Looking forward to watching this, never been here before but I really love playing ambient bass jams, mad props for getting on camera and talking i want to get to that point but I’m to shy lol but I’ll get on here and play
Right on! It took me years to be brave enough to talk on camera but once I did… if I think about it, I would have sounded the same on the first upload as I did on the first time I spoke on camera years later so if I could go back I would have gone for it much earlier. That’s just my experience for whatever it’s worth. Hell yeah ambient bass🤘
This is really awesome and inspiring! As I have commented on another of your videos, I have a pretty large pedalboard but not as many as you have!. Obviously our singer says that I have way too many pedals and stuff going on but let’s just say that the crowd is really pleased to hear all sorts of ambient sounds going on in between songs in our sets! It also makes up for having only one guitarist and a drummer and fill our soundscape! I have started recording myself for a little while now and I was wondering how I could create something « different » and this video really helped and inspired me a lot! Thank you so much!
@@AmbientBassCreations 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Obviously, as a stereotypical signer, he doesn’t carry any equipment except for his own stuff… where if I carry just my own stuff, it probably weighs the same as, if not more than , the whole drum kit!!!!
@@kimfaucher007 Like Keith Richards calls it, “Lead Singer Syndrome”; they’re the “star of the show” and, to me, what they don’t understand musically they put it down. Now if you get yourself a Mike Patton-type singer, you’ll be in good shape! Lol 😂 Seriously, Patton WANTS to know what’s going on with every instrument, songs through various pedals and effects, plays keyboards and sequencers that even effects nut me doesn’t know what they are! Lol Cheers!
Wow! Incredible! I m starting doing similar things, and your video is such a good inspiration. I crafted a ehx’s switchblade-like efx-looper to swap the place of the ditto between pre/post effects, it could help you in 44:14 Keep doing this!
What a great demo! Beautiful music. I’m rebuilding my pedalboard (bass player too) and wondered how important pedal order is. What’s cool is I have several that you have too! Here are mine - what order should they be in? SuperEgo Strymon Compressor Strymon Volante Strymon Nightsky (just got it!) Boss tuner Boss Super Chorus Darkglass Alpha Omega Ultra EHX Micro POG EHX Mel 9
Pedal order honestly isnt important because if your making music that you like, then the order is right no matter what it is in. The best thing you can do is try different orders and look at what other people are doing and try that. Pretty soon you’ll figure out your own order that you like for the style of music that you play. But if your looking for a place to start then I would do, Tuner, Alpha Omega, Comp, POG, Super Ego, Mel 9, Chorus, NightSky and then Volante Awesome collection so far and congrats on Night Sky!
Great video. I learned a lot! Two questions…what does the buffering do for you here and why is the “empty loop” concept not required to prevent breaks in the loops? Thanks!
Thanks! Buffers help bring your instruments signal “back to life” essentially. When you play through a lot of pedals, your instruments signal hast to travel through all the pedals, and all the patch cables connecting pedal to pedal. By the time it gets to my computer.. without buffers.. my bass sounds flat/dead/ loss of clarity. It’s like shinning a light on something far away… if you put your hand out right in front of the light, it’ll shine really bright on your hand, but the far away object won’t get as bright of light shining on to it. The buffers at the end of the chain bring back the clarity in my tone after going through all the pedals.
Empty loops are great but I can create near seamless to totally seamless loops by simply playing the first or last note of what I plan to loop first… let it ring out or let reverb decay for a second… then start the loop with my foot… then play whatever I want to record, and then stop the loop. Because I played something that rings out first before I started recording… once I start recording.. whatever is ringing out gets recorded too, instead of me just starting to record from silence and have that gap of silence recorded. It’s just faster this way because all I have to do is play one note and let it ring before I start the loop, as opposed to starting an empty loop.. play my whole loop silently and count it out… then overdub the same exact thing just with my volume on. So it’s not like the empty loop wasn’t required.. I just did it my way to be quicker
Once I started playing ambient bass I wanted longer sustain in my notes so I tried shaping my tone with the preamp first, and through the comp after it… and liked it. The comp after the eq gives a more warm and smooth tone too so I’ve kept it this way for a couple years now
Yes, I would definitely be able to play live with this kind of set up. Two beefy bass amps or a PA system with some beefy monitors would be pretty cool to play this stuff out of but I have never had that experience. I personally have only recorded.
Really enjoying this and your other vids. Great work! This is really a direction I'd like to go in with my music. If I think about one addition to my chain that is based on your setup, I think it may be the Tri Parallel Mixer. I don't have anything like that. I have an EH 720 looper, a single Ditto and an EH Freeze that could be the three inputs into a mixer like that. That seems like a pretty important component of your setup? Have you checked out Steve Lawson at all? I really like his ambient style too.
