The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[wildebelor]

I hear ya. Just couldn't resist busting your balls though.

Now tell me about that amp. I want it just because it's green...so I should probably gather some more infos.

100watt SS. supposed to be nice and crunchy. All the sound samples I heard on youtube were all in the sorta rock varity. I could kinda tell it could be smashing based on what it sounded like with the bedroom duders barely turning the volume on.

For some reason I thought it was a tube head. I have no idea why.

Don't know much else aside from that. it was cheap and I like boat anchors.

I didn't realise the tramp was SS - mine was tube and handmade in the UK.
They only made those types for a very brief period, pretty cool head!
Can't believe the price you got it for.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Maybe that's why I thought it was, but when I was looking it all over and everything there was no way for tubes to cool if it did then I came across it was SS, either way I'm pleased I'm not a total tube junkie. I'm just a tone junkie. I like pairing up shit to see what I'll utilize for an upcoming release. like right now I'm thinking with my filtheater material since it was always ampeg ss150. I might do it up with guitar A using my Sunn Enforcer and an Ampeg and guitar B with the Sovtek and maybe that Traynor cause it actually had a nice dingy death metally clang to it.

[Barracuda]

Anyone run a tubescreamer before their fuzz? Any tips/tricks?

It will really cut the lows, but gives palm mutes a sweet slicing edge quality. I almost always use the 'classic' setting of gain at 0, volume at 10, and tone to taste. I think they are great if you want to leave the low frequencies to the bassist and really take over the mid range for a live mix. They do tend to sound thin solo though. Worth it for teh palm mutes

EDIT: I use the maxon od808 with a pharaoh and Dunwich Wizard.

[Droneforbreakfast]

so the Behringer VD1 turns out to be an excelent muff. not too much gain as the current ehx usa muff, a tone control that has more than two good sounds in it, a bit of gate to it too which is unusual. will give a more detailed report tomorrow.

buy one or forever suck. around 20 bucks.

[emptyparadigm]

Yo doombros. Been gone a while. My granddad passed away two weeks ago, so I've been in TN helping the family deal with all of that. Whew. Heavy shit. On the major plus side, my Poppa was 96, lived an excellent life, and was the head of a family that loved him very much. I can only hope to have such a legacy when my time comes.

Now, onto posi stuff because PMA.

1) Quantum Mystic has displaced the Badascan, at least for the time being. Considering running a separate dirt for each head, but I dunno. That means more cables, headaches, etc.
2) The new Pallbearer has great songs, but holy crap do I dislike the production. I get what they're going for, but I just don't care for it. The guitar tone in particular is unappealing. I like the changes on this album from the last, though.
3) The new YOB album = record of the year. This is everything that I wanted, and didn't get, from Atma. Nothing to Win makes me want to punch a hole in time and space.
4) We're recording our album with Dave Otero (Primitive Man, Cephalic Carnage, Cattle Decapitation, Cobalt) in November and I am PUMPED AS FUCK. Now to just figure out how to get someone to put it out on vinyl....

[Ancient Astronaught]

so the Behringer VD1 turns out to be an excelent muff. not too much gain as the current ehx usa muff, a tone control that has more than two good sounds in it, a bit of gate to it too which is unusual. will give a more detailed report tomorrow.

buy one or forever suck. around 20 bucks.

Noted.

Yo doombros. Been gone a while. My granddad passed away two weeks ago, so I've been in TN helping the family deal with all of that. Whew. Heavy shit. On the major plus side, my Poppa was 96, lived an excellent life, and was the head of a family that loved him very much. I can only hope to have such a legacy when my time comes.

Now, onto posi stuff because PMA.

1) Quantum Mystic has displaced the Badascan, at least for the time being. Considering running a separate dirt for each head, but I dunno. That means more cables, headaches, etc.
2) The new Pallbearer has great songs, but holy crap do I dislike the production. I get what they're going for, but I just don't care for it. The guitar tone in particular is unappealing. I like the changes on this album from the last, though.
3) The new YOB album = record of the year. This is everything that I wanted, and didn't get, from Atma. Nothing to Win makes me want to punch a hole in time and space.
4) We're recording our album with Dave Otero (Primitive Man, Cephalic Carnage, Cattle Decapitation, Cobalt) in November and I am PUMPED AS FUCK. Now to just figure out how to get someone to put it out on vinyl....

