The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[LOCOPELAND]

I wasn't paying attention to his pedalchain, or if he even had one, but those guys just crushed.

And YES! McCoy's is great! Fuck, Olympia is great. Love that fuckin' town.

[AngryGoldfish]

Tell them the ape blaster is perfect for djent and youll sell 10000 sounds just like periphery guizz@!!


Speaking of that, I just bought my first custom knife...itll be here next week hopefully.

That's essentially what they're saying when they recommend a Bogner for Doom. I had a stupid argument with someone on Youtube last year with some guy who thought a Matchless could play heavy metal because it had a lot of distortion. I told the guy that it was comparable to playing lounge room jazz on a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier or on a Peavey 6505. It'll do the job. It's still an amplifier that amplifies your signal, but it'll sound like shit. It's the wrong tool for the job. He was a spanner who needed to be a wrench.

Seen Swans last night.
Literally the best live band ever known to man.
It was so loud it made me sore. Their tone is amazing, drum sound, everything about them was incredible. I would travel anywhere in the world to see them now. They played for 2 hours.
Some of the things they were doing were mind blowing... Michael Gira's crazy dance moves were actually conducting the band I noticed..
Met them all after the show, VERY funny/down to earth dudes.

I hate when big bands only play for an hour. I'm exhausted after an hour and a half, but I pay a lot of money to see shows so I expect to be exhausted at the end, emotionally and physically. I lost a lot of interest in the folk singer Laura Marling when I paid a huge amount of cash to see her in Dublin. She was one of my favourite musicians at the time, with beautifully crafted songs and passionate lyrics, but her band were rubbish—they looked bored stiff—she only played for about 50 minutes, and she wasn't loud enough. I know she's a singer songwriter, but for goodness sake, the reason why we have loud music is so we can't hear our thoughts and can only pay attention to the music. If it's so quiet that people can have conversations right beside you then you're not in the moment. I pay on average $150 every time I go see a band. I'm not paying $150 to hear two girls talk about their favourite wine or three blokes chatting about Laura Marling's tits.

Ah tubgirl, that takes me back to the days when the internet was an unexplored jungle of putridities, not just a petrie dish for the fostering of a bizarre war of escalation of sexual deviancy.

[AxAxSxS]

I wasn't paying attention to his pedalchain, or if he even had one, but those guys just crushed.

And YES! McCoy's is great! Fuck, Olympia is great. Love that fuckin' town.

Hell yeah, I'm still in recovery mode. Last night felt really good, was nice to play first for a change, get there early, take our time setting up, relax and enjoy the rest of the show. Felt really good playing and I'm stoked to see how the video came out.

[LOCOPELAND]

So this happened today...





1990 creme tuxedo 4003. Man, this thing is cool!

[AxAxSxS]

You need to hurry up and pay it off so you can leave it at my place where I will not play it.

[Iommic Pope]

Ah man, that ric is killer! Nice ones man!

[Ancient Astronaught]

Do you use a cutting off of the end of the unwound strings to file those slots? I noticed that my G string is still sitting higher than the rest. I dunno if it didn't file out any at all of if it did and I just didn't do it long enough. I think I'm gonna use it as my main guitar for our first show, although I really have been getting into my LP Standard lately. It sounds so good ever since I put those Duncans in it. The only thing that I don't like about it is the sweep on the pots seem a little too fast. And I don't know if I wired something up wrong but when I turn the volume all the way down on the neck pickup I can still hear it. If i turn the volume up to one or two then the sound cuts all the way out. As I roll it up the sound comes back in.

Yes I usually cut off about 3-4" of excess string and use that as the file. Hopefully your using a wound G because this technique won't work with plain strings as they dont have any grooves to use as files. When you get it to the right depth you'll notice it pop into the nut, just be careful not to over file. I'm unfortunately no good with electronics other then wiring them up, maybe Nick can help?

So this happened today...





1990 creme tuxedo 4003. Man, this thing is cool!

Dude..... that bass is a beaut!!!!! Me n skully were just talking about these black hardware / binding ric's yesterday.




So as far as my weekend.... I went to the used gear store to pickup an infiniti looper and philosphers tone. Well we get there and they have both pedals but I find out their new so they can't do much as far as discounts, and I brought a bunch of PA gear I wasn't using and they needed to test and were really busy so me and Skully went to lunch. When we came back they had sold the infinity looper! So I was like shit what else do they have here that I could trade for..... Walking down the amp aisles I found this lil beasty!



