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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
- Thread starter ttasselm
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Can I use this talk of not drinking to bring up Earth Crisis even though they have absolutely nothing to do with the thread? Pretty please?
I'm pretty much settled on the Kali Audio IN-5 and their WS-12 sub.
I'm pretty much settled on the Kali Audio IN-5 and their WS-12 sub.
14 yo me blasting this so loud the room shakes.
I prefer Strife though
My man
It makes me put in the work even though I want to quit everything.
The cycle continues.
Since I took this anyway for other reasons, I figure why not post it here. I mean, we all like gear photos right?
Qu-Bit Nebulae and Surface are on the way from that deal they ran. After that, my 2023 limitations begin.
Qu-Bit Nebulae and Surface are on the way from that deal they ran. After that, my 2023 limitations begin.
Euh, yeah…..euhSince I took this anyway for other reasons, I figure why not post it here. I mean, we all like gear photos right?
Qu-Bit Nebulae and Surface are on the way from that deal they ran. After that, my 2023 limitations begin.
My work area is like ahh…..hmmmm, totally clean and organized like that, yeah……
It is…..really……
My new work area extension will likely be purchased today. Sit/stand desk 24x36 inch top. It should just fit against the wall between a few items. Going with casters so I can easily rearrange the room.
Since I took this anyway for other reasons, I figure why not post it here. I mean, we all like gear photos right?
Qu-Bit Nebulae and Surface are on the way from that deal they ran. After that, my 2023 limitations begin.
pretty
it is rather tidy
apropos of this, i think, i went to a "picasso on cut paper" show in l.a. yesterday. even though the focus of the show was a bit suspect, it did remind me of what i most value about picasso *as an example*:
he worked every day, all the time, and investigated different media/modes of expression. i think this might have been a product of being naturally inquisitive and also doing/looking for new things when he felt a block or bored with what he was doing.
anyway, it's big lesson that i try to live by.
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semi-related, perhaps, new gear as learning curve: seems to me that besides it being a pita to rtfm, etc., it also provides that sense of the new that creates new avenues of investigation—and that sometimes it's good to not know what you're doing (at least on the technical side of things).
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new gear on the horizon: red panda ring mod (whenever it shows), five12 quad lfo (whenever it shows), some sort of decent stereo i/o modular reverb more long the lines of a mimeophon (unicorn)
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laughably, my workspace uses folding plastic tables for all my gear (classy!)
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This guy is on a roll
Wow
(I gotta step up my game!!!!
Plastic folding tables are a step up from my used school desks.
I’ve been reading Mangas and doing some Lego to keep my mind off the huge rut I’m in.
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This guy is on a roll
Wow
(I gotta step up my game!!!!
well, my kids are 27 and out of the house; the good thing about gear is that it can guilt you into using it; i have friends who are *very* productive, so i feel like a slacker; and i'm closer to the end than the beginning, so i'm feeling the desperation.
and . . . i do the work, but there's no guarantee that it's not trash. ####hubris
Plastic folding tables are a step up from my used school desks.
we have a race to the bottom!
lego is awesome. try something different?
Agreed on all said.well, my kids are 27 and out of the house; the good thing about gear is that it can guilt you into using it; i have friends who are *very* productive, so i feel like a slacker; and i'm closer to the end than the beginning, so i'm feeling the desperation.
and . . . i do the work, but there's no guarantee that it's not trash. ####hubris
we have a race to the bottom!
lego is awesome. try something different?
Definitely must try something different.
Looking at a few items, but none seem as potential « sparks » …..
I’ll get through this!!!
Nice track, was about 50% in, on the playlist for tonight!!!
I won't even bother asking this question to TB in general...
Has anyone here ever tried using a contact microphone on a solid body electric bass (and not like a piezo bridge...just a contact mic slapped somewhere on the bass)? Basically, using a contact mic on a bass that was never intended to utilize something like that. I don't have a contact mic to try it out but am curious about how it would sound (which would obviously vary depending on the bass and placement of the mic, I understand).
