Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[arakiri]

howdy. delay into reverse delay. yep. that’s a one.

ya its very fun, im using a de7 into the b1on delay and then crushin into one of the ampsims for now svt but i wanna try the acoustic

 

[steubig]

Unfortunately no. There was a point where I was really tempted, but couldn't find one at a price that made sense. I wound up with the Elmyra 2 and figure it's pretty similar in its general attitude.

...

The replacement Mesmerizer arrived, and it had exactly the same issue as the first one: mono effect only. I wrote to Maneco, describing how I'd tried different things to confirm it wasn't a mistake on my end, saying that I still thought it sounded great even in mono (just not quite like the videos), and asking if I should ship one back. He said, just keep them both. So now I have it in stereo (or serial, multiband, dual independent effects or whatever...)

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I just released my new album this morning. There's more open space on some tracks, it's not *all* relentless drones this time. But still plenty of noisy drone textures to be had. There's one track that's solely the Miezo and a ludicrous amount of processing.

only took me two weeks to listen to this.

good job!

 

[monsterthompson]

the pedalboard jab is uncalled for

 

[Bob_Ross]

Someone just reminded me of this project I was involved in several years ago...I forget if I ever posted it here, but apologies if I have.
Veronica Nolte is the actress
Tim Mukherjee on guitar
Bob Ross (me, duh) on bass
Alexey Artemov on percussion

 

[monsterthompson]

Bass demos sprinkled in. 3:05 for a nice section.

 

[monsterthompson]

I’m considering buying a Dreadbox Erebus reissue, again. I had the original back when I bought my Nyx (which I still have), but sold it off at some point. There’s supposed to be a new Nyx reissue coming along soon, too.

Basically, I came to the realization my eurorack adventures have all been an attempt to recreate the Nyx with an enhanced interface. I recently got the Nyx out and started droning with it again and it took me right back to the excitement of first getting it. I then rewired some of my rack settings and found some great drone and quantized random sounds using the Algo oscillator, some filters, my Erica and OTO delays and reverbs.

Nothing recorded to share. Just figured I’d bump the thread and share some nostalgia.

 

[steubig]

I’m considering buying a Dreadbox Erebus reissue, again. I had the original back when I bought my Nyx (which I still have), but sold it off at some point. There’s supposed to be a new Nyx reissue coming along soon, too.

Basically, I came to the realization my eurorack adventures have all been an attempt to recreate the Nyx with an enhanced interface. I recently got the Nyx out and started droning with it again and it took me right back to the excitement of first getting it. I then rewired some of my rack settings and found some great drone and quantized random sounds using the Algo oscillator, some filters, my Erica and OTO delays and reverbs.

Nothing recorded to share. Just figured I’d bump the thread and share some nostalgia.

interesting. i’d been looking at some of the dreadbox stuff, especially the nyx. is it crazy/noisy enough? most of the vids i saw were people trying to make nice sounds and sequences (iirc).

 

[monsterthompson]

interesting. i’d been looking at some of the dreadbox stuff, especially the nyx. is it crazy/noisy enough? most of the vids i saw were people trying to make nice sounds and sequences (iirc).

I wouldn't say it is particularly crazy or noisy. It has some unusual filter routing for a semi-modular. What makes the original magical for me is the filter and reverb sound pairing. Something about that just clicks for me. The reverb was done by Crazy Tube Circuits originally, and I hope the reissue uses the same design.

You can push the filter resonance to oscillate and scream. You can get some hard sync sounds too. It’s still a 2 Osc subtractive unit

 

[Spectrum]

Now this is new and weird.

 

[monsterthompson]

 

[hieronymous]

I love the mushroom's use of space!

 

[monsterthompson]

Out comes the credit card again.

 

[droningearth]

#bassguitar #ambient #improvisation #instrumental

 

[Spectrum]

Out comes the credit card again.

Never change, Japan. Never change.

 

[monsterthompson]

Never change, Japan. Never change.

I decided to see what else that channel had to offer.
What even is happening here?

 

[Spectrum]

I have been binging Alex Ball's channel lately. Not really ambient or bass (though he's quite skilled on bass and guitar), but his use of vintage hardware and musicianship are loads of fun.

 

[steubig]

i made funny (or annoying) noise

 

[Spectrum]

 

[monsterthompson]

Any of you experimented with Strudel? I don’t know if I could work in this environment, but it is great to watch the process.
I’m pretty sure @ugly_bassplayer would ventilate every drywall surface in reach

 

[Starthief]

Any of you experimented with Strudel? I don’t know if I could work in this environment, but it is great to watch the process.
I’m pretty sure @ugly_bassplayer would ventilate every drywall surface in reach

I looked really briefly into TidalCycles, which this is based on, but decided not to go down that road.

I used to have a Monome Teletype Eurorack module. Though it doesn't handle audio itself, you write (very short) scripts to work with gates and CVs for sequencing/control/quantization etc. Also a few modules can send data or receive specialized commands from it. I liked it for a while, but the more I used Bitwig Grid patches for hybrid sequencing stuff, the less I was using Teletype.