Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[monsterthompson]

speaking of

 

[monsterthompson]

This has a lot of features and is priced to match. New Arturia Audiofuse interface.
https://www.arturia.com/products/au...rPCWjKDAolL5A-Myna30_xjZXJqevb8j9oBvDRiGTEoSL

 

[JES]

I’m interested but…Call me suspicious but when a manufacturer lists an interface as “MIDI class compliant” and says nothing clear about audio class compliant, I am concerned.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

I’m interested but…Call me suspicious but when a manufacturer lists an interface as “MIDI class compliant” and says nothing clear about audio class compliant, I am concerned.

 

[monsterthompson]

Making some small and not terribly groundbreaking discoveries with my current modular patch. I’ve been working in headphones and playing around with delay times. Last night I got down the rabbit hole of perfect clock sync delays Vs tuning the time by ear to be slightly out of time.

I essentially had a series of quarter notes and a ping pong delay set to also result in quarter notes to widen the stereo image. I noticed when I clocked the delay it wasn’t terribly noticeable as an effect. However manually tuning the delay time I was able to hear the effect of the repeats being slightly out of time and it was far more interesting than I expected. It really sounded more like a “doubling” of the voice. There was a little flanger-like effect that would peek out. I could get the transient to sound bigger and wider. It was a lightbulb moment for tricks I’ve read about all my life but never really understood.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

speaking of

see right this is the exact reason why I find this band so boring
that and making the audience count and clap during a live set.

sorry ill pass.

yes some of his vids are very informative though

 

[Wanker_Joe]

Has anybody here received a Reverse Mode C? I'm surprised I'm not seeing as much discussion around the web among weird effects lovers as I would have expected now that's it is arriving at people's door steps.

I got mine this week. I'm a sucker for CBA delays. When they announced they were releasing a new pedal my first thought was "I hope it's not a delay, do I really need to spend money on a new delay?" And so here we are.

After 3 ish hours on mine I'm loving it (running it just bass -> RMC -> Amp). It's an interesting device. There's a beautiful simplicity to it. It definitely reminds me of some of my favorite tones I've found running a CT5 -> Habit -> Minim chain that I love to use for ambient pads in my recordings, but richer. I think they did a fantastic job of tuning it so practically all the settings are very musical and beautiful sounding. There's some noise buried in the box too, but I found it took quite a bit more effort to get to the extreme settings than it does with stuff like the Mood or Habit or Blooper. The modulation effects are nice and add quite a bit to it, while the sequencer is a very cool idea and is well implemented. Plucking some arpeggios while running the sequence at half tempo with the chorus synched while bouncing the balance knob was heavenly; I haven't been as stunned by the sound of my bass through a single effect pedal since I first unboxed the Habit.

I'm excited to bring it to the noise jams, and can't wait to apply it to my recording process. Quickly becoming one of my favorite effects to use with solo bass wankery.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

see right this is the exact reason why I find this band so boring
that and making the audience count and clap during a live set.

sorry ill pass.

yes some of his vids are very informative though

Answering to myself….
Imagine going to see Sacre du Printemps de Stravinsky and the conductor suddenly turns around and makes everyone count to show how complexe, intellectuel and « high art » the piece of music is.
Complexity for the sake of self indulgence and « making yourself seem intellectual/smart » is an absolute turn off.
It kills absolutely everything I love about music


Off lawn now.

 

[monsterthompson]

Anyone here checked out the Rick Rubin book? I had it suggested twice yesterday and was told the audiobook version he narrates is excellent. It contains lots of talk about creativity in general.

 

[hieronymous]

I have a solo gig this Saturday! Well, half-solo/half-with koto. I'll be using the Grone, Sirin, & Hydrasynth like before, but also incorporate my Stanley Clarke 5-string. One thing I want to do is use my fuzz into sample & hold filter thing, so I finally made a little set-up:

I don't have a board for it unfortunately, but it does fit in a little bag I have. My next issue was: I also want to put my bass through my regular board (comp, Geddy Lee SansAmp, new to me MXR chorus/flanger), and was thinking I'd just mute the channel and plug from one to the other. Then I remembered - my Alembic can also be stereo! So I'll do the bridge pickup through the filter setup and the neck pickup through my regular board and can just switch back and forth with the pickup selector switch! Gotta break out the good ol' Rick-O-Sound box...

 

[Spectrum]

Answering to myself….
Imagine going to see Sacre du Printemps de Stravinsky and the conductor suddenly turns around and makes everyone count to show how complexe, intellectuel and « high art » the piece of music is.
Complexity for the sake of self indulgence and « making yourself seem intellectual/smart » is an absolute turn off.
It kills absolutely everything I love about music


Off lawn now.