Yes, tri mixer is very important in my set up. If ambient looping is what you want to create then you will be very happy with tri mixer. Yes Steve Lawson is a beautiful abstract looper. Glad your finding joy in this stuff! Keep it up!
Greetings! How do you achieve going stereo out of Microcosm to the input of the GFISystem Synesthesia? I'm trying this signal flow out but haven't been able to understand how to patch the two out to the single in of the Synesthesia?
You need this. Its literally the same exact one I used in the video and continue to use for all my dual stereo to single stereo needs. (It’s an affiliate link) amzn.to/46gh1vJ
@@AmbientBassCreations Hi, I'm confused. The Synesthesia only has a mono input (but stereo out), so I don't think you get any stereo effects from your microcosm.
@@vx20skim08bq Thanks for bring this back up it has been a while. I made a mistake on that signal flow description. Microcosm isn't the first stereo pedal. Synesthesia is and everything after that is stereo is what I should have said in the video. My apologies for getting that mixed up.
@@AmbientBassCreations Cheers mate, thanks for the clarification! Looking forward to more content of yours hopefully soon, I really enjoy all of your previous videos!
would you be able to maybe discuss your key pedals here for a limited budget? Like if you could keep 3 and still be happy with the set up what would they be? There is so much money in this video 😂
For sure! Habit, Night Sky (but any stereo reverb would make me happy), and Sunlight. Habit has multiple delays, can function as a looper, and does a lot of other cool things.. Habit has been the best ambient tool iv’e invested in other then reverb. Any stereo reverb I would be happy with. Then sunlight has three modes with three different reverb textures that are great, but what it also does, is it has an infinite decay, which I like to use as a drone machine sometimes. So with those three, you get reverb, delays, looper, textures and a drone machine! Plus all the other features Habit has, and the ramping capability of sunlight. I know Habits not a budget pedal at all but it has already payed for itself in the joy it’s brought to me, as corny as that sounds. Really hope this helped!
@@AmbientBassCreations btw did you look at any other pre amps before settling on the Darkglass? I’ve been looking at the Origin Bass Rigs (mainly the Blue SVT style one) but conscious of my tone sounding too metally when I’m looking for a somewhat softer yet punchy clean tone as well :)
Yeah absolutely. Since my first band back in the day I've used a preamp and I actually think I wanted to achieve the same, or similar tone as your describing now.. The tone I searched for was a warm, smooth clean tone with no twangy brightness. I stayed away from preamps with distortion, or basically any preamp with a Gain knob because I only wanted a clean signal, nothing more. I wanted something that got rid of any buzz that happens from fingers to strings and strings to frets.. and I wanted a punchy bassy signal but still clear, and you can hear and understand each individual note... So when you said soft, punchy clean tone I thought of that, and what came to mind is the One Control Crimson Red Bass Preamp. It's a mini pedal with 3 knobs that actually does pretty much exactly what I think you're looking for. It's totally warm, smooth and punchy. It cleans up a lot of the fret buzz when you play, and it just turns your signal into a very warm smooth vintage sounding bass. It actually has a Gain knob that controls the "distortion" but seriously.... the "distortion" is so minuscule you would never know it has any gain in it at all. The Gain knob is more of a volume boost that allows you to be warm, sooth and punchy, at a loud volume without being too boomy. The Brilliance knob is like a tone knob, but even if you have it turned all the way bright, It still sounds warm, soft and punchy. I highly suggest checking it out on TH-cam and here's the website link: one-control.com/products/one-control-crimson-red-bass-preamp-english. I really hope I accurately understood your desired tone. If not, I apologize for this whole essay of unhelpful information lol
@@AmbientBassCreations Reading your comment a year later, would you still pick Habit, Night Sky and Sunlight, or has there been an new pedal released that you'd swap one of them for? Thanks for the videos and your music, btw!
Wow. You also solved a doubt i had with the tri parallel from electro harmonix... What can i say, genuinely impressed.
Thanks so much! Glad you got something positive out of it!
Looking forward to watching this, never been here before but I really love playing ambient bass jams, mad props for getting on camera and talking i want to get to that point but I’m to shy lol but I’ll get on here and play
Right on! It took me years to be brave enough to talk on camera but once I did… if I think about it, I would have sounded the same on the first upload as I did on the first time I spoke on camera years later so if I could go back I would have gone for it much earlier. That’s just my experience for whatever it’s worth. Hell yeah ambient bass🤘
Love that you go so indepth into your process. An absolute treat to watch.
Glad you got something out of it. I want to go even more indepth next time so hopefully catch you on the next one
This process is fascinating to me. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Very informative presentation..and a beautiful chilled out vibe going on... Wonderful pedalboard...
Thanks man! And good to hear from you again! Hope your makin awesome noise with your growing collection!
I love your pedal board. This video is so good.