I got it for the same value as the looper and the comp!!!!! So it had to come home with me. It's a Sterling Imports era modded to 70's single channel OL specs and has the reverb and fx loop bypassed as well as a "high gain mod". And it came with Mullard (new not NOS) power tubes, and the service tag from the mod's / restore was on the inside of the chassis from 2009, looks like it was recapped and everything. It's cleaner on the inside then the outside Anyways onto more pics:







I think I'm going to turn this into my first project amp, as I eventually want to upgrade all the pots (especially the master volume) and remount the tube sockets to the chassis instead of the pcb. Which is all pretty simple stuff. It sounds killer, me and Skully plugged in on a whim and were blown away with how good it actually sounded. I didn't want to trust a newer hiwatt but this was one of those times where i trusted my ears and I'm glad i did.

[Iommic Pope]

SCORE!

[Ancient Astronaught]

SCORE!

Danke!!!!

[skullservant]

Yeah that Hiwatt is fucking beast mode. Amazingly clean with the gain backed down which was nice to see as well. I think swapping out that MV will definitely help the sweep a bit too, since it seems to go from 0 to about 3 instantly haha

Hows it sound through your cabs??

[Ancient Astronaught]

It sounds beastly through my cabs, I've come to the conclusion that I need to get guitar 15's for my 2x15 though as they are noticeably quieter then my 4x12 which is 1/4 the wattage of the 2x15. Why does nobody offer a decent 15" guitar speaker in the 125w to 150w range? It's either 50-100 or 225+, I had the eminence legends but they sound like poo to me.

[ryan summit]

damn
nice frikkin score
thats some whim you got there
so no phil.tone huh?
next time
i woulda sent you mine with the d7 to try out
if i new you were in the market

[dazedbyday]

Cool score skip! I think you are gathering a pretty cool stable of amps to build a nice wall of sound for the drone. Are you actually planning on using all of them at once?

And conky, I think that you may either have a wonky pot or solder got inside of it. If it passes sound all the way down but then cuts out if you turn it up a bit then it makes me think that something got bridged or disconnected that shouldn't be. Quick fix would be to just replace it and then you know you have something good in there. I'm sure other electronic guys with more experience can probably tell you a more exact reason.

It maybe a bit early since it is still in the mail but I am excited since I may get it before my show on thursday, but I have one of these in the mail:



It will serve as a good back up or alternate for the other seven string I got now. I also nabbed another paf7 for the neck and decided to try the blaze neck 7 in the bridge position for something different then the air notron 7 I have in the other guitar. Skip got me inspired to grab another guitar with his seven string talk and when I found this one on sale I decided to grab it.

[Ancient Astronaught]

damn
nice frikkin score
thats some whim you got there
so no phil.tone huh?
next time
i woulda sent you mine with the d7 to try out
if i new you were in the market

I decided against it because they could only go down to 150$ and i can get them off eBay for around 100% all day long, it wasn't worth the extra 50$ to me.

[Ancient Astronaught]

Cool score skip! I think you are gathering a pretty cool stable of amps to build a nice wall of sound for the drone. Are you actually planning on using all of them at once?

And conky, I think that you may either have a wonky pot or solder got inside of it. If it passes sound all the way down but then cuts out if you turn it up a bit then it makes me think that something got bridged or disconnected that shouldn't be. Quick fix would be to just replace it and then you know you have something good in there. I'm sure other electronic guys with more experience can probably tell you a more exact reason.

It maybe a bit early since it is still in the mail but I am excited since I may get it before my show on thursday, but I have one of these in the mail:



It will serve as a good back up or alternate for the other seven string I got now. I also nabbed another paf7 for the neck and decided to try the blaze neck 7 in the bridge position for something different then the air notron 7 I have in the other guitar. Skip got me inspired to grab another guitar with his seven string talk and when I found this one on sale I decided to grab it.

Thanks!!!! Nah I will most likely just run a Master / Slave setup live for the drones as its easier to setup and tear down, I just want more variety of tone for recording. I have pretty much completed my 7 string detuned drone setup for the most part and now I want to build my post-metal / more standard tuning rig. I'm gonna use the hiwatt for this and then I'm working on building a smaller more portable pedal board and I'll be using my telemasters.


Nice score on the 7 string dude!!!! I played an Agile 2000 LP throught he hiwatt and loved it, I pulled it out to show Skully how nice the Agile's are and I believe he was thoroughly impressed even though it was their bottom of the barrel guitar.