Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[Bob_Ross]

Correct me if I'm wrong (yes I'm often wrong)...but from what I've heard the Soma Cosmos does one thing. Everything I've heard is sounds good but all in the same "vein".

Depends on your point of view: Stricly speaking it does four things: twin-delays, quad-delays, early reflections/cavernous reverbs, and granular delays...all four with that idiosyncratic "drifting memory" feature. (Although I guess the new firmware allows some looping modes that don't have the drifting memory enabled?)

Then again, I referred to the Cosmos as a "one trick pony" earlier in this thread, because once that drifting memory thing runs for a few moments the distinction between those four modes becomes somewhat academic, and, as you suggest, it all sounds like it's cut from the same cloth.

 

[steubig]

It also confims for me that this Nick Batt guy is a bit of a clown.

do you mean that in a good or bad way?

 

[Funky40]

You mean those squeezy things?

no, those with some weight.
2kg, 3kg, 4kg.
4kg is a good number for many.
Dependend on your size and power could it even be a 5kg Ball.
For most is the 5kg one too heavy weight.
Better qualities were made out of laether. Today, they´re all plastic.
A 4kg is a good starting number. 2 kg is good to grab them with one hand "upside down",
like some folks do with a Basket Ball. REspecitvly, having a pair..
The trick with that type of exercise is allways: the concentration ! ....beeing "here and now".
And to work with the tension that "arises" from a specific position or movement,
*then* to work with the breath into that, "from trhere".
you create from there tensional fields, for example from wrist to shoulder, over the other shoulder to the other hand. Thats why its good to have a pair of small Balls also, 2kg ....2.5kg, bigger man 3kg.
The way you can interact with your breath vs. your energy system, changes completly, creating these tensions, and working based on these body tensions. The breath itself is then from there a major thing !

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

those with 2 kg is good to grab them with one hand
REspecitvly, having a pair..
Thats why its good to have a pair of small Balls also

 

[monsterthompson]

 

[monsterthompson]

I was waiting to see who made the first Minaj joke.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

25673376[/URL], member: 131803"]I was waiting to see who made the first Minaj joke.

Before she became the huge super mega ultra star on auto tune she did the annual BET cypher once.
She aint no Lady of Rage but definitely not to shabby, she can spit some bars for sure. (I cant stand her voice though,…..mouse squeel anyone….)

 

[JES]

Come for small balls jokes, stay for the ambient.



I am on the Cosmos waiting list and have heard nothing. I also go back and forth on it. I use a lot of processes to achieve something similar to what it achieves, so maybe I should just achieve with it instead. Definitely a tabletop device and not a floor device, and I won't be using the regular looper firmware.

 

[monsterthompson]

So I was thinking ambient thoughts…
Wait, What?
The new Carcass album dropped today?

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

So I was thinking ambient thoughts…
Wait, What?
The new Carcass album dropped today?
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Wait what?!?!?!?
How'd I miss that?!?!?!

 

[monsterthompson]

Wait what?!?!?!?
How'd I miss that?!?!?!

Of course free rips are already on YT. One listen. Sold.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Of course free rips are already on YT. One listen. Sold.

For real, they've never made a "bad" album imo.
Gonna make a little change up from my month long Neurosis binge......(I have a feeling it ain't over yet....)

 

[Funky40]

So, you folks here are all into ambient music making ?

and on another note:
could somebody point me please to a YT video or two, showing what "postrock" exactly is ?

funnily i´m completly the opposite of what a ambient musician is, but every now and then a ambient jam happens, lol.
Since i have the equipment,......and since we have AWESOME tools on the table today.

yeah, small balls, living in another part of the world, that really means these medicine Balls to me ........some of the best money i ever spent in fact.

 

[monsterthompson]

could somebody point me please to a YT video or two, showing what "postrock" exactly is ?

My taste in "post rock"

 

[dukeorock]

Cosmos…not even close to decided on that one yet. Gotta hear em more out in the wild. I must be mistaken, because when I saw that update, I thought it was IN ADDITION to everything else that’s in it, not a different firmware version altogether…
Nick Batt from Sonic State seems like a great guy to me, knows a lot about tech and has a very successful YouTube channel. ‘Clown’ seems a bit unnecessary, but whatever

 

[Bob_Ross]

Nick Batt from Sonic State seems like a great guy to me, knows a lot about tech and has a very successful YouTube channel. ‘Clown’ seems a bit unnecessary, but whatever

Bear in mind I've only ever seen him in those two videos, both reviewing the Soma Cosmos, and both chock full of gems such as:
- A) repeatedly stating something to the effect of "I have no idea how I would use this" and
- B) several gaffs where he tries to demonstrate one function but forgets he has another function engaged
iow, he very well may "know a lot about tech" but he comes across as someone's addled grandfather who doesn't know dookie about tech. Maybe that's his schtick? He just doesn't come across as authoritative to me. I'm certainly grateful for the additional insight he's allowed me to glean about the Cosmos, but there's nothing about his presentation that would make me turn to his videos for insight into any other device. Again, that's just based on two videos.

(Plus as steubig pointed out, "clown" could be a good thing!)

 

[Bob_Ross]

I must be mistaken, because when I saw that update, I thought it was IN ADDITION to everything else that’s in it, not a different firmware version altogether…

Nick Batt made a comment in the post-firmware video that intimated that the new loopers replaced the twin-delay and quad-delay algorithms...but I definitely don't know for sure.

 

[PaulS]

So, you folks here are all into ambient music making ?

and on another note:
could somebody point me please to a YT video or two, showing what "postrock" exactly is ?.

A couple of bands I like that fall into that category

 

[steubig]

@Bob_Ross

he’s very good at synth reviews; can really dive in and pull stuff out that can help potential buyers (like me).

if this was superbooth thing, those tend to be pretty different.

 

[lordradish]

no, those with some weight.
2kg, 3kg, 4kg.
4kg is a good number for many.
Dependend on your size and power could it even be a 5kg Ball.
For most is the 5kg one too heavy weight.
Better qualities were made out of laether. Today, they´re all plastic.
A 4kg is a good starting number. 2 kg is good to grab them with one hand "upside down",
like some folks do with a Basket Ball. REspecitvly, having a pair..
The trick with that type of exercise is allways: the concentration ! ....beeing "here and now".
And to work with the tension that "arises" from a specific position or movement,
*then* to work with the breath into that, "from trhere".
you create from there tensional fields, for example from wrist to shoulder, over the other shoulder to the other hand. Thats why its good to have a pair of small Balls also, 2kg ....2.5kg, bigger man 3kg.
The way you can interact with your breath vs. your energy system, changes completly, creating these tensions, and working based on these body tensions. The breath itself is then from there a major thing !

That's quite a powerful ball, there.