The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[Holy Schnikes]

Lol, I saw one comment of a dude praising Sleep... but still said Aerosmith was better.

That's one confused fella right there....

[theavondon]

True test time: You doomers like this?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7fw2ilNa6I[/youtube]

[AngryGoldfish]

Ha, Matt Pike is a legend.

[.homewrecker.]

Any one a whisk(e)y lover? Pulled these in over the last couple of weeks:

[live-i-evil]

So what got you guys into Doom/stoner/downtempo music?
I cant think of anything specifically I have just always dug on doomy music. Pink Floyd was my first love mainly Animals and Meddle. I always liked Black Sabbath and then I heard Type-O-Negative. I dont really think of the as a Doom band Per se but they are pretty fucking Doomy. Ministry Filth Pig is one of my all time favorite Records and its a little doomy but again not a strictly doom band. About 4 years ago I tried out for a band that only lasted about 2 months but in that time I was introduced to Sleep, Electric Wizard, Orange Goblin, and reintroduced to Pentagram. From there ILF did the rest and now im hooked.

To be honest skateboarding got me into Slayer, Danzig, and Sabbath and Pentagram, which kind of started the quest. Then I listened to a ton of black metal and as happens when you're searching through similar genres until I found Sleep, then Boris, Colour Haze, and one of my favorites - Electric Wizard. It's been a long strange trip since then.

HOLY FUCK that new HCFX format sucks, what a shame. I can barely stand to look at it much less trudge through it, just a terrible layout and look plus my username/password are no longer recongnized.

That place is done for me thinks...

Yeah it is a shame. No ones passwords worked at first, you just have to reset it via e-mail which was easy. Let it Burn actually posted a chrome plugin that fixes the layout really easily but it just sucks to have to resort to that.

Fuck yeah you can. One rule, don't be an asshole

Pretty much the only rule back at the old Doom Room too.

True test time: You doomers like this?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7fw2ilNa6I[/youtube]

But of course. I think one of the funniest thing about the Doom Room was how everyone thought it was just a bunch of Sunn nerds when we were really all over the place in terms of what we liked. Elliott Smith and Townes Van Zandt were both posted alongside Slomatics and Boris. Also, one thing led to another from that video and ended up on one of my favorite Shallac songs, so I'll just leave this here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn_ffXVVjzY[/youtube]

[black mess]

Shellac is amazing.

[skullservant]

I fucking love Shellacccccccc

Why else would I run a Rangemaster and a compressor with my aluminum guitar into a Rusty Box? TO COP DEM TOANZ!

[black mess]

Both Albini's and Weston's guitar and bass tones are awesome. And even better live.

[AngryGoldfish]

Any one a whisk(e)y lover? Pulled these in over the last couple of weeks:

I like whiskey a lot, yeah. I recently bought a bottle of Glenmorangie, a popular brand for the UK and Ireland that I quite enjoy. I usually just drink Black Bushmills as it's widely available, decent tasting, and affordable, but I thought I'd branch out. I've never paid more than $60 for a bottle, so I'm not experienced with finer brands. This Glenmorangie is a little more flavoursome than Bushmills, and is smokier and more natural. There is a lot going on in there.


So I decided to change the strings on my new Telecaster 72 to see if a heavy set in C would help curb my lack of enthusiasm, and so far it's improved my opinion. But I had to file the nut a little to fit the strings properly (it's still not perfect), and in the process found that it's not glued in properly. The nut is LOOSE! I could probably take it out if I wanted to. It'll have to be glued back in obviously, but if I don't want to keep the guitar then I can purchase a new nut, one designed for standard tuning, because I've now filed the nut for .012's and a potential buyer might not like that. There are some more fret buzz issues now as a result of the bigger strings, so I think I'm going to take it to a tech as soon as possible and see what he can do. If he can improve it enough, I might try and find an affordable neck pickup replacement. It's just too dull and flat sounding. It sounds dead, like as if the tone knob is permanently rolled back slightly. I'm forever instinctively trying to roll the tone back up, to find it's already on ten.

[Andrew]

Any one a whisk(e)y lover? Pulled these in over the last couple of weeks:

I'd take Scotch over weed anyday.
My current collection is Laphroaig 10yr, Talisker 10yr, Glenlivet 15yr, JW Green 15yr


Some Julie Christmas love?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Dk7OocmtY[/youtube]

[black mess]

Be aware that those wide range pups are not exactly the same size as regular humbuckers.

[Abanoise]

Some Julie Christmas love?

One of the best songs I've ever heard...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wScX-ao9ZU[/youtube]

[Andrew]

I've heard that she's putting out a new Solo album sometime soon, but she has the tiniest online trail and can hardly find any other info. I really liked 'That Bad Wife' and if her last 2 track EP is anything to go by, i'm going to adore it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnTMWqJYbxM[/youtube]

[Ancient Astronaught]

So I decided to change the strings on my new Telecaster 72 to see if a heavy set in C would help curb my lack of enthusiasm, and so far it's improved my opinion. But I had to file the nut a little to fit the strings properly (it's still not perfect), and in the process found that it's not glued in properly. The nut is LOOSE! I could probably take it out if I wanted to. It'll have to be glued back in obviously, but if I don't want to keep the guitar then I can purchase a new nut, one designed for standard tuning, because I've now filed the nut for .012's and a potential buyer might not like that. There are some more fret buzz issues now as a result of the bigger strings, so I think I'm going to take it to a tech as soon as possible and see what he can do. If he can improve it enough, I might try and find an affordable neck pickup replacement. It's just too dull and flat sounding. It sounds dead, like as if the tone knob is permanently rolled back slightly. I'm forever instinctively trying to roll the tone back up, to find it's already on ten.

If you want to increase brightness similar to basically extending the treble range on your tone knob then you could increase the vol + ton pot values. I believe it comes with 250k pots which are designed for a lot of treble roll off to use with single coil pickups, which when used with humbuckers they make them sound muddy / dull and low end heavy. I have the same guitar but its made in mexico not japan and I plan on upgrading the WRHB pot values to 1 meg as i hear that opens them up the most. As far as the bigger strings you'll need a full setup to get rid of the fretbuzz, I'm using .11's with no real issues. And as far as the nut if you can actually pull it out do so and put a dab of superglue in the nut channel (just a tiny lil dab) and stick it back in and position it then let it dry for a few minutes and you'll be good to go.

[Chankgeez]

I'd take Scotch over weed anyday.

That's so un-Doom.

If I had the power to banish you from this thread, I think I would.