and smaller than a large tube amp.

Search in this forum on "distortion" and "fuzz" and "doom" for specific recommendations that may fit your budget.
 
#6
One of the best bass tones in the stoner territory is achieved by running an old DOD 250 overdrive and an Boss DS-1 into two different amps.

With a splitter or an amp with two inputs/two volumes you could try to cop something similar.

Oh yeah that tone belongs to Al Cisneros of OM and formerly of Sleep.
 
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moshnot said:
hey, i just downloaded dopethrone by electric wizard, and im about half way through weird tales, and this album is IMMENSE!!!
i was just wondering if anybody knows what kind of distortion pedal would get me a sound like the bass in some of their songs, like the kind of funky distortion used in the hills have eyes, because I've been meaning to get a decent distortion pedal for a while (at the moment all i have is a behringer OD100)
thanks
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Let me be the first to say.

Electric wizard ****ing owns.

that said, I have no contribution for this thread. Cheers.
 
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"Series" means running one device straight through another device 100%, a simple chain like:

bass --> pedal --> pedal --> amp

"Parallel" means your signal gets split into two or more channels and processed separately/differently on each channel. Then those channels are either mixed back down to one before feeding your amp, or they are run into more than one amp.

If you search on "blender" you'll read about the most common way most of us do this kind of processing. But there are a few different ways.
 
#10
Dopethrone is one of the greatest stoner/doom/metal albums ever. Simply a monster. Go buy it now that you know how amazing it is. :smug:
bongomania said:
Many high-powered all-tube amps, including ones by Ampeg, Sunn, Peavey, Orange, Traynor, and a few others -cranked to max- will get you that sound. While there is no pedal that absolutely identically cops that sound, the expensive and rare BJFE Blueberry does a heroic job of trying to.
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Yep, agreed completely. I had a Sunn Sorado that I ended up selling because the Blue Berry had a nearly identical tone. Sure, it lacked the distinctive smell that a 40+ year old tube amp has, but that's not very important really.

Sunn amps are not terribly expensive used. Same with old Traynor amps. My Sorado was purchased and repaired for under $500 a few years ago.
 

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