There are some nice small-form mixers out there. You have your eyes on anything specific?
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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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There are some nice small-form mixers out there. You have your eyes on anything specific?
If you only have two mono channels to mix, the Boss LS-2 pedal actually does a good job at it. I've used it for small-footprint electronic gigs where my only instruments are two synths. Cuts down on the gear I have to lug and uses the same power as the other pedals.
There's always phasing to deal with when running multiple parallel signal paths, even with analog rigs. So, that shouldn't be a deterrent really. The size is amazing, after watching Cuckoo's tutorial I already get the workflow and am ready to throw down when I get the funds... I am wondering if you can step sequence modulation, should be able to even though I haven't seen it done yet.... dealing with making that happen via Ableton and the Midi Murf was a painful process I couldn't get behind, too much gear for not enough returns for the effort.
I ended up grabbing the little red panda one I mentioned a while back. Haven’t had much chance to put it to much use yet but that gives me 3 ins to my pedal board.
To me, the demo makes this box looks almost like Reaktor Blocks in a pedal. I like that software, so it makes things particularly interesting.
I haven't done a lot of homework yet, but if I went tiny console style, Yamaha and Allen & Heath are hard to go wrong with. But for pedal style ones, I've been checking out Saturnworks stuff and they've got some pretty good designs, though maybe TOO guitar/bass focused.
Re: the Boss, they're def cool, but I know it'd have me fiddling with the layout for the rest of the year of I added one of those. Haha, might be a good idea...but down the road!
& re: the Red Panda, that might fit the bill. Simple, does what's needed, and uses almost no extra juice. Not cheap, but build quality and small size account for that vs a bigger fader-format thing.
Ideas are flowing....
Don’t overlook the Behringer MicroMix 4ch. It’s cheap and well liked. I haven’t played one, but friends of mine have been satisfied with it.
there’s an edirol 10mx-something (discontinued, but you can find). stereo ins/outs. small and can be powered with 9-volt power supply. forget if it does batteries.
Well, here's a bit of the 0-Coast for you. Showing off how it works with the Thicken. I left a few Soundcloud comments to point out where things kick in. There's some Empress Echo in there. The whole time the 0-Coast is running into the Edison preamp and the Germ Warfare for a bit o' grit.My beloved 0Coast is gone now. Mostly because it was never actually minea buddy got frustrated with it and loaned it to me for quite a long time, but today he asked for it back. Funny that he felt guilty about it because dropped off a Moog Minitaur for me to try out. Hopefully, he’ll get frustrated by the 0Coast again soon and trade back with me!
Just jamming on a few ideas.
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nice. if it’s what i think it is, the thicken really adds something.
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Yeah. You can certainly hear it kick in. With the O Coast I found that a big part of how Thicken reacts is the harmonic content in the signal. As I add in overtones the Thicken becomes more obvious, but with more fundamental sounds the effect isn’t as obvious. This isn’t unique to the Thicken in my experience. Thicken certainly has a voice and it’s not a transparent delay/chorus.
This demo isn’t as good as I was hoping for. Not sure what I expected but I wasn’t as impressed with this effect on bass as I was hoping.
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As you pointed out yourself, that dude makes it hard to know if something will work for you. He’s just got such a specific thing
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No idea. Just found out it exists. I’ve got some listening to do later.
I've not heard of that collection, but I've heard the actual sounds from the spacecraft directly from NASA's website years ago and now you can find them on youtube. Basically the instruments pick up radio waves from the magnetic fields of various planets, which are caused by charged particles from the sun getting captured and deflected and so forth.
The planets with the strongest magnetic fields, such as Saturn, Jupiter, and Earth, yield the best results. Mars is pretty weak by comparison. Also, there is a distinct signal that can be heard when a space vehicle passes through a magnetopause, which is the boundary between a planet's magnetic field and the sun's mag field, which stretches across the Solar System.
These are not audio frequencies, so they downconvert them into the audio range and then play them back as audio. The result is something like the soundtrack of the 1950s film Forbidden Planet. The first time I heard this I was on my computer alone in a dark room at night and it creeped me out pretty good. It's very cool, but the gear is way more expensive than a few pedals: you'll need a multi-million dollar spacecraft and an Atlas V launch vehicle, as well as a network of ground antennae and a team of engineers to get this tone.
Check this out:
