u/guitar_up_my_ass

So I am recording some fuzzy stoner stuff. I have to do everything alone for now, but I will get a drummer and a singer once my tracks are done. Compared to last year, I am starting to get satisfied with my mixes. But still after switching from professional songs to mine, I notice this kind of low-fi sound and muffled tone on mine.

Here is an example of a WIP track (still with placeholder drums): \[Google Drive\](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nOfSLef28GdDI-3Sr7dCsOWG4HRXIX-l/view?usp=drivesdk)

I have an EC201-ft and I have done some pickup swapping, but I came back to the stock ones because for some reason I really like them for metal. I never keep stock pickups on any guitar.

They are quite violent sounding, have nice throaty mids that push through the mix and a nice "grindy" sound to them that can be tamed/increased with presence and high controls on amp.

So I am a guitarist of ~6 years and I have been making music for 4 years. I have faked the bass with a pitch shifter and all that shit but now it is time to get a real bass.

I need a bass that I can play and record with. That's all. I will not be playing it outside recording sessions. My genre is stoner rock/doom metal. Are the Harley Benton cheapest ones any good for my use case? And what string gauges for D standard?

EDIT: I see it now. I got to Chronos and the run after that I melted third boss with sister blades.

I have 200+ hours in Hades 1 and I loved toying with different builds and synergies. My personal best is 10 minute clear with the bow.

However, I can't get past the third boss in Hades 2. 20 something runs in. The damage is just not there. I can't make a poseidon + zeus lightning bolt & splash bs build in Hades 2 apparently which was a no brainer in 1. There isn't a boon list per god so I can't plan ahead. I use cast to get the enemies to stay in place, but daggers don't do damage or are too small AOE in third area. Staff has the easy omega attack but nothing seems to give me damage. Axe leaves me too vulnerable. What am I missing?

Which one should I use for recording? I have Warman Destroyer neck and Black Winter bridge in D standard. More leaning towards stoner stuff.

Bands like Dismember, Hypocrisy, LIK, Grand Cadaver, Darkened, Edge of sanity... Where it is not full on melodic all the time but the chorus or outro has some good sounding melodies. Preferably hm2 tone. I never got into the Gothenburg sound where it is all melody zero aggression.

So I have a nicely (naturally) worn JS32 Kelly black satin in which I have upgraded everything. Pickups are Black Winter and Warman Destroyer in neck. I will also have a LTD ec256 soon. I can't decide which one goes to D standard for recording fuzzy stoner songs and playing along to some Spiritus Mortis, Orange Goblin, Sodom, Kreator and which one goes to E for playing along to Darkthrone, Coffin Storm, Sabbath, Witchcraft...

The ltd would fit the stoner metal aesthetic better but it is stock and I don't know that many bands in D it wouldn't probably get that much play time. On the other hand the Kelly is fully set up and trimmed and recording ready.

I know nobody can decide for me, but maybe this can spark a discussion.

Long story short, my mind is always racing and repeating something. If I am happy and waiting for something, I am repeatedly thinking about future events and how they will span out and prepare for everything even though things never go as you think.

When I am anxious or sad my brain must find something from the past and make me believe I am the worst person ever.

I always have some sort of crisis kind of going on that I must "resolve" by thinking it through, I never find the answer and I must think it through again. Exhausting.

I have found that alcohol quiets my brain, and the next week is full of rumination and anxiety about what I did while drunk.

I started with cigarettes as a 13 yr old boy but used snus and nicotine pouches (~11mg) a can a day for most of that time.

I got too drunk and at the start of the hangover for the first time ever I got the feeling of "what if I quit nicotine right now and never used it again, that would be hell". It was a fun thing to declare but not a fun thing to experience.

I feel like I am sick: brain fog, fatigue, vision problems, headache, muscle twitches right when I am about to fall asleep, horrible nightmares, anxiety, depression... And now I am at the bargaining phase. Nicotine is the thing that would make me feel normal and take all my problems away and some people say they never returned to normal or it took months/years. I am starting to feel like this isn't worth it anymore.