All of that, exactly. Rock bands are cakewalks for me, nowadays, unless it's prog rock.
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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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Bob Weir says that "too much of everything is just enough."
Pulling off anything alone in the "music" thingy is always hard. Its alot of work indeed.
More nerves, more pressure.....etc....
Playing solo bass live made me want to die....almost literally.
Ill give it a try for my "noise something sample machine type project". I have a couple a recorded ideas.
Kudos to you.
That works surprisingly well. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to hate it or laugh at it, but it's strangely listenable.
My drummer is currently in a big prog rock tribute band.
Holy @^^#@&#& those drummers where insane. Bruford, Collins....jeezuz crap.
Showed me a couple charts he made, those forms are intentionally complex to make you screw up. Don't remember what song it was but there was a 9/8 bar but every two forms its a 10/8......common now!!!!!
This one is multitracked, so I can't play it live (yet, anyway).
This one was done in one take, so I've played it live.
This is a layered multitrack.
This one is actual ambient bass, imagine that!
This one was done in a park by a river on a picnic bench in one afternoon, using only a Volca Bass and a Korg recorder with built-in reverb. This track has several layers on top of each other so I have no idea how I'd play it live by myself.
This last one is one of the few I have managed to play a live version of.
When I travel somewhere, I often take a Volca synth and the handheld Korg recorder along with me, since they are portable and battery-powered. Then if I get bored in a hotel room or need to get away from my family for a couple of hours I can just put on some headphones and try to lay down a track. Sometimes they are worth an upload.
Making the videos is harder. I mostly just use my phone and edit stuff together but it's hard to keep coming up with new ideas and the time it takes made me slack off recently.
I also have a soundcloud account: Helium Road
Some of that stuff is more random and it's always running out of space.
Making the videos is harder. I mostly just use my phone and edit stuff together but it's hard to keep coming up with new ideas and the time it takes made me slack off recently.
I also have a soundcloud account: Helium Road
Some of that stuff is more random and it's always running out of space.
Okay, I just sat through this ~1 hour "manual" of the Chase Bliss Blooper:
My first response is "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!"
But my second response is "sweet jeebus, do I really need yet another pedal with a huge learning curve and very little visual feedback in the UI?"
I'm conflicted.
My first response is "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!"
But my second response is "sweet jeebus, do I really need yet another pedal with a huge learning curve and very little visual feedback in the UI?"
I'm conflicted.
Hello,
I recently found this thread and like it... Subbed
I am over the hill with the gig thing, two out of four in the latest band have passed away... So, The two survivors still get together and jam. And really, what we do is "sounds", we're not doing songs.
I have not gone through the 240+ pages of this thread to check everything and so I am wondering, being naive, as to whether I have things in common with those who like this thread. Ya know, I wonder what the definitions are, what's the boundaries?
I have gleaned that many of you use a tremendous amount of pedals. I suspect midi programs and more.
I am very intrigued by industrial sounds, ambient and the like. My friend and I get together with no structure ahead of us. Played yesterday as a fact. He's got about five pedals going including a looper sometimes. We utilize a korg triton for sounds/drums in some of it. I run a roland tr707 in the mix sometimes. As a bass player, I rely more on the fact I have a fret-less, 12, 8, 5 and 4 string basses for sound changes. But I have lately found a very cool signal path I am liking with some very old boxes and compression. Thus straying from my normal bass rig set up for regular "band" type playing. Regardless, Couple samples below...
Wondering if we fit in... Welcome aboard or get that poopie out of here?
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I recently found this thread and like it... Subbed
I am over the hill with the gig thing, two out of four in the latest band have passed away... So, The two survivors still get together and jam. And really, what we do is "sounds", we're not doing songs.
I have not gone through the 240+ pages of this thread to check everything and so I am wondering, being naive, as to whether I have things in common with those who like this thread. Ya know, I wonder what the definitions are, what's the boundaries?
I have gleaned that many of you use a tremendous amount of pedals. I suspect midi programs and more.
I am very intrigued by industrial sounds, ambient and the like. My friend and I get together with no structure ahead of us. Played yesterday as a fact. He's got about five pedals going including a looper sometimes. We utilize a korg triton for sounds/drums in some of it. I run a roland tr707 in the mix sometimes. As a bass player, I rely more on the fact I have a fret-less, 12, 8, 5 and 4 string basses for sound changes. But I have lately found a very cool signal path I am liking with some very old boxes and compression. Thus straying from my normal bass rig set up for regular "band" type playing. Regardless, Couple samples below...
Wondering if we fit in... Welcome aboard or get that poopie out of here?
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welcome to the thread.
boundaries?
imo, make up what you want to hear.
in my world each project has its own needs, rules and intentions.
for me, those are the boundaries.
boundaries?
imo, make up what you want to hear.
in my world each project has its own needs, rules and intentions.
for me, those are the boundaries.
To me it is a perfect fit. Sounds like it could have been the commercial release. Most of the mashups sound a bit forced to me.
Ok, that sounds great! I have a lot to learn. But for me, as to equipment, I'll be worlds away from some of the stuff I am seeing here. I have been very creative with fringe alternative methods for 40 years. Like, "you cant get there from here". Or, "that's the hard way".
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We got all kinds here, don't worry about keeping up with equipment. Some of the coolest "out there" music was made with simple gear.
That first track you posted reminds me a bit of very early Tangerine Dream stuff, when they were using guitars mostly to make spacey psychedelic sounds, kind of like early Pink Floyd.
No worries. Lots of the equipment posted isn't necessarily owned by us. I like knowing what the gear landscape looks like so I can think of how to blend types of sounds. Like, hey that company has a Reverb with a fuzz on the wet signal... how could I do that, and why would I want to? The more you see, the more it starts to run together. In the end, it's almost all delays. Chorus a flange are delays. Reverb is similar to Delay. There are granular delays, tape delays, bucket brigade delays, digital delays, reverse delays. Loopers are just really long delays....
And my delay is a dod 680...
So old it is from before the days of battery operated pedals. Amazingly holding quite a value. On ebay 225-300 bucks! I've had a lot of fun with this.
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