skytimesfive's forum posts 49

its literally just an atk300 with no pickguard and a weird inlay on the fingerboard.

most of the atk series was great so its probably a decent bass if you dont hate the stupid inlay

though the fz2 has always been an at home only pedal for me. i live 10 miles away from where electric wizard are from... people judge you for being too big a copycat haha

haha absolutely man, valve amps and fuzz. cant go wrong

i usually have some kind of distortion on most of the time so... proco rat i guess

borrowing amps can be pretty awful, other peoples cabs however and using my head. oh how i love those ampeg 8x10s

further evidence to noel gallagher being a weirdo, he used to have his monitors be just vocals nothing else

definetely worth trying! ive talked to a few people even led to gary mader remembering me and saying hi after i saw eyehategod recently! whats the worst that can happen

aint no girl worth flying to india. though i have heard tell of a generous ugandan prince who wants to give me £500000...

Ah, I can't say I've ever seen or heard one as far as I'm aware, I know the guy who played bass in grief used one but I think he used a Peavey pa amp on their album recordings. Sadly I think the next amp purchase of mine will be something a little lighter and easier to move around as taking my sound city head to rehearsal spaces on busses is... As in sure you can imagine a massive pain in the arse

ive heard of the jcm800 super basses... id very much like one sometime

looks like a 2 input so master volume? hopefully the imgur thing works i dont know how else to attach the picture. i think he probably had the master volume on 10 though they were stupid loud.

https://imgur.com/a/SYyYwPI

if you end up trying a new rg let me know how it is tho!

thing with them is that theres different versions of the rg100es that all sound a little different let alone the new ones. apparently the oldest first run rg100s that are just normal black tolex are good, the ones that followed them that have the carpetey stuff covering it are good the ones past that... apparently shit. although when i saw eyehategod a few months back jimmy bower was using the new rg1003h, but that wouldve been a rental amp because shipping his old rg100es over to the uk wouldve been expensive i dont remember the guitar tone being anything spectacular church of misery were opening and their guitarist had a marshall jmp that thing sounded phenomenal

although he had the crazy (way rarer and more expensive) 180 watt version and i have no idea if he was running pedals into it

i know someone who used to have an ashdown fallen angel and that sounded fucking AMAZING they look fairly cheap for a big head

the good ones of those old randalls seem to be getting expensive from the dimebag / literally every new orleans metal band connection (eyehategod, acid bath, crowbar, goatwhore etc), the rg100es's seem to go for like a grand now

just reading a different thread and some guy mentioned used amps they got, one being a bass amp... if you just want a pedal platform would that possibly be something to consider, getting a little bass combo might get you more wattage per £ than guitar stuff if youre just gonna get all your gain from a pedal. im not sure if thered be a downside to doing that though i cant say im much of an amp expert.

ah, ive definetely liked the ones ive tried, the guy who had the little combo also had a yba1 that i aaaaaalllmost bought off him but i couldnt get the money together, theyre really rare to find in the uk, maybe ill have to cough up the money to ship a monoblock over from the states but that would have to be a few years in the future...

have to say i didnt know there was new traynors, ive heard good things about the old monoblock bass heads, but sadly they seem to not exist over here

Proco rat and a tuner, other stuff comes and goes

+1 for traynor, I played one a friend has I think it was a ygm3? Little 1x12 thing but definitely punched above it's wattage rating

oh also looks like hes got a pathfinder 10 not an ac10, pathfinder 10s a little 1x6 practive amp thing

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just crank the big amp at home... fuck the neighbours ;)

havent been watching him much anymore but used to waste hours watching daves world of fun stuff, the whole channels literally this one dude setting up guitars in his basement, i found it quite thereputic

dont disregard older peavey stuff too, its all personal preference but ive got a peavey bravo 112 i quite like i think it could get pretty loud if you push the volume but the distortion channel might be a bit metally for some. i dont really know much about any of the other models but im sure theres probably some decent stuff?

oh how i would love a fridge cab... maybe in the future.

with the strings though im not sure if tuning down lighter gauge strings or tuning up a lighter gauge 5 string set is more common, i do know a couple people whove used something like 120 for their thickest. when i first started having to tune down i think i put a 125 to 60 from a 5 string set and it was a little too much tension for me. its definetely worth trying a few different sets and finding what works for you. if youre into the technical thing of ammount of tension i think theres a calcultor on the string joy website where you can put in what note youre tuning too and whatever gauge and itll tell you the tension of that gauge tuned to that note and you can compare to what you normally like in standard and get something similar tension, all thats a bit too technical for me tho

i remember quite liking dingwall but i only tried one for 5 minutes or so in a music shop, laklands have always looken really nice...

oh yeah no highs... he has one of those darkglass heads that has eq sliders not knobs and the sliders can light up so if you look closely you can see his settings... highs on 0. oh and both him and the guitarist (guitarists in the earlier days) tone knob rolled all the way back too

thats a good way to think about a heavy amp... hopefully my sound city will never be stolen the thing weighs like 30 kilos

i spoke to gary mader who plays bass in eyehategod and asked what gauge he used because they tune to c and it was 55 to 110 so ive just rolled with it

yes, but i dont use massively heavy strings i think the ones on my precision are 55 to 110? theyre pretty old but they do have a little bit of flop, ive developed a bit of a lighter touch if im on a clean sound and i pluck the string too hard it can sound a bit farty... less of an issue with distortion

im not sure i last had some a year ago or so, got them online from a place called hobgoblin music.

i think ill need light gauge strings if i set up a bass in standard but it didnt feel like too massive a change really, but obviously results will differ for different people

reading that last thing i wonder what itd be like for me to switch from c standard to e... i shall investigate!

i think the guy from cannibal corpse is pretty well known for the 3 finger thing, i think there was even a couple pages about it in the bass book he wrote

an example of finding something you like that you didnt consider is music mans for me, i always did (and still do) think theyre ugly as can be but i tried one in andertons a while back and it felt amazing, even sounded great too i think the guy working there plugged me into some kindof gallien krueger. im still to vein (and poor) to consider getting one though...

i cant comment about the extra wood of a 5 effecting tone or anything, i know theres people like lee sklar who are of the opinion of "if theres one sing i need to play in the set ill do it all on a 5". with the string gauge, 110 is my preference but really its all different for how people play so definetely experiment if you go on the path of down tuning a 4 string ive ended up with 55 to 110 sets because im constanly being told things are in different tunings by guitar players and its playable both in e standard down to uhhhh you could probably just about get away with a low b but itd be pretty floppy. if you were to tune bead it would make sense to use the gauges of a 5 string set but you may find the thick string feels odd for me about a year or so i had to tune to b standard for a while and went through 65 to 130, 60 to 125 and ended up using a weird hybird of things from different sets i think i ended up with a 120 from a pyramid drop c set, 95 or 100 or somethuing then 55 and 75. with bass strings being so expensive dont count out asking on forums for peoples old strings in the uk basschat is great i dont know where youre at though.

as a final thing just remember talking about it online is no subsititute to actually trying a bass in person, definitely go and try a few 5 stringers if you can it might you might find something thats right up your alley you didnt think about!

i mean if youre only dropping your low string 1/2 a step or a whole step, maybe just keep to a 4. its all personal preference i guess but ive never like 5 strings myself and i dont get when you hear people say like you need a 5 string if you need to play a low d on a song. maybe swap the e string for a 110 if you want to drop it a little more it should hold tension okish down to a c or so