dumpsterbassist's forum posts 615

exactly. take it to your $3000 one instead. mashing internet sarcasm button

ha. narcist, thats a good story.

oooooh.... that honestly sounds awesome. Carvin guitars... I've never tried one before.

Hmm.

To be honest, most Gibsons.. chunky necks peeve me on a guitar, I like to be able to play on a thin, wide neck. I played three Fenders and three Gibsons today, all different models, and to me the Fenders were better by FAR. I also tried an Ibanez RG350 and that beat the Gibsons to me as well, which I didnt expect.

the closest I'm getting on their website is the Airline Twin Tone.

i'll keep looking. never seen that bridge before. who uses it? who are you looking to submit it to?

I mean, this is getting out of hand, Ed.

Write your own songs.

I ditched my meds and now I feel creative as hell but I can't get it out onto paper.

I can read very very limitedly.

that's true. i understand NOTHING. that's why I asked. ok.

aight. i feel. thanks for the advice.

My band plays this one song, Old Wounds by PUP, and it's really loud and aggressive. But we're all playing with oversized bedroom amps, and can only go so loud. So what if I found a way to mod my amp so it literally had an "11" position on the knob, which would be just an all-out everything boost? No tone alteration at all. Possible?

This.

Thinlines especially.

It's not Fender. I've played Fender instruments that are set up beautifully, and when I go to any music store they're terrible. It doesn't help that they need to be set up again every two weeks.

props to you then.

my lead guitarist is already scraping by, and my rhythm guitarist is my roommate.

there's the first roadblock- none of us have the money for tubes. the second is that we have some heavier stuff. using the amp settings we have, we can dial in a 1977 type tone. for newer, more distorted stuff, we have nothing, and Fender amp gain is garbage.

...top five basses?

or like starter amps.

okay, if you want an idea tone-wise listen to "Drown With The Monster" by White Lung.

Mostly we cover any punk/pop punk from the last 20 years, and when I demo'd the pedal I could get all the tones we needed, from early Fall Out Boy to Basket Case to NOFX to Slipknot to even a Sabbath-esque distortion.

Edit: It isn't the best for the last two, but it will do for the rest. We don't play Slipknot either, that was just me driving the pedal's capabilities.

yeah, they also looked at the metal zone. I had to talk them down.

I would assume that it isn't a dedicated effect, because I've never heard of it before. I think you're on the right track with copy/paste. I don't really know, thoug, because I don't have a ton of experience.

Opinions? The guitarists want them. I like them.

I should. I made snide remarks about my friend going to a Fall Out Boy concert by asking him how hot the vocalist is.

also forgot to mention that I played cello for a while and got a (limited) education in music theory. not that I use it or anything. I'm not classically trained, I taught myself to play in my garage.

This seems like a great childhood.

EDIT: Non sarcastic.

they're a great live show. they play (most) of the instruments live, so you have one guy behind a drum kit and the other guy frantically running from mic stand to a piano to a synth pad then backstage to grab his bass then the synth again and so on. they do this cool thing where the non-drummer disappears offstage and reappears five seconds later in the middle of the crowd. Lots of singing along. Lots of eyeliner. Merch too tight. Made me feel fat.

i listened to like five seconds of their top most downloaded song on spotify before giving up. don't remember the name, but it wasn't for me.

in equiqboard forum, pedal use Kirk.

yep. that's what I said

true

my friend loves ween

also, as a three year old I fantasized about shooting britney spears and dating avril lavigne (back when she was a skater chick).

yeah, but he was like an adolescent trapped in a married man's 220lb body. he would have been skating if he could have.

twenty one pilots slipknot rancid PUP

When I was three, my dad used to play me Nimrod by Green Day and Paranoid by black sabbath. That was what I grew up on. Then, from third to sixth grade, I had this indie-pop phase, and also a folk-rock thing on the side. I also heard a My Chemical Romance song on the radio during this era and fell in love. Bt I never listened to it again, because I forgot about it. That sidetracked me for years. Bam- seventh grade. I find some metal shit buried in my dad's iPod Mini from 1996. And that was my metal phase kicked off.

So, I started a band in eighth grade with one friend. i said I'd drum. I tried to drum. I couldn't drum. It was a nu-metal/thrash band, and we played lots of Slipknot, Korn, Linkin Park, etc. I was like, "Man, I can't do this," to the guitarist/vocalist. He kicked me out. So my uncle came ovr and gave me this beat-to-shit, chipped ass Ibanez bass and said "Try this. I don't need it anymore." So I learned "Sliver" by Nirvana, and that was how I got into grunge. For a year or so I played grunge shit in my bedroom, and all I wanted to do was be Kurt Cobain but bass.

So I formed my own band in mid 10th grade. And this one guy was like "Yo Mikey you hear that new green day album?" So I went to the store, picked that shit up, and got back into shitty pop punk. The, I saw that My Chemical Romance album on the shelf, and bought that too. So we played that, incorporating grunge and pop and punk into one band.

Then we got bored. And grew up. And got (slightly) less edgy. We got tattoos and started skating. So we got into skate punk.

And that was a phase as we rotated members. And then, this year, I found an indie punk band caalled PUP this fall, and now we have this Black Flag-meets-Descendents vibe.

So... yeah.

Thats how I feel- with all members. The rhythm guitarst and I are the only two constants.

yep.

hm. i dunno, we have three songs written by the lead guitarist, four sons by me, four songs cowritten with the drummer, and one song we did entirely from scratch all together. the rhythm guitarist dislikes songwriting, so he doesn't usually.

yeah, we take two ten-minute breaks for me to drink/rest and for the teens we play for to get some goddamn first aid. one kid cut his head in my mic stnd like three weeks ago and that turned into a fifteen minute break because the dumbass kids didn't realize he wasn't dying.

okay, thanks for advice. for the recording we're working on i have three options now:

-wait to get back with this drummer and organize shit -drum myself -hire a session drmmer