Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[dukeorock]

I think I’ve mentioned it before, but Drummachinemike kinda rules. Decidedly tonal, no odd time stuff, no glitch and way too many dialog samples for what I’d typically like, but his execution is just so good. Former Futures is a wonderful record

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Action shot from yesterday
First gig since the World Fubar

 

[monsterthompson]

Action shot from yesterday
First gig since the World Fubar
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I tried pushing the “like” button more than once, but all it did was unlike and then re-like the post.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

I tried pushing the “like” button more than once, but all it did was unlike and then re-like the post.

 

[JES]

Action shot from yesterday
First gig since the World Fubar
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Rawk!

 

[dukeorock]

Action shot from yesterday
First gig since the World Fubar
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Awesome photo!!!

 

[steubig]

\m/

 

[Spectrum]

I tried pushing the “like” button more than once, but all it did was unlike and then re-like the post.

Chuck Norris can push the like button twice.

 

[monsterthompson]

Nerd:30

 

[Bob_Ross]

Action shot from yesterday

Hey, you're not that "ugly"...

 

[monsterthompson]

Hey, you're not that "ugly"...

could be a catfish filter

 

[Spectrum]

Hey, you're not that "ugly"...

Easy, now, we don't want his head to swell up. ;-)

 

[monsterthompson]

This just in - dukeorock not an actual duke.

(though, I’ve heard rumor he might actually be the earlojazz in disguise)

 

[dukeorock]

This just in - dukeorock not an actual duke.

FAKE NEWS

 

[Spectrum]

Been playing with my bass rig and various bass synth pedals. I play a sequence into a loop pedal (Ditto, etc.) and then try to find a synth pedal and setting that gets me an acceptable synth sequencer sound. So far not so good. Most of these pedals, even the ones that track fine, seem to "slur" the sound if you play too fast; I guess they don't have a fast enough attack? The SY-1 tracks beautifully but it seems every setting has that slurring overtone sound. I have a few more pedals to try out, let's see if I can't find something that works. I guess I can always fall back on octave>fuzz or something.

Speaking of the SY-1, it has some really cool built-in sequencer modes. You play a note, and it arpeggiates it. You can adjust the speed of the sequencing with a knob, which is great, but there's no way to sync it to an external clock signal from, say, a drum machine or other synth gear. I've used this feature several times before on its own, but it would be nice to sync it up...

The quest for the perfect bass synth gear is never-ending.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

26244066[/URL], member: 234523"]Hey, you're not that "ugly"...

But I’m also ugly on the “inside”



(dumbest online name ever, It's been with me since the late 90s so I’m kinda stuck with.....)

 

[monsterthompson]

Back to basics

 

[lucas303]

 

[monsterthompson]

Sitting down tonight with the Black Sequencer and checking out the ARP function. I’ve just opened up a can of worms with this thing. You use the Ratchets to determine how many arp notes get played per step and then the sequencer calculates how to divide that up and play one of the programmed Arp patterns you select from. You can program an Arp up or down.

I’m currently fascinated with varying the number of ratchets per step to get a roller coaster effect. Something like a 4 beat pattern where:
Beat 1 = 5 steps
Beat 2 = 7 steps
Beat 3 = 4 steps
Beat 4 = 3 steps

I could never play that by hand, but gosh darn if it doesn’t sound lovely at a slow tempo with some reverb and delay.

 

[theunknowndude]

Happy accident at band yesterday… set my oceans 11 to fully wet on the chorused reverb mode and got a nice eerie string type sound which was semi what I was aiming for…