The Combo Club

[Devon Bustard]

It might be because I can only dial in tones for country and jazz, but I can’t seem to get a nice Mike Dirnt tone now. I’ve tried, oh I’ve tried. I have a p bass, roundwounds, and a Stage 800. He has a tone I wish to put into a preset for those days I decide to play nothing but green day. Any help would be nice.

 

[Devon Bustard]

The tones I’ve created are either: too thin, too much overdriven sound or just too clean. I picture his sound as thick with a little bit of OD from tubes and hard hit roundwounds with a pick.

 

[Giffro]

The tones I’ve created are either: too thin, too much overdriven sound or just too clean. I picture his sound as thick with a little bit of OD from tubes and hard hit roundwounds with a pick.

Hi Devon. Plenty of guys here own the Fender 800 and know a lot about tone setup etc...if no-one here can help you i'm sure over at the Rumble club they could. Ask @G-Dog here as he's a great knowledgbank on Fender stuff including Rumbles etc. and a great guy as well. He will gladly help if he can.

 

[iagtrplyr]

The tones I’ve created are either: too thin, too much overdriven sound or just too clean. I picture his sound as thick with a little bit of OD from tubes and hard hit roundwounds with a pick.

Try this TB page from nine years ago: Mike Dirnt sound

Read down a bit and see if some of he tips help ya. I'd probably try using the Bassman 300 tube amp if you haven't already. To my ears, it was Fender's SVT approach. That or maybe a GK-based tone.

Better yet, here's a Google page with a ton on your topic:

mike dirnt bass tone - Google Search

 

[Giffro]

Try this TB page from nine years ago: Mike Dirnt sound

Read down a bit and see if some of he tips help ya. I'd probably try using the Bassman 300 tube amp if you haven't already. To my ears, it was Fender's SVT approach. That or maybe a GK-based tone.

Better yet, here's a Google page with a ton on your topic:

mike dirnt bass tone - Google Search

See Devon...this club is literally full of know-alls..lolll wd Mike

 

[Giffro]

My wife claims I hold a lifetime membership in the hard-of-listening club. In my defense, she's not always in the same room when she speaks to me. And, when she is in the same room, she doesn't always catch my attention before speaking (although, I'm told that could be my fault for being focused on something else).

Loll @G-Dog I swear that sounds like what happens in my household daily in a way and in reverse.
My wife is the one with damaged hearing through a hereditary condition and wears 2 hearing aids. Her condition came on late in life and has only really been an issue since about 2008.
She says I mumble a lot...which I do...I'm usually talking to myself about something and getting really good sensible replies too loll (Makes a change lolll)
Now when i mumble a lot (to quote you..being focused on something else) she's not sure if Im talking to her or not because its not very clear to her through her hearing aids...so she has to watch me as well to see if im looking at her when i speak. Then again my ears are perfect except the insistent tinnitus but even with that for an old musician of 67 my hearing is amazingly good.
Christine doesnt half get snippy with me if I pick on her about not hearing me if I am talking to her and she doesnt know that I am or doesnt catch my eye. It really comes down to a tolerance of the other person and realising it must be very difficult wearing an aid of any kind. I deserve a good clout with her rolling pin sometimes 'Dog, but most times I put myself in her shoes and imagine what bad loss of hearing could be like then x that by 100 in my musician shoes.
What makes me sad and puts me in my place by being critical to myself is that I can play the most beautiful accompanying bass lines to music we play through the loungeroom speakers and she cant hear it clearly. It humbles me when I step out of line sometimes and get a tad frustrated when I have to repeat myself cause shes missed what I said. I get madder with myself and my frustration than she could ever be to me. I have to constantly remind myself that without hearing there is no music. I always have to remind myself "She can't help it so remember that when she misses what you say". 'Dog...I can be a pain in the butt sometimes...so she says loll
Anyway give me another 10 years and I'll probably need the aids myself. Then it will be a fun time in the 'ol corral.
Giff.

 

[Giffro]

A MESSAGE TO ALL COMBO CLUB MEMBERS FROM MY WIFE CHRISTINE AFTER READING THE LAST FEW PAGES...
Thank you for your well wishes, thoughts and prayers, it is most kind of you and very much appreciated. Giff has told me what a great bunch you all are and now i can see why. As you have already found, he is a bit of a joker and can talk the hind legs off a donkey, which isn't as bad as it sounds, being partially deaf and wearing 2 hearing aids i can just flick the off switch and peace reigns, don't tell Giff tho.
Mrs Giffro xx

 

[Giffro]

@frEQ I like what you said in your info Bio...you really do have a broad musical taste. I wish I was more flexible like you loll
Also Thanks for your best wishes too regarding my wife's accident. I noted you "liked" a lot of the other members posts. Thanks matie.

