The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[theavondon]

Seeing Sweet Cobra, Pig Destroyer, Municipal Waste and High on Fire tomorrow night at Dark Lord Day in Indiana. Pretty stoked. It's been a few years since I've seen Pig Destroyer and High On Fire.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH JELLY

[AxAxSxS]

Sounds like a hell of a show. Just sent my old drummer a heads up, he's out that way.

[Iommic Pope]

Man, Bayer is about as close to a real life evil super corporation as you can get - it's fucking gnarly how they roll.

This is true. They really started to bump up their stock value when they began making chemical weapons for the Nazis. That is no lie.

Well, the stock value part is...but they did suck Nazi dick and kill people for Nazi gold.

The Kowloon Walled Bunny looks very interesting...this thread does not help my GAS. Also, all this talk of Microamps etc. led me to this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxgzDhoWcNc[/youtube]
which seems like it should be the tits for making you sound like this (turn off the sound, obviously its a visual gag):

NSFW: show

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Basj6AMK71w[/youtube]

but I can't find a decent review/demo of it anywhere. Don't suppose anyone here has any experience with it?
Would it be better for thickening than a comp? Would it be overkill to run it with a comp?
Or would it sound:

NSFW: show

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmA3swCcwzs[/youtube]

???
What say you all?

[t-rey]

Yeah, Skullbro modded my DOD250 to KWB-ish specs a little while ago. It's definitely a big part of their "clean" tone.

But mine has a starve mode. The DoS Walled Dirge-y.

Hmmmm...now I'm all sorts of intrigued.

KWC Drop A# tuning confirmed:

Holy fuck, they make all dem heavies with a Blues Drive and the KWB?

The lulz with that video won't stahp! He sounds like this guy I know who tells me that stoner/doom isn't really heavy music.

I'm going to go ahead and assume the he either wears corpse paint or loves Slipknot.

[t-rey]

speaking of black metal of sorts, jammin this again

http://interarma.bandcamp.com/

also this chive pic collection

http://thechive.com/2013/04/26/a-few-ex ... 15-photos/

ROLFMAO

That is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the chive.

Semi related - I keep trying to tell the wife if we have a son the middle name should be Danger. Or Hurricane. Hurricane Willis: White Trash folk hero.

[D.o.S.]

Yeah, Skullbro modded my DOD250 to KWB-ish specs a little while ago. It's definitely a big part of their "clean" tone.

But mine has a starve mode. The DoS Walled Dirge-y.

Hmmmm...now I'm all sorts of intrigued.

Relevant quotes from the build thread, skully's mods and my review:

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It's been a busy week here with personal stuff going on.
I finished up the DOD 250 today for DOS.
True bypassed/LED install/DC jack/larger input cap/starve to get a blown amp sound/socketed diodes/green LED + germanium for clipping diodes.

Ok, so.

I don't know how familiar y'all are with the stock 250 reissue, but it's a one-trick pony. With the gain at ten and some boost in front of it you get that Al Cisneros early OM thing going, with the gain dialed back/not so much boost you get a tighter type of crush and rattle, but nothing you do is going to change the pedal's initial character--it's squarely in that CLASSIC RAWK mode of vanishing into the mix while sounding great solo'd. If you're covering Variations on a Theme, it's one-stop shopping. If you're not, there are some things to be desired. It loses a bunch of low end. It has no LED. It inspires mimicry, not innovation.

It should be noted that the amps I use are "classically voiced tube amps." Not trying to be a douche or a humble bragger, but when you're discussing dirt these things are important.

So, with our ears appropriately attuned to various loud crushing crush noises and the bands that make them, the DIRGE 250 was born. It has more low end. It is a whole lot looser. It has a starve for that "super hungry" tone. It is bitey, but surprisingly low gain--this is probably due to the fact that it now has more low end, so you hear more than just BZZZT BZZT SCRAPY CLANK CLANK DUZZZZZZZ. It's grown up a little bit--it doesn't thow down at the Distortion Social Club as much, but instead it sits at home and fasts and meditates on how weirdly blurry it sounds now that its balls have dropped. It is now an always on.

