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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#17,142
Nearly blew out my eardrums and my monitors today. I forgot to turn the mixer down and I moved a plug in my patch bay (which normally allows for this mistake without audible noise). Man, the front ports on the monitors pushed back what little hair I have on my head and I could feel my shirt move from the displacement. If it had been a higher frequency, I’d certainly have a ringing in my ears for a day or three.

Just a warning and a reminder. Ambient isn’t all quiet and subtle.
 
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monsterthompson said:
Nearly blew out my eardrums and my monitors today. I forgot to turn the mixer down and I moved a plug in my patch bay (which normally allows for this mistake without audible noise). Man, the front ports on the monitors pushed back what little hair I have on my head and I could feel my shirt move from the displacement. If it had been a higher frequency, I’d certainly have a ringing in my ears for a day or three.

Just a warning and a reminder. Ambient isn’t all quiet and subtle.
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I've been doing a lot of stuff with pedal looping. Before I power anything on, I always make sure the amp is turned all the way down first. Out of control feedback is unpleasant when you're sitting on the floor with your head next to the speaker.
 
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monsterthompson said:
Nearly blew out my eardrums and my monitors today. I forgot to turn the mixer down and I moved a plug in my patch bay (which normally allows for this mistake without audible noise). Man, the front ports on the monitors pushed back what little hair I have on my head and I could feel my shirt move from the displacement. If it had been a higher frequency, I’d certainly have a ringing in my ears for a day or three.

Just a warning and a reminder. Ambient isn’t all quiet and subtle.
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I still have a 12 year old rimshot ringing in my right ear.
 
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steubig said:
i’m hearing that people use high sound pressure levels at home.

but it is a good reminder to always keep the input into the power down.
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When you first power up a loop of random pedals you can't always predict what's going to come out. It could be quiet as a whisper or full on feedback city. Analog delay pedals in particular; if that repeats knob is turned a little too high it'll bite you. Some synth pedals like the Behringer BSY600 need a "kick" in the input to trigger the synth function, so you kind of need a bit of feedback to get the loop started, kind of like starting an engine. But while you're doing that you need to turn down the amp to protect your ears.
 
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This is one of my favorite pedal looping experiments. All sound here comes from the pedals, no instrument is used.

One thing that bugs me is that I have been unable to get this very same setup to replicate the cool ethereal chirping sound you hear around 2:30 or so in the video. These loops are difficult to control and there are so many variables, but I can spend a lot of time playing with them.

 
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Spectrum said:
This is one of my favorite pedal looping experiments. All sound here comes from the pedals, no instrument is used.

One thing that bugs me is that I have been unable to get this very same setup to replicate the cool ethereal chirping sound you hear around 2:30 or so in the video. These loops are difficult to control and there are so many variables, but I can spend a lot of time playing with them.

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the randomness of no input feedback loops is what makes them so cool\special imo.
Sometimes you get magic, sometimes absolute crap…..IME
Thats why I record everything.
 
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monsterthompson said:
Some interesting Logic updates. Spatial is what's applicable here, and it is cool. It allows for spatial mixing on headphones.
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Watched a couple 10.7 videos. Looks cool. Think I’d need to update my Mac OS in order to upgrade Logic though :/
 
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Did someone say granular?!? I am intrigued by the ADDAC module too, but it does seem to have been released before it was ready. I have found hardware granular a consistent desire but also a consistent disappointment. The Tasty Chips unit is cool but not great interface design and doesn't feel that good to use. My Qu-Bit Nebulae v2 almost does all the things I want it to but not quite, and some of its functions are surprising -- like you can't sequence pitch very quickly. I found the tuning on the Morphagene too easy to knock out of whack. I would love to have good hardware granular that can deal in long grains and good levels of density. Mutable Clouds is great because it doesn't promise a lot and then delivers more, and Emilie's interface design is a cut above.

My favourite granular of all time is Density, originally a standalone max patch, then iDensity at a Max for Live patch (now to V2 but it won't run on Silicon Macs) then iDensity on iOS which is actually great. Audio Damage's Quanta also works well for me.

@steubig: welcome to the world of modular. It is infinitely expandable so be careful. Even if you think you know the exact capabilities you want, there's a problem with the fact that everything connects to everything but in Eurorack the standards are a bit nonstandard, especially in terms of user interface.

I've been reading a lot about Don Buchla lately, and learning ID700 for iOS. I think his philosophy of designing things as coherent and patchable instruments makes a ton of sense.

Speaking of which, my Norand Mono arrived and I am very intrigued.

Anyway, hi everyone! I've been reading but was quite on vacation and returned to a solid butt kicking for being on vacation.

Funky40 said:
this couldn´t convince me so far.
I´m ALL in for that stuff......well, at least i was.

But the thread at modwiggler is full of complaints, problems, shortcomings, and wishes.
Seems to be a module for folks who clearly *want to focus* on that module, and just that. If you don´t, it seems hard to operate.
just my impression so far

+ , looks for me, like its not finished/fully developed yet.

= for now, not worth that amount of money in my book. YMMV


i´m just demoing right now the VST Crusher-X. A Granular VST.
the price is steep, though. 242€ for EU exteriours. Edit: yet way better than that super expensive module.
The demo works quite good *, so one can deal with the demo in a good way to get a hang for it. No need to just buy it immediately. ( * the restrictions are cleverly set )

Granular Synthesis with crusher-X
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