The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[CaptainBoxman]

[whiskey_face]

because this is not a picture of our space

[ryan summit]

thats just mean whisk
i dont even have a stack like A-20
this one here-----------------------------------------------------------------------^ first row
one of them big stacks would change everything
id buy a grand national,a black sg standard,and a portable tablesaw

[AxAxSxS]

best sleeper car ever!

[Timm Grimm]

Is it a sleeper?

[AxAxSxS]

Is it a sleeper?

maybe not to car guys, but to those who don't obsess over horsepower, it looks like a sedan, not a sports car or muscle-car. A very evil sedan, but a sedan.

[t-rey]

thats just mean whisk
i dont even have a stack like A-20
this one here-----------------------------------------------------------------------^ first row
one of them big stacks would change everything
id buy a grand national,a black sg standard,and a portable tablesaw

You are a man of taste. I'd love to have any of the late 80's turbo Regals.

Is it a sleeper?

maybe not to car guys, but to those who don't obsess over horsepower, it looks like a sedan, not a sports car or muscle-car. A very evil sedan, but a sedan.

This. But even some car guys dismiss their potential pretty quickly - think that they are about maxed out from the factory. I've seen some silly numbers from these cars with an entirely stock bottom end...running like 35lbs of boost and still sound stock until they hit it

[nailwalker]

I need a bit of Doom Room expertise here. I'm a noob when it comes to troubleshooting amps, strictly because I've always flipped them and bought something else before something went wrong. I bought a V4 on ebay about a month or so ago, the guy claimed it was in working condition. I finally got back to my cab at our practice space this weekend, so I was nervous to make sure it even worked at all. Upon turning it on, all I got was a ton of ground noise/static, two tubes that seemed to be running correctly, one that was a bit dim, and one that was bright beyond belief. Insane amounts of heat, too. I turned it off, back on (standby this time) and switched cables to make sure it wasn't something on my end that was going wrong... that rendered in the same tube situation along with NO noise whatsoever. How do I go about fixing this, and what could be the problem?

[AxAxSxS]

Is there a bias adjust on the back of the amp? May hav been knocked out of position.

[conky]

My Soldano did that one time. Everything was plugged in correctly. Turned it off and popped a new set of matched tubes in it and it worked fine. I took them out and put the three old ones that were working and one of the new ones in place of the glowing red one and it worked fine. Chunked the blown one and kept the rest of the old ones as spares.

Had a pretty rad show on Halloween. Played to about a hundred and 25 people and everytime I looked out I noticed all eyes were on us. Sold a shitload of merch (well not a lot, but a shitload for us) AND got great pay from the door. First show with the new bassist. He had only one practice with us before we took off for two weeks since our drummer had a baby girl. Dude nailed pretty much everything. Hope to hit the studio asap to record this full length.

Yesterday one of my old bandmates got married. He did vocals for my old trailer thrash punk band and during the reception one of the bands we made friends with with that band came down and played a pretty long set. I don't think I have ever witnessed a more badasser wedding band in the history of bands or weddings.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRaOItm4jY[/youtube]



The guitarist was running a Tele into a TU3, some red fuzz, a Boss EQ with scooped mids into a Hiwatt 50 watter and a 6505 cab. The bassist has some pedals and a sonic maximizer running into a Mesa 400 power amp and a Mesa 15 and 2x10 cab. Shit sounded really good. My son was right up front watching the drummer. He couldn't get enough of them.

[Droneforbreakfast]

Quick question for you guys, just an opinion thing. If you're listening to a band that has distorted bass and no guitar, do you prefer it to sound very layered and have a lot of depth of tones or just be very obviously a single heavy bass tone? I'm playing around with mixing some solo bass stuff, to try out some sonic ideas and see if there's anything I like the direction of before messing around with complicated rig configurations.

i do some stuff like this and the most important thing is really to get a good, crushing bass tone that you can get dynamic with, other than that, imho, it's just how you use those dynamics. i can get a really good tone with my proper setup and a small pedalboard, and that tone has all the fundamentals but is dense and crushing, but still has enough room to change it around a bit, but it takes a bit of experimentation to be able to do so.

i recommend a good dirt pedal that preserves your bass tone, a good compressor, and a fuzz pedal or another. but bass is such a hugely dynamic instrument i think it sounds good as long as you nail the essentials down very well, whatever you're using.

i like running it through a stereo rig using different speakers, i feel that's kind of overdubbing the sound live

Thanks for the input, I figured that was just going to slip through the cracks. Your take is about where I'm at with it. I'm rock solid on my basic heavy bass tone, just need to dial in my stereo rig. I'm so used to tailoring my tone to compliment guitar in a band situation. I'm thinking blended fuzz on one side, heavy overdrive on the other, with an 8x10 and a 2x15. I've been fine tuning versions of both I really like for a while. The only wild card I was considering was whether to throw in a high pass filter and high gain distortion into a guitar rig as well, to try to make it more full range.

the other thing i would recommend you to be careful with will be the type of arrangements you make and experiment with different types of chords under different conditions, once you get the sound and define the ballpark you're at with what you have it is quite easy to make walls of sound with a bass and not a lot of people have done that kind of stuff, so there's a very big room to explore in that deparment. i wrote a song that's probably gonna be a bass only type deal and i love the sound of dissonant chords on bass by itself, it can be pretty involving. i think bass is a much more personal instrument to write with and i actually tend to be more productive with writing music based on bass structure.

250$ 4x12. to hit, or not to hit.



or this for 200



im leaning towards the 4x12

would hit the cab but bargain, but i don't think that Peavey is worth the price.

[t-rey]

My Soldano did that one time. Everything was plugged in correctly. Turned it off and popped a new set of matched tubes in it and it worked fine. I took them out and put the three old ones that were working and one of the new ones in place of the glowing red one and it worked fine. Chunked the blown one and kept the rest of the old ones as spares.

Had a pretty rad show on Halloween. Played to about a hundred and 25 people and everytime I looked out I noticed all eyes were on us. Sold a shitload of merch (well not a lot, but a shitload for us) AND got great pay from the door. First show with the new bassist. He had only one practice with us before we took off for two weeks since our drummer had a baby girl. Dude nailed pretty much everything. Hope to hit the studio asap to record this full length.

Yesterday one of my old bandmates got married. He did vocals for my old trailer thrash punk band and during the reception one of the bands we made friends with with that band came down and played a pretty long set. I don't think I have ever witnessed a more badasser wedding band in the history of bands or weddings.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRaOItm4jY[/youtube]



The guitarist was running a Tele into a TU3, some red fuzz, a Boss EQ with scooped mids into a Hiwatt 50 watter and a 6505 cab. The bassist has some pedals and a sonic maximizer running into a Mesa 400 power amp and a Mesa 15 and 2x10 cab. Shit sounded really good. My son was right up front watching the drummer. He couldn't get enough of them.

Everything about this post is win.

ASG used to have shirts that said 'White Thrash' on them way back in the day before they even got picked up by Volcom.

[conky]

Thats cool. Love me some ASG. We used to have shirts with a drunk white trash cartoon that had "Trailer Thrashin' Mad" underneath it.

[AxAxSxS]

[quote="Droneforbreakfast"]
the other thing i would recommend you to be careful with will be the type of arrangements you make and experiment with different types of chords under different conditions, once you get the sound and define the ballpark you're at with what you have it is quite easy to make walls of sound with a bass and not a lot of people have done that kind of stuff, so there's a very big room to explore in that deparment. i wrote a song that's probably gonna be a bass only type deal and i love the sound of dissonant chords on bass by itself, it can be pretty involving. i think bass is a much more personal instrument to write with and i actually tend to be more productive with writing music based on bass structure.

I love this womans bass playing. decent drummer too. Interesting arrangements.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVz6m6i4i8[/youtube]

[Timm Grimm]

Watching embedded vids on my phone has been so hit it must these days. Can someone post the link for that last........o0O And then I remembered I could just go to quote and copy it. *DOH*