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davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10703
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 6:33 pm:   Edit Post

After watching some videos on the computer today, I felt inspired to finally sit down and record something. It's just the built in mic and camera on my laptop; and I distorted the mic a good bit, but it's not too terribly bad. I also think the mic might be changing the sound some too. It's all a learning experience for me.

I also threw in a bunch of flubs, including a chord on the wrong frets near the end that makes it sound like jazz. And apparently my dynamic range is way too wide.

But at least it's my contribution to all the other stuff you guys have been putting up recently. It's not for public consumption, so you'll need the password: alembic

Again, the sound quality is poor, and the playing is sloppy; but I think you can get at least get an idea of what this Alembic is capable of.

Video here
artswork99
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Username: artswork99

Post Number: 1735
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 6:51 pm:   Edit Post

Sweet! Alembic tone is even good distorted ;) Good to see you Dave (nice T-shirt).
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10704
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 6:58 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks Art! It's my favorite shirt!
rustyg61
Senior Member
Username: rustyg61

Post Number: 585
Registered: 2-2011
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 7:52 pm:   Edit Post

Amazing composition & tone Dave! You don't see too many capo's on basses, very creative!
jzstephan
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Username: jzstephan

Post Number: 68
Registered: 1-2012
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 8:11 pm:   Edit Post

Sweet! Do you have a chord chart? I really like the progression and the melody is compelling and poignant.
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10706
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 8:23 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks guys, but I didn't right write the song. It's my arrangement of a cover. The intro section, which appears again between the verses, is mine; but the verses and the part at the end are my own take on an existing song.

[moderator's edit: spelling]

(Message edited by davehouck on May 29, 2012)
jzstephan
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Username: jzstephan

Post Number: 69
Registered: 1-2012
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 6:34 am:   Edit Post

Care to share?
dadabass2001
Senior Member
Username: dadabass2001

Post Number: 1651
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 7:10 am:   Edit Post

Cool! I always liked the theme to "Exodus", but never tried to work it out fully. Was it Ferrante and Teicher? Good job Dave!

Mike
dadabass2001
Senior Member
Username: dadabass2001

Post Number: 1652
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 7:17 am:   Edit Post

Apparently the composer was Ernest Gold, per Wikipedia.
Mike
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10709
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 7:51 am:   Edit Post

Yes, Exodus by Ernest Gold; I figured someone would recognize it!
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 5157
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 7:54 am:   Edit Post

Dave:

I clicked on the link to the video, but all I'm getting is a page for "Vimeo" that says it is a private video and asks for a password?

Bill, tgo
rustyg61
Senior Member
Username: rustyg61

Post Number: 586
Registered: 2-2011
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 8:06 am:   Edit Post

The password is alembic
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10710
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 8:34 am:   Edit Post

Bill; yes, I'm not wanting to let this out in the general public, so it's password protected. And as Rusty pointed out, it's ... alembic

John; I'll work on a chord chart and email it to you.
jcdlc72
Intermediate Member
Username: jcdlc72

Post Number: 160
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 5:58 pm:   Edit Post

Nice tune, Dave, and definitely a wonderful tone! (Or you can put it the other way, too! :-) )

But I am intrigued now... it looks like you' ve got a lot of gear there, pedals, rack stuff and all! What are you using? (nahhh.. just an excuse to be gear curious and to find out that sound is the Alembic bass itself! ) :-)

Oh, and is also nice the "Jazz" chord! :-) Congrats!!
jzstephan
Member
Username: jzstephan

Post Number: 71
Registered: 1-2012
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 6:42 pm:   Edit Post

"Exodus by Ernest Gold"!
It was driving me nuts; I knew the tune but the context was so different I didn't know what it was! Thanks so much for taking the time to write a chart for me!
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10714
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 7:24 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks Juan Carlos; the rig ...

Alembic DS-5R power supply
Alembic F-2B preamp
Alembic SF-2 superfilter
Sans Amp Tech 21 preamp (overdrive effects)
T.C. Electronic M-One XL multieffects
BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
QSC PLX 2402 poweramp
Bag End D10BX-D speaker cabs (2)

The stuff on the floor are midi controllers for the M-One and the Sans Amp.
jcdlc72
Intermediate Member
Username: jcdlc72

Post Number: 161
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 5:00 am:   Edit Post

I still have an old BBE 422A laying around I used it on my guitar rig about... 18,20 years ago, and has not seen much action lately. I assume the SansAmp you' re using is the MIDI, silver-faced one? (I have the older, non-MIDI rackmount one, but have not used it for bass... yet!)