 

[GwenOnBass]

"Huh? What? I heard you, but I wasn't listening."

If not vocalized, this is a useful conference call tool.

 

[G-Dog]

It might be because I can only dial in tones for country and jazz, but I can’t seem to get a nice Mike Dirnt tone now. I’ve tried, oh I’ve tried. I have a p bass, roundwounds, and a Stage 800. He has a tone I wish to put into a preset for those days I decide to play nothing but green day. Any help would be nice.

Hi Devon. Plenty of guys here own the Fender 800 and know a lot about tone setup etc...if no-one here can help you i'm sure over at the Rumble club they could. Ask @G-Dog here as he's a great knowledgbank on Fender stuff including Rumbles etc. and a great guy as well. He will gladly help if he can.

Since I'm not a Rumble Stage 800 owner, bro Devon, I've copied your post to the Rumble Club for more likely answers.

Hope this helps.

 

[G-Dog]

If not vocalized, this is a useful conference call tool.

"I'm sorry, we were having a side bar conversation here. Would you please repeat that?"

Alas, I can't use this when it's just the wife and I. (sigh)

 

[G-Dog]

It might be because I can only dial in tones for country and jazz, but I can’t seem to get a nice Mike Dirnt tone now. I’ve tried, oh I’ve tried. I have a p bass, roundwounds, and a Stage 800. He has a tone I wish to put into a preset for those days I decide to play nothing but green day. Any help would be nice.

There's been a good response in The Fender Rumble Club already.

Please see Fender Rumble Club

 

[Devon Bustard]

Since I'm not a Rumble Stage 800 owner, bro Devon, I've copied your post to the Rumble Club for more likely answers.

Hope this helps.

Thank you very much, I have decided to sleep I. Until 1:30 so I didn’t do it myself

 

[G-Dog]

Thank you very much, I have decided to sleep I. Until 1:30 so I didn’t do it myself

I can certainly understand that being a priority!

You'll notice @Linnin has some proposed settings for you in the Rumble Club.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Just by way of things

Putting that hearing thing on the back burner as an apparently requested tale unfolds:

There are conference rooms and there are conference rooms, neither of which to be confused with the smoking room. This particular conference room overlooks a vast expanse of corporate ostentatiousness. A helipad is just beyond the window, and the geese at the man-made pond are kept out of airspace by a pack of dogs. Mayhap one may look up to watch the dogs chase the geese before someone at the table says something that requires a response.

The dogs work inside an electronic fence.

There is one dog everyone on the campus knows as The Happy Dog. He merrily crosses the electronic boundary and sits just beyond where the other dogs refuse to go.

We at work all tacitly, and privately, agree we like The Happy Dog. There's important work to be done here, which is why we're in this conference room, and this conference today may even be a pre-conference conference.

In that I don't do that any more, or at least in the fashion of the zeitgeist of a great mission (who am I kidding, we were making money), nor is The Happy Dog doing that any more. A change of corporate direction and the dogs are out out work. The Happy Dog re-homed with a DJ, who tells this story within this story:

While walking together, they came across some geese. "How about it?" he says to The Happy Dog. "One more chase for old time's sake?" And the dog says, "naw, I don't do that any more."

Which, if you look at it right, is Why A Bass.

 

[Giffro]

Well..what can I say.

 

[adk teleman]

I’m in! Love my Rumble 150! I’m a combo guy all the way!

 

[Giffro]

I’m in! Love my Rumble 150! I’m a combo guy all the way! View attachment 3092656

The club secretary (iagtrplyr) will be on later and assign you a club number. Welcome to the group adk teleman. Yours looks like a V2 Rumble 150 Combo? I have a V2 Rumble 75 and a V3 Rumble combo 500 with the V3 115 cab. Good amps.

 

[adk teleman]

For a thread about gigging a combo, I see a hell of a lot of pictures of people gigging a combo sitting on an extension cab. I realize the main amp is a combo, but doesn't adding another cab kind of defeat the purpose of a combo? A combo is all in one. Add a cab and the only things separating the combo rig from a "big rig" are the bolts holding the head in one of the cabs.

How many of you actually rock a combo, without another cabinet?

Me! Lol. If I need more juice I line out to the board!

 

[adk teleman]

The club secretary (iagtrplyr) will be on later and assign you a club number. Welcome to the group adk teleman. Yours looks like a V2 Rumble 150 Combo? I have a V2 Rumble 75 and a V3 Rumble combo 500 with the V3 115 cab. Good amps.

Thanks brother!!