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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#15,363
JES said:
was just complaining about CGI to a friend. Most of it is so boring to watch. And I say this as someone who loves special effects.

....now get off my lawn!
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The uncanny valley is real. When you can see a thing is fake but want it to be real then your brain will allow for it. When it looks almost real but your brain tries to determine if it’s fake then you get pulled out of the story telling.
 
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monsterthompson said:
The uncanny valley is real. When you can see a thing is fake but want it to be real then your brain will allow for it. When it looks almost real but your brain tries to determine if it’s fake then you get pulled out of the story telling.
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When they used CGI to make Jeff Bridges look 30 years younger in Tron Legacy for example. His facial movements are creepy and fake looking.

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JES said:
I agree 100%. Today I had 2 lessons. The second was with a Logic (the software, not the academic field) tutor, who showed me a way to map the grid to the drummer rather than the other way around. It’s not as plug and play as the feature in Ableton alive, but it’s potentially way more precise. Should be interesting to try, as a way of letting the timeline actually breathe. I use beat synced delays on a couple tracks and am interested in applying this method to them. He’s an electronic musician so it was shocking to him that we recorded to a pulse but not on Logic’s grid.

My other lesson was with my touch guitar teacher. The last 2.5 we have been focusing on compositional strategies. In a lot of ways, despite years of writing bass lines, sometimes melodies, and chord changes for rock bands, I’m a beginner on that front, and it’s been mind expanding to think beyond in-key chord progressions, and in terms of common tones. I’m sure it’s basic stuff for a lot of people on this thread. I’m in the midst of finishing one record, mixing another (well, waiting for mix comments) and I can’t wait to try some of this stuff out.

I also started figuring out a Nils Frahm tune. Good music day, crap day for work, but some of my colleagues are losing their **** at the moment so it’s for the better. I never want summer to end.
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Did you record drums with a click track?
Is it easy to flip from grid set to click and to drums??
That would give me a total mind#$%^ towards seeing waves vs hearing what’s in front on top or laid back.

Cool that you mix other bands, nice work.
 
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JES said:
Oh, and a gear question:

is there a looper with control over start and stop, and that can be used tabletop with a foot switch to trigger (mIdI ok, sync not needed though) and has a straightforward interface?

my H9 can do this, but has a 12 second limit as full audio quality.

I can do this on my Octatrack but am seeking more WYSIWYG.
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RC-3 and 5 can do this but need extra external footswitches.

RC-500 and RC-10R are the latest ones and seem very able to do said task.
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
RC-3 and 5 can do this but need extra external footswitches.

RC-500 and RC-10R are the latest ones and seem very able to do said task.
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Just to be clear, I meant loop start and stop, so if I record a 90 second loop, I can take little slices from it and move the playhead around. Do these have that capability? It didn't look like it.
 
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JES said:
Oh, and a gear question:

is there a looper with control over start and stop, and that can be used tabletop with a foot switch to trigger (mIdI ok, sync not needed though) and has a straightforward interface?

my H9 can do this, but has a 12 second limit as full audio quality.

I can do this on my Octatrack but am seeking more WYSIWYG.
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not a cheap option but still an option
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
Did you record drums with a click track?
Is it easy to flip from grid set to click and to drums??
That would give me a total mind#$%^ towards seeing waves vs hearing what’s in front on top or laid back.

Cool that you mix other bands, nice work.
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We recorded to a click but not a click track. We use Soundbrenner Pulse watches as I hate a high volume click in my ears (do not mind practicing to a metronome at all). But Soundbrenner's support is absolute crap, and their instructions for syncing with Logic are for some old version of Logic, so we couldn't get it up and running that way. Also, it being a vibration on your arm or leg rather than an audible click in your ears, it's easier to move on and off the beat. My wife is still relatively new to drumming so does not have metronomic tempo (hell, neither do I and I've been playing for 40 years), plus in rock there's always the desire to rush when things get going.
 

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