Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[Spectrum]

For once I was not playing bass, but you might find it inspiring

Oh, I like that slow-down trick the Microcosm does, didn't know it could do that. I remember lusting after that pedal when it was new but the price made it easy to put it off, and I think some have put it down as a "reverb slur machine", but that sounds really cool.

 

[steubig]

no bass content…

six things i’ve been working on since march. i guess they’re done. at my bandcamp, etc.

 

[Curse4043]

This is my personal endgame delay pedal for ambient and post-rock. It does delay, reverb, tremolo, glitch effects, volume swells... I really need to spend more time with it. Vastly underrated pedal. Someone else's demo

 

[FaithNoMan]

I just got a Boss CE-2W and have been pairing it with my Fernweh delay and sometimes my Boss Slicer. It's been fun.

I think what I make may fit in this category..lol I have no clue what I make!

The Fernweh with the CE-2W in its' loop(and a Reiner Gasoline/JohnK Centurion in a Damnation Bloop)
With my maple/aluminum P bass I built:

 

[Starthief]

The Slöer arrived today and I gave it a short spin. It's definitely super ambient, nice for woozy ethereal blissed-out stuff, shimmer reverb that I mostly don't hate, and fun vibrato. I think it's gonna be a winner. I may have to rearrange stuff on my desk a little though... I feel like it deserves to be in front of me somewhere and not over my left shoulder.

 

[Spectrum]

I just got a Boss CE-2W and have been pairing it with my Fernweh delay and sometimes my Boss Slicer. It's been fun.

I think what I make may fit in this category..lol I have no clue what I make!

The Fernweh with the CE-2W in its' loop(and a Reiner Gasoline/JohnK Centurion in a Damnation Bloop)
With my maple/aluminum P bass I built:

Cool. Do you get that massive sound from reverb or just the delay?

 

[Starthief]

Back to free/pay-what-you-want for this one. This is the one where I alternate between no-FM-but-heavy-reverb/delay, and only-FM-but-no-reverb/delay. Also, every track uses Mutable Instruments Marbles, mostly with the same settings (speed and scale/voltage range were subject to change, and self-patching it in a couple of cases affected its behavior).

 

[droningearth]

bit of drone and bass improvisation in the middle part.

 

[FaithNoMan]

Cool. Do you get that massive sound from reverb or just the delay?

Thanks! It's just the delay. But since Chorus is also time-based I think it adds another dimension to the sound.

 

[monsterthompson]

Particularly for @ugly_bassplayer

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Particularly for @ugly_bassplayer

She should add delay after all those verbs.
Stick a Carbon Copy with everything and it sounds freaking awesome

 

[deedeefirestone]

Go to for soundscapes and hugeness.

 

[PhR75]

Some 12-string ambients:

 

[monsterthompson]

Go to for soundscapes and hugeness.

Are you running the Hilbish as your amp, or as a distortion into the Orange?
Looks like it’s a Beta Pre with a clean/dirty blend setting based on the gain and level settings. I’ve got a Sol pedal so I have an idea what that setting might be like.

 

[Bob_Ross]

She should add half a dozen delays after all those verbs

FIFY

 

[monsterthompson]

16 taps

 

[deedeefirestone]

Are you running the Hilbish as your amp, or as a distortion into the Orange?
Looks like it’s a Beta Pre with a clean/dirty blend setting based on the gain and level settings. I’ve got a Sol pedal so I have an idea what that setting might be like.

Using the Hilbish as a preamp and the Orange as power amp. Clean and dirty, but I only use clean or both.

 

[monsterthompson]

Using the Hilbish as a preamp and the Orange as power amp. Clean and dirty, but I only use clean or both.

Nice! I rearranged my pedals recently and haven’t plugged in the Sol since. I need to fire that thing up. I like how it behaves running into delays and reverbs. I do wish it stayed cleaner for more of the gain range, but I’ve found ways to make it work.

 

[monsterthompson]

Well this is interesting. I have a microfreak, and have been considering a minifreak. Sampling functions demo.

 

[steubig]

prepping for a session tomorrow with an electronic saxophonist in from denver. headphones only. haven’t played with folks using a bunch of electronics for a long while. shedding, trying to not suck.