Slumber
One of my first film clips for the track Slumber from my first LP, SHAKES.
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Wandered
Here is a draft of a tune I've written called Wandered.
It's a bit glitchy and reminds me a little of Boards of Canada -- although it doesn't have their awesome drum sounds. (I was listening to their earlier albums today and noticed the distortion and sometimes delay on the drums.)
Wandered by bassling
The opening drone reminds me of the wires a bit. It could use some birdsong to reflect the theme of the lyrics in the original.
Lyrics? Yeah, it's got them. Here's an earlier draft of this track:
Wandered by ShowcaseJase
It's a bit glitchy and reminds me a little of Boards of Canada -- although it doesn't have their awesome drum sounds. (I was listening to their earlier albums today and noticed the distortion and sometimes delay on the drums.)
Wandered by bassling
The opening drone reminds me of the wires a bit. It could use some birdsong to reflect the theme of the lyrics in the original.
Lyrics? Yeah, it's got them. Here's an earlier draft of this track:
Wandered by ShowcaseJase
Water cooler recordings
It's good to hear how things sound through different microphones and I'd been meaning to try and capture the sound of the water cooler glugging. This was the last bottle of water that we're getting so I didn't give myself much opportunity to set the levels before hitting record.
The glug sounds good though.
Water cooler by bassling
Strung out
Aeolus Salute by bassling
Here's a track that will be part of my next album, STRING. I'm planning this to be a collection of manipulated recordings of 'the wires' and tracks influenced by the droning sounds of this unique instrument.
Here's a track that will be part of my next album, STRING. I'm planning this to be a collection of manipulated recordings of 'the wires' and tracks influenced by the droning sounds of this unique instrument.
Pedal board
This series of effects produces a gated guitar rhythm triggered by a drum loop.
The guitar output is divided with two chains triggered by the kick drum, one an octave lower and one through a bright reverb. Another chain is triggered by the snare and hi-hat and runs through an Electro Harmonix Ring Thing, using a ring modulator on a delayed signal.
You can hear this set-up in the tune Blue Moon below, along with a few effects added in post-production.
Blue Moon by bassling
Bass Synthesiser pedal comparison
The postman brought a Behringer Bass Synthesiser pedal to me this week. They're about $70 new on Ebay and do a good fuzz wah if you use an expression pedal. Also has some phasing sort of modulation settings and squelchy analogue sounds.
Boss also make one but it's not as good at tracking the notes. Also the Behringer has a pitch hold function. I guess you can hold a note and then use the direct output to play over the top -- a bit like the new Electro Harmonix Freeze pedal I'd guess. (Keen to try one of those.)
The Behringer also gets closer to the sound of an Electro Harmonix Q-tron pedal for that Higher Ground sound. Unlike Boss though, the Behringer is made of plastic.
The Boss's shortcoming in tracking a bass makes an interesting effect on drums though. It creates these somewhat atonal but quite bubbly generated basslines. It's very acid sounding and fun for jamming.
Pedal board
Here's the pedal board I've been using with my guitar recently.
A few comments about the effects:
- Holy Stain is an interesting multi-effect but, as much as I like the reverbs and tremolo, it falls short in the distortions. Using an expression pedal to control the length of the reverb is a great feature though.
- Tubescreamer is great for warm tones but also for taming the Giant Cooter.
- MXR's EQ is beaut, even when it's off it seems to add something pleasant.
- LPB adds a big bluntness to the attack that's great with the Cooter but I'd like something that adds more presence without the oomph.
Quote
"Human beings have the capacity to find various viewpoints to approach a problem or to find a solution. There are an infinite number of ways to look at things"
- Herbie Hancock (one of my favourite musicians)
New bass amp
I bought this secondhand Peavey TNT 160 from a bloke in Coolamon. It's got a lovely deep tone.
This is my first amp with an 18-inch speaker and the sound it produces wobbles my wobbly bits.
It's also got unusual features like this built-in crossover.
I'd guess the amp is 20-30 years old. I had a Peavey TNT bass amp in 1993 that was at least thirdhand. That was my first proper amp after four years of playing through five-watt guitar amps or putting the headstock against my cupboard doors.
Do you reckon I need to replace the scorpion?
Giant Cooter
This is a distortion pedal I bought on Ebay. The bloke who made it claimed it was based a Big Muff. It's got a huge, bass-y tone.
Here's what the bloke wrote on Ebay:
If you cant figure out what pedal inspired this build...its a Big Muff circuit which i have built on vero/stripboard.
its not a straight up clone of any particular era Muff but i spent a good while experimenting with different component/value changes to get to what i thought was my ideal muff.
uses 4x 2N5089 transistors and a few modifications which include:
tone: more woolly/muffy/wall of sound... whilst still retaining have clarity and on the other end of the spectrum, more crisp/tight but without the huge mid scoop on the pedals tone/eq knob (labelled "texture")
Sustain/Gain : more of...
Pedal is housed in an aluminium enclosure (BBE pedal size for reference) and uses Switchcraft input jacks with a Clear/Purple 5mm Indicator LED/Berzel.
It is wired for True Bypass and has a battery snap and Power supply jack (2.1mm centre neg. standard boss style power supply) - NOT INCLUDED
there is additional power supply filtering on the jack (for those with dodgy cheapo power supplies)
NOTE: the power supply jack depicted in the attached Photo has been replaced with one that sits more "flush" with the enclosure, so it now doesnt stick out as much)
The enclosure is enamel auto paint with water laser printed waterslide decals with a layer of micro-sol (for the painted on affect) and then further clear coated.
Back after the edit
In 1 by bassling
This track is a remix I did in 2007 for the ninja.trax series.
The original track was a performance-piece also recorded for ninja.trax. Below is a video I made of one of my rehearsals.
This track is a remix I did in 2007 for the ninja.trax series.
The original track was a performance-piece also recorded for ninja.trax. Below is a video I made of one of my rehearsals.
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