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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

Touché,

I just find too much « stuff » distracting from the actual creative process.
But stuff can be freakin awesome :)
I get option paralysis way too easily.



just messing/riffing on ugly’s self-styled caveman bit, which i don’t really buy. not serious at all.

when they find cromagnon settlements with samplers in them, i’ll reassess the caveman thing a bit.
 
26042498[/URL], member: 17475"]just messing/riffing on ugly’s self-styled caveman bit, which i don’t really buy. not serious at all.

when they find cromagnon settlements with samplers in them, i’ll reassess the caveman thing a bit.
Agreed, pick on me all you want.
:)
Hey, if you cant laugh at yourself life in gonna be long and boring as $%^&*

If I was cool enough I’d photo shop a Cro Mag with an MPC 60 banging away some beats sampled from rocks, twigs and grunts.
 
Just visited the Unfiltered Audio website. SpecOps is pretty. Silo seems awesome too. I’m still sticking with hardware mostly as I enjoy the process more, but a little fairy dust during the mix stage is always nice
I’m just browsing around for sound mangler, cool FX type stuff. (suggestions welcome)
I prefer hardware also, but the that VST is really affordable. I’d sort of bounce back and forth and resample with my SP.
Only minus, I turn into a Zombie mush brain with a computer (more so that usual.)
 
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Some free stuff I like:

Valhalla Supermassive & SpaceModulator
Noise Engineering Ruina
Izotope Trash 2 (was commercial, is now free -- worth using for the convolution)

Some commercial stuff (I don't want to make the list TOO long...):

Freakshow Industries Mishby
Plogue Chipcrusher
Valhalla Delay
Sound Radix SurferEQ
Go try the Freakshow Backmask!!!
 
what are people using for hiss reduction in their recordings?

It's been ages since that was a problem for me -- which may say more about how infrequently I've been recording lately rather than any magic I have for avoiding hiss in the first place -- but for when it is an issue I have a Behringer SNR2000 in the rack. It's a clever unit that combines a gentle downward expander with a dynamic sliding low-pass filter: The downward expander works like a compressor in reverse, signals below the threshold are attenuated so the hiss doesn't appear as loud as the desired signal (which is above threshold), and the dynamic sliding low-pass filter reduces high frequencies when there are no high frequencies present in the signal, but automatically gets out of the way (raises the turnover frequency) when you do present it with material that contains treble. Two channels of each. All analog. Works better than any other piece of kit with the Behringer brand name on it I've ever encountered.
 
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I’ve got a Waves plug-in or two, but I tend to go back to the Izotope products. They’ve got hiss, hum, click, pop focused products.

cool i've looked toward the izotope stuff. any specific programs i should look at? are they standalone or plug-ins for abelton?

all you other guys . . . hmmmphhhh.
 
cool i've looked toward the izotope stuff. any specific programs i should look at? are they standalone or plug-ins for abelton?

all you other guys . . . hmmmphhhh.

I'm away from my music laptop now and forget the specifics. It looks like they have new products out that are similar, but not exactly the same. I'll try to remember to check later.

I think I have the Waves bundle with X Noise and Z Noise.
 
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