Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[Spectrum]

BEST BAND BREAKUP VIDEO EVER

Welp, that's actually the first time I've ever watched a Daft Punk video.

 

[Bob_Ross]

BEST BAND BREAKUP VIDEO EVER

minus the song, yeah.

 

[HotelX]

First solo bass album. Drops this AM.
Thanks to all of you.
Cheers

Good work

 

[HotelX]

RIP to the mighty U-Roy

U-Roy, Jamaican Vocalist Who Defined Dancehall And Presaged Hip-Hop, Dies At 78

 

[JES]

I had a bass or two next to me when I did this experimental/drone/noise record for FAWM (February Album Writing Month). Use headphones if you want to listen to it because there's a lot of binaural beats and stuff like that going on.

I highly recommend his whole catalog. He started out smoking up and with messing with things in Reaktor ensembles and now it's full on collaborations with Japanese musicians and others.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

I highly recommend his whole catalog. He started out smoking up and with messing with things in Reaktor ensembles and now it's full on collaborations with Japanese musicians and others.

I liked the one he shared.
All.made with audacity .
Wow.

 

[JES]

I don’t think he uses Audacity, but he can be audacious.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

I don’t think he uses Audacity, but he can be audacious.

 

[JES]

Oops. Meant to reply to the Tim Hecker post. Haven’t checked out the other one yet.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Oops. Meant to reply to the Tim Hecker post. Haven’t checked out the other one yet.

Ravendeath is probably my favorite of his.
Its all samples\ Sound manipulation of an organ. Ben Frost was involved in the process.

 

[dukeorock]

It's all there.
Either 7 pieces plus outro or one "continuous" mix.

Thanks for listening

Can you please link your album again?
I gotta buy it.

 

[JES]

Okay, so I've finally gotten through the whole @uglybassplayer record (it is...a week). XSI is my favourite track but the whole thing flows really well. Good job. Now, I get to ask you the same question I've asked @emjazz and @steubig: tell us about your process. Yeah, it was all live, but how did you have it set up? I know you recorded a ****ton of stuff and then picked some out. I think that's the way my "solo bass" record will go, whenever it happens. But I want the HOW.

 

[emjazz]

Congratulations, @ugly_bassplayer !!

 

[emjazz]

Double dirt and double reverb.....THIS is the sound I've been trying to get!!
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[monsterthompson]

Double dirt and double reverb.....THIS is the sound I've been trying to get!!
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link is just static. Did I miss a live thing?

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Okay, so I've finally gotten through the whole @uglybassplayer record (it is...a week). XSI is my favourite track but the whole thing flows really well. Good job. Now, I get to ask you the same question I've asked @emjazz and @steubig: tell us about your process. Yeah, it was all live, but how did you have it set up? I know you recorded a ****ton of stuff and then picked some out. I think that's the way my "solo bass" record will go, whenever it happens. But I want the HOW.

Ok, the how. Here we go:

I’ve always wanted to make a solo bass album, but I didn’t know where to start or what to play.
Then I got a real light bulb moment when I was thinking about DJ Grandmaster Flash. (A huge influence of mine.)
The entire recording process is inspired by a DJ cueing up records.

I had only one bass going into three pedals then my looper pedal as a recorder.

Bass — Pedal 1 — Pedal 2 — Pedal 3 — Looper

I added parts exactly like a DJ. Record a part. Listen intensely. Then add another. Knowing when to stop adding is quite the exercise also.
This required a lot of concentration and listening since what was added had to blend in the mix.
One bad decision on freq range or volume on one of the layers and boom.....track scrapped. No eq or volume adjustments can be done, too late!!!

It was all in the hands, literally. (And ears of course) I took a lot of time to get this down, lots of failed attempts. But eventually it came a little easier the more I did it.

Once everything was on the looper, I recorded it to my portable 4 track.
No computer at all except for the mastering.

Repeat everyday for about 3 months.

Major props to @emjazz et @steubig that helped gain confidence when everything was done.

Huge thanks to all of you on here also. Very kind of you to take the time to listen.

 

[Feral Feline]

LOVE GrandMasterFlash, though I never got into other rap/hiphop.

Thanks for sharing your process, UglyBP, that's inspired and freqn amazerballz.

 

[emjazz]

link is just static. Did I miss a live thing?

Strange...the link works for me. It's static and then the video. You can also just go to my IG page in my signature here.

 

[monsterthompson]

Strange...the link works for me. It's static and then the video. You can also just go to my IG page in my signature here.

Worked this time. Boom!

 

[monsterthompson]

Street Horrsing (2008) Full Album - Look it up on YouTube. I can't link to it because the band name that pops up is "Xxxx Buttons."