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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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No release date yet. Waiting on the mastered tracks and the artwork. I'm going to start a label and release it myself, so it's maybe a couple of months away. I'm excited about being able to record at home now, though!! It's great to record at home and be able to release things myself. It feels liberating.
The Renoise modulation is actually quite good. I figured out how it syncs to the BPM. There’s a box called LPC which indicates how many lines of sequencing per cycle. So, you’ve got 4 bars of 16th notes and a line per 16th note, you’ve got 64 lines per per phrase, so you set the LFO to 64 for an oscillation cycle across the phrase. 32 gets you two oscillations, 16 gets you four, etc.
It’s a different lens on this stuff. It’s somewhat intuitive once you start understanding the language. In some ways it pulls the music theory out of the process, but in other ways it makes theory easier to apply. It’s definitely a DAW for breakbeat loving math nerds. I watched a few videos on chopping loops and there’s some fun potential in there.
It’s a different lens on this stuff. It’s somewhat intuitive once you start understanding the language. In some ways it pulls the music theory out of the process, but in other ways it makes theory easier to apply. It’s definitely a DAW for breakbeat loving math nerds. I watched a few videos on chopping loops and there’s some fun potential in there.
Was on my YT feed, I didn't know someone made an audio version. Could be of interest to some.
I read this book a while back. The author is Luigi Russolo.
Here is a link for some extra info and context.
The Art of Noises - Wikipedia
I read this book a while back. The author is Luigi Russolo.
Here is a link for some extra info and context.
The Art of Noises - Wikipedia
What kind of power supplies are y'all using for your effects?
I've always used the simple One-Spot wall warts with daisy chain cords, but I've been running into problems with pedal hum lately.
I currently have about a dozen pedals strung together, and decided to troubleshoot it by disconnecting one pedal at a time until the hum stopped.
Fortunately, the very first pedal was the culprit: EHX Superego. To eliminate the pedal hum, I must not only remove it from the signal chain, but also must unplug the pedal from the power supply. I suspect I'm reaching the limits of current for the One Spot, nevertheless unplugging other pedals didn't help, it's that Superego that gives me the problem. The pedal by itself creates no hum, so I need better power.
My workaround is to, (duh) not plug in pedals I'm not using for my current recording track. That's fine for my home setup, but if I play in public all the stuff I need for the set has to be on a board and powered up at the same time. So, I need better power.
So with the variety of pedal power products on the market, I figured I'd ask here for opinions before blowing money.
I've always used the simple One-Spot wall warts with daisy chain cords, but I've been running into problems with pedal hum lately.
I currently have about a dozen pedals strung together, and decided to troubleshoot it by disconnecting one pedal at a time until the hum stopped.
Fortunately, the very first pedal was the culprit: EHX Superego. To eliminate the pedal hum, I must not only remove it from the signal chain, but also must unplug the pedal from the power supply. I suspect I'm reaching the limits of current for the One Spot, nevertheless unplugging other pedals didn't help, it's that Superego that gives me the problem. The pedal by itself creates no hum, so I need better power.
My workaround is to, (duh) not plug in pedals I'm not using for my current recording track. That's fine for my home setup, but if I play in public all the stuff I need for the set has to be on a board and powered up at the same time. So, I need better power.
So with the variety of pedal power products on the market, I figured I'd ask here for opinions before blowing money.
I had few One Spot units with extensions. I just switched to the Cioks DC7. What a beast. I still need to run an occasional wall-wart for pedals on the floor vs. desktop.
My Cioks currently powers:
Night Owl Edison
Duncan Comp
Volt Thrower
DSM ODCS
Zoia
OBNE Rever
Two MIDI split/convert boxes
One empty power port.
The Volt Thrower runs at 18v, and all else is 9v.
OMG, people with big boards use One Spots? WHAAAAA?
