thanks, I wanted something that hit hard but was thought out and « evolving » throughout.
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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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HAAAARRRSSSSHHHH. But not boring.
Here are my two for today and yesterday. Yesterday's was just a snippet of band practice run through granulation. Today was more on the same patch with Endless. I really need to get my head around that thing. It is a fantastic way to draw out the Radiguesque ringing of my Joranalogue but I think I'm not getting the "layer" function. Guess I'll watch a tutorial video or something.
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I'll tell you a secret. I am fixing to cheat this weekend and crank out Monday's and Tuesday's to get me through the end of Jamuary.
That first one is very cool, and that second one reminds me of Pink Floyd's Obscured by Clouds intro, from one of their greatest "secret" albums.
Yeah, until the guitar solo comes in. I wonder what Wright is playing on. I don't know if I've told my Pink Floyd story on here but I was a huge Floyd head as a teenager. I bought all the records and even some bootlegs.
I realized for all my fussing with detuning oscillators on the synth, I had another instrument that would do it well, and with less effort. So I picked up my Lull 5-string, tuned it CGCCC* and ran it through the VTBass and the Cosmos with just the tin west bit of reverb. The sheer floppiness of the G string more or less guarantees every time through is detuned a few cents. Less control but it sounds pretty good. I could imagine setting a couple of these up, sampling them, and then running then through the ringing filters to achieve a different kind of Radigue effect.
I am Having Thoughts about my month of experimentation and will try and gather them over the next week or so.
In unrelated news, our friends like our duo music, which is a huge relief, and I'm just waiting for a proper mix critique from a sound engineer friend whom I'm paying to give it a serious listen. Probably more than we need to do, but there you go.
In more unrelated news, I'm calling @theunknowndude and @lucas303 to tell me more about Australian metal (I just figure with Lucas's tastes he might know something). I stumbled across Karnivool the other day and found it interesting. Maybe a little on the prog side of metal (good lord the vocals are high in the mix), but some interesting sounds and arrangements. What else am I missing from the last 20 years of Australian metal that I should be checking out? Awhile back @theunknowndude hipped me to Void of Vision years ago which I really liked.
* years ago I learned the CGCC tuning from Paul Malinowski (then of Shiner) and it's been one of my favourite bass tunings ever since.
I realized for all my fussing with detuning oscillators on the synth, I had another instrument that would do it well, and with less effort. So I picked up my Lull 5-string, tuned it CGCCC* and ran it through the VTBass and the Cosmos with just the tin west bit of reverb. The sheer floppiness of the G string more or less guarantees every time through is detuned a few cents. Less control but it sounds pretty good. I could imagine setting a couple of these up, sampling them, and then running then through the ringing filters to achieve a different kind of Radigue effect.
I am Having Thoughts about my month of experimentation and will try and gather them over the next week or so.
In unrelated news, our friends like our duo music, which is a huge relief, and I'm just waiting for a proper mix critique from a sound engineer friend whom I'm paying to give it a serious listen. Probably more than we need to do, but there you go.
In more unrelated news, I'm calling @theunknowndude and @lucas303 to tell me more about Australian metal (I just figure with Lucas's tastes he might know something). I stumbled across Karnivool the other day and found it interesting. Maybe a little on the prog side of metal (good lord the vocals are high in the mix), but some interesting sounds and arrangements. What else am I missing from the last 20 years of Australian metal that I should be checking out? Awhile back @theunknowndude hipped me to Void of Vision years ago which I really liked.
* years ago I learned the CGCC tuning from Paul Malinowski (then of Shiner) and it's been one of my favourite bass tunings ever since.
So I'm going to go Soundcloud on y'all - I made a new account for electronic experiments and music - I have always found a dichotomy in my musical identity between the bass player and the electronic guy or should I say, synthfluencer? 
electronymous
Anyway, I have followed your accounts - will follow as I come across more - YouTube as well - it's a weird online world we live in - I hope we can help support each other! Each track I put up, someone reposts me - it's definitely a scam - people trying to make money off reposting - but it's interesting too - must be robots - I am not posting anything that anyone would be like, "we can make money off of this!"
electronymous
Anyway, I have followed your accounts - will follow as I come across more - YouTube as well - it's a weird online world we live in - I hope we can help support each other! Each track I put up, someone reposts me - it's definitely a scam - people trying to make money off reposting - but it's interesting too - must be robots - I am not posting anything that anyone would be like, "we can make money off of this!"
I quit using Soundcloud a while back. Didn't take my account down or remove anything, just lost interest and haven't visited my own page in forever. I got tired of all the bots and the upload limit ticked me off. I guess I should find my password and go back to clean up my uploads.
I basically started using it for the easy embed on BBSes. I really hope <throws up a little in mouth> Funkwhale takes off.
Speaking easy embed, here's today's Jamuary post. I decided to mess with yesterday's recording in Bitwig's Grid. My immediate findings are software is more powerful but way less fun than hardware. I was able to mock up the patch I wanted but the control wasn't nearly as good as being able to use both my hands on a multi-knob interface. Also, two peaking filter harmonics gives you formant sounds, which I knew but I didn't consider.
I've been experimenting with the Grone Drone - sometimes I'm disappointed, it seems to have a 4/4 rhythm built-in, which isn't what I was expecting. But I still haven't really figured out the VCO yet. It definitely produces some great sounds - I liked this enough to post it:
Gonna try and make one a day for the rest of Jamuary.
I was going to listen to 28Jam and accidentally listened to your new one within a minute after you posted!
Gonna try and make one a day for the rest of Jamuary.
I was going to listen to 28Jam and accidentally listened to your new one within a minute after you posted!
Easy embed??
Funk whale???
Help me out here, got home for the gig at 5am, my brain is barely able to keep me breathing atm.
It definitely helps to be able to assign hardware controllers to software parameters. I get a lot of use out of my Tesseract Sweet Sixteen and Line6 FBV Express.
Funkwhale is to SoundCloud as Mastodon is to Twitter. Not for profit and decentralized. But it’s kind of unfinished right now, and you can’t embed tracks on BBSes like Talkbass, which is the whole reason I’d be interested.
hmmm alpha wolf if you like djenty metalcore?
Northlane still high in the play list…
As is parkway drive…
if you like more melodic / pop punk style metal - patient sixty seven are pretty up and coming ( and love a good meme on their Facebook)
if you want underground / local Adelaide - check out voros (kinda death metal oriented), alkira (thrash) those left behind (hardcore) and hidden intent (thrash) on Spotify
hope that’s helpful!
New void of vision is a bit… weird… they’ve gone from metalcore dabbling with synths to pretty much a “synth wave” band… it’s ok… but kind of like opeth when they changed from a prog metal band to a 1970’s rush cover band… it’s just not what you want when you want to listen to them *shrug*
I’ve been absent a bit cos I’m going on holidays for a month with the family soon which is massive… haven’t done anything for 3 year really… and I also broke my bass 
Went to change the 9v battery being an active bass and I snapped the battery snap (think it was just getting old), 12 years old now?) - went to try and change it myself and after trying to wire strip the tiny wires and connect them every way possible I gave up… probably a 30 dollar job but I’d rather pay someone to do it right!
Went to change the 9v battery being an active bass and I snapped the battery snap (think it was just getting old), 12 years old now?) - went to try and change it myself and after trying to wire strip the tiny wires and connect them every way possible I gave up… probably a 30 dollar job but I’d rather pay someone to do it right!
Oh and completely unfinished but my band finally added our bandcamp If you like groove metal stuff 
-weren’t going to publish it til the album launch but I’ll add here anyway as we have one song up (profanity warning )
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