The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[Ancient Astronaught]

Well hopefully your feeling better good buddy.

Comp questions?

*Paging AngryGoldFish! Paging AngryGoldfish! Doctor Dan your needed in the D.R. stat.*

[Wes Mantooth]

I'm still here dudes. 48 hour shift Thursday and Friday with a fuckload of vertigo and nausea this weekend has kept me off the forums for a bit. Played with the Badascan into my Soldano earlier and I do believe I'm in love with the Hotrod again. Still have a little too much highs with my 5150 cab at home but I imagine when I get to the space and can crank the 6x12 it'll be spot on.

Got the hookup on a Presonus Firepod so I can record 8 tracks at once now as soon as I upgrade the home comp. I have no idea what it'll need though. RAM and a new CPU for sure, but would I need a new sound or video card too? Was looking at these:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-ad760kwohlbox

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-memory-r538g1601u2g

Video card probably wouldn't be necessary if you're just doing audio. Whenever I plug in an interface, that kind of takes over as the soundcard (unless you're monitoring through the computer rather than the Firepod), so probably won't need a soundcard either. Just make sure your CPU and RAM work with your current motherboard or you'll need to upgrade that as well.

[AngryGoldfish]

Well hopefully your feeling better good buddy.

Comp questions?

*Paging AngryGoldFish! Paging AngryGoldfish! Doctor Dan your needed in the D.R. stat.*

We've got a code blue! Code blue!

[AngryGoldfish]

I'm still here dudes. 48 hour shift Thursday and Friday with a fuckload of vertigo and nausea this weekend has kept me off the forums for a bit. Played with the Badascan into my Soldano earlier and I do believe I'm in love with the Hotrod again. Still have a little too much highs with my 5150 cab at home but I imagine when I get to the space and can crank the 6x12 it'll be spot on.

Got the hookup on a Presonus Firepod so I can record 8 tracks at once now as soon as I upgrade the home comp. I have no idea what it'll need though. RAM and a new CPU for sure, but would I need a new sound or video card too? Was looking at these:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-ad760kwohlbox

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-memory-r538g1601u2g

What are your current specs? Do you know off-hand?

[conky]

Well hopefully your feeling better good buddy.

Comp questions?

*Paging AngryGoldFish! Paging AngryGoldfish! Doctor Dan your needed in the D.R. stat.*

I'm pretty much good to go now. I have a deviated septum and had chronic ear infections when I was younger so vertigo has been a pretty steady part of my life. Shit sucks ass.

I'm still here dudes. 48 hour shift Thursday and Friday with a fuckload of vertigo and nausea this weekend has kept me off the forums for a bit. Played with the Badascan into my Soldano earlier and I do believe I'm in love with the Hotrod again. Still have a little too much highs with my 5150 cab at home but I imagine when I get to the space and can crank the 6x12 it'll be spot on.

Got the hookup on a Presonus Firepod so I can record 8 tracks at once now as soon as I upgrade the home comp. I have no idea what it'll need though. RAM and a new CPU for sure, but would I need a new sound or video card too? Was looking at these:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-ad760kwohlbox

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-memory-r538g1601u2g

What are your current specs? Do you know off-hand?

Its an ancient as fuck Compaq Presario desktop. I used it with Acid Pro and Reaper and it worked ok. Sometimes it would freez up.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

you might want to upgrade if it freezes with just using those programs it's going to die with the firepod.

[new05002]

I'm still here dudes. 48 hour shift Thursday and Friday with a fuckload of vertigo and nausea this weekend has kept me off the forums for a bit. Played with the Badascan into my Soldano earlier and I do believe I'm in love with the Hotrod again. Still have a little too much highs with my 5150 cab at home but I imagine when I get to the space and can crank the 6x12 it'll be spot on.

Got the hookup on a Presonus Firepod so I can record 8 tracks at once now as soon as I upgrade the home comp. I have no idea what it'll need though. RAM and a new CPU for sure, but would I need a new sound or video card too? Was looking at these:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-ad760kwohlbox

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-memory-r538g1601u2g

I dont think you would need a new soundcard, the interface is acting as the soundcard when you are using it. What you want is good amount of RAM and decent processing speed. Video card should not factor much since graphics are not heavy

[D-Day]

D, was Scott using the pedal you built for him last night? Sun Giants are sounding better than ever. Maybe it's in "in the moment" thing but I think they sounded even better than last week, when they sounded pretty fucking good!

You guys have any volume management tips for quickly getting things level? I think that's something we could do better but I don't want to be one of those bands doing extended fucking sound checks that seem to take longer than the actual set does. I like getting up there, making sure the amps and mic's work, and then GO! is there a cheap DB meter option out there?

Scott was using an SHO that I made for him. That pedal I handed off to him at the show was a Mosrite Fuzzrite clone. Which I love.

The only thing you guys really need soundwise is for your leads to come way up when it's leady time. You know I know all the parts for the older songs and every time I got ready for a lead to sizzle me it was just buried. I could still hear you way back there doing it and the execution was righteous like always so something's gotta be done. I know that we solved the problem by running a boost (Boost Tiger!) through the effects loop of Aaron's 2210. That bumped it right up without adding any gain/distortion to already fuzzy hairball of sound. Does either of your heads have a loop?

That is beautiful Nick. Your service loop wiring style is the closest thing to 'mil-spec' I have seen on the internet.

