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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
- Thread starter ttasselm
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I’d be interested if they made a 5 string version
yeah, that would be interesting. not sure that’s the plan. took carey a while to think about fretless. i told him years ago, but juan aldrete finally got him to do it.
Carey runs a small operation so I get the hesitant position on adding variations. That said, he’s also got good ears and executes really well. I’ve got Nordstrand pickups in two instruments, I just got the Starlifter, and now this. He knows what he’s doing.
Just had a bit of time to play with my modal skulpt SE… considering I never wanted to make a huge monetary investment in a hardware synth and disliked some they cut corners to do so (ie Korg monologue with a few weird controls) but I have to say quite like the sounds out of the skulpt… quite like the touch keyboard too! Considering I won’t get much time each week to play it and at band practice if I did bring it I’d only use a few simple patches it’s pretty neat. Really works well for pad sounds or simple bass / lead but I’m sure has a lot more to explore than the 30 minutes I got to today…
Don’t think I’ll explore the expensive rabbit hole of synth on bass now hah
Really does make the boss sy1 look weak and apart from doing fuzz/ filter stuff with my pedalboard I think I’ve satisfied my synth itch for a while!
Don’t think I’ll explore the expensive rabbit hole of synth on bass now hah
Really does make the boss sy1 look weak and apart from doing fuzz/ filter stuff with my pedalboard I think I’ve satisfied my synth itch for a while!
Yeah. There is something about a hardware synth vs a synth pedal. Speaking of which, here is some breaking news:
It's still cold from its journey so I may not get to power it up until tomorrow. Band practice tonight.
It's still cold from its journey so I may not get to power it up until tomorrow. Band practice tonight.
Okay, so I logged some time with it. A few thoughts:
It is as well built as everyone says
It is on the quiet side but that's not a huge deal
It sounds great
I wish I could drive the filter more, but it can get a little distorted
The modulation options are fantastic.
I have to be careful not to switch patches when pressing buttons, but the interface is very very good otherwise.
The synth really is its own thing. Looks like a Roland, has PPG-like waves, applied the supersaw concept to everything in Super Mode, and has a SSM filter.
Here's something that started out as the INIT sawtooth setting, and is just a held chord with lots of intersecting modulations: it is very fast to get things modulating one another. In the middle there's momentary gap. I'm switching from normal mode, which has voice panning (like on a Prophet) to Super mode. Even with Soundcloud's compression, I think you'll hear a difference.
No external effects or processing.
To do:
Try it in mono
Run it through overdrive (like the "drive" knob on Sequential synths)
Explore the user waves more
Run Maths into the CV input
It is as well built as everyone says
It is on the quiet side but that's not a huge deal
It sounds great
I wish I could drive the filter more, but it can get a little distorted
The modulation options are fantastic.
I have to be careful not to switch patches when pressing buttons, but the interface is very very good otherwise.
The synth really is its own thing. Looks like a Roland, has PPG-like waves, applied the supersaw concept to everything in Super Mode, and has a SSM filter.
Here's something that started out as the INIT sawtooth setting, and is just a held chord with lots of intersecting modulations: it is very fast to get things modulating one another. In the middle there's momentary gap. I'm switching from normal mode, which has voice panning (like on a Prophet) to Super mode. Even with Soundcloud's compression, I think you'll hear a difference.
No external effects or processing.
To do:
Try it in mono
Run it through overdrive (like the "drive" knob on Sequential synths)
Explore the user waves more
Run Maths into the CV input
Thank you! I have 10 more minutes of stuff from today but didn’t want to subject people.
Ugh, they took down that vid I had posted and I can't remember the name of the song/ group, do you happen to remember?
Amazingly I remembered it (I have the CD somewhere in a box) - Sounds From The Ground / Speedbumps
Confirmed hearing loss particularly sub 250 Hz, which is what I thought. Additional loss in the 4K+ range. Dang. Doc says not much to do, but I’m going for an MRI to rule out one last low-likelihood cause.
I think I know what event (years ago) did a big chunk of the damage. I’m not sure why it suddenly came to my attention in January, but here we are.
Good news is that the left ear is in decent shape despite my rock n roll past.
I think I know what event (years ago) did a big chunk of the damage. I’m not sure why it suddenly came to my attention in January, but here we are.
Good news is that the left ear is in decent shape despite my rock n roll past.
I wonder if anyone not a bass player would even notice a hearing loss <250Hz?
On the Right Ear High Frequency Audiogram is there some significance to the 16, 18, and 20kHz data points not being connected with a through-line like all the others?
I think modern music is bass-heavy enough that the sub 250 range would impact the perception of the average listener. For me, the effect is that I can still vaguely hear the click in a kick's attack, but there's no boom to it. Luckily the left side picks it up and I don't notice it unless I'm listening for it with headphones.
I think the lack of a line is not a significant item. Perhaps there's an ink supply shortage
My hearing is a bit worse in my left ear than my right, and rather than have one better ear I'd maybe rather have them suck equally (within reason, of course). As it stands if I EQ something for my left ear hearing, it will sound different in my right ear. I suppose we can take some solace in knowing that the great Owsley "Bear" Stanley also had different ability to hear in each ear: Invalid Link Removed
The doc said the imbalance in the hearing is what creates distortion. The brain tries to compensate and things get garbled. Things get worse under stress, which explains why it becomes noticeable as the day moves along.
I'd imagine this is actually fairly common. I'll have to check that Bear book.
i have a friend who had some sort of tumor taken out of his head.
he now hears a different pitch in each ear. it’s a half step apart. since he’s an upright player, it makes it really interesting, as his left ear (next to where you hear the pitch coming off the strings) is the one that’s off.
he now hears a different pitch in each ear. it’s a half step apart. since he’s an upright player, it makes it really interesting, as his left ear (next to where you hear the pitch coming off the strings) is the one that’s off.
it is.
still playing his ass off and pretty much in tune.
still playing his ass off and pretty much in tune.
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