Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[ugly_bassplayer]

I guess we won't see one of those new bitmaps in your near future? I'm still so surprised by your experience since I had the total opposite experience where they were very responsive and even fixed my reported bug in their next firmware update. I am however annoyed that my Tensor can't be upgraded to enjoy the massive loop time improvement. I'm going to upgrade and get one of the newer versions of the Tensor at some point after I fix my ES-8 and then that will be the looper on my board.

At this point I'm at the "pi$$ed off " as eff phase.
Prymaxe are dead to me and probably sold me this intentionally I'm starting to believe.
Reverb customer service gave 75$ in all this but I'm still stuck with a paper weight.

Giving the credit imo is like saying "you're right they screwed you but we can't force them to help you."

Red Panda....really......6 weeks almost 7 now.
Really?!?!
One year warranty is only good if they &#^$*#($($ help you!!!!!!
Already 2 months killed on my warranty, bravo.

 

[steubig]

roundwounds and long life: probably depends how lively you like your strings to be. (i don’t like them to be super lively.)

i’ve heard that pure nickel strings last longer than nickel-plated steel, but i don’t know if that’s true. i’m trying that theory out with some pyramid rounds. we’ll see if the cost/longevity thing works out.

might be worth seeing what the ti jazz rounds are in terms of that. their flats have lasted for ages *for my purposes*.

the kalium stuff seemed to last a long time and you can get a number of different gauges. they’re some specific alloy; i forget which. caveat is that i know they had some cs issues a while back and i haven’t been in touch with them for ages.

 

[lordradish]

At this point I'm at the "pi$$ed off " as eff phase.
Prymaxe are dead to me and probably sold me this intentionally I'm starting to believe.
Reverb customer service gave 75$ in all this but I'm still stuck with a paper weight.

Giving the credit imo is like saying "you're right they screwed you but we can't force them to help you."

Red Panda....really......6 weeks almost 7 now.
Really?!?!
One year warranty is only good if they &#^$*#($($ help you!!!!!!
Already 2 months killed on my warranty, bravo.

My experience with RP, thus far, has been the opposite. When I bricked the particle with the firmware, they just sent me a UPS prepaid mailer and said they'll get it taken care of.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

My experience with RP, thus far, has been the opposite. When I bricked the particle with the firmware, they just sent me a UPS prepaid mailer and said they'll get it taken care of.

Then why the %&*%$ am I having the opposite experience you and @cosmicevan had???????
I emailed on the 8th, they said we will get on it. Thanks for your patience, then radio silence.

Now we are going on week 8 of waiting.

Sorry for the rant ....back to 6 strings...

 

[steubig]

always blame canada.

seriously though, one might surmise that the other two guys weren’t doing it in a pandemic? of course, they released product recently… dunno.

 

[steubig]

because

 

[emjazz]

I think it's down to maybe two people at Red Panda at the moment because of the pandemic. He had to let some people go after the pandemic hit. Super skeleton crew.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

I think it's down to maybe two people at Red Panda at the moment because of the pandemic. He had to let some people go after the pandemic hit. Super skeleton crew.

I get that completely, also the fubar pandemic.
I'm just maybe wanting a bare minimum of something......
Anyways, it is what it is.
On to the next project.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

always blame canada.

seriously though, one might surmise that the other two guys weren’t doing it in a pandemic? of course, they released product recently… dunno.

New pedal announced from them......but no time to fix issue for previous one?!?!?!

Now let's get back to our regularly scheduled program.
Happy thoughts.

 

[steubig]

answering customer emails is a good thing

 

[lordradish]

Then why the %&*%$ am I having the opposite experience you and @cosmicevan had???????
I emailed on the 8th, they said we will get on it. Thanks for your patience, then radio silence.

Now we are going on week 8 of waiting.

Sorry for the rant ....back to 6 strings...

Maybe they hate Canadians.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

answering customer emails is a good thing

See, now right there is a smart dude talking.
Seems simple enough......

One thing of come to realize in life, humans like everything complicated.
Why.....i guess ill never know.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Maybe they hate Canadians.

We prefer Québécois here.

But....hey anything is possible. From up north, lwt him wait....he can't cant do anything from up there except throw a hockey puck or a poutine at us.

 

[emjazz]

We prefer Québécois here.

But....hey anything is possible. From up north, lwt him wait....he can't cant do anything from up there except throw a hockey puck or a poutine at us.

There's a sport I can get behind..poutine throwing! Answer a question wrong and you get poutine thrown at you...I'd answer every question wrong...ON PURPOSE.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

There's a sport I can get behind..poutine throwing! Answer a question wrong and you get poutine thrown at you...I'd answer every question wrong...ON PURPOSE.

Ok, that one made me.laugh for real.

 

[monsterthompson]

Preset spillover is a nice feature.

 

[emjazz]

Preset spillover is a nice feature.

All I need to know about that one is if it 1) doesn't lose low end, and 2) it doesn't have a volume drop at 100% wet. If those things are true then I'm all in for that one.

 

[emjazz]

I recently had their Fathom reverb. It had a drop in the low end and a drop in volume at 100% wet. Super drag because the sound is great. I sold that thing the same day I got it. lol

 

[emjazz]

 

[monsterthompson]

Interesting analysis of one-note solos on sax, including one considered the worst of all time.

...just a few minutes in, but this is interesting.