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Living in an apartment and working the 11:30a-8:00p shift means I can only record direct and give the illusion I'm playing through my amps

But it's really helped me in a mastering sense, making things seem larger than they really are

I have the same luck with gear. It hardly ever leaves the fucking house anymore but there always seems to be a problem with this or that. I'm apparently really rough when I play guitar and bass

Ancient Astronaught wrote:It goes great, loving the new tele. Did yours ever make it in?

Oh and BigChief, this thread is by no means Doom only, its more a conglomerate of all heavy and slow music. Whether it be doom, stoner, sludge, alt country, ambient / soundscape, etc, etc If its slow and heavy (sometimes fast n heavy) you'll find find kindred spirit lovers of the same music here!

Yeah, it arrived an hour ago!

It's light, resonant, and is in solid condition. Sonically, the bridge single-coil is tight, balanced and loves dirt. The neck humbucker is a little dull and flat in comparison. It's not a bad pickup by any stretch, but it's not what I expected. I was anticipating a bright, airy type of sound. But this is dark and dull. I might mess around with the height a little before considering swapping it out. The fretboard is in good condition, despite one nasty ding. The finish is quite clammy and not smooth like my Ibanez Artist. I'll be taking it to my tech to restring it with 12's and drop it down to C, perfect the intonation and fret spacing, and see what he can do about smoothing out the fretboard. The back of the neck is satin, and the shape is comfortable, however. As far as the radius, it's fine. It's ideal for chords, just as people have been saying, but even for bending and leads I think I can become accustomed to it. There is some fretting out with big bends, though on the higher frets. That'll have to be sorted out.

bigchiefbc wrote:In that case, check out Desbot:

http://desbot.bandcamp.com/

The bassist from Jakob did a solo drone/doom/ambient thing before going in to do the new Jakob album. Listen with a good sub, it shakes the fuck out of my walls!

Will have a listen now.

skullservant wrote:So I finished my cover of War Pigs for Iron Fuzz last night. Mastered it this morning and did the artwork and everything:

It is titled Battle Swine (War Pigs Cover) by my solo black metal project Savage Cross.
It was recorded, mixed, and mastered 01162013-01172013 by myself.
Turns out it was more of a drone cover than anything else!

Listen and download here:
http://algeadestruction.bandcamp.com/al ... pigs-cover

I love this track! A while ago, I was majorly into power electronics a while ago -- Brighter Death Now, En Nihil, Anenzephalia, and the like -- so I hope that you won't take offense by my asking, in what manner is this a cover of War Pigs?

skull servant, are you using the big spider for that hell tone?

object88 wrote:I love this track! A while ago, I was majorly into power electronics a while ago -- Brighter Death Now, En Nihil, Anenzephalia, and the like -- so I hope that you won't take offense by my asking, in what manner is this a cover of War Pigs?

Hey thanks man! I took two of the root riffs of the track and focused on them through out the song. The bass track is the opening riff slowed down, and then the guitar that comes in is the second power chord that comes in after the main riff. I had made a straight up cover at half speed but I thought it was kind of boring, so I went into the drone/noise/black metal realm and I'm pretty pleased with it. The stipulation was I had to use chorus (which I fucking LOATHE), so it was nice to make something dimented enough to use the chorus with and not make it sound like shit

Pizza wrote:skull servant, are you using the big spider for that hell tone?

It's a giant mix of all three of those pedals- Big Spider into Landmine into ODB-3

The Big Spider was used on bass with the Landmine to take out the midscoop and add feedback, and the ODB-3 is really just to add balls and low end!

I wish there was more of a doom or sludge scene in the UK. Especially in the south; it's so boring around here, and no one EVER replies to my ads.

skullservant wrote:Living in an apartment and working the 11:30a-8:00p shift means I can only record direct and give the illusion I'm playing through my amps

But it's really helped me in a mastering sense, making things seem larger than they really are

I have the same luck with gear. It hardly ever leaves the fucking house anymore but there always seems to be a problem with this or that. I'm apparently really rough when I play guitar and bass

What DAW or virtual guitar rig do you use? I used to have a copy of Guitar Rig, but I can't get the latest version(s) to run right anymore...being torrented and all. I used to use the hell out of that to add all the crazy effects and such that I didn't have at the time. I've been wanting to run my guitar into my pedals, to the mixer for boost/EQ, then into a virtual amp simulator of some kind so I can write whenever I feel like it again.....

Good jorb on the War Pigs cover, btw. Fuckin' dark.

Thanks man!!

I use Garageband. I've been using it for years for both recording and drum programming.
For guitar I use my pedalboard without any sort of amp simulation to it. That's usually why I record with different pedals than what I use when playing through my cabs. I can get a really close sound to my Big Muff out of the pedals in that picture!

I just put down for a kickstarter for a new turntable

That looks awesome

i loathe kickstarter but that looks snazzy as shit...

yea ~275 for the unit but that is a good bargain compared to the level of stuff they put into it. A very nice magnetic elliptical cartridge, nice pivot arm, and a nice platter. Going to replace my crappy Sony one. Eventually I would like a nice set of speakers, a good 6dj8 phono pre coupled with a 2 band EQ (james/bax) and then a 100W tube stereo

The only thing that would worry me would be that belt breaking and it costing $20 or something to replace

unless someone was fuckin around it shouldnt break plus since its visible its easier to fix. Oh it does come with a cover to that goes over it.