Has anyone here ever tried using a contact microphone on a solid body electric bass (and not like a piezo bridge...just a contact mic slapped somewhere on the bass)? Basically, using a contact mic on a bass that was never intended to utilize something like that. I don't have a contact mic to try it out but am curious about how it would sound (which would obviously vary depending on the bass and placement of the mic, I understand).
basically, sorta yes.
this was 30 or so years ago . . . . i can't recall if it was a contact mic or an old barcus berry upright pickup that i taped to the body of my bass. (if it was the barcus berry, i think i tried a contact mic as well, but it had more feedback problems . . . ?).
the following is from memory:
on the plus side was a woody sound that was semi-acoustic in nature and gave notes body.
on the negative side was the weirdness of how i had to attach it (and some rattling at times?) and that i didn't get quite the attack i was used to.
from that experiment i ended up getting rick turner to make me some piezo film pickups that i put *under* the bridge on my basses. since piezos need pressure to make them work this was pretty cool. still, the volume was not great (i didn't use a buffer preamp on board the bass). i ended up using a stereo jack out of the bass; one side was the mags and the other was the piezos. that went into a raven labs pmb-1 that i could use to mix the piezo and mags (and eq the piezos).
i feel like this approach gave more body to the sound and you could use the body resonance to do some nice percussive things. the basses were *very* touch sensitive. a friend tried them and felt they *revealed* too much.
that was my preferred setup for maybe 10-15 years (?).
i severely dislike piezo bridges due to the pingy attack and too much high end, so the film pickups under the bridge were the best thing for me. you could probably embed something like that in the body of the bass, but it's more invasive than what i did.
hope that helps.
(and thanks for the kind words above.)
Speaking of her, tonight we finished solid draft mixes of our record. Now to check it out on some other systems.
We have been on winter break, which has most involved rest and sleep for me. Also a lot of cooking, eating, and puttering. We went to the “Basquiat and Music” exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts this week. I was super sceptical, but that meant I was pleasantly surprised. It really captured a sense of the New York scene at the time. And it was cool to see some of his work up close. I was disappointed that they sort of whitewashed the effects of addiction on him and others around him, but that’s another story.
I haven’t listed favs for this year. It’s been a weird year for me musically. I have been spending about an hour a day, usually in the middle of the night, listening to drones, ambient music, and other related stuff. A bunch are things I’ve probably in this thread already mentioned: Insomniac Hotel Zazen, Keith Fullerton Whitman STS, Elaine Radigue Feedback Works, Eleh, Lawrence English, Loscil, Zimoun Guitar Studies, Monolake Gobi. And @Starthief ’s feedback record has made it into that rotation.
In the daytime, I also liked Russian Circles Gnosis. Elder’s last two records. Jeff Parker Forfolks. Blessed Circuitous. Mizmor and Thou Myopia. Hannah Peel. Lots of Malaya McCraven. Rachel Eckroth the Garden. My wife’s favourite record right now is Failure Wild Type Droid so I hear that a lot. There’s a ton more but I am out of gas.
I hear the “I don’t listen to music when I’m composing” from a lot of musician friends, but my first art is writing, where it’s all about reading others. And that carries over to my music, though I seem to finish far fewer records than @steubig and others, so make of that what you will. Two EPS from the dad rock band and a full length record with my wife isn’t a bad harvest for 2022.
Three interesting things happened today:
1. My new roof started leaking in the morning. Fortunately the company was really responsive and did a quick fix that worked - good thing, because it is raining pretty hard through the night here in the SF Bay Area.
2. For some reason ended up listening to some Tetsu Inoue - World Receiver - was reminded that he had disappeared after his last album in 2007 - Pete Namlook was trying to find him to give him money from album sales, but then he (Namlook) died in 2012. Kind of eerie... (Story told at the bottom of this page)
3. Then a tree fell outside - not a huge one, but big enough to shake the ground a little bit and make some noise. Turns out it's a neighbor's tree but fell on my property. Doesn't look like anything of mine was damaged (neighbor's new fence got trashed though). We need the rain, but it has its downsides...
Throughout it all, I'm enjoying people's music, gear shots, and aspirations for 2023!
1. My new roof started leaking in the morning. Fortunately the company was really responsive and did a quick fix that worked - good thing, because it is raining pretty hard through the night here in the SF Bay Area.
2. For some reason ended up listening to some Tetsu Inoue - World Receiver - was reminded that he had disappeared after his last album in 2007 - Pete Namlook was trying to find him to give him money from album sales, but then he (Namlook) died in 2012. Kind of eerie... (Story told at the bottom of this page)
3. Then a tree fell outside - not a huge one, but big enough to shake the ground a little bit and make some noise. Turns out it's a neighbor's tree but fell on my property. Doesn't look like anything of mine was damaged (neighbor's new fence got trashed though). We need the rain, but it has its downsides...
Throughout it all, I'm enjoying people's music, gear shots, and aspirations for 2023!
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