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SBL: Quitting

#42
WG Plum said:
Amen. Nuked Facebook a few years ago, and I'm over a week into disabling, but not nuking, my Instagram account. I don't miss Facebook at all and never did, but I'm a little jittery regarding IG. It's been very useful for getting to know like-minded synth folk and I'm missing that community.
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We can be synth buddies on TB. Synths are my other musical passion. Whatcha got?
 
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#44
3bc said:
We can be synth buddies on TB. Synths are my other musical passion. Whatcha got?
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:)

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WG Plum said:
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Nice!

What kind of stuff are you making with that?

I'm afraid of the eurorack rabbit hole. It is completely compatible with my OCD gearhead tendencies and I'm afraid what the results might be. On my desk in front of me is a Subsequent 37 and an OB-6. I have a few other synths in storage right now. I moved out of a big house and into a smaller (but way more expensive) house in a different neighborhood in November with the plan to add an addition where I could build a proper studio. The contractor we were working with led us down the primrose path, thinking we'd be somewhere in the $200 per foot range for construction. Actual costs are almost $400 a foot due to some complexities of the project. We tabled the project for a while, trying to save some additional cash so I don't go dead broke. I have quite a bit of gear in storage ATM unfortunately.

I dabble in some jon hopkins/kiasmos/rival consoles/indian wells style electronic music when I'm not playing bass.
 
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3bc said:
Nice!

What kind of stuff are you making with that?

I'm afraid of the eurorack rabbit hole. It is completely compatible with my OCD gearhead tendencies and I'm afraid what the results might be. On my desk in front of me is a Subsequent 37 and an OB-6. I have a few other synths in storage right now. I moved out of a big house and into a smaller (but way more expensive) house in a different neighborhood in November with the plan to add an addition where I could build a proper studio. The contractor we were working with led us down the primrose path, thinking we'd be somewhere in the $200 per foot range for construction. Actual costs are almost $400 a foot due to some complexities of the project. We tabled the project for a while, trying to save some additional cash so I don't go dead broke. I have quite a bit of gear in storage ATM unfortunately.

I dabble in some jon hopkins/kiasmos/rival consoles/indian wells style electronic music when I'm not playing bass.
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Bummer about the contractor. :(

I'm all over the map, but I would classify it as mainly experimental. I mostly use the eurorack stuff as a mixer and effects send for the Ciat-Lonbarde and Lorre-Mill instruments. I had a MUCH larger eurorack rig for a bit, but found the banana synths' timbres more to my ear. I've recently started mixing in upright and I'm in very early talks with a saxophonist for some Peter Brötzmann-style work on a few pieces. It's definitely NOT EDM or Steve Roach, but not Merzbow either.
 
#47
J Wilson said:
I never joined any social media. I own no business, didn't have a job that required a lot of instant messaging or an online social media presence, etc.

It seems a great shame that with the advent of instant global communication, where I could instantly correspond with anyone around the world, has degenerated into an expensive, aggressive, and abusive gossip box where people are so unbelievably mean and uncivil. The Digital Tower of Babble. And for this I pay a wireless plan and carry around a thousand-dollar device I'll sit on and lose ? Nope.

I do get a sinister satisfaction at the comments when I pull out my flip-phone. I'm my own influencer, I don't know what's trending, and things stay . . . . pretty quiet. As I prefer. I get to have a few published comments as a curmudgeon here on TB and over at the Alembic Club, and that's enough for me.
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I may get burned at the stake for this, but the break from this forum when it went down for a while was nice....
For the most part this forum is like the tabloids at the checkout counter, ya know its the same blah blah blah over and over again, yet you still take a peek every time out of boredom......the words GAS and Carrots are getting so cliche...I want to quit going on here altogether, but will power is a bitch!
 
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drumvsbass said:
So much honesty... sips coffee...

