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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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Whatcha wanna know? Reverse P and a big split on the bridge. Hoping for a rather ballsy P/J sound (although I am constantly second guessing myself about not going with a double MM setup).
Yeah, they had to put it in a MM case, as apparently, they don't make too many 6 string P's at Nordstrand.
Good to know. I'm eyeing a 6-string reverse P, but rails.
'Nother new bass update....
Aaand.... a delay. Heard from Clement, Bartolini sent him a bad trim pot. Considering how long things are taking, I hope he has another. I guess no NBD for me this week.
Aaand.... a delay. Heard from Clement, Bartolini sent him a bad trim pot. Considering how long things are taking, I hope he has another. I guess no NBD for me this week.
What's the layout of those electronics? Can't tell from the pics whether any are stacked pots...atza lotta knobs either way!
Love Tom's work, that's a gorgeous bass. Worth the wait.
Volume, blend, high, mid, low. It's the Bartolini pre with the fretless option (diff eq curve, I think).
your bass is a tight spacing, right? wouldn't the mm magnets be a little big for that?
nice looking instrument
Okay, I seriously didn't think about that. I go with 16.5 mm spacing on my basses, so I'd really have to think about that. I'd assume Nordy could do it. But thanks for bringing that up. I have to look into that. I can't remember what the spacing is on my Stingray. I think Bongo 6's are 19mm but I haven't checked in a while.
i talked to carey about doing some pickups for a baritone guitar at 16.5. for some reason i thought it came up. i think it’s mostly getting them to fit into a housing that would fit that spacing.
At one point I was hoping for a big split that would work with the very narrow touch guitar spacing, but that’s not possible.
While I was at work today I started thinking again about pitch tracking for the bass, and made a short list of options. I figured I was probably going to wind up springing for a Sonicsmith Converter E1, and accepting that it might not be perfect.
But I tried JamOrigin Bass to MIDI, and found it works surprisingly well for my purposes. Tracking is pretty good and latency is totally acceptable for me. It works not just for triggering software synths, but tweaking parameters in Bitwig Grid or VCV Rack (e.g. filter cutoff, especially with comb filters!) and converting to CV to send to the modular. The plugin has an option to convert envelope follower to Aftertouch messages, which is handy for synths like Aalto or Buchla Easel V.
Mutable Instruments Rings in Western Chords Mode blew me away. Having it track pitch while processing the bass, and send aftertouch to Damping to control dynamics is just delicious. It ranges from pretty conventional-sounding to completely weird in some of the other modes. I also had it doing crazy stuff with Ensemble Oscillator, and with just a simple oscillator but ring-modulated against the bass. (Honestly, even just doubling a synth with the bass without getting fancier is pretty great.)
I'm going to try out some other software to see if there's something even better, but JamOrigin definitely serves my purposes.
But I tried JamOrigin Bass to MIDI, and found it works surprisingly well for my purposes. Tracking is pretty good and latency is totally acceptable for me. It works not just for triggering software synths, but tweaking parameters in Bitwig Grid or VCV Rack (e.g. filter cutoff, especially with comb filters!) and converting to CV to send to the modular. The plugin has an option to convert envelope follower to Aftertouch messages, which is handy for synths like Aalto or Buchla Easel V.
Mutable Instruments Rings in Western Chords Mode blew me away. Having it track pitch while processing the bass, and send aftertouch to Damping to control dynamics is just delicious. It ranges from pretty conventional-sounding to completely weird in some of the other modes. I also had it doing crazy stuff with Ensemble Oscillator, and with just a simple oscillator but ring-modulated against the bass. (Honestly, even just doubling a synth with the bass without getting fancier is pretty great.)
I'm going to try out some other software to see if there's something even better, but JamOrigin definitely serves my purposes.
i understood about 20% of that, but it seems pretty exciting.
As a matter of fact, TIL Rings has Western Chord Mode. Also, modular-relevant, last night I watched this and it was pretty cool:
