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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#121
Wow! I haven't been on TB in some time but I'm glad there's this much interest in ambient bass. Good to see this thread going strong. Great samples posted, everyone. I've had fun going through them all.

My own group has finally finished up a new record and it's being mastered at the moment...hope to post some clips soon. It is loud, noisy, and washy. Heavier than our old stuff. I made quite a bit of use out of heavily delayed and verbed-out fuzz...the TFR just absolutely slays for "wall of sound" noises. This is pretty much everything I used for the bass tones:

Pedals: Barber Gain Changer > Wren and Cuff TFR > Boss TU2 > TC Flashback > M9

Software: Valhalla Room, Shimmer and Vintage

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#130
There's a lot of amazing stuff in this thread. Here's a song that I finished not too long ago. Effects are: Reverb and swells from a Boss GT-3 into a Bass Whammy, TC Corona Chorus, Boss TW-1, Green Russian Muff clone with added blend and a Boss DD-3.

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I'd love to hear any feedback any of you might have. :bassist:
 
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#132
Oh wow, I somehow totally missed this thread up until now.

My band is mostly on the heavier, more industrial side of electronic, but we do have a couple ambient tracks.

Here's one of them. Pretty much everything on this track is bass through various pedals, except the drum machine, which we also ran through several effects pedals:

 
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#136
Here's a live ambient piece I did with my wife live (she does video).
Bass was a hagstrom short scale tuned f,f,c,f.
Effects: splitter one side to a big muff super fuzz, then volume pedal, the other into a boss reverb pedal. These were then combined via vb2 into a mxr carbon copy delay, finally into a line 6 dl4 (where most of the magic happens; looping endlessly, reversing, half time back and forth). All done on the fly, nothing prepared. Unfortunately the very beginning wasn't captured, but you get the idea…too much fun:


I really like the other posts of recording on here, great stuff! Looking to replace the dl4 with the m9 for midi synch to ableton live and more dimensions...
 
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#137
D.A.R.K. said:
Here's a live ambient piece I did with my wife live (she does video).
Bass was a hagstrom short scale tuned f,f,c,f.
Effects: splitter one side to a big muff super fuzz, then volume pedal, the other into a boss reverb pedal. These were then combined via vb2 into a mxr carbon copy delay, finally into a line 6 dl4 (where most of the magic happens; looping endlessly, reversing, half time back and forth). All done on the fly, nothing prepared. Unfortunately the very beginning wasn't captured, but you get the idea…too much fun:


I really like the other posts of recording on here, great stuff! Looking to replace the dl4 with the m9 for midi synch to ableton live and more dimensions...
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That was pretty damn amazing! Well done!
 
#139
D.A.R.K. said:
Here's a live ambient piece I did with my wife live (she does video).
Bass was a hagstrom short scale tuned f,f,c,f.
Effects: splitter one side to a big muff super fuzz, then volume pedal, the other into a boss reverb pedal. These were then combined via vb2 into a mxr carbon copy delay, finally into a line 6 dl4 (where most of the magic happens; looping endlessly, reversing, half time back and forth). All done on the fly, nothing prepared. Unfortunately the very beginning wasn't captured, but you get the idea…too much fun:


I really like the other posts of recording on here, great stuff! Looking to replace the dl4 with the m9 for midi synch to ableton live and more dimensions...
Click to expand...


Really good. Love it. I gotta start using the fuzz more you nailed it.
 

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