Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[ugly_bassplayer]

Put this one together, another 'decay'/Basinski-like piece. This is actually a pretty busy Berlin-School arp smeared to all hell with the Blackhole ,then given the deteriorated tape treatment.

I keep thinking about the tone of this piece and my hearing issues, for some reason I'm really connecting them in some strange metaphorical way.
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Now that was freakin cool.

The screechy sounds are from the Astrolab drone synth. I'm not really a noise/drone guy but since I got that thing I can't stop playing with it. Put it through a decent delay pedal and twist knobs forever.

I definitely would like to try that drone synth.
Haven't found one I really dig yet.

 

[lordradish]

By the way, hands down, this is the best tape deterioration plugin, thus far, and I've tried most:
Bad Tape by denise

 

[monsterthompson]

 

[Bob_Ross]

Edit: glitch

 

[Bob_Ross]

#3 was some year where there was some Indonesian volcano that had some sort of global ramifications.

“KRAKATOA: EAST OF JAVA” !!

 

[steubig]

“KRAKATOA: EAST OF JAVA” !!

apparently it was really west!

 

[monsterthompson]

I'm a history professor, and I always laugh when I hear young 'uns say how this is one of the worst times to be alive. I respond, yeah, it's so much worse than most of human history where a toothache could kill you.

Some people have no idea.
Even 150 years ago was some crazy hard times. No FDA or refrigeration. No electrical or gasoline devices. No modern medicine or sterile technique.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Some people have no idea.
Even 150 years ago was some crazy hard times. No FDA or refrigeration. No electrical or gasoline devices. No modern medicine or sterile technique.

That’s actually still true to this day.
Makes you proud to be a human doesn’t it??

Happy nihilistic new year.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Rhyme in Peace MF DOOM aka Daniel Dumile.
Made a little personal tribute. He was a huge influence, this hit me hard. This is like one of my music best buddies dying.

 

[JES]

Put this one together, another 'decay'/Basinski-like piece. This is actually a pretty busy Berlin-School arp smeared to all hell with the Blackhole ,then given the deteriorated tape treatment.

I keep thinking about the tone of this piece and my hearing issues, for some reason I'm really connecting them in some strange metaphorical way.
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I don't think it's a metaphor entirely. The sounds are filtered in a few different ways, which is how many people experience hearing loss.

Love the busy arp destroyed by reverb. Also a big fan of degrading the sound -- you could have gone even further down the Basinski-path by the end. I was expecting more disintegration. But then, I've been playing with the Blooper which has a sort of built in Basinki-mode that's a fun way to end a composition.

 

[JES]

Rhyme in Peace MF DOOM aka Daniel Dumile.
Made a little personal tribute. He was a huge influence, this hit me hard. This is like one of my music best buddies dying.

This is a very nice tribute, and a good groove to boot.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

This is a very nice tribute, and a good groove to boot.

Thank you very much for taking a listen.
Very appreciated.
All done with my SP and 4 track, raw old school. Bouncing from one another back and forth.
No DAW whatsoever.

 

[JES]

I'm a history professor, and I always laugh when I hear young 'uns say how this is one of the worst times to be alive. I respond, yeah, it's so much worse than most of human history where a toothache could kill you.

Lol. Sounds like we could swap stories. And it's not just the undergrads. A friend of mine just got a nasty ear infection. He says to me "I wonder what they did before antibiotics?" I said "they either got better on their own, lost their hearing, or died. Usually the last two."

I didn't get to say this yesterday, but one of the highlights of 2020 was finding this thread as a particularly nice, social corner of talkbass. I love how open and supportive everyone is, even when they are being crabby. It's how the internet is supposed to be. Thanks for letting me play.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Lol. Sounds like we could swap stories. And it's not just the undergrads. A friend of mine just got a nasty ear infection. He says to me "I wonder what they did before antibiotics?" I said "they either got better on their own, lost their hearing, or died. Usually the last two."

I didn't get to say this yesterday, but one of the highlights of 2020 was finding this thread as a particularly nice, social corner of talkbass. I love how open and supportive everyone is, even when they are being crabby. It's how the internet is supposed to be. Thanks for letting me play.

You’re welcome.
NO GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

 

[lordradish]

I don't think it's a metaphor entirely. The sounds are filtered in a few different ways, which is how many people experience hearing loss.

Love the busy arp destroyed by reverb. Also a big fan of degrading the sound -- you could have gone even further down the Basinski-path by the end. I was expecting more disintegration. But then, I've been playing with the Blooper which has a sort of built in Basinki-mode that's a fun way to end a composition.

This last one has inspired me to do a few more pieces with this theme. I didn't go super-degraded at the end, because I don't want to overdo it, especially if I plan on doing that to a couple of other pieces. If I can get two more pieces done, I will release an EP, for real.

I think what was so weird about this piece (in regard to the hearing loss) is, the weird cutoffs I did in this are kind of how a lot of things are just sounding to me, right now.

 

[lordradish]

I didn't get to say this yesterday, but one of the highlights of 2020 was finding this thread as a particularly nice, social corner of talkbass. I love how open and supportive everyone is, even when they are being crabby. It's how the internet is supposed to be. Thanks for letting me play.

It's way better than FB, and it's way better than most of TB, as there is zero P-bass/dadband/80's classic rock is so awesome/high-school-amateur-band-drama content here.

 

[Spectrum]

I don't think I have the equipment to do a proper tape degradation effect, but I can use some of my pedals to get a sort of "dissolving into chaos" thing. The Caroline Meteore reverb is lo fi to begin with and has a feedback switch that can quickly drown everything in nutso noise, the EHX Superego Synth Engine pedal is easy to manipulate into a sort of electronic mush, and I have a Saturnworks feedback looper pedal that, if properly employed, turns whole swaths of the pedalboard into swirling chaos. The hard part is engineering all this to happen at the speed and depth I want, and to keep it from immediately just going high and to the right from clean to squealing feedback.

 

[patshep]

Here is a new ambient piece I did for the end of 2020, would love feedback

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[ugly_bassplayer]

I don't think I have the equipment to do a proper tape degradation effect, but I can use some of my pedals to get a sort of "dissolving into chaos" thing. The Caroline Meteore reverb is lo fi to begin with and has a feedback switch that can quickly drown everything in nutso noise, the EHX Superego Synth Engine pedal is easy to manipulate into a sort of electronic mush, and I have a Saturnworks feedback looper pedal that, if properly employed, turns whole swaths of the pedalboard into swirling chaos. The hard part is engineering all this to happen at the speed and depth I want, and to keep it from immediately just going high and to the right from clean to squealing feedback.

Now is the time to experiment.

This last one has inspired me to do a few more pieces with this theme. I didn't go super-degraded at the end, because I don't want to overdo it, especially if I plan on doing that to a couple of other pieces. If I can get two more pieces done, I will release an EP, for real.

I think what was so weird about this piece (in regard to the hearing loss) is, the weird cutoffs I did in this are kind of how a lot of things are just sounding to me, right now.

 

[steubig]

Here is a new ambient piece I did for the end of 2020, would love feedback

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i liked the sectional changes/form.