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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#5,801
Embarassingly enough, my first cassette was Love Gun, by Kiss, when it came out. I had real crap taste in music when I was a kid.. Joan Jett, Billy Joel, other pedestrian nonsense.

In high school, I couldn't stand the hair band crap, so I mostly listened to 60's music and the Dead.

If I had to look at my roots as the musician I now am, it would be:
Beatles - Abbey Road
Yes - The Yes Album/Close to the Edge
Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Eno- Music for Films
Ashra - Blackouts
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
and probably some Waters-era Floyd album, as well as the original Rocky soundtrack (those basslines, OMFG)

Pretty interesting list, and somewhat strange, as well as punk/metal-free, which is surprising to me nowadays, because I don't listen to anything remotely conventional.
 
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#5,802
Speaking of roots...
Strongly suggest the No Dogs In Space podcast (I must’ve already mentioned it recently). It’s a history of punk, and gets a little into post-punk. There’s a decent amount of it that sets the stage for post-“whatever” and the NYC influence on the late 70s art world. So far they’ve covered Stooges, Damned, Suicide, and are just releasing episodes about The Ramones.

The vibe of the podcast is a little silly, but there’s decent info. The episodes are long, so you gotta take them in chunks. They play a decent amount of examples, too.
 
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#5,803
My first cassette was cypress hill from my sisters Walkman... that and listening to lots of Beatles and led zeppelin on my parents record player.
But the first I bought was “Who the bleep is Alice” by the steppers (aka living next door to Alice)which is a cover of a cover of a cover.?!!? I didn’t know but it had a swear word so I thought it was cool! But all I really remember is somehow getting away with letting my dad be bribed into having machine heads the more things change on cassette in the car for drives... I think that tone on that album first got me into bass... so thick and heavy on stuff like violate or ten ton hammer... and also peaked me wanting to learn guitar. I was so in love with the blood of the zodiac solos... simple yet awesome.

and now I’m looking at what synth pedal / fuzz pedal / VST I can save up for to spend on and make lots of random noises...
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
Makes me think of this by Rucci.

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I have one of those. I love it but it’s a bit expensive for what it is. I keep mine on my pedal board w
Irked to go in a mixer going into my board. I can bend down and play it or more likely I pick it up and play it a bit and then put it back down on the board. I use loopers so it can do some cool drone stuff and patterns w my loopers.
 
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#5,811
First cassette?!?! I don't think I've ever bought a pre-recorded cassette tape in my life!

But first LP, wow... Well, my parents bought The Beatles' Rubber Soul shortly after it was released in 1965 and that was the only record I listened to for several years.
Sometime around 1967 or '68 I was given the soundtrack to Disney's The Jungle Book cartoon, so that was technically my first album.
First albums I ever bought with my own money were Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones, and Naturally by Three Dog Night. That woulda been around 1971.
 
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monsterthompson said:
It’s side chain compression. Their website makes reference to a 2A style compressor. Listen to the pumping and pulsing that the kick drum triggers.
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Spectrum said:
I think Rainger FX also makes a like sidechaining pedal, the DeepSpace Pulsar.
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I think the Drolo stretch weaver does this sort of...It’s something that I need to try to fully understand.
 
#5,817
cosmicevan said:
I think the Drolo stretch weaver does this sort of...It’s something that I need to try to fully understand.
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It shouldn’t be too hard.
You have an audio path that gets a volume dip based on a triggering event from another audio path.

Set up a mic on a kick drum as a trigger. Route that signal into the box, and set a threshold for how loud the kick needs to be before it compresses the audio signal. Then set the amount of the compression and attack/release parameters. It’ll be like having an automated volume swell at each kick.
 
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There was a Mythbusters episode where they tested a myth concerning sound recorded on the surface of clay pots from ancient times. The idea being that as the hardening clay was being turned somebody would put a makeshift stylus of some sort on it and shout at it hard enough to actually cut a sound groove like a cylindrical record. The clay would then harden, and as long as it wasn't broken, should preserve the sound to modern times. Try as they might they couldn't get their contraption to record anything, sadly. Was still a neat concept to think about though.
 
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