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Iron Ether Subterranea

#564
This may be controversial but I actually prefer the Polytope on guitar to bass so it's going to be relegated to my backbench/recording/guitar board (it's in place on my board until I get my Sub-T... 3-5 weeks before posting and then potentially 2 weeks in customs if it gets picked up :crying: )
 
#572
What is it these days with people using those clip-on tuners and just leaving them sitting on the headstock. First of all, IME they're about half as effective as a pedal tuner, and second it's just the stupidest looking thing I can imagine.
 
#574
M0ses said:
What is it these days with people using those clip-on tuners and just leaving them sitting on the headstock. First of all, IME they're about half as effective as a pedal tuner, and second it's just the stupidest looking thing I can imagine.
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They work for some people. I used one for a while until I got a TC polytune mini. Haven't touched the clip on since.
 
#579
so good.

lol. i'm not talking poo about your guitarists, i'm sure they're hellza good. it just makes me laugh when people say guitar is harder because CHORDS when there's songs that the guitar player is skanking over the same few chords throughout and the bass player is busting his ASS with runs filled lines.

like. um. that.

MEOW.
 
#580
you know, I kind of dropped it because of not wanting to argue with a point well made, but ...
AN I.E. COMPRESSOR, discussion II

(no they aren't working on one, I am just dreaming)

I kind of distracted myself with the idea of the awesomeness of a squashed sub-T, but I think the more useful point I could have made was for something that maybe should no longer be called a compressor

Imagine it as more of a synthesis EG shaper,
an A D S R machine
Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release, for those who don't know.

BECAUSE HERE IS WHERE MAKING YOUR BASS A SYNTH FALLS SHORT:

the 'envelope' of a stringed instrument is always one shape:
Big attack spike with a quick decay.

You cannot PUSH through notes like horn players, and you cannot naturally create a delayed attack, or a slower 'decay' than your physical bass allows.

So forget sustain if the buzzword for bad compressors turn you off, a thousand compressors squash and sustain, sure. but...

What if I.E. allowed us to finally break free of this inescapable 'volume' shape of our stringed sound-tools?!?!

You could sound like an actual dubby synth, or you can have PUNCHY kick drum style peak-and-dips. FAT DEEP creep ins. That's what makes the character of any good synth sound- the envelope, the attack. The waveform is taken care of with the Sub-T and Oxide, the filtering is nailed by the Xero-s, the modulation, etc etc! Why not finish the gamut and change the game of live bass guitar forever!


Food for thought, but if this somehow happened, it would be a GIGANTIC game changer.



Think about it- Fuzz into filter as a synth? your note still dies away with time. Digitech bass synth wah? note still decaying. Markbass? Decaying. The subterranea into a xero? SUPER badass, and I admittedly do not have any issues regarding sustain with the Sub T (seriously, so badass) BUT one day or another... the note will die off. The Sub t does a remarkable job of somehow supplying level-stable sounds (perhaps there is compression in one form or another within the SubT itself)


Just saying, if I ever see an announcement for the "Iron Ether ASDR Machine" I am buying it immediately
 

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