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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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because you like it when the amp makes your bass louder?
Turns out both cab and head are broken.
Cab is getting serviced this week.
We’ll see how much, then I’ll deal with the head.
My entire back up rig blew up in 2 days.
Fun fun
That suuuuuucks. I hate all forms of troubleshooting.
Head failure seems like a problem. Cab distortion seems like an artistic opportunity.
One of the downsides of having more gear is that the odds something will break at any given time go up.
But the plus side of having more gear is that you have more gear.
But the plus side of having more gear is that you have more gear.
Truer words have never been spoken on this thread.
Mom had her second surgery this morning--it was a surprise to us, so my brother had to scamper down to the hospital. It seems to have gone well but my mom's not ready to talk yet. Now there's going to be a long recovery process. I'll go visit as soon as it's practical.
Last night (the 11th) we went to this synth concert: http://www.okla.quebec It seems to be a new festival, and the space was great, and all three acts were interesting. The first was Bana Haffer processing Nour Mobarek's voice through a Eurorack system, plus a lot of other stuff; the second was live, improvised 16mm film loop projects accompanied by heavily processed trumpet through Ableton Live. I had to ask if it was all trumpet afterwards. We were toward the back and so I got to see the work with Live and the projectionist interacting with the 6 projectors (for 3 films running at once). The headliner was Suzanne Ciani and that was also great to watch. And is was in QUAD which was super cool to hear. It's clear that a lot of her performance comes out of her interactions with the MARF (Buchla Multiple Arbitrary Function Generator); there was a Thunder that she used a very little, and she also did a lot with Animoog (!) and was constantly changing presets on one of her H9s using the iPad app. I was amused that sometimes she had to hit the screen more than once for the app to do what she wanted, which is exactly my experience with touchscreens in performance.
Bonus: it was good to be out in public and I ran into some people I knew and met some others I didn't.
- Mar 8, 2011
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This record doesn’t apply here at all but I really like it
Spent a bit of time on music stuff. I got the new Erica Sequencer firmware upgrade. It has some cool features.
I also spent time running soft synths through external effects. I popped on the headphones and listened to various settings on the OTO BIM & BAM. I wanted to hear how different the reverb sounded by changing room size and reverb type. I often feel like room/plate/hall sounds are too subtle to really know the differences but I also don’t think I’ve really done critical listening. It was like a wine tasting with effects. This wasn’t about making music; it was about understanding elements of sound design.
I also spent time running soft synths through external effects. I popped on the headphones and listened to various settings on the OTO BIM & BAM. I wanted to hear how different the reverb sounded by changing room size and reverb type. I often feel like room/plate/hall sounds are too subtle to really know the differences but I also don’t think I’ve really done critical listening. It was like a wine tasting with effects. This wasn’t about making music; it was about understanding elements of sound design.
So met up with the band yesterday after not meeting for two months…
we finished a song we had in the works for ages that was lyrically a tongue in cheek about pop songs. As part of it finally got to see how some of my effects to mimic synths sound through a proper bass amp instead of just headphones. Justin chancellor bass wah by itself is amazing… but my kangra fuzz filter that I was almost going to write off as not good enough to sit in the board actually worked wonders with the fuzz from the jc pedal… kangra by itself never seems to open up enough but with the Jc fuzz with a light touch I could get dub step / pop style sub bass. Main thing I can think of is the song butterflies by Piper Rockelle my daughter listens to… but digging in and adding chorus / playing higher up the frets got a pretty good faux key synth going.
I’ll see if I can get my recording going this week and I might try actually record something… combined with reverb I can see some sound / noise pieces already in my head.
we finished a song we had in the works for ages that was lyrically a tongue in cheek about pop songs. As part of it finally got to see how some of my effects to mimic synths sound through a proper bass amp instead of just headphones. Justin chancellor bass wah by itself is amazing… but my kangra fuzz filter that I was almost going to write off as not good enough to sit in the board actually worked wonders with the fuzz from the jc pedal… kangra by itself never seems to open up enough but with the Jc fuzz with a light touch I could get dub step / pop style sub bass. Main thing I can think of is the song butterflies by Piper Rockelle my daughter listens to… but digging in and adding chorus / playing higher up the frets got a pretty good faux key synth going.
