Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[monsterthompson]

So tempted...

 

[cosmicevan]

You've mentioned flip-flops before. Can you point us toward some? Or at least what you use?

Here's one that's on my main board - Pedal Order Switcher - Saturnworks Pedals

 

[Spectrum]

Here's one that's on my main board - Pedal Order Switcher - Saturnworks Pedals

Cool. I have a Saturnworks feedback looper pedal. Good stuff.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Anyone here try the malekko scrutator?
That thing sounds freakn awesome .

 

[Spectrum]

Anyone here try the malekko scrutator?
That thing sounds freakn awesome .

I have one in my pile. Used with my band a few times for one song that has a bass solo. You can do a lot of cool stuff with it, and as with all such things an expression pedal makes it more playable. Haven't played with it lately.

 

[steubig]

Anyone here try the malekko scrutator?
That thing sounds freakn awesome .

yes.

 

[steubig]

Bass - Pedals - Looper
Stacked live Old School DJ style.
Still practicing

more watery-sounding than i expected.

 

[monsterthompson]

Prosthetic hand transformed to a CV controller.
Amazing.
Hacked Prosthesis Leads To Mind-Controlled Electronic Music

 

[lordradish]

Prosthetic hand transformed to a CV controller.
Amazing.
Hacked Prosthesis Leads To Mind-Controlled Electronic Music

Hey, don't be getting any ideas, here. You may need both hands, someday.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

yes.

Ok....

 

[mrgittleman]

Ok....[/QUOTE

VOTE Make this Count

 

[mrgittleman]

VOTE Make this Count

This actually is the piece that was to be posted
Blooper just bass period

 

[theunknowndude]

Had a scrutator but got rid of it...
the setup with it with preamp and filter etc is awesome but I couldn’t get it to act like a quasi wah with expression enough... and although I liked it realised I had no use for a bit crusher in my band and was downsizing to a mostly band board.

of all the bit crushers I think it’s features are above and beyond. Though that new ehx one seems similar even if the video demo on it is pretty bad.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

[QUOTE="theunknowndude, post: 24545539, member: 94982] Though that new ehx one seems similar even if the video demo on it is pretty bad.[/QUOTE]
The guy in the demo is downright creepy.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Prosthetic hand transformed to a CV controller.
Amazing.
Hacked Prosthesis Leads To Mind-Controlled Electronic Music

I recall Todd Machover doing something similar with a ‘cello, a glove, and some primitive AI software 20 or 30 years ago.

 

[Spectrum]

This actually is the piece that was to be posted
Blooper just bass period

That was really different.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

2 loopers with a flip flop in the middle is the answer to all of life's looping problems...that is unless you wanna do weird stuff.

Care to share an example/sample of this particular set up??

 

[hieronymous]

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.

I have been keeping up with this thread for the most part - haven't been able to listen to people's stuff but still plan to. I've been busy with work but I guess that's a good thing.

Wanted to post this video here - it relates to Bill Bruford in the context of John Wetton and UK - it was posted in a thread on UK a few weeks back so you may have seen it. Quoting the person who posted it, "Relevant bits start at 14:40 and it gets [specific] around 22:38" - I don't want to bias your perception of John Wetton's comments so I changed it to "specific". This might be off-topic here, but at least it seemed relevant to something that came up!



(Actually, the video is set up so that you have to watch it on YouTube)

 

[steubig]

This actually is the piece that was to be posted
Blooper just bass period

dude. that’s great.

 

[cosmicevan]

Care to share an example/sample of this particular set up??

Just consider the logic. You can record you accompanying a loop into another looper to build and deconstruct things. You dont have to worry about having machine like timing...but you need to make a loop that feels close. This way you can always build into another looper and clear out the old...you can also build under a loop and fade out the other or take a part of a loop into the other. You always have a looper to build into or behind this way.