Awesome! Hope you got something out of it 🤘
That’s soundscapes are 🔥🔥🔥🔥 thanks for the video🤝🔥
Stoked you liked it!
Beautiful stuff man,made out of salt and dreams.
very very informative presentation! I subscribed. Great and seriously useful video! Thank you!
👍👍👍 so glad it was helpful!!!
Thanks for going into such detail. This is super helpful.
Yeah glad it helped man!
This is really awesome and inspiring!
As I have commented on another of your videos, I have a pretty large pedalboard but not as many as you have!. Obviously our singer says that I have way too many pedals and stuff going on but let’s just say that the crowd is really pleased to hear all sorts of ambient sounds going on in between songs in our sets! It also makes up for having only one guitarist and a drummer and fill our soundscape!
I have started recording myself for a little while now and I was wondering how I could create something « different » and this video really helped and inspired me a lot!
Thank you so much!
Your lead singer is no fun! Glad it inspired you!
@@AmbientBassCreations 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Obviously, as a stereotypical signer, he doesn’t carry any equipment except for his own stuff… where if I carry just my own stuff, it probably weighs the same as, if not more than , the whole drum kit!!!!
@@kimfaucher007lol hell yeah 🤘
@@kimfaucher007 Like Keith Richards calls it, “Lead Singer Syndrome”; they’re the “star of the show” and, to me, what they don’t understand musically they put it down.
Now if you get yourself a Mike Patton-type singer, you’ll be in good shape! Lol 😂
Seriously, Patton WANTS to know what’s going on with every instrument, songs through various pedals and effects, plays keyboards and sequencers that even effects nut me doesn’t know what they are! Lol
Cheers!
@@Oran_Lee_Bass, I love Mike Patton’s body of work!
This is great. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Nice pedal connectionszzzzzzzzzz
Amazing stuff
I really appreciate it man!
Tx dude! Interesting to see !!
Yeah man thanks for watching!
Use compression and eq always helps
Impressionante 😮
Wow! Incredible! I m starting doing similar things, and your video is such a good inspiration.
I crafted a ehx’s switchblade-like efx-looper to swap the place of the ditto between pre/post effects, it could help you in 44:14
Keep doing this!
Thanks! Hmm thats interesting. Id love to see that in action for a better understanding!
What a great demo! Beautiful music. I’m rebuilding my pedalboard (bass player too) and wondered how important pedal order is. What’s cool is I have several that you have too! Here are mine - what order should they be in?
SuperEgo
Strymon Compressor
Strymon Volante
Strymon Nightsky (just got it!)
Boss tuner
Boss Super Chorus
Darkglass Alpha Omega Ultra
EHX Micro POG
EHX Mel 9
Pedal order honestly isnt important because if your making music that you like, then the order is right no matter what it is in. The best thing you can do is try different orders and look at what other people are doing and try that. Pretty soon you’ll figure out your own order that you like for the style of music that you play. But if your looking for a place to start then I would do,
Tuner, Alpha Omega, Comp, POG, Super Ego, Mel 9, Chorus, NightSky and then Volante
Awesome collection so far and congrats on Night Sky!
@@AmbientBassCreations Thanks for taking the time to suggest a lineup - just re-set them in that order - works better than I had it! Appreciate it.
Great video. I learned a lot! Two questions…what does the buffering do for you here and why is the “empty loop” concept not required to prevent breaks in the loops? Thanks!
Thanks! Buffers help bring your instruments signal “back to life” essentially. When you play through a lot of pedals, your instruments signal hast to travel through all the pedals, and all the patch cables connecting pedal to pedal. By the time it gets to my computer.. without buffers.. my bass sounds flat/dead/ loss of clarity. It’s like shinning a light on something far away… if you put your hand out right in front of the light, it’ll shine really bright on your hand, but the far away object won’t get as bright of light shining on to it. The buffers at the end of the chain bring back the clarity in my tone after going through all the pedals.
Empty loops are great but I can create near seamless to totally seamless loops by simply playing the first or last note of what I plan to loop first… let it ring out or let reverb decay for a second… then start the loop with my foot… then play whatever I want to record, and then stop the loop. Because I played something that rings out first before I started recording… once I start recording.. whatever is ringing out gets recorded too, instead of me just starting to record from silence and have that gap of silence recorded. It’s just faster this way because all I have to do is play one note and let it ring before I start the loop, as opposed to starting an empty loop.. play my whole loop silently and count it out… then overdub the same exact thing just with my volume on. So it’s not like the empty loop wasn’t required.. I just did it my way to be quicker
What do you think is the advantage is of compression after preamp?
Once I started playing ambient bass I wanted longer sustain in my notes so I tried shaping my tone with the preamp first, and through the comp after it… and liked it. The comp after the eq gives a more warm and smooth tone too so I’ve kept it this way for a couple years now
Are you able to play live with all of that or do you only record?