I’ll see if I can get my recording going this week and I might try actually record something… combined with reverb I can see some sound / noise pieces already in my head.
I finally got my synths fired back up last night and tried playing around with some ideas about layered sequences, using both Moog Mother 32's and carefully setting the delay effects for dotted eighth note delay. In addition, setting the sequences to different lengths in order to make them move in and out of phase with each other over time so it sounds like one really long sequence and doesn't get monotonous. Pretty happy with the results and finally have a feeling of where I am heading with this, kind of exciting when that lightbulb goes off in your head.
After listening to a recording of my last live show I decided it was time to step up my game and learn some new (to me) tricks and techniques. Been watching various videos on how to do stuff. Some of this is stuff I should've known a long time ago but there is no music teacher who will teach you this ambient stuff so you have to hunt around the internet or figure it out for yourself.
After listening to a recording of my last live show I decided it was time to step up my game and learn some new (to me) tricks and techniques. Been watching various videos on how to do stuff. Some of this is stuff I should've known a long time ago but there is no music teacher who will teach you this ambient stuff so you have to hunt around the internet or figure it out for yourself.
Good to see how productive y'all are, lately. Likewise. Got most of the songs almost done for the next album, been really productive, lately.
Great, now I really feel like crap.
Chase Bliss Audio is announcing a new pedal tomorrow. No idea what it is, but it's apparently A) inspired by consumer feedback; and B) stereo.
fwiw, there was a quote of wayne shorter saying he hadn't recorded during a certain period because there wasn't anything to record . . . which i took as, "don't sweat it."
i'm in that weird place where i just finished (well, two weeks ago) a piece that's the last of nine pieces from the last eight months and am now in the limbo between that starting some new ideas, while also needing to recharge my batteries. nonetheless, i go into my work area and try to work on things that *might* be useful later. and i'm looking at some stuff i did 35-40 years ago (!). meanwhile, i've been trying (success level?) to do some beat programming. lots of flux.
anyway, i'm feeling spent and frustrated.
the finished piece in question:
i'm in that weird place where i just finished (well, two weeks ago) a piece that's the last of nine pieces from the last eight months and am now in the limbo between that starting some new ideas, while also needing to recharge my batteries. nonetheless, i go into my work area and try to work on things that *might* be useful later. and i'm looking at some stuff i did 35-40 years ago (!). meanwhile, i've been trying (success level?) to do some beat programming. lots of flux.
anyway, i'm feeling spent and frustrated.
the finished piece in question:
Aw, c'mon. Sometimes you got it, sometimes you don't (in any particular place in time).Great, now I really feel like crap.
Chase Bliss Audio is announcing a new pedal tomorrow. No idea what it is, but it's apparently A) inspired by consumer feedback; and B) stereo.
I'm just surprised at how different this time around is for me. The first album was the best of my work over the last five years. This new one is 100 percent new stuff. Still Thorny, still more or less the same cloudy ambient vibe, although I do have a track with a bit more movement in it, some arps and such. I'm trying to lay the groundwork for album #3, which is going to be more in the Synphaera/Martin Steurtzer vein... long spacy stuff with lots of cool sequences.
Considering how slow I've moved in the past, I'm just shocked that I'm getting anything done so quickly. I think I've worked a lot of the kinks out of my creative process. I've got 45 solid minutes, and I'm shooting for around 60 total.
you break through and then you get addicted to the rush
I hope so. I've done a lot of thinking about how different it is this time around. I hope it's a new normal, and I can get out two good releases a year. I just need to learn how to be more productive in summer, as I'm generally exhausted every night from biking and other outdoor excursions. And beer. Lots of beer.
Oh, so much beer in the summer. Living in Vermont, it's hard for it not to be that way, as we have some of the best damn beer in the world, here.
