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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
- Thread starter ttasselm
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I'm actually pretty good on gear right now. Having just spent some coin on Triode Pedals Astrolab drone synth and Triode Leviathan filter pedal my pedal collection is in good shape.
I should do something to demo the Leviathan. Once I got it working with the right expression pedal it is awesome. I have wanted some kind of controllable filter like that for a long time and this hit the spot. Goes great with my synth pedals.
If I was gonna add anything to my pile it'd probably be something for switching or routing, like a flip flop pedal or something. My full synth/ambient pedalboard is now too big to fit on just one pedalboard lol.
I should do something to demo the Leviathan. Once I got it working with the right expression pedal it is awesome. I have wanted some kind of controllable filter like that for a long time and this hit the spot. Goes great with my synth pedals.
If I was gonna add anything to my pile it'd probably be something for switching or routing, like a flip flop pedal or something. My full synth/ambient pedalboard is now too big to fit on just one pedalboard lol.
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HX stomp (distortion) mood, Blooper (bass line) dark world garageband completely live. Hope all is good
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I’m torn between whether I keep my bass whammy or get a sub n up mini... apart from that I think I’m pretty much ok now my sy1 has finally come in, no gas for anything really... still torn how to set it up with using the loop or just run it with stuff after and turn the dirt / chorus / reverb on and off as needed..
Was in a mood to quit and sell everything. A "whats the effin point" mood.
A usual recurring phase I guess, anyways.......
I made this instead of quitting. New approaches....etc.....
Tuff times indeed.
A usual recurring phase I guess, anyways.......
I made this instead of quitting. New approaches....etc.....
Tuff times indeed.
This is a particularly stressful time. I'll say to you what I say to myself..."glad you didn't quit, bud".
Lately I've been making scary decisions for myself...things that scare me. Going extra hard musically...pushing myself to work harder toward what I really want my life to look like...convincing myself that it's just hard work...being my own cheerleader...but some days I feel like a failure and that I'm wasting my time. That's the voice that I try to make quieter each day. Not always easy.
End of the day...what makes us happy as individuals? Even if it's scary, that's what I want to do (scares the life out of me). I told my 24 year old daughter last night that everything scares me.....and that's true...but I try to do it anyway.
The tracks sounds great, man. Love the title.
Thanks for the kind words.
I’m not one to quit, just the feeling that keeps popping up. Being a failure, being scared, lack of confidence but always pushing forward. Being in this “thing” over 25 years, many as a “pro”, its not a pass time for me......its simply the way I am. It scares the living crap out of me but as a paradox I absolutely must do it.
Reading some Bukowski poems kicked my ass, thus the title and such. Was a huge influence and will always be.
Again, thanks my friend.
Still at work on the solo bass thing, forward we
Listened to your album about......60% in. You get some crazy tones bud. Wow.
Will definitely have some questions when I get through the entire record. That kind of recording I have to digest slowly. Sooooo much info to take in.
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hey
re the "giving up/nothing matters/i suck" thing
yep, i get those all the time (sometimes a couple of times a month).
here are my thoughts:
sometimes this stuff is a psychological metaphor for being unsatisfied and wanting to get to the next step—knowing there's the next thing that you need to get to. imo, it can be a *good* thing if you don't let it cripple you. it means it's time for growth and pushing on. i file this under "it's time to give up what i'm doing *right now* and get on it."
sometimes it's the letdown of having worked really hard and needing to recharge one's creative batteries. so what do you do in the meantime? i practice technique, play standards with a pick and grooves in odd times, compile sounds, etc.
and we are addicted to the rush of creativity—if we don't have it, we want the "next fix" . . . (which gets back to the maintenance program in the second paragraph.) since performance is a very dicey thing now and for the foreseeable future, we have to make our own way—often without the feedback from other humans (which is a good thing about this group, imo).
