I want a Science Amplifier

[UglyCasanova]

Nice goatse carpet, amazing setup!

[odontophobia]

Nice goatse carpet, amazing setup!

fucking lol.

[Science Amps]

Bought a place and moved most of my stuff in over the weekend. Got some amps set up late last night but haven't had a chance to fire anything up. Maybe tonight...

Damn, David, congratulations on the new place! I'm imagining the real estate agent showing you houses while you're just thinking: "I wonder if the neighbors could hear if I put the amps in this room..."

[whoismarykelly]

Bought a place and moved most of my stuff in over the weekend. Got some amps set up late last night but haven't had a chance to fire anything up. Maybe tonight...

Damn, David, congratulations on the new place! I'm imagining the real estate agent showing you houses while you're just thinking: "I wonder if the neighbors could hear if I put the amps in this room..."

Ha! I definitely walked into this room and thought, and this is where the amps will go

[PeteeBee]

Bought a place and moved most of my stuff in over the weekend. Got some amps set up late last night but haven't had a chance to fire anything up. Maybe tonight...

Ever run all 3? I know you were running stereo for a while

[whoismarykelly]

I've never run in stereo. In one of my bands I run both a bass rig and a guitar rig at the same time live. I could run all three amps at once although the Mother would end up just getting the dry front end signal with no delay or reverb as those are in the loop of the Decolonizer.

[PeteeBee]

Gotcha. That's what I meant, you octave down for the bass right? Somehow you made the setup work that everyone dreams about and gives up on haha

[waltdogg]

Makes me wanna connect my Mother to my tuner's bypass and run my Hellhawk and V-4 from my ABY...

[Iommic Pope]

DO IT.

Also, anyone heard any news about the 2016 lineup yet?

[whoismarykelly]

Gotcha. That's what I meant, you octave down for the bass right? Somehow you made the setup work that everyone dreams about and gives up on haha

I went through so many iterations to get there.

The question people ask is essentially "how can I do this with one cheap piece of gear" and that's why most people fail. To do it right is expensive in both infrastructure (isolated splitter) and pedals that get the actual job done. I think a lot of guys want to pull a dual rig off with just a POG running dry out to guitar and wet out to bass. It works... sort of. But its a poor facsimile of bass tone. You need the octave, EQ, preamp, and a good head and cab to do fake bass well. Its anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars. If you aren't going to build your entire sound out of it you probably don't want to spend that much to have fun at home. It also means playing things that work with that sound and changing your writing to fit the rig. It becomes everything about your band and tone. Its also kind of depressing that your beautiful guitar tone that you work so hard for gets buried under the super gnarly bass tone most of the time.

[PeteeBee]

The question people ask is essentially "how can I do this with one cheap piece of gear" and that's why most people fail. To do it right is expensive in both infrastructure (isolated splitter) and pedals that get the actual job done. I think a lot of guys want to pull a dual rig off with just a POG running dry out to guitar and wet out to bass. It works... sort of. But its a poor facsimile of bass tone. You need the octave, EQ, preamp, and a good head and cab to do fake bass well. Its anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars. If you aren't going to build your entire sound out of it you probably don't want to spend that much to have fun at home. It also means playing things that work with that sound and changing your writing to fit the rig. It becomes everything about your band and tone. Its also kind of depressing that your beautiful guitar tone that you work so hard for gets buried under the super gnarly bass tone most of the time.

Yeah it's the songwriting that confuses me the most. I don't think most of my guitar playing translates well straight to bass, so I'd have to change everything, not just my gear. Way too much work for this guy.

[whoismarykelly]

It works really well for fast heavy grind music but if you were playing detailed little riffs sometimes that stuff gets lost. I dont actually use the live rig when I record. I write and record all the super low pitch bass parts with another equally annoying rig with its own hassles.

[casecandy]

I'm working towards an octave setup like this and your advice is priceless, thanks. I do indeed want to structure my entire sound this way; I get pretty bored playing without the octave, actually. Do you mind going into the relevant particulars of your signal chain? I'm super interested in the details. What EQ do you use? What are the settings?

FYI Josh Scogin is my favourite player who structures his rig/songwriting around octave playing.

[waltdogg]

What. The. Fuck.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBg1oS8CBk8 ... iondevices

[DRodriguez]

Every time I see a post in this thread, I hope it's the 2016 line. Thanks for nothing waltdogg.

That definitely does have a mother-y aesthetic, I wouldn't quite call it a clone though. My pitchfork stays in the shed for now unless someone enlightens me further.