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The Mesa is a 200 watt Buster bass head from the early 90s, so I use it as is I suppose. When I run both rigs, I run stereo out of the EHX Cathedral straight into both heads. Neither head likes to run at 2 ohms (both cabs are 4 ohms), and I will usually run one rig or the other for my indie-rock band. I pretty much have both heads set for the same sound...just more of it.

metalinthenight wrote:The Mesa is a 200 watt Buster bass head from the early 90s, so I use it as is I suppose. When I run both rigs, I run stereo out of the EHX Cathedral straight into both heads. Neither head likes to run at 2 ohms (both cabs are 4 ohms), and I will usually run one rig or the other for my indie-rock band. I pretty much have both heads set for the same sound...just more of it.

Gotcha. That's awesome, man.

Escalating the arms-race.

Yes.
Yes please.

Mmmm Mmm good

I did a quick video of the rig we had in the recording studio for our bands first album.

we both ran two cabs, my mate ran his Krank into 2 cabs...and I ran my Marshall into a 4x10 and Matamp into the 4x12...his noise desk went straight into the DI...

it was a lot of fun!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dk6SVkBTNM[/youtube]

samzadgan wrote:I did a quick video of the rig we had in the recording studio for our bands first album.

we both ran two cabs, my mate ran his Krank into 2 cabs...and I ran my Marshall into a 4x10 and Matamp into the 4x12...his noise desk went straight into the DI...

it was a lot of fun!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dk6SVkBTNM[/youtube]

Why the fast panning? Slow it down so we can see all the goodies.

Cisco wrote:Why the fast panning? Slow it down so we can see all the goodies.

I'm lucky i got this...we had plans of documenting a lot of that day...but we were so stretched for time. we had 8 hours to record 3 songs (which run for about 60mins all up)...but it took all 8 hours to record, and rough mix every track.

I paused it like half a dozen times. Mostly trying to catch that impressive looking board at the end and all the stuff on the table.

Cisco wrote:I paused it like half a dozen times. Mostly trying to catch that impressive looking board at the end and all the stuff on the table.

the board at the end is mine...
Two inputs
1. Guitar into the empress buffer -> A/B Pedal
2. Optical Theramin into the A/B Pedal

-> A/B ->Comp -> volume -> SS/BS mini -> QM in the pic, but i used a ritual on the recording -> Grand Orbit -> rainbow machine -> Hummingbird -> Giga Delay -> WA Decent -> Hardwire Delay -> Ghost Echo -> Looper -> tuner -> Buffer -> Amp

The red bar under the Giga Delay is a mini torch for the theremin, and the theremin is the pedal underneath the phaser/rainbow machine, that has a zombie face on it. The eyes are the optical controls for pitch and volume.


The desk is where all the rad shit happens...my mate has that down to an art form. It all starts with a Sign Wave Generator he stole when he was at Uni doing his science degree about 20 years ago...that goes into the following chain:
Bass Multi Chorus -> Pitch Fork -> Phase Shifter -> Flanger -> Behringer Fuzz/Wah -> Bad Cat Bass Fuzz -> old Ibanez Delay unit -> Compressor -> Ditto -> DI ->

a lot of the pedals in that chain are really shit and add a bunch of noise themselves...which is cold because we didn't want this to be a pristine noise machine...it had to sound rough and shit. But the stars of that desk are the sign wave generator and the delay unit...

Sam, you on iPhone?
Next time use the slow mo. It's really good ( if you got it).

samzadgan wrote:

Cisco wrote:I paused it like half a dozen times. Mostly trying to catch that impressive looking board at the end and all the stuff on the table.

the board at the end is mine...
Two inputs
1. Guitar into the empress buffer -> A/B Pedal
2. Optical Theramin into the A/B Pedal

-> A/B ->Comp -> volume -> SS/BS mini -> QM in the pic, but i used a ritual on the recording -> Grand Orbit -> rainbow machine -> Hummingbird -> Giga Delay -> WA Decent -> Hardwire Delay -> Ghost Echo -> Looper -> tuner -> Buffer -> Amp

The red bar under the Giga Delay is a mini torch for the theremin, and the theremin is the pedal underneath the phaser/rainbow machine, that has a zombie face on it. The eyes are the optical controls for pitch and volume.


The desk is where all the rad shit happens...my mate has that down to an art form. It all starts with a Sign Wave Generator he stole when he was at Uni doing his science degree about 20 years ago...that goes into the following chain:
Bass Multi Chorus -> Pitch Fork -> Phase Shifter -> Flanger -> Behringer Fuzz/Wah -> Bad Cat Bass Fuzz -> old Ibanez Delay unit -> Compressor -> Ditto -> DI ->

a lot of the pedals in that chain are really shit and add a bunch of noise themselves...which is cold because we didn't want this to be a pristine noise machine...it had to sound rough and shit. But the stars of that desk are the sign wave generator and the delay unit...

I'd love to hear what you got.

Updated my home recording rig for the Floating Glasses project. I added a second Thiele TL606 cab with an EV15B. I love these things, they really sound great with the Sunn Concert Lead. The Mesa Mark III I meant to sell years ago but before giving up on it I spent some time really dialing it in to sound like what I want and it really sounds great and is a nice compliment to the Sunn. I'm still using my old Electric 120 and Matamp GTL 140 with my un-named band but that rig hasn't changed in 15 years.
IMG_8997 by starskyandhutch, on Flickr
Pedalboard 2/16 by starskyandhutch, on Flickr
Untitled by starskyandhutch, on Flickr