Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[ugly_bassplayer]

A friend loaned me his 0Coast for a few months and I loved it. He also loaned me a Morphagene and I loved that too. I think all I have in my eurorack at the moment is the Mimeophon and I’m over the moon for that

You're not helping.

 

[monsterthompson]

25228309[/URL], member: 136709"]I’ve done a very bad thing.
Been binge watching the Make Noise Strega, O-coast and O-Control.

This is not good.
The “need” is getting the better of the “want”.....!!!!!!!

Just when I told myself I wasn’t buying anything cuz I’m in “flip the table”
“^&(% this ishhh mood.

The Strega is mildly interesting. The 0 Control hasn’t really grabbed my attention. I’ve got the 0-Coast and it’s kinda love hate. I like the square and triangle sounds, but the folded/harmonic sounds aren’t quite my thing without effects. It’s a decent and useful machine, but I don’t feel drawn to or inspired by the sounds. I’ve certainly still used it for various projects.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

The Strega is mildly interesting. The 0 Control hasn’t really grabbed my attention. I’ve got the 0-Coast and it’s kinda love hate. I like the square and triangle sounds, but the folded/harmonic sounds aren’t quite my thing without effects. It’s a decent and useful machine, but I don’t feel drawn to or inspired by the sounds. I’ve certainly still used it for various projects.

Cool, thanks for your input.
@dukeorock also.
I'm in need of some change of scenery tone/texture sound wise.

Maybe my "tape, musique concrète, sound manipulation " release will found all this.

 

[monsterthompson]

I have some Eurorack. My general feeling with them is that everything works not exactly like I'd intuit but once I understand it, it works well. However, I had a sold their Morphagene module because I could never remember the button combinations and one control I found tuned wrong for my ears and fingers--unfortunately, that control was pitch. Support over email is great for questions, and I have never needed anything of their repaired. In general, though, Eurorack is a little more crowded than standalone devices, and I don't know if 0-coast and Strega are more like Eurorack or more like standalone, so I would get my hands on one to make sure you like how it feels.

Make Noise does seem to have units with a bit of menu diving or combo pressing needed. I think the Erica stuff has worked for me because it’s generally a bit more “knob per function” design.

There’s definitely a euro rack language to learn. Once you figure out how things interact it makes it easier to understand why other things have certain design features. Getting devices to talk to each other is part of the fun.

 

[lordradish]

AND IT HAS ARRIVED.

The Miezo finally came. In one piece. I'm sure I'll have more to say after playing it, all night, but some preliminary thoughts:

• Way lighter than I'd imagined
• Looks even better than it did in the photo
• Those Nordy Zen Blades are EXACTLY the sound I'm looking for, nice and punchy
  
• Gonna need to make a very short strap. I think, because of the short neck, I'll want to play this much higher on my body than a full-scale
• Has great action, not tense at all
• Works great with an e-bow
  
• I currently have it tuned ADGCFBb. I am going to mess around with F# and G tonight, as well as maybe experiment with some other tunings when I change the strings
  
• Certainly takes a bit to get used to. I think the whole spatial thing of the shorter neck is just gonna take some time to get used to. The strange thing is playing an open string and expecting something a lot lower.

 

[monsterthompson]

AND IT HAS ARRIVED.

The Miezo finally came. In one piece. I'm sure I'll have more to say after playing it, all night, but some preliminary thoughts:

• Way lighter than I'd imagined
• Looks even better than it did in the photo
• Those Nordy Zen Blades are EXACTLY the sound I'm looking for, nice and punchy
  
• Gonna need to make a very short strap. I think, because of the short neck, I'll want to play this much higher on my body than a full-scale
• Has great action, not tense at all
• Works great with an e-bow
  
• I currently have it tuned ADGCFBb. I am going to mess around with F# and G tonight, as well as maybe experiment with some other tunings when I change the strings
  
• Certainly takes a bit to get used to. I think the whole spatial thing of the shorter neck is just gonna take some time to get used to. The strange thing is playing an open string and expecting something a lot lower.

Awesome!!!
I hope the pickups leave me with the same impression.

 

[monsterthompson]

Interesting sequencer with CV

 

[lordradish]

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Awesome!!!
I hope the pickups leave me with the same impression.

I knew I liked the p/u right after the first note. I may make some recordings tonight.

 

[steubig]

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I knew I liked the p/u right after the first note. I may make some recordings tonight.

that’s cool. i’ve long wanted to try those, problem is they can’t do as a 19mm 6-string bass. (they need to buy a massive amount of an usual housing.)

i’ll live vicariously through you and @monsterthompson.

 

[emjazz]

that’s cool. i’ve long wanted to try those, problem is they can’t do as a 19mm 6-string bass. (they need to buy a massive amount of an usual housing.)

i’ll live vicariously through you and @monsterthompson.

I dream of fretted and fretless headless basses with those pickups.

 

[lordradish]

i’ll live vicariously through you and @monsterthompson.

Good choices.

Do you not have anything less than 6? Did Nordy already confirm this with you, or are you speculating?

 

[lordradish]

I dream of fretted and fretless headless basses with those pickups.

If I get a 6 string fretless, I'm gonna go with either these or some MM pickups.

 

[lordradish]

If I get a 6 string fretless, I'm gonna go with either these or some MM pickups.

Well, let me just give a big shout out to Maurizio of Maurizio Uber basses. Excellent to work with, and very responsive, very much like when I worked with Cliff Bordwell. If I do a full-scale fretless 6, I'll likely have him build it.

 

[JES]

Congrats on the new bass @lordradish . Looking forward to hearing it.

one of my favourite basses is my Kala u-bass. Took me a few days to get used to the 21” scale. Now I love it.

 

[dukeorock]

Interesting sequencer with CV

started watching that, but the girl came home and I’ve been gone a few days. Gonna have to finish up tomorrow morning

 

[steubig]

I dream of fretted and fretless headless basses with those pickups.

yeah, me too. they can do 16.5, i’m pretty sure.

Good choices.

Do you not have anything less than 6? Did Nordy already confirm this with you, or are you speculating?

nothing less than a six.

i talked to carey a long time ago about them. he told me them and conveniently forgot. asked stewmc about it recently and he reminded me. (and that’s how i found out about housing sizes.)

i’d have to go custom wood housings. not my thing.

 

[lordradish]

Congrats on the news bass @lordradish . Looking forward to hearing it.

one of my favourite basses is my Kala u-bass. Took me a few days to get used to the 21” scale. Now I love it.

Yeah, it needs a bit of tweaking, as the climate of Vermont is quite different than that of Malaysia. With this particular gauge of strings (125 on the low), according to the luthier, I should stick around F# through A. Any higher than that and he told me to go to a lighter gauge. I was gonna drop down to F#, I'm currently at A. He said with F#, you start to get some overtones on the lowest string as you go up, but generally, I don't play that high on my low string, anyways.

Another thing worth mentioning - really great access to the end of the neck. Last night I was playing my CB six and really paying attention to how well I can get to the very top of the fingerboard. Another inch of cutaway would be optimal. But with this, I can get up to the top, quite unobstructed:

 

[JES]

Meanwhile, in domestic bass news, I talked with the builder today and he said that stain has no effect on tone. He recommended very thin urethane over it. And my colour consultant (aka wife aka drummer) decided we were being too conservative and now a sort of raspberry/red/fuscia sort of thing appears to be in the lead.

 

[JES]

Make Noise does seem to have units with a bit of menu diving or combo pressing needed. I think the Erica stuff has worked for me because it’s generally a bit more “knob per function” design.

There’s definitely a euro rack language to learn. Once you figure out how things interact it makes it easier to understand why other things have certain design features. Getting devices to talk to each other is part of the fun.

I feel you. I am moving in that direction. I don’t mind menus or button combos if they are labelled and I don’t have to remember everything. I have too much synth gear for that.... also, really tired of crowded panels because makers want to save an extra 2hp.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

@dukeorock
What Make noise stand alone module would you consider the “best” or most versatile for creating sound, textures etc......??
Could be any brand btw, I use whatever works.
It would be used as a stand alone for live and for sampling.

I use lots of asynchronous loops in my stuff lately.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Will start RTFM with the MicroFreak, just need a little more time off from it.

Currently using lot’s of synth and contact mic samples as my main sources.
I want to add Colors, textures, brushes etc from my sound tool box.
Monotony is to be avoided at all costs.