I agree with you re. Neely. Dude is a talented bassist, and I liked his channel when it was sort of a "V-Sauce of music", but it changed and I changed over time I guess.

 

[Spectrum]

I have a solo gig this Saturday! Well, half-solo/half-with koto. I'll be using the Grone, Sirin, & Hydrasynth like before, but also incorporate my Stanley Clarke 5-string. One thing I want to do is use my fuzz into sample & hold filter thing, so I finally made a little set-up:

I don't have a board for it unfortunately, but it does fit in a little bag I have. My next issue was: I also want to put my bass through my regular board (comp, Geddy Lee SansAmp, new to me MXR chorus/flanger), and was thinking I'd just mute the channel and plug from one to the other. Then I remembered - my Alembic can also be stereo! So I'll do the bridge pickup through the filter setup and the neck pickup through my regular board and can just switch back and forth with the pickup selector switch! Gotta break out the good ol' Rick-O-Sound box...

Boards are nice, but tossing your pedals on the floor with a jumble of cables gives you more street cred.

 

[hieronymous]

Boards are nice, but tossing your pedals on the floor with a jumble of cables gives you more street cred.

I am fortunate that I should have plenty of time to set up (setting up the day before the gig and leaving there, it's at a Buddhist temple so should be safe) - it's packing up to leave that worries me!

 

[Spectrum]

I am fortunate that I should have plenty of time to set up (setting up the day before the gig and leaving there, it's at a Buddhist temple so should be safe) - it's packing up to leave that worries me!

Fortunately, my usual venue lets me have plenty of time as well. You should see my janky synth rig. It takes me a long time to set up, and a long time to break it down. Then dragging it home and back up the stairs at 1 AM when I am dead tired. Then the next day I have to set it back up in my house or else risk it sitting in a pile for a week or two. I'm always envious of these guys with their super neat and orderly setups, but I see they use laptops and lots of MIDI. That is not me, I do everything the hard way.

I need to experiment with a cut down setup for those times when time and space are a constraint.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

sorry but this is an absolute must share due to my previous post. If you’ve never seen the ballet choreography by Nijiski, you must watch this at least once in your life.
Stravinsky, what more needs to be said…..

 

[monsterthompson]

Weird instruments + effects with "practical application" of using them to score video games. It is a fun watch.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Complexity for the sake of self indulgence and « making yourself seem intellectual/smart » is an absolute turn off.

Reminds me of a friend I had at the Conservatory who, at the premier performance of one of his new works, proudly proclaimed "All of the rhythms and durations in this piece were derived from the proportions of the engravings on the face of the Australian 20 cent coin!"
...which immediately made me wonder: If the music sucks, will he try to blame the Reserve Bank of AUS?

Or, how many times have you had this experience: You're with another musician, listening to or playing something, and you think it's kinda lame, and you say so, and your buddy says
"It's in seven!"

"Right, but it sucks."

"But it's in seven!"

::::

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Reminds me of a friend I had at the Conservatory who, at the premier performance of one of his new works, proudly proclaimed "All of the rhythms and durations in this piece were derived from the proportions of the engravings on the face of the Australian 20 cent coin!"
...which immediately made me wonder: If the music sucks, will he try to blame the Reserve Bank of AUS?

Or, how many times have you had this experience: You're with another musician, listening to or playing something, and you think it's kinda lame, and you say so, and your buddy says
"It's in seven!"

"Right, but it sucks."

"But it's in seven!"

::::

We can hang

; pays virtual drink of choice :

reminds of the composition class while I was in university.
All the students where making super complex polyrhythms with superimposed time signatures till one day the teacher said:
« I will no longer grade any chart that is not written in 4/4. This is getting out of hand and is completely ridiculous. »

Add to the fact some of those arrangements where recorded and had to be done in sight reading.
I was the bassplayer on one of those sessions and the sax (major douche) composed something in 7 plus 3 plus 3.
Like a weird 13/8 thing. I of course couldn’t sight read that crap and he got on my case being an « inferior player than he was »
Told him to go eff himself/choke on it and refused to play his arrangement. Teacher completely agreed with me telling the dude to go @:$;$ himself.
He was the only one with his final arrangement of the session without a bassline.

disclaimer:
I’ve got nothing against complex compositions as long as the musicality/emotion is the ultimate goal.

 

[Bob_Ross]

« I will no longer grade any chart that is not written in 4/4. This is getting out of hand and is completely ridiculous. »

That's brilliant.

 

[Spectrum]

he got on my case being an « inferior player than he was »
Told him to go eff himself/choke on it and refused to play his arrangement. Teacher completely agreed with me telling the dude to go @:$;$ himself.