Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[monsterthompson]

This little drive module looks like fun

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

This little drive module looks like fun

There goes another used BMW.

 

[monsterthompson]

There goes another used BMW.

Yup.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Any of you have a favorite stereo Reverb you as as an aux insert FX?
(Hardware not DAW)

 

[Bob_Ross]

Any of you have a favorite stereo Reverb you as as an aux insert FX?
(Hardware not DAW)

Do you mean for the aux insert (or, my preference, the aux send) of a mixing console? Or are you talking about for your pedalboard?

Assuming you meant the former: I am a huge fan of Lexicon reverbs (albeit not the cheapest ones; gotta be PCM81, PCM91, or better...though under duress I can get usable sounds from an old PCM60) and the Princeton 2016 (made by Eventide) is pretty killer too. Bigger budget, look at the Bricasti M7. Shopping second-hand, a Kurzweil KSP8 is pretty hard to beat. Or find a Quantec QRS that some gold-digger won in a palimony settlement and wants to dump quickly. For super-cheap you can get some reasonably useful sounds out of an Alesis NanoVerb, but I'm pretty sure those aren't true stereo (i.e., the left & right input signals get summed before they hit the reverb processing, so while your dry sound may stay in stereo you can't pan sources across the artificial ambient soundfield).

If you meant for the pedalboard, I got nuthin'

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Do you mean for the aux insert (or, my preference, the aux send) of a mixing console? Or are you talking about for your pedalboard?

Assuming you meant the former: I am a huge fan of Lexicon reverbs (albeit not the cheapest ones; gotta be PCM81, PCM91, or better...though under duress I can get usable sounds from an old PCM60) and the Princeton 2016 (made by Eventide) is pretty killer too. Bigger budget, look at the Bricasti M7. Shopping second-hand, a Kurzweil KSP8 is pretty hard to beat. Or find a Quantec QRS that some gold-digger won in a palimony settlement and wants to dump quickly. For super-cheap you can get some reasonably useful sounds out of an Alesis NanoVerb, but I'm pretty sure those aren't true stereo (i.e., the left & right input signals get summed before they hit the reverb processing, so while your dry sound may stay in stereo you can't pan sources across the artificial ambient soundfield).

If you meant for the pedalboard, I got nuthin'

Was definitely meaning in the aux send pf my mixer.
Lexicon arw definitely staples many places I've recorded. Never heard the Kurzweil
Will look it up.

Thx for the share

 

[HotelX]

Any of you have a favorite stereo Reverb you as as an aux insert FX?
(Hardware not DAW)

I use the strymon big sky and it sounds good to me. YMMV

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

I use the strymon big sky and it sounds good to me. YMMV

Yep, that one sounds great.

 

[monsterthompson]

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Isn’t this a bit “tame” compared to that used BMW over there in the corner?

 

[monsterthompson]

Isn’t this a bit “tame” compared to that used BMW over there in the corner?

 

[steubig]

am i the only who feels like you can’t tell if it can track fast notes or if it can hold a long note with stability?

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

am i the only who feels like you can’t tell if it can track fast notes or if it can hold a long note with stability?

I just plain dont like it. Sound and tracking.....

 

[steubig]

seems like they “curated” the performances to avoid that?

 

[lordradish]

Any of you have a favorite stereo Reverb you as as an aux insert FX?
(Hardware not DAW)

People still use non pedal hardware verbs?

 

[lordradish]

Any of you have a favorite stereo Reverb you as as an aux insert FX?
(Hardware not DAW)

But if you do mean pedal, I love my Meris Mercury 7 and my Eventide Blackhole.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

People still use non pedal hardware verbs?

I learned to mix on a huge analog board with racked effects.
The Daw was only there to replace the tape machine. (that was broken at the time, )

 

[lordradish]

I learned to mix on a huge analog board with racked effects.
The Daw was only there to replace the tape machine. (that was broken at the time, )

So did I. That's why I asked!

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

So did I. That's why I asked!

Our old is showing.

 

[steubig]

oh you young’uns, i learned to mix on wax cylinders and used an old coffee can for reverb.