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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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And another track from me, this one brand new, also posted in the Feedback Friday thread, including an explanation on what I used (more or less).
Up for free download and listening on Bandcamp:
The link to my Feedback Friday post is here: FEEDBACK FRIDAY
Up for free download and listening on Bandcamp:
The link to my Feedback Friday post is here: FEEDBACK FRIDAY
Expanding my pedalboard these days and my intention is to to add new pedals for ambient pads and drones. I'd like to thank you for the great stuff I'm founding on this thread. I have a question: is it better a digital or analog/tape delay before the reverb for this kind of sounds? I don't want to spend a fortune, so I had in mind to buy Tc Electronics Prophet delay and Skysurfer reverb. They're cheap and it seems to me they sound good.
I would say it depends on the sound you're going for. If you're looking to add delay into a big reverby pad-type sound, I would probably lean toward an analog delay pedal to get that sort of warm, washy sound.
On the other hand though, due to space considerations I only want one delay pedal on my board that can cover all my delay needs, so I'm planning on purchasing a Source Audio Nemesis because it has tap-tempo functionality. (And even though it's a digital pedal, a well-made digital delay is only going to sound marginally "worse" at warm, analog-type sounds than a true analog pedal, in my opinion.)
Yes, it is exactly what I'm looking for. So better analog versus digital and better multi-type versus single type delay. Nemesis it's fantastic but a little out of budget. I'll search in the used market maybe. Another question: how long the delay should be for that kind of purpose? I saw normally delays have a maximum of something between 300 and 600 milliseconds. It is enough if it's feeding a huge reverb with lots of feedback, isn't it? Thanks
I haven't done this a lot with my bass, but I've used vocoding with other sources as carriers or modulators to create unpredictably evolving soundscapes. One of my favorite uses of vocoders is to not think of it as a way to imprint speech components onto musical materials -- i.e., I'm not trying to get the Sparky's Magic Piano singing musical instrument effect -- but rather think of it as a way to morph two signals together, to create cross-modulated hybrids. E.g., instead of using a voice as the modulator and a synthesizer as the carrier, use an arhythmic/aperiodic atmospheric loop as the carrier and an unrelated rhythmic/periodic loop as the modulator. Or vice-versa.
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Hello!
Can i make soung like in this videos with only my PC and soft ?
And what programs do I need ?
Can i make soung like in this videos with only my PC and soft ?
And what programs do I need ?
That's beautiful!
EDIT: What is your instrumentation? Do you use a lot of looping?
Thank you a lot
No actually I haven't really played with looping at all, other than when creating music I often improvise a lot while recording in a DAW and then afterward cut out the useful bits, arrange and repeat them.
For this particular track I don't think I used that technique much though, instead I actually manually repeated the overtones and chords I play a lot.
To answer your second question, I actually already answered that with the link I provided in my post:
Maybe I could add to that, that the fuzz I speak about in that post is a Boss MT-2 stacked in front of an EHX Tube Zipper where I only utilize the fuzz part of the pedal.
Gives sort of an incredible thick grainy over the top out of control type of fuzz tone with tons of beautifully distorted harmonics that makes chords sound really heavy and doomy and single notes appear as if they were played on some sort of wind instrument on psychedelic drugs.
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This is my first attempt at an ambient bass drone soundscape. I recorded it to help me sleep when I'm stressed! My ambient board currently consists of a subnup, Source Audio Nemesis delay, a Neunaber Reverberator, and Jamman loop pedal. Just getting started and looking forward to getting more skilled at this. I'm using only my Dinwall 5 string bass here.
Just whipped this one up last night:
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True!Or the Miku and any other pedal for that matter!
Sometimes even my entire pedal chain (Miku, Ravish Sitar, Dunwich custom muff, Dual Bass Wah, Holy Grail Nano) for noise.