What method do you guys usually use when going about writing a song? I have decided to work on the basics of songwriting so maybe I can actually get something accomplished musically in my lifetime But it's not like doom is your average 3 chord rock and roll...

I got riffs til the end of time but man am I a terrible songwriter. If I have a riff or two that I like I just bang those out over and over over and eventually something will happen. I should really learn about songwriting though because my process seems rather time intensive when you consider how many actual songs have come of it.

apropos of great riffs, did you guys know Black Sabbath were pretty rad?

I keep listening to Stone Axe covering Black Sabbath covering Norman Haines.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIE9O7kKr1k[/youtube]

Just got back from being in Ohio for almost a week...skimmed the shitload of pages I've missed.

Sorry for you, broham. Ohio is an awful place.

My boyhood home was two miles from Ohio. But all I really know of that state are bus stations in a few major cities. I hope the rest of Ohio is better than its bus stations. For the sake of everyone.

so...just got off the phone with some gentlemen...

project "Snow White" has just begun...

I hope you can hire seven dwarves to haul the thing into gigs for you. That'd be pro

[AngryGoldfish]

Its an ancient as fuck Compaq Presario desktop. I used it with Acid Pro and Reaper and it worked ok. Sometimes it would freez up.

I definitely recommend upgrading, but only if you're sure you'll be using the program a lot, cause computer stuff costs an awful lot.

Definitely stick with AMD if you want a budget build. Intel CPU's are expensive and their budget line is not as good as the AMD stuff. Also, try and aim for at least 8GB of RAM. That's the minimum I would recommend. You can find a cheap set of RAM running at 1600Mhz for around $60. You'll need a new motherboard, though, unfortunately if you want to upgrade your CPU and RAM. Again, a budget of around $60 would net you a solid mATX platform. You won't need a fancy graphics card or audio chip. RAM, CPU, and a solid-state drive would be areas to look into above everything else.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

actually go with a workhorse. something from Office depot that's dependent on raw power and usually had firewire ports already intergrated on them. The desktop I use with my firepod I got at office depot for 500. has 2 firewire ports and tons of power, I'd have to go look but it was something like a quad processor and some insane amount of ram, it's been like 3 or 4 years since I got it so I can't remember all the details. Been solid as hell ever since. and all I use it for is recording and nothing else. it doesn't even go online

[D-Day]

I know how much you gentlemen appreciate those excellent relic'd (how do you make a past tense of a noun?) guitars and since this is probably the most tasteful and appropriate relic job I've ever seen, I share with you now.

FEAST YOUR EYES

[Ancient Astronaught]

I know how much you gentlemen appreciate those excellent relic'd (how do you make a past tense of a noun?) guitars and since this is probably the most tasteful and appropriate relic job I've ever seen, I share with you now.

FEAST YOUR EYES

I love those guitars, not sure why but I do. BUT that relic job is just... I don't.... how do I say it.....

NON_AUTHENTIC LOOKING WASTE OF 3 HOURS OF SOME POOR MANS LIFE.

Yeah that'll do pig, that'll do.

[AxAxSxS]

Man, that IS a serious work of art. Think of all the time and effort that went into selecting the RIGHT belt sander, the correct angle to hold it. How did they measure the depth of material removed so precisely?














D , no effecty loops I don't think. We are doing exactly that for Dan's leads, with an odb3 in the effects loop, brand new concept to him and I'm not sure if he remembered to use it or not on sat. Had an issue with the elements side of my boost combo not coming on. I could only hear myself and Ryder at Tims, so it was kinda one of those keep playing and hope FOH sounds ok shows. I kinda wish you guys had made the show the week before with SC, SG and CFA. We could hear each other, which was not the case at all at tims. The cool news is that we got audio as well as video from the Valley show and I'm working on mixing down the audio sources and making the video less boring to look at. (Tripod shot and never moves) Should have something to share in a few days. Dan didn't have the boost in his rig for that, but aside from that, it sounds not awful

Was so fucking cool to see you guys there. Any night Oni shows up is automatically better. Any night Darren shows up is automatically better. With your combined powers of making shit betterness.... well it was rad you guys came out. Think I had a few to many samples of the magic green elixir pre set. I look high as shit in the pics haha.



Goddamn I love hearing all the talk about new amps. This is going to be awesome to watch Nick put it together.
And we all love amps that are color coded.

[D-Day]

The regular camo version is literally my most wanted guitar in life. That's how I stumbled across that abomination. Weren't these things introduced in like '01? Relics are dumb enough to begin with but doing it to a guitar that isn't even old? It defies even basic stupidity. Truly a whole 'nother level. Then the 'quality' of the 'job'. If the thing had been played into a scuffed out condition how the hell did it get scuffed in those areas? And not a single worm on the back or one ding at the end of the headstock? The first thing I do to any guitar is bash the headstock against the ceiling and fuck up a corner. Not on purpose I'm just tall and usually live in low brow, low rent, low ceilingass places. ANYWAY, that guitar burns me up

[D-Day]

Thanks John, it was killer to see you too! I love the Flux and I don't see you guys nearly enough. I'm going to Oni's spot later to bang out some punky stuff with him and our buddy that just moved over from Baltimore. I'll be playing through a 50 watt Bassman so it'll be a nice change of pace.