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what is your pet sound and what does it sound like?

(any instrument. even a special drum fill or cadence or some raped monkey scream etc, whatever is your special sound(z))

mine is cortez black beauty copy into HM-2 to get this 2 string resonant sound going. it sounds like it is alive heh.  I will try to get it recorded here presently.

Neck pickup on my bass into a just off clean big amp and bridge pickup into a Burman Pro series gain channel. Dub fat with aggressive drive. When Jeff Matz used a Burman with High on Fire, my guitarist said 'Hey, this sounds like you", so its totally in the gear, not the fingers.

SVT/810 in general, but my favorite tone was when I split my signal with an ABY.  Clean side into the Normal channel and the other channel ran through a Vox V810 distortion into the Bright channel.  G&L L-2000 both pickups at 100%, passive, series, tone wide open.  Problem with that setup was noise.  It would hum quite a bit.

Now it's my Yamaha BB800 into my Orange TB500 & homebrew 2x15.  Hell of a lot more gnarly, but I generally prefer the tone of the SVT/810 rig even if it's quite a lot more tame in comparison to the Orange/215 rig.

Big, deep (8") maple shell snare, maple rims, small-ish marching-size sticks and rim shots!


THWOCK!


More than one sound guy has said, "OK, let me hear the snare...HOLY SHIT!" ;D

fender jazz bass both pickup wide open full treble through a swollen pickle fuzz for one band, with the occasional flanger thrown in.

the other band is the same jazz bass, full treble, both pups wide open right into the amp, no fx what so ever for a super clangy trebly tone. 

Neck P90 -> Dano Cool Cat Drive -> Pharaoh

I set the amp to a just above preamp breakup rock & roll sound. This does not play well with Fender amps, but Marshall/Orange/Laney etc. works great.

big drums, enormous cymbals (20" hats, 24" rides/crashes, paiste 2002 and Rude models preferably) very long sticks with big tips, cavernous reverb.


posted in another thread, but this engineer really made my drums sound like I wanted them to sound.

https://soundcloud.com/mgzurc/01-opium-wars-050216

Lots of ambience and distant delays.

Boss TR2, with depth all the way, a barely noticeable rate, and maximum sawtooth.

T-40, swollen pickle, LH1000, Peavey vb 215 (monster cab)
https://youtu.be/y_V_IT_qHoc

I used to have a T 40. Awesome bass. Weighed about 600 lbs.

Great vid dangling fury. Solid stuff.

Thanks. I almost dread band practice with that damn thang on my shoulder.

My SG gothic with overwound bridge T-top rolled down 8.5/9 -> gritty/breaking up amp sound -> boost pedal on to make the sound better -> OD or fuzz pedal on.

I dig my tone

but ya wouldnt 5 more legit tones be nice too for diff styles

Ill take a matamp gt1 with a side of orange or120 at FULL BLAST

I nodded my JCM800 to run loud and clean like an old Super Lead.

Swapped out all cheap caps with mustard cap replicas, removed brite cap and treble peaking circuit on input, piggy backed a cap on one particular resistor to "gain focus" extra mids.

Marshall slant with V30s

Use a Boss Blues Driver which I did the Keeley mods to and a few other things I found online.

This pedal sounds the closest to the amp by itself dimed.

Master between 6 and 7 depending on the drummer/stage size, Pre Amp on 1.2 or until the FOH guy starts looking at me.

1979 Ibanez Iceman w/SD Custom 5 bridge and Gibson 57 classic neck. Both zebra because fuck yeah.

Previous genius owner added coil tap switches, which I rarely use.

So have bridge tap the coil, and the neck takes tone cap in/out of circuit for woman tone at the flick of a switch.

The range of tones I can get through this configuration is staggering.

General sound is beefed up early 70s Marshall/Les Paul rock tone.

Can get a metal tone by digging in harder, yet there is actually so little overdrive I have to coax my rig into feeding back.


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Gibson into Marshall, but that's oversimplified.

Standard D 432, hot to medium ceramic bucker (SH5, 500T, HB103B, DSD, and my fave, the Fluence Modern).

Originally ran a JCM900 2500 head. Found an ideal version of that sound in more or less every Tech 21 amp pedal or pre, so I sold the one trick pony.

My basic stew is Iommi with a bunch of Hetfield and some Cobain thrown in.

I've found various amps that 'do it'- Valveking, JCM2000, H&K, Laney. And frankly the supa scoopa guys can keep overpaying for 5150s and Mesas.

I used to just fucking WRECK dudes in their own band with a Tri-A.C. feeding a flat Peavey SS combo. Would bypass the Tri for tuning up, watch the sour "he ain't got no tone" look appear, click it on & whack the open 'E' position, and everyone's grinning at me...except 5150 boy :-)

I have a hot biased AOR100 that I LOVE, & a handwired Plexi Lead clone.

But, going to record with one of my dream drummers in a month. Can't really risk driving my car back to LA to unpawn my gear.

So...VS100RH, LTD Viper 400 with Fluence, a Mode Four Cab later...ready to thrash, and doom is just a few knob turns away. Getting a GDI21 and a Switchbone to run a DI track at the same time, & if I'm not satisfied with the Valvestate pre, then my $30 GT2 clone will stand in for my Tri AC.

Viper w Fluence - 330 if I don't sell the 81/85 it came with.
VS100RH- $120 shipped.
MF400A - $249

$600 and I'm ready. Whopping $750 with the GDI21 & Switchbone.

Snagging a Slick bass for the session, ash, brass saddles, fretjob, killer pickup and overall vibe, 290 shipped.

Lotsa guys have more invested in one cab than that.

Omnitone - Marshalls cover it all, ACDC, Cream, Who to Sabbath & Magnet to Prong, Fear Factory, Death & Hatebreed.

I can chug, doom, thrash, scream, segue from Ziggy to Territory to Zero Bias Resistor to Aenema to Sunshine of y
Your Love, and barely fuck with a setting at all. I never tweak my eq once I find 'it'. And my 'serious' guitars are ALL 1H.

Fuck a Bogner or whatever the amp of the week is. Or...don't. Marshalls are passé! Djent & or hipster away!

Awww fuck it, got my rig anyway...drive up prices if you must! ;-)

The sound of Mah dick slapping my bass  8)

Ouch :D


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 :o

Hope you're at least using flatwounds, ST.

I always wear protection lamb skin have  a very "natural tone"

A rare bass cab family portrait.

Dietz 2x15 and Mergilli Innovations replica Dietz 2x15

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That looks... substantial.

Sounds that way too


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mm 2 15 inch speakers in a front vented cab.... Nice thick sound, Bet it's really bouncy huh? Try pairing it with a rear vented 4 12 for a nice mid range growl.

I met the guy who helped design the Dietz 2x15 cabs.

He said when they were shopping for speaker companies to pair with, EV was on board but said "Let US design the cab AROUND the speakers."

Very distinct sound with plenty of mid growl as well.

The Mergilli replica cab is build slightly different and even with the same pair of speakers just doesn't have the character of the Dietz


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