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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#10,041
steubig said:
the vid efx are kind of annoying if you want to see what's up.

seems pretty good to me (i'm about 35 minutes in). i always appreciate when people stop playing a bit to give things a chance to breathe.
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Yeah, I asked that they don't do the FX on our next vids, it's cheesy as hell, and you can't really see what's going on. Thanks for watching.
 
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#10,044
Bob_Ross said:
Must be a trend; along similar lines, Bill Bruford is selling off a ton of his old percussion kit:

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Out of all of the people in that band that should be hanging it up, the one that actually did is the one I miss, most. he's the only one that really kept moving forward, musically, instead of being stuck in 1988.
 
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#10,045
ugly_bassplayer said:
Any of you have experience with the WMD geiger counter???

There's one over there buying drinks begging me to take it home for a "good time" and to just "talk".
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I used to own one, or several actually. First I had the pedal, some ten years ago, but tried to use it with synths. Bad idea, it has a preamp so I would have needed some kind of attenuator to make it work with line level signals.

But then I built a modular system and bought the eurorack module instead. And besides having two inputs, one for line and one for guitars, it's also superior to the pedal in that it has so many modulation inputs (the pedal has one, which can be configured for either an expression pedal or an LFO). If you feed it a lot of different cv currents, it's a wonderful effect. I later sold the modular to buy a custom Serge panel. Sold that, bought another modular system and another Geiger Counter, but all that stuff is long gone now.

Here's an old track I did with the modular, where the Geiger Counter is put to good use, modulated by a few LFO:s and other cv sources. Play loud:



But really my favorite WMD pedal is the Acoustic Trauma, with its crazy self-resonating filters and the ability to make any amp sound like the gear used by early nineties Norwegian black metal bands.
 
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DanielW said:
I used to own one, or several actually. First I had the pedal, some ten years ago, but tried to use it with synths. Bad idea, it has a preamp so I would have needed some kind of attenuator to make it work with line level signals.

But then I built a modular system and bought the eurorack module instead. And besides having two inputs, one for line and one for guitars, it's also superior to the pedal in that it has so many modulation inputs (the pedal has one, which can be configured for either an expression pedal or an LFO). If you feed it a lot of different cv currents, it's a wonderful effect. I later sold the modular to buy a custom Serge panel. Sold that, bought another modular system and another Geiger Counter, but all that stuff is long gone now.

Here's an old track I did with the modular, where the Geiger Counter is put to good use, modulated by a few LFO:s and other cv sources. Play loud:



But really my favorite WMD pedal is the Acoustic Trauma, with its crazy self-resonating filters and the ability to make any amp sound like the gear used by early nineties Norwegian black metal bands.
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Thank you very much for the info.
Was really helpful.

Nice track btw.
 
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#10,048
lordradish said:
Also, for your listening pleasure, the video for the jam session for the first synthfest I did back in January is back up. It actually sounds a lot better than I remember, I think the noisefest at the end that I complained about wasn't nearly as long as I thought it was, it was probably just colored by my perceptions of how people started heading for the exits at that point, as well as my well-documented aversion to noise. The whole thing actually sounds a bit more cohesive than I remembered, no small feat, given the relative inexperience of almost everyone there.




I'm the schlub with the curly hair and the Moog, kind of in the middle.

It's about a 45 minute jam, so something good for the background. I didn't put the effects on it, I wish they hadn't put them on it, as it makes it hard to see what people are actually doing.
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Good listening while I worked. Thanks!
 
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I'll be streaming again Thursday from 7-10 Pacific. I'll post a link closer to the event. There might even be some talking for an "interview" at the beginning. 3 hours is a long run, so no expectation that anyone will tune in for the whole thing. I'm assuming the stream recording might stay up for a bit after, but no promises.

Fun new Zoia patches to be used. Some I made, some I downloaded and modified.
 
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monsterthompson said:
I'll be streaming again Thursday from 7-10 Pacific. I'll post a link closer to the event. There might even be some talking for an "interview" at the beginning. 3 hours is a long run, so no expectation that anyone will tune in for the whole thing. I'm assuming the stream recording might stay up for a bit after, but no promises.

Fun new Zoia patches to be used. Some I made, some I downloaded and modified.
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3 hours set......ouch.

I remember playing 2x1h30 blues sets with my 20lbs 5 string. That sucked big time.
I will never play in a blues band ever again unless it pays serious $$

Hahaha....blues....$$$.......good one
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
3 hours set......ouch.

I remember playing 2x1h30 blues sets with my 20lbs 5 string. That sucked big time.
I will never play in a blues band ever again unless it pays serious $$

Hahaha....blues....$$$.......good one
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Streaming from home. No loading and packing out. Mostly an excuse to jam and share with those interested.

Got a few new patches, and I’m rolling this beast in.
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#10,055
lordradish said:
I can't think of a time when Bruf isn't interesting.
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For the sake of argument -- and I say this as a huge Bill Bruford fan, someone who's admired his work for pretty much the entirety of his career, and who especially loves his willingness to value the music over his own ego -- I will say that on occasion he has done some things where the concept and the execution don't quite elide, and so I only find them "interesting" as failed experiments.

The most obvious examples are the places where he uses metric modulation and the drums are the only instrument doing so (e.g., "Cerulean Sea" from the Bruford Levin Upper Extremities album), or any time he tries to play swing (e.g., "Sparkle" from Jamaaladeen Tacuma's Renaissance Man album).

But the fact that he's willing to go out there and release a failed experiment [sic] with his musicality and integrity intact endears him to me all the more, so don't take this as a criticism per se.
 
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Bob_Ross said:
For the sake of argument -- and I say this as a huge Bill Bruford fan, someone who's admired his work for pretty much the entirety of his career, and who especially loves his willingness to value the music over his own ego -- I will say that on occasion he has done some things where the concept and the execution don't quite elide, and so I only find them "interesting" as failed experiments.

The most obvious examples are the places where he uses metric modulation and the drums are the only instrument doing so (e.g., "Cerulean Sea" from the Bruford Levin Upper Extremities album), or any time he tries to play swing (e.g., "Sparkle" from Jamaaladeen Tacuma's Renaissance Man album).

But the fact that he's willing to go out there and release a failed experiment [sic] with his musicality and integrity intact endears him to me all the more, so don't take this as a criticism per se.
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I can certainly see the logic in those criticisms. I guess the point is that even in his failures, they come from a place of integrity. Cerulean Sea is a hard listen, and those early Earthworks albums have not dated well, either, in terms of the sounds, but I totally get what he was doing.
 
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