Sorry to hear about your gramps bro.

1) yeah stereo dirt is not fun to do live and still no one has made a stereo TB loop box so you can turn on two stereo loops with one click.....
2) Gonna have to revisit that recording, I listened once and was like eh... good stuff but not OMG I gotta run out and by this by any means
3) I concur wholeheartedly, the albumis a fucking beast
4) Congrats bro!!! Good luck!

[Droneforbreakfast]

sorry about your gramps, dude












will check out the new Pallbearer but i always though they were a but vanilla and ordinary. will try and go through both records again see if it change my mind.

[AngryGoldfish]

Anyone run a tubescreamer before their fuzz? Any tips/tricks?

It will really cut the lows, but gives palm mutes a sweet slicing edge quality. I almost always use the 'classic' setting of gain at 0, volume at 10, and tone to taste. I think they are great if you want to leave the low frequencies to the bassist and really take over the mid range for a live mix. They do tend to sound thin solo though. Worth it for teh palm mutes

EDIT: I use the maxon od808 with a pharaoh and Dunwich Wizard.

I agree with this. Tubescreamers aren't handy to have around, but if you want that 'chank' then a RAT can do a similar job with the gain lowered and the filter higher up (or lower depending on the phase), but you also get a great high gain pedal on its own.

[BoatRich]

Anyone run a tubescreamer before their fuzz? Any tips/tricks?

It will really cut the lows, but gives palm mutes a sweet slicing edge quality. I almost always use the 'classic' setting of gain at 0, volume at 10, and tone to taste. I think they are great if you want to leave the low frequencies to the bassist and really take over the mid range for a live mix. They do tend to sound thin solo though. Worth it for teh palm mutes

EDIT: I use the maxon od808 with a pharaoh and Dunwich Wizard.

I agree with this. Tubescreamers aren't handy to have around, but if you want that 'chank' then a RAT can do a similar job with the gain lowered and the filter higher up (or lower depending on the phase), but you also get a great high gain pedal on its own.

I use a tube screamer style pedal with a Supercollider in drop f as of late, and it sounds awesome. Tightens up the already ridiculous bottom end and makes my fuzz feel just a little nastier.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I use a tube screamer style pedal with a Supercollider in drop f as of late, and it sounds awesome. Tightens up the already ridiculous bottom end and makes my fuzz feel just a little nastier.

It did really help with the clarity when picking fast in our tuning, and it just sounded good in general with the fuzz off. Very grindy and earthy / dirty.

[AxAxSxS]

96 is a pretty awesome achievement.

Meatsmoke pre into the CL400 fx return sounded fucking amazaballs. We ran it into the gk4412H cab I normally use for guitar and it totally had that huge Verellen meatsmoke sound going on. I should really save up and get one of those.

We liked the combo so much that we may actually take the cab to verellen and have them clone it.

[Kacey Y]

Bought a Peavey Rockmaster preamp for cheap online. It arrived, didn't turn on. No lights, no sound, so I sent it back. They called me and said it powered up and passed signal just fine. Frustrating, slightly funny, but they refunded my PayPal payment as they could tell I wasn't trying to scam them over buyer's remorse or anything (I offered to exchange it if they had another one working). I was going to flip it if I didn't like it, instead I lost $20 on shipping, oh well.

[CaptainBoxman]

Just come back from a sludge/grindcore gig, my ears are fucking thrumming, I'm half cut

There are police inside my house

WTF

[AngryGoldfish]

Have fun with it.

[wildebelor]

I agree with this. Tubescreamers aren't handy to have around, but if you want that 'chank' then a RAT can do a similar job with the gain lowered and the filter higher up (or lower depending on the phase), but you also get a great high gain pedal on its own.

This is how I've been using my Sonic Violence as of late!
So much better than the TS