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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#20,867
monsterthompson said:
Yeah. It’s like my plagued electronics. I know something is up but I’m not sure how to figure it out and fix it, so I’m kinda at the mercy of the shop/tech.
The price of being dumb.
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I've mostly noticed it when using a headphone amp, so there's a chance it could have something to do with interference from BT or something. I need to plug it into an amp and see if it's still happening.
 
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#20,868
hieronymous said:
All of these were important to my personal formation - the forbidden horror of Alien was tantalizing to me as a ten year old (around 1980) - Pink Floyd were the second rock group I really got into as a 12 year old (after the Beatles) - I discovered Magma in college but got deeply into them in my 30s, never dreaming that I would see them live 4 times! All connected with this film that was never made but that had such a huge impact.



I've never seen any of his films, but I'm getting interested...
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Magma... even as a prog-rock nut, that one's an acquired taste, for sure.

Going to see Roger Waters in Boston tomorrow, so that should be fun.

Only know El Topo from Jodorowsky back when I was running a spaghetti western film site (it's not a spaghetti, but there's a lot of similarities).
 
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hieronymous said:
This came up on my Instagram feed:



FOOD can be ambient?!!

I guess so - it means food that can be stored at room temperature - kind of? Sorry to get back into silly science-y talk.
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ugly_bassplayer said:
I wouldn’t eat that, looks disgusting
:vomit:
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Me: Mom, can we have Twinkies?
Mom: We have Twinkies at home.
Twinkies at home:
 
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#20,870
My Zen blade hums a bit when I’m in my noisy home studio.

In wanted noise news, I returned from Minnesota with this:

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And so the pre-release promo blitz goes on... so far, so good. I've heard from a few music blogs/podcasts that are going to be playing some of my stuff, and I heard back from Soma.fm this morning. They're playing the one I made the video for on Drone Zone next week, and he's listening to the rest of the album today.

So I went and put a 5k deposit on another Wal in anticipation of the earnings that I'll be making, shortly. Too soon?
 
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lordradish said:
What kinda hum? This one's really high-pitched.
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It's a high pitched buzz. Definitely electrical interference. I wrote to Nordstrand and they said it was a shielding problem with the instrument, but the original pickup (different brand) didn't have this problem. I've got the Zen Blade wired in series. It could be a wiring problem on my end, or something to do with the pickup. It's more like single coil hum in that if I move away from the source of the electronic interference, it goes away.

ugly_bassplayer said:
What is it?
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ZVex Machine. Most distortions clip the edges of the waveform. This one works on the middle. I've heard it called "crossover distortion" or "intermodulation distortion" but basically, when you put it in front of another distortion, it gets nastier. By itself it sounds terrible, but also great, if you know what I mean. All knob positions on limit except 5:00 cut tons of bass.

Fun fact: my pedal was built in 2017 and I bought it *new* from Twin Town Guitars in Minneapolis after trying it out (never had the chance to try one before). Definitely not the new hotness, but a unique flavour.
 
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lordradish said:
I've mostly noticed it when using a headphone amp, so there's a chance it could have something to do with interference from BT or something. I need to plug it into an amp and see if it's still happening.
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are you only plugged into your headphone amp? If you don't have a grounded connection somewhere in your chain you can get noise like that. I have had good luck fixing that issue with a grounded (3 prong) power supply like the Cioks DC7
 
#20,880
JES said:
ZVex Machine. Most distortions clip the edges of the waveform. This one works on the middle. I've heard it called "crossover distortion" or "intermodulation distortion" but basically, when you put it in front of another distortion, it gets nastier. By itself it sounds terrible, but also great, if you know what I mean. All knob positions on limit except 5:00 cut tons of bass.

Fun fact: my pedal was built in 2017 and I bought it *new* from Twin Town Guitars in Minneapolis after trying it out (never had the chance to try one before). Definitely not the new hotness, but a unique flavour.
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I had a Machine! It was a long time ago, my memories are vague - I do know I sold it in Japan while I was living there from 2002-2006. It was a great pedal, made kind of a ripping sound when paired with another distortion. I wish I had a recording of it, but nothing readily available. Have fun with it!

Speaking of new gear, look what I got:

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So far so good. I experimented with it as a mixer last night, need to experiment with the recorder - today, hopefully.
 
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