The first bass I ever laid my mitts on -- and the one that convinced me, within 8 bars, that I must become a bass player -- was a Mustang. This woulda been early 1974.
tbh, I don't think I've played one since!
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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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The first bass I ever laid my mitts on -- and the one that convinced me, within 8 bars, that I must become a bass player -- was a Mustang. This woulda been early 1974.
tbh, I don't think I've played one since!
The Mustang is like the awesome cool cousin you see twice a year.
Doesnt sound like a P, doesnt sound like a neck J, he does his own Dope Thang .
Yeah, I'm really not into the PJ ones - to me, the Mustang pickup is part of what's special about these. I think I only have one recording of mine - comes in at 1:04The Mustang is like the awesome cool cousin you see twice a year.
Doesnt sound like a P, doesnt sound like a neck J, he does his own Dope Thang .
Actually, this track kind of fits here, I was exploring the wacky ambience of tape delay gone wild, with an Evans tape delay I picked up while living in Kyoto 2002-6. Plus synth stuff from my Moog Rogue (the second synth I owned - my first was a MicroMoog)
100% agreed with the pickup, the new models with the regular PJ pickups sound nothing like an OG mustang.
But can you play Mustang Sally on them just as easily.
Did you name yours Sally? Tell me you named it Sally.
Never named an instrument.
When used to play top 40 gigs I would rather play Mustang Sally any day over anything CCR.
Bad Moon whatever makes my skin crawl.
:/
I don't name my instruments either, beyond possibly acronyms relating to their names or Alembicized-puns - ok, maybe I do name them, like my Stanley Clarke Signature Squared since it's his signature model with his signature on it...
At our place, we usually refer to instruments by their maker, though Martin Keith’s daughter named the instrument “the space guitar” so that stuck.
Today there was a synth and pedal expo at Mutek. I went with a friend and we tried a bunch of stuff out. Some quick hits: I liked the sound of the Sequential Take 5 better than the more expensive synths they had on display: Trigon-6, OB-X8. So maybe I like the Prophets, though I don’t see getting another analog poly without weirdo modulation. Korg Minilogue’s combo of a digital oscillator and analog oscillators and filter sounded also great. Hated the keybed though. We also revisited this thread’s old friend the Hydrasynth. After all my time with FM in ID700 I was doing wilder things. And I played the Soma Enner, which I found less inspiring than I expected.
Was hoping to lay hands on a Melbourne Nina or a Waldorf Iridium but no such luck.
Didn’t try too many pedals but I finally heard the gorgeousness that is the Empress Reverb, and the Fairfield Long Life which is now my second favourite state variable filter.
As usual, 10 minutes with a synth is worth infinity minutes watching demos.
We also caught a couple shows. Last night the highlight was finally seeing Alessandro Cortini live. Sounded great, though there wasn’t a way to see what he was doing.
Today there was a synth and pedal expo at Mutek. I went with a friend and we tried a bunch of stuff out. Some quick hits: I liked the sound of the Sequential Take 5 better than the more expensive synths they had on display: Trigon-6, OB-X8. So maybe I like the Prophets, though I don’t see getting another analog poly without weirdo modulation. Korg Minilogue’s combo of a digital oscillator and analog oscillators and filter sounded also great. Hated the keybed though. We also revisited this thread’s old friend the Hydrasynth. After all my time with FM in ID700 I was doing wilder things. And I played the Soma Enner, which I found less inspiring than I expected.
Was hoping to lay hands on a Melbourne Nina or a Waldorf Iridium but no such luck.
Didn’t try too many pedals but I finally heard the gorgeousness that is the Empress Reverb, and the Fairfield Long Life which is now my second favourite state variable filter.
As usual, 10 minutes with a synth is worth infinity minutes watching demos.
We also caught a couple shows. Last night the highlight was finally seeing Alessandro Cortini live. Sounded great, though there wasn’t a way to see what he was doing.
- Mar 8, 2011
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- Mar 8, 2011
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Just finished basics for this solo violin record I’m doing with Meredith Krygowski. Every sound is her violin, chopped, mangled and sequenced on an M8
@JES
hydrasynth: come to the dark side
enner: doesn’t surprise me.
the ones that interest me are the osmose and the 3rd wave (i think is the correct name).
hydrasynth: come to the dark side
enner: doesn’t surprise me.
the ones that interest me are the osmose and the 3rd wave (i think is the correct name).
as I recall, yes even the drum sounds are sampled violin.
(I remember because I asked the exact same question when he shared a clip a while back)
but @dukeorock himself should confirm this
I literally don't have space right now but may pitch shared custody of a desktop to my guitarist. I'm interested. It gets super bright really fast, but I imagine I could tame that with some practice. It certainly has enough modulation!
Really into ID700 at the moment for poly stuff.
The other two you mentioned aren't that exciting to me because of their size (it's the keybeds, really). But I am putting together in my head a "perfect module" that would solve all my problems lol.
Last night was the first practice with the H90 and my instrumental band. Everything worked great and it was fast to make small adjustments on the pedal. Now I'm considering putting a H9 back on the board for extra madness but we'll see.
the brightness can be knocked down a bit with the filters and the random and “analog” (forget name) controls in the voice menu. bonus is that it works really well with the linnstrument.
i hear you on the others being keys. maybe the 3rd wave will also become a module. enough people want it. sounds like the osmose *really is* a game changer.
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Yessir! Every sound is the violin including ‘drums.’ Just did another. I’m especially fond of the ‘kick’ sound we got on this one
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One more solo violin thing if you can stomach it. There will be more organic sounding violin overdubs by the time the record is ready to release