My "main" rig has become quite simple... I think I can add a picture here, if I find a nice, fast way to resize it. A Yamaha PB-1 preamp, and a DBX163x compressor and a Digitech RDS1900 digital delay, one after the other, thru the PB-1's fx loop. I' ve been using a Hartke HA2000 head since I've found it easier to handle on most situations than what I originally was using (a QSC GX5 power amp), somewhat forcing me to divide my rig into "Tone shaping" on a 4spc rack, and "Powering" on a separate 2spc rack with the head (it used to be an "all in one" huge rack system of which I've found I' ve been using only a half). But the BBE thing got me intrigued again, and after so many years without using it I'm wondering whether I should use it on my bass rig or not. Where in the chain are you using it. or where would you hook it?

This "tone" madness never ends... does it? :-)
jcdlc72
Intermediate Member
Username: jcdlc72

Post Number: 162
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 5:11 am:   Edit Post

Here a pic of the rig... please let me know if it should rather be posted anywhere else.
Juancarlin's rig

(Message edited by jcdlc72 on May 31, 2012)
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10715
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 7:16 am:   Edit Post

The BBE is strange. With all the other tone shaping stuff in my signal path, I have an idea of how it works and can picture what will happen if I move this knob that direction this much (well maybe not the Sans Amp). The BBE, not so much. I think what happens is that turning the knob (here I'm talking about the high frequency knob) chooses between algorithms that boost combinations of different harmonic frequencies. Interestingly, when I sit down to play and find the tone lacking, I can turn those high frequency knobs one click, and the tone is suddenly different.

And yes, the Sans Amp is the midi silver faced rack mount. I don't use any of the built in settings, but have set up a few that work for me; and I use the midi to choose between them. It is a very complex tool.

The list I posted above is pretty much in order of where they are in the chain. So if I recall correctly, the BBE is pretty much the last thing in the chain before the power amp. The BBE and the M-One are sitting in the effects loop of the Sans Amp; and I'm pretty sure that loop comes after all the overdrive circuitry in the Sans Amp.
jcdlc72
Intermediate Member
Username: jcdlc72

Post Number: 164
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 6:36 pm:   Edit Post

My SansAmp (Same thing, only non-MIDI model), has been an absolute mistery to me. Plus, the names they put on those knobs ("Buzz" "Punch" "Edge" and such) make little sense to me when I compare them with what I hear turning them one side or the other. Still, a nice tool, and have yet to try it on bass (Which I will do, eventually, once my studio in the countryside is prepared to start moving equipment there. Currently all the gear that will go there is on storage, piled and stacked right where I cannot bring it out to give it a try right now :-( But it will, it will... :-) (And now BS&T's "House in the Country" is my earworm, go figure...) :-)
eligilam
Advanced Member
Username: eligilam

Post Number: 381
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 6:32 am:   Edit Post

Wow, just caught this video. Great stuff, Dave. Very---if I can use the word---"poignant." Nice chops, nice dynamics. Thanks for sharing.
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10739
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 6:35 am:   Edit Post

Thanks Will!
klinkepeter
Member
Username: klinkepeter

Post Number: 61
Registered: 2-2008
Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 2:59 pm:   Edit Post

yeah Dave, ur a freak, i like it very much!
more of this please...
Peter
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10748
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 3:28 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks Peter!
811952
Senior Member
Username: 811952

Post Number: 2231
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 5:19 am:   Edit Post

Beautiful.
piotr_c
Junior
Username: piotr_c

Post Number: 18
Registered: 7-2012
Posted on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 3:18 pm:   Edit Post

Just saw your video tonight. It's really wonderful..... A big bravo, me likee very mucho...!
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10834
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 4:39 pm:   Edit Post

Thank you Pierre!
kimberly
Advanced Member
Username: kimberly

Post Number: 378
Registered: 1-2007
Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 - 2:34 pm:   Edit Post

Nicely done Dave! :-)

Kimberly :-)
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10844
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 - 7:09 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks Kimberly
that_sustain
Junior
Username: that_sustain

Post Number: 19
Registered: 8-2012
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 4:27 pm:   Edit Post

After a very long day, you're pourin' your heart out.
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 10861
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2012 - 8:29 am:   Edit Post

Thank you Daniel; it is indeed an emotional tune.

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