Yes, I would definitely be able to play live with this kind of set up. Two beefy bass amps or a PA system with some beefy monitors would be pretty cool to play this stuff out of but I have never had that experience. I personally have only recorded.
Really enjoying this and your other vids. Great work! This is really a direction I'd like to go in with my music. If I think about one addition to my chain that is based on your setup, I think it may be the Tri Parallel Mixer. I don't have anything like that. I have an EH 720 looper, a single Ditto and an EH Freeze that could be the three inputs into a mixer like that. That seems like a pretty important component of your setup?
Have you checked out Steve Lawson at all? I really like his ambient style too.
Yes, tri mixer is very important in my set up. If ambient looping is what you want to create then you will be very happy with tri mixer. Yes Steve Lawson is a beautiful abstract looper. Glad your finding joy in this stuff! Keep it up!
Greetings! How do you achieve going stereo out of Microcosm to the input of the GFISystem Synesthesia? I'm trying this signal flow out but haven't been able to understand how to patch the two out to the single in of the Synesthesia?
You need this. Its literally the same exact one I used in the video and continue to use for all my dual stereo to single stereo needs. (It’s an affiliate link)
amzn.to/46gh1vJ
Sounds good, thanks! @@AmbientBassCreations
@@AmbientBassCreations Hi, I'm confused. The Synesthesia only has a mono input (but stereo out), so I don't think you get any stereo effects from your microcosm.
@@vx20skim08bq Thanks for bring this back up it has been a while. I made a mistake on that signal flow description. Microcosm isn't the first stereo pedal. Synesthesia is and everything after that is stereo is what I should have said in the video. My apologies for getting that mixed up.
@@AmbientBassCreations Cheers mate, thanks for the clarification! Looking forward to more content of yours hopefully soon, I really enjoy all of your previous videos!
we got the same PRIME board :) you ever try using a eadgc tuned bass ?
Absolutely! I had a Fender Jazz Bass V which I tuned E,A,D,G,C
@@AmbientBassCreations heck yeah , u got great video , shower underrated
@@AJbassist you rule for saying that dude thanks!
would you be able to maybe discuss your key pedals here for a limited budget? Like if you could keep 3 and still be happy with the set up what would they be? There is so much money in this video 😂
For sure! Habit, Night Sky (but any stereo reverb would make me happy), and Sunlight. Habit has multiple delays, can function as a looper, and does a lot of other cool things.. Habit has been the best ambient tool iv’e invested in other then reverb. Any stereo reverb I would be happy with. Then sunlight has three modes with three different reverb textures that are great, but what it also does, is it has an infinite decay, which I like to use as a drone machine sometimes. So with those three, you get reverb, delays, looper, textures and a drone machine! Plus all the other features Habit has, and the ramping capability of sunlight. I know Habits not a budget pedal at all but it has already payed for itself in the joy it’s brought to me, as corny as that sounds. Really hope this helped!
@@AmbientBassCreations thanks so much :) definitely lots to explore!
@@AmbientBassCreations btw did you look at any other pre amps before settling on the Darkglass? I’ve been looking at the Origin Bass Rigs (mainly the Blue SVT style one) but conscious of my tone sounding too metally when I’m looking for a somewhat softer yet punchy clean tone as well :)
Yeah absolutely. Since my first band back in the day I've used a preamp and I actually think I wanted to achieve the same, or similar tone as your describing now.. The tone I searched for was a warm, smooth clean tone with no twangy brightness. I stayed away from preamps with distortion, or basically any preamp with a Gain knob because I only wanted a clean signal, nothing more. I wanted something that got rid of any buzz that happens from fingers to strings and strings to frets.. and I wanted a punchy bassy signal but still clear, and you can hear and understand each individual note... So when you said soft, punchy clean tone I thought of that, and what came to mind is the One Control Crimson Red Bass Preamp. It's a mini pedal with 3 knobs that actually does pretty much exactly what I think you're looking for. It's totally warm, smooth and punchy. It cleans up a lot of the fret buzz when you play, and it just turns your signal into a very warm smooth vintage sounding bass. It actually has a Gain knob that controls the "distortion" but seriously.... the "distortion" is so minuscule you would never know it has any gain in it at all. The Gain knob is more of a volume boost that allows you to be warm, sooth and punchy, at a loud volume without being too boomy. The Brilliance knob is like a tone knob, but even if you have it turned all the way bright, It still sounds warm, soft and punchy. I highly suggest checking it out on TH-cam and here's the website link: one-control.com/products/one-control-crimson-red-bass-preamp-english. I really hope I accurately understood your desired tone. If not, I apologize for this whole essay of unhelpful information lol
@@AmbientBassCreations Reading your comment a year later, would you still pick Habit, Night Sky and Sunlight, or has there been an new pedal released that you'd swap one of them for? Thanks for the videos and your music, btw!