I've been playing bass for 35 years. I have never had anything that remotely looks like success. Not financial, not in respect from any peer group, not in notoriety anywhere. In fact I feel as though most of my local bass playing community thinks I am insane or they have never heard of me. No one knows who I am. I couldn't get a gig today if you put a gun to my head... Does this sound like something I should continue to dump hours of my life and thousands of dollars into? I've been in some bands, but that is kinda behind me at this point. I play in my living room for myself and occasionally stream to my 6 friends on facebook. I put videos on YouTube that no one watches. I have albums on Spotify that no one listens too. Distrokid owes me 9 bucks. I have 30 grand in basses, pedals, and recording gear and 35 years of experience. What do I have to show for it? A closet full of gear I paid way too much for and will never be able to get my money out of. How Icarus falls...

I play for me. Always have. But the effort to put it out there for anyone and everyone to ignore is getting tired.

The big takeaway unfortunately is that I have been wasting time chasing faeries in my backyard.
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We are practically the same person.
 
#50
Killing Floor said:
I quit expecting the Falcons to win more than 8 times a year. I quit expecting them to win a Lombardi in the '90s. I quit hoping Matt Ryan would take a few steps into that truck sized hole to the yard to make. But I never quit cheering for my favorite team. Managing expectations is not the same as quitting. Managing expectations is Punting. Punting is not Quitting.
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I kind of feel that way about UGA, except they are consistently good, but championships are once in a blue moon.
 
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WG Plum said:
Bummer about the contractor. :(

I'm all over the map, but I would classify it as mainly experimental. I mostly use the eurorack stuff as a mixer and effects send for the Ciat-Lonbarde and Lorre-Mill instruments. I had a MUCH larger eurorack rig for a bit, but found the banana synths' timbres more to my ear. I've recently started mixing in upright and I'm in very early talks with a saxophonist for some Peter Brötzmann-style work on a few pieces. It's definitely NOT EDM or Steve Roach, but not Merzbow either.
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First world problems, that's for sure...

My brother in law is a professional avant garde trumpet player. His level of musicality is off the charts, and he regularly makes music using electronic synths and stuff. Has headlined some pretty big jazz festivals and in non-covid times he tours the world basically non-stop. But like some of that more out there stuff, especially some of his synth work, sounds like it could just have easily been made by my 6 year old haha. Of course that's cause i'm not smart enough to understand what's going on let alone explain it.

Actually seems like a lonely existence to me, and not the touring part. As a trumpet player you grow up listening to Miles and that kind of thing. Asked him how often he still goes back to his formative roots for inspiration or even just to unwind, and his answer was basically "Never, there's nothing in it for me" haha, and not in an egotistical way. When your music makes Chick Corea sound like accessible pop music, where do you turn to for listening enjoyment?
 
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#53
Quit IG / FB over 7 months ago and it may be the best thing I did in the past year. It cut so much negative out of my life and im so much happier.

I miss posting bass covers, but whatever. If that is what I had to trade for me mentally getting in a better place without social media, than it was worth it.
 
#54
Ihaveshingles said:
I may get burned at the stake for this, but the break from this forum when it went down for a while was nice....
For the most part this forum is like the tabloids at the checkout counter, ya know its the same blah blah blah over and over again, yet you still take a peek every time out of boredom......the words GAS and Carrots are getting so cliche...I want to quit going on here altogether, but will power is a bitch!
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I enjoyed TB being down too, but it is up to us to give ourselves a break.
 
#55
I need to be on social media as part of what I do...I have an IG account which fluctuates between 34.5 and 35 thousand followers, but it's just a fun thing. I need to maintain some visibility for work, and to get the occasional live gig. The FB groups I'm in, and this place, are more important than the 'mainstream' FB news feed.
 
#58
I can’t relate to the whole quitting drama thing going around lately. Whenever somebody talks about hanging it up for good because <fill in the blank> my reaction is: Go do whatever you feel you gotta do.

I’m a very internally motivated person with zero need for outside validation. I play bass because I love music and enjoy playing bass. Success (as the world measures success) never loomed large in my psyche. So “quitting” in the face of some negative external factor or event was never part of the equation for me. I consider bad times as something to get through or go around. Not something to be proud about or make an issue out of. You either play or you don’t. Your call. ;):)
 
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