. . . a lot of really good people (some well known) i know feel this way all the time. it comes with the territory . . . it's how to manage it so it doesn't make you suicidal (which is where i was last week
).
and there are far worse things to do with one's life.
my motto through all this is "do the work"
@ugly_bassplayer and @emjazz, i need to listen to your tracks.
re the "giving up/nothing matters/i suck" thing
yep, i get those all the time (sometimes a couple of times a month).
here are my thoughts:
sometimes this stuff is a psychological metaphor for being unsatisfied and wanting to get to the next step—knowing there's the next thing that you need to get to. imo, it can be a *good* thing if you don't let it cripple you. it means it's time for growth and pushing on. i file this under "it's time to give up what i'm doing *right now* and get on it."
sometimes it's the letdown of having worked really hard and needing to recharge one's creative batteries. so what do you do in the meantime? i practice technique, play standards with a pick and grooves in odd times, compile sounds, etc.
and we are addicted to the rush of creativity—if we don't have it, we want the "next fix" . . . (which gets back to the maintenance program in the second paragraph.) since performance is a very dicey thing now and for the foreseeable future, we have to make our own way—often without the feedback from other humans (which is a good thing about this group, imo).
. . . a lot of really good people (some well known) i know feel this way all the time. it comes with the territory . . . it's how to manage it so it doesn't make you suicidal (which is where i was last week
).and there are far worse things to do with one's life.
my motto through all this is "do the work"
@ugly_bassplayer and @emjazz, i need to listen to your tracks.
Perfectly, perfectly said. All of this. Thank you, Steuart.hey
re the "giving up/nothing matters/i suck" thing
yep, i get those all the time (sometimes a couple of times a month).
here are my thoughts:
sometimes this stuff is a psychological metaphor for being unsatisfied and wanting to get to the next step—knowing there's the next thing that oyu need to get to. imo, it can be a *good* thing if you don't let it cripple you. it means it's time for growth and pushing on. i file this under "it's time to give up what i'm doing *right now* and get on it."
sometimes it's the letdown of having worked really hard and needing to recharge one's creative batteries. so what do you do in the meantime? i practice technique, play standards with a pick and grooves in odd times, compile sounds.
and we are addicted to the rush of creativity—if we don't have it, we want the "next fix" . . . (which gets back to the maintenance program in the second paragraph.) since performance is a very dicey thing now and for the foreseeable future, we have to make our own way—often without the feedback from other humans (which is a good thing about this group, imo).
. . . a lot of really good people (some well known) i know feel this way all the time. it comes with the territory . . . it's how to manage it so it doesn't make you suicidal (which is where i was last week
and there are far worse things to do with one's life.
my motto through all this is "do the work"
@ugly_bassplayer and @emjazz, i need to listen to your tracks.
I was honestly thinking this morning..."SL came out with a couple of records recently that I haven't heard yet...time to check them out!"
Thanks for listening, man. I really does mean a great deal.
Also...to get ahead of any questions....most of that record is me learning different ways to use the Tensor.
Also...to get ahead of any questions....most of that record is me learning different ways to use the Tensor.
spent the weekend listening to it my friend; love it. thank you for sharing!
hahahaha. i suck. i got nothing.
etc.
the process was sort of more documentary than high concept on these last two. i went back and forth about them. at one point i liked them enough to upload them. i listened back to them a while after that and hated them. next time . . . who knows?
but i go through this with pretty much everything and i've been putting out my own stuff for at least 25 years.
i figure i hopefully learn from my mistakes and move on to the next one.
I had to not listen to my new record for two months and go back to it. Almost didn't release it. In the end I'm glad I did because of exactly what you said...it's a documentation of one period of time in my life. Nothing more.
I spoke to a friend last week a bit about this. He said he loves everything that he's released. He has no doubts about them. That must be nice! Maybe he was just having a good day....on the other side, I think it's good to believe in what we do, and then move on. I've already gotten some mixed reviews from people about the new record. It's totally ok. It's a super niche thing that I don't expect everyone to like....however it was an honest process and a moment of creativity. That's enough for me.
:::beer:::
When I was ~25 I gave my then-girlfriend a copy of Bukowski's book Love Is A Dog From Hell for her birthday.
It took the next ~35 years before I was convinced she appreciated the gesture.