I jest, here, but I figured out, early on, how much noise that makes, not to mention, how often the pedals get underpowered. It's taken me about three years to get a really quiet and clear board, but it also took adding a 10 channel bypass looper and a sweet EQ at the end of it. I have a Voodoo Labs pedal power, and then as the board expanded, I added an MXR IsoBrick. Both have performed flawlessly, since day 1. First thing I did was make a chart of the power requirements for all of my pedals, as you know, they vary wildly, then just allocated them to the various jacks, accordingly. I still have one or two slots free, too, although at this point, I don't have much room left on the boards.
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Limited Edition Montreal Assembly Count to Five's are released and in the web shop.
Page is getting destroyed though, with lots of time out errors. Took about 20 tries to finally get it in the cart and paid for.
Page is getting destroyed though, with lots of time out errors. Took about 20 tries to finally get it in the cart and paid for.
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Stumbled upon this new video...looks cool to me
I should point out that it's been my experience that the midsize EHX pedals like the Superego (I had one) and the Mel 9, are often kind of grumpy when not using their wall-warts. I have to unplug my Mel9 and replug it back in, every time, otherwise I get lights but no sound, and apparently, I'm not the only one that happens to.
This drives me nuts with power supplies. The Cioks DC7 was too flexible to ignore. The only thing that gives me pause is having my VT at 18v. I tape off the lead with red so I know it is hotter than the the 9v leads. All are center negative. I'm hoping this keeps me from accidentally plugging in something to the wrong something else.
Honestly, I step away from anything that isn't a 9v C- box. It drives me insane.
wall warts
one-spots have less power them the poweralls (iirc, 1700 ma vs. 2000).
i’ve also had the one-spots die.
certain pedals don’t like anything else on the chain (count to five is one, ime).
i use wall warts due to weight and being more modular in application than the larger bricks. basically i don’t use a pedal board, i have different “hubs” that i connect for different projects.
one-spots have less power them the poweralls (iirc, 1700 ma vs. 2000).
i’ve also had the one-spots die.
certain pedals don’t like anything else on the chain (count to five is one, ime).
i use wall warts due to weight and being more modular in application than the larger bricks. basically i don’t use a pedal board, i have different “hubs” that i connect for different projects.
Been using a T-Rex fuel tank live for the past 10years or more.
Can't complain, works great.
I also have wall warts and daisy chains for my "studio" recording set ups.
I have a very small pedal board compared to most of you. My dual rig board has 8 or 9 pedals including tuner and passive 2 channel on/off custom switcher.
Can't complain, works great.
I also have wall warts and daisy chains for my "studio" recording set ups.
I have a very small pedal board compared to most of you. My dual rig board has 8 or 9 pedals including tuner and passive 2 channel on/off custom switcher.
The big pedal board has a VoodooLabs Pedal Power 4x4 with a BOSS PSM-5 daisy-chained off of it. And now that I think about it, the 4x4 is plugged into an AC outlet strip under the board that also runs my vintage 1980 Electro-Harmonix looper since it needs 120V/60Hz.
The small pedal board has a VoodooLabs Pedal Power Iso5, with a Pedal Power x4 Expander daisy-chained off of it.
I also own a OneSpot, which prior to quarantine wasn't seeing much use, but now it's running everything that I could cobble together for my home stompbox rig.
It has occurred to me that I've spent a lot of money on pedals and always found an excuse not to spend money on good power. It's a bad habit, like how I know that donut is bad for me but I also know damn well I'm gonna eat it anyway. Time to fix it.
That's how I'm doing things at home mostly. I have a pile of pedals and as I work on stuff I just set them up in front of me.
But I have two cheap pedalboards which I set up for live gigs.
Everybody likes to show off their nice neat and clean boards on TB; mine are always a mess because they rarely stay in the same configuration for very long. Right now they are just blank pieces of wood with some wires hanging off.
Don't worry. My pedal boards always look like crap. With electrical tape and extra velcro to hide cables.
All home made on a piece of 17x14.5 of wood with velcro on it. (Size i have available in my nuclear bomb proof case)
But......They are well built and reliable.
