Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[monsterthompson]

Perfect Circuit snagged a special color drop of Count to Five pedals. I know that’s been a device of interest around these parts.

In less ambient news, I snagged a Two Notes Genome license I’m about to add a couple of amp and cab upgrades. I gotta say, I’m pretty impressed with the software. Relatively easy to use. It does push my MacBook to roughly 10-20% CPU usage and I’m not sure how much I’d trust it live (because computers, ammirite) but if you’re in the market, $60 for the basic isn’t awful, though it only comes with one dedicated 810 (910 actually) bass cab DynIR.

It seems to take hardware pedals into the interface and then the amp/cab sim pretty nicely.

 

[droningearth]

5th track is ambient/bass guitar noise

 

[Spectrum]

So maybe this isn't strictly speaking ambient bass stuff, but it's cool and weird and I want to show it to somebody before I forget so this is the thread where I do that sort of thing.

And anyway, the music is cool and makes the video. Gives me ideas.

 

[monsterthompson]

Well this is new and interesting.
So new it isn’t out yet.

gintronic.io | Made for hands. Built for sound.

gintronic.io

 

[lordradish]

Uh-oh. Have one of these coming next week...

 

[ccoyote]

Been considering putting one of these together for myself since before starting on bass I mostly was a non-pedal steel player.

 

[lordradish]

I have absolutely no idea how this came about, but my 2025 album, "A Long Dusk" has been nominated for a Schallwelle Award for best ambient album of 2025. Apparently this thing is some sort of big deal, as they have an actual award ceremony and a concert and all that in Germany. Anyways, I just found out about this this morning, and the voting ends tomorrow. So if any of you can go cast a vote as soon as you can, I'd appreciate the hell out of it. Lemme know if ya do, I'll send you some download codes. Thanks.
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[monsterthompson]

Bravo!

 

[lordradish]

Bravo!

I am still kind of surprised by this, I have no idea how it happened... it's certainly not reflected in Bandcamp sales! Thanks.

 

[steubig]

sales not equaling quality?

i’m shocked.

 

[steubig]

Been considering putting one of these together for myself since before starting on bass I mostly was a non-pedal steel player.

that’s cool.

for grins, something i made 30-35 years ago. it’s in a state of disrepair right now. solid maple. weighs a ton.

 

[rcmbass]

I have absolutely no idea how this came about, but my 2025 album, "A Long Dusk" has been nominated for a Schallwelle Award for best ambient album of 2025. Apparently this thing is some sort of big deal, as they have an actual award ceremony and a concert and all that in Germany. Anyways, I just found out about this this morning, and the voting ends tomorrow. So if any of you can go cast a vote as soon as you can, I'd appreciate the hell out of it. Lemme know if ya do, I'll send you some download codes. Thanks.
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Voted!

 

[lordradish]

sales not equaling quality?

i’m shocked.

Hey, I wanted to be the Taylor Swift of ambient, but that ain't happening. Maybe I need to dress better.

 

[monsterthompson]

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

juste la little post to give some news since ive been completely absent in the past months….

major major life events, still playing bass though

very low energy, step by step im getting better…..slowly

will be getting back to creating as time goes, its going to be a slow process

cheers to all the regulars

Deiectus Exsurgam

 

[steubig]

juste la little post to give some news since ive been completely absent in the past months….

major major life events, still playing bass though

very low energy, step by step im getting better…..slowly

will be getting back to creating as time goes, its going to be a slow process

cheers to all the regulars

Deiectus Exsurgam

hmmm. sounds heavy. hope things go okay.

 

[lordradish]

juste la little post to give some news since ive been completely absent in the past months….

major major life events, still playing bass though

very low energy, step by step im getting better…..slowly

will be getting back to creating as time goes, its going to be a slow process

cheers to all the regulars

Deiectus Exsurgam

Hang in there, bro. Make some noise, it always feels good.

 

[lordradish]

Okay, the plot thickens and this gets even stranger. Thanks for those of you who voted:

 

[monsterthompson]

Okay, the plot thickens and this gets even stranger. Thanks for those of you who voted:
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Exciting!

 

[monsterthompson]

Having an RTFM kind of day. Amazing how helpful that can be.