Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[monsterthompson]

I really like the sources and the initial results, but it’s not fun to create editorially. I will have to figure out how I can “play” these samples, if I’m gonna use them creatively.

Ableton Sampler or Kontakt?

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

I really like the sources and the initial results, but it’s not fun to create editorially. I will have to figure out how I can “play” these samples, if I’m gonna use them creatively.

Dope as ^&%$# source material!!!

 

[steubig]

4 string Mood Blooper (time stretching filtering) 2 passes to make loops then one live pass into garage band.

Informally self taught. Decided to get “serious” in June of last year and started taking lessons with a classical guitarist.
Amazing until we couldn’t meet in person and because of latency zoom didn’t work. Still in touch a couple of times a month and working through what is given. The in person relationship of being able to play/ study in real time is something that is greatly missed. Definitely not making the same progress as before.

amazing sounds in here.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

4 string Mood Blooper (time stretching filtering) 2 passes to make loops then one live pass into garage band.

Informally self taught. Decided to get “serious” in June of last year and started taking lessons with a classical guitarist.
Amazing until we couldn’t meet in person and because of latency zoom didn’t work. Still in touch a couple of times a month and working through what is given. The in person relationship of being able to play/ study in real time is something that is greatly missed. Definitely not making the same progress as before.

Dope!!
Now I wish I had my Red Panda Particle at home.....its at the bands practice room on the noise board.....
Wish I had two......but hey....I’ll get over it.
I can mangle stuff with my SP......I’ve been slacking practice on that...
(Enters box of shame)

 

[Bob_Ross]

4 string Mood Blooper (time stretching filtering) 2 passes to make loops then one live pass into garage band.

I really enjoyed that...but tbh I think I enjoyed your raw seed material even more than all the Blooper manipulations!

 

[mrgittleman]

Thanks for listening. Yeah I tend to get too knobby twiddled. Just because you can do it doesn’t mean it makes sense in piece. As an improviser I tend to get sonically lost. Any and all suggestions are really appreciated as this is uncharted territory.

 

[lordradish]

What a week. Ordered one of those Miezo basses (6 string) and the Iridium is coming Thursday, if y'all don't see me for a while. I have a good excuse.

 

[steubig]

Thanks for listening. Yeah I tend to get too knobby twiddled. Just because you can do it doesn’t mean it makes sense in piece. As an improviser I tend to get sonically lost. Any and all suggestions are really appreciated as this is uncharted territory.

interesting

in my mind, those pieces are *about* knob-twiddling; that is, sonic manipulation. (and i think they’re well done.)

there’s plenty of time to do things with “real notes” as well.

 

[monsterthompson]

This one hit a little too close to home.
Thanks to all the usual suspects for helping keep the inspiration from completely vaporizing.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Thanks for listening. Yeah I tend to get too knobby twiddled. Just because you can do it doesn’t mean it makes sense in piece. As an improviser I tend to get sonically lost. Any and all suggestions are really appreciated as this is uncharted territory.

Mangled those samples.
Tweak them knobs.
IMO, sometimes its not just “knob tweaking”. It’s just an immediate reaction to intense listening process. Listen....react.....action....expression of ones self using whatever “tools” chosen to express ones self.

Have fun

 

[theunknowndude]

This one hit a little too close to home.
Thanks to all the usual suspects for helping keep the inspiration from completely vaporizing.
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yep - my first month was stay at home with all the kids... and somehow try and work full time...
Now I’m kind of hybrid working from home 2 days a week and 3 in the office and the days I have home I may occasionally get 30 mins to myself in a lunch break. I did pull the bass and amp out and crank it one time in 4 months

 

[lordradish]

This one hit a little too close to home.
Thanks to all the usual suspects for helping keep the inspiration from completely vaporizing.
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It was actually the opposite for me... when the thing started, I was in such a bad headspace, I didn't even go into my studio. Now, I'm there, every night.

Had some unusual motivation/inspiration this week. Taking a different approach for finishing stuff, working on a multi-part suite that's in the CryoChamber cinematic dark ambient vein. Should be interesting.

 

[dukeorock]

Trying to slowly get back into recording stuff. Got sidetracked by my modular stuff. Lots of funny sounds, but nothing by way of songs to show for it. I had got covid, which took me out of commission for nearly 3 weeks. That sucked.
Gonna try to make some samples today

 

[cosmicevan]

It was actually the opposite for me... when the thing started, I was in such a bad headspace, I didn't even go into my studio. Now, I'm there, every night.

Had some unusual motivation/inspiration this week. Taking a different approach for finishing stuff, working on a multi-part suite that's in the CryoChamber cinematic dark ambient vein. Should be interesting.

I, too, have recently felt inspired and have started putting my music time towards writing and recording instead of just bleeping and blooping (though I always leave some time to experiment).

I think it's the prospect of school starting next week w everyone leaving the house has us all excited about some kind of normal again. It kills me every morning when I drag myself out of bed to go work all day while the rest of the house sleeps in and bums around all day.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Trying to slowly get back into recording stuff. Got sidetracked by my modular stuff. Lots of funny sounds, but nothing by way of songs to show for it. I had got covid, which took me out of commission for nearly 3 weeks. That sucked.
Gonna try to make some samples today

Wow.
Hope you're well. Where the symptoms bad??

 

[cosmicevan]

Any lingering things Duke? Was it obvious where you caught it? ...and if you don't mind me asking was it a surprise you caught it or was only a matter of time (meaning were you pretty much locked in all this time or out and about - no judgement either way, just curious).

 

[Bob_Ross]

Trying to slowly get back into recording stuff.

Oh, man, tell me about it... Just the other day some Facebook friends asked me if I could send them a copy of a recording we'd all made together ~35 years ago. "Oh, sure, I just need to check which hard drive I have that recording archived on" says me. Fire up the Mac w/ the DAW on it, spend the next two hours combing through files...nope, not there. Well, that's okay, because I still have the master tape and I can digitize it just by...


:::looks over at the 43-space rack full of recording equipment that has been gathering dust and hasn't even been wired up since I moved into this apartment...seven years ago:::


"Um, guys, it may take me a while to get you that recording!"

 

[steubig]

Trying to slowly get back into recording stuff. Got sidetracked by my modular stuff. Lots of funny sounds, but nothing by way of songs to show for it. I had got covid, which took me out of commission for nearly 3 weeks. That sucked.
Gonna try to make some samples today

yeow. i had noted that you were on here less. i assumed it was for something fun. sorry.

hope the aftereffects are not too bad. (i know one guy in his late 20s/early 30s who had it and last i talked to him, he was still feeling the intense fatigue.)

 

[steubig]

:::looks over at the 43-space rack full of recording equipment that has been gathering dust and hasn't even been wired up since I moved into this apartment...seven years ago:::


"Um, guys, it may take me a while to get you that recording!"

ruh oh.

 

[monsterthompson]

a DARK version