And it stacks like a motherfucker. I'm throwing it behind a Supercollider, and it melts faces. It takes the smooth malts of a Steroid'd Big Muff and throws in fifteen bushels of hops. What sounds like super zoney, echo of empty space, hotdog down a hallway low end on its own turns into body rattling juevos. And that's at unity volume. I haven't had a boner this hard since I watched two chicks go at it in a filthy basement while I was off my tits on E.

Shit is awesome. Will try to get some clips, but that's a 50/50 proposition at this point.

[Holy Schnikes]

Finished up my Tele mods last night, all ready to roll. I'm loving the new Bare Knuckles plus 4-way switch mod. Every position sounds totally unique and awesome, and that series position (pseudo humbucker) absolutely RIPS! Plus they sound nice and fat while retaining some Tele bite. The Callaham bridge/saddles also contributed to a VERY noticeable increase in both resonance and sustain, quite pleased.

In the last two weeks I went to town on it, adding/swapping the following:

-Black anodized pickguard
-Bare Knuckles Blackguard Flat '50 set
-4-way switch mod
-Callaham bridge plate and saddles
-Switchcraft output jack
-Kilo brushed aluminum knobs
-Jensen cap
-Oversized strap buttons

Think that about covers it. Perfect now.

[dazedbyday]

So I just had an idea that I figured I would ask your opinions about. I have some stereo reverb and delay pedals that might be cool to take advantage of. So I figure I could use them and run the stereo delay into my sovtek through the 4x12 and also into sunn concert bass through a 1x15. I think some of you guys run a stereo rig? What do you guys do to make the most of it?

[AxAxSxS]

I run a tri rig, I optimize the soundtronics 200W for bass through the Gk folded 4x12/2x10, and I run the 2 100W heads through more cenventional 2x12, 4x12 and 2x15 cabs set up to emphasize mids and highs. I try to set everything to complement each other and round out the whole sound.

[dazedbyday]

Cool. Thats the idea I was tossing around in my head. Use the sunn for more lows since I don't think the 4x12 is actually reproducing the fundamental frequency of my low a string. And I would maybe get some more swirly sound with the stereo delay. Although I would probably leave the cabs stacked so I wouldn't actually get a true stereo image.

[misterstomach]

Saw absu last night. It was fucking killer. Y'all should definitely go if they're coming to your town. The guitar tone wasn't good, but it worked for their style and the overall sound was great.

I run a stereo rig. I split the chain at the beginning and run two totally separate dirt chains to each amp. One gets fuzz, the other gets distortion. Sounds huge. Right now I only have delay and reverb on the fuzz side, which is sounding pretty good, though I may buy more pedals and change that.

[conky]

I wish my guitarist would buy another head so I can run a dual rig again.

[AxAxSxS]

Yeah I'm fortunate that I'm a gear hoarder and have extra heads. Won't ever have that problem.
Practice today was tight. New drummer continues to impress me and be a cool dude. I think we really lucked out hooking up with this guy. Started working on getting the new song together. May start recording it weds. See how it goes.

[misterstomach]

I wish my guitarist would buy another head so I can run a dual rig again.

Our other guitarist only has one head and it doesn't stop me. It sounds great. He can crank it and keep up in volume so there's no disparity. It just adds to my tone and makes the overall sound even better. I wish he'd get another head, but I'm not going to let it hold me back. I wouldn't do it if he only had a half stack or something, but I'm not interested in playing with half stacks anyway.

[deathmonkey]

I wish my guitarist would buy another head so I can run a dual rig again.

Our other guitarist only has one head and it doesn't stop me. It sounds great. He can crank it and keep up in volume so there's no disparity. It just adds to my tone and makes the overall sound even better. I wish he'd get another head, but I'm not going to let it hold me back. I wouldn't do it if he only had a half stack or something, but I'm not interested in playing with half stacks anyway.

Was going to reply, but this is exactly the situation I am in a well. Well said!