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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

We made a new song with a lot of reverby-stuff. I got up this morning and thought "heck, why not bring the SRC6 for this song into rehearsal?".

With all my might I have resisted the urge to use more than one instrument for a set.

But the SRC6 (basically an Ibanezized Bass VI) has some nice, bright tones... at least it's light enough.

When I was fooling around the other day I used an octaver, but played in the octave above the lowest. The overtones were all shifted down, of course. But that gave the whole situation a nice 'boomy' feel to it. Definitly going to try that this evening :)
 
Hello I have a new best buddy, his name is Borderlands granular.
He is gonna help me make even more "nonsense".

With a splitter, this thing is straight up nuts, live recording and improv FTW!!!!
Already busted out a few recordings.

great. i think it really is an inspired app.

you may went to check out "sector" as well. it's more sort of programmed randomization (haven't used it for a while, so i don't remember how much live manipulation you can do), but it's sample based and i recall there's a couple of different ways to get them in.
 
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great. i think it really is an inspired app.

you may went to check out "sector" as well. it's more sort of programmed randomization (haven't used it for a while, so i don't remember how much live manipulation you can do), but it's sample based and i recall there's a couple of different ways to get them in.
I basically ran a synth into a 2 way a/b splitter.
One into the mixer.
One into borderlands, stereo out into mixer.

Pressed record in borderlands to sample live synth parts then added grain particles and automation as I went.
Add to that the "dry" signal into the mixer with a touch of reverb.
Blended the 3 channels on the mixer.
Touch of eq....

Beautiful textured chaos.