Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
- Thread starter ttasselm
- Start date
they’ll come out with v2 within a year.
Oh, I’m sorry, your bid is over the retail price and you will have to stay in contestant’s row.
Interesting concept.
Quadrophonic dub delay.
Sounds start at 12:00
Quadrophonic dub delay.
Sounds start at 12:00
Getting into the weird side of my new Erica Zen Delay. The "Vintage" delay mode is bit crushed madness that can easily sound horrifyingly out of control. It turns out there is a specific window of control settings that interact in a way that tames this monster (see below). What I'm finding with this, and with the delay in general, is that it is not a typical stomp box delay but more of a Dub inspired tool. It seems to be meant to get audit injected into the delay circuit and then manipulated. There is an "In Level" but no "Out Level" control. Once the sound is injected it bounces around until the decay wears out and feedback can be set to infinite and even to self oscillate.
With the Vintage setting it seems to work best with a constant stream of audit, not pinging one-shots. Once you get some echoes infinitely feeding back you can sculpt the sound with the delay time and the filter settings. I've found fairly interesting and useable sounds in this space, but I'm still getting used to how everything interacts.
I found this on Gearspace and agree with it.
Zen delays Vintage mode work very well at specific settings:
- 5% to max. 20% wet, not more ! This is critical!
- adjust the in level so that the dry signal is loud enough compared to the delay (9 to 12 o' clock)
- drive only between 9 and 11 o'clock ! This is critical as well! If below 8 it sounds like s*it
- with no incoming signal it still sounds like crap, however with an ongoing, incoming signal (no single shot) the vintage delay sound really good and absolutely unique.
- recomm.: play around with the cutoff in LP filter mode.
With the Vintage setting it seems to work best with a constant stream of audit, not pinging one-shots. Once you get some echoes infinitely feeding back you can sculpt the sound with the delay time and the filter settings. I've found fairly interesting and useable sounds in this space, but I'm still getting used to how everything interacts.
I found this on Gearspace and agree with it.
Zen delays Vintage mode work very well at specific settings:
- 5% to max. 20% wet, not more ! This is critical!
- adjust the in level so that the dry signal is loud enough compared to the delay (9 to 12 o' clock)
- drive only between 9 and 11 o'clock ! This is critical as well! If below 8 it sounds like s*it
- with no incoming signal it still sounds like crap, however with an ongoing, incoming signal (no single shot) the vintage delay sound really good and absolutely unique.
- recomm.: play around with the cutoff in LP filter mode.
no idea why "audio" became "audit" above. twice 
I'm pretty sure the IRS isn't involved.
I'm pretty sure the IRS isn't involved.
You had me at ^^^
Here is a burst of the Vintage effect. You won't find many demos of it. This is no audio input and just the noise it makes as a default sound in that setting. 3:49.
I could easily see myself with that delay and a no input or my Lyra 8.
Chaos and mayhem would ensue.
(Mad scientist laugh)
With the filter there’s a lot of room for shaping sound. I read somewhere that there’s a “feedforward” design in play so that’s why it generates noise as soon as there’s volume knob movement even with no audio being sent. Sending constant audio instead of one shots seems to tame it somewhat. Also setting delay and feedback for a bunch of dense repeats will too. Vintage seems an odd name for it. It must be inspired by gear I’m unfamiliar with. It seems like a useful tool for noisescapes.
I think this forum would benefit for separate forum for (bass) synths,
apart from double bass and bass guitars roots, of course.
apart from double bass and bass guitars roots, of course.
It’s been proposed.
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/dedicated-synth-bass-forum.1662361/
This effects forum thread has definitely evolved over time and the synth tendencies of the thread regulars has bubbled to the surface. In the current times it’s hard not to be synth minded when speaking about “ambient” sound production. There’s plenty of overlapping concepts and effects being produced for ambient sound design seem to be intended for multi instrument usage.
I like this thread the way it is, with a blend of bass effects and synths. In my electronic project the lines between these things are pretty blurred.
Yea, sorry, i haven't been here for some time and this was one of the first impressions.
I'm at 7 basses and about 17 synths atm..
effects, that's another ... pit of despair, lol. I'm just glad i'm not into modular that much.
Just semimodular.
I'm at 7 basses and about 17 synths atm..
effects, that's another ... pit of despair, lol. I'm just glad i'm not into modular that much.Just semimodular.
