Farfisa effect?

[jumblemind]

Looking for an old school organ/farfisa type effect and could use some suggestions. I don't have any example sound clips, so this may just be a shot in the dark. My baseline sound is a 75 p bass through an ampeg. I want to "extend" that organic tone for ambient sections of certain original tunes to help fill in space, like a farfisa holding out notes. I don't want to really alter the wave forms much (other than through a delay pedal that will add a slight amount