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[ 9.19.2003 ]

 

...closer to powers beyond
no. 2, about the low frequencies

I'm thinking of founding a new doom metal project. I'm just now writing some stuff to the bands, but at the moment I'm not thinking of wether people will find the bridge moving towards the lamentation of chorus and stuff like that. No, I'm thinking of going down to the rehearsal studio and try the most important thing out - the ambience. Tune down, drop out, see light in the end of the tunnel (probably a train) sort of thing. Not necessarily even a band!

Now, as you might have guessed, I'm a bass player (not a guitarist that wound up playing bass guitar, but a bass player with a cause). In some heavy bands I can satisfactorily play my fetishisms to the low end. Something really slow, hapless and heavy with lots of distortion, low frequencies and feedback to get a sort of electro-organic -sound. You know, the ecstatic overdrive that is always just about getting out of hand, producing music of it's own, unconcerned of where you put the hands on the fingerboard. It certainly takes me closer to Gods, when the volume and air pressure pump down slow, slowly mutating groans and shrieks of electric sound wall. It's as if the sound wall possesses me!

This demon has a physical body, too, in a sense. The wavelengths and pitch. According to BBC NEWS the organ music can instilling religious feeling in listener - because of the extremely low frequencies some of the biggest pipes produce. Bass players
have noted this too, as someone in the Bass player magazine said: "Thumb muting an active 5 through a 1,000-watt amplifier and two 15's is a religious experience!"

Besides going slow, B-flat can't go wrong when you want heavy, heavy end. But don't be put down if your down tuned guitars still don't beat the distorted 5-stringer bassist. Even they've got something to compete with - as if they got any chance. A black hole might still produce a bit heavier sound, namely, B-flat in 35 octaves lower. And that's something!

I'd like to credit this entry to Mr Topi Aarnio of Typhon Sleeps Heavily, for sending me the links above leading to this cosmic-bassdom. When it comes to these things, he's a like-minded person if there ever was one.




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Mr EagleOwl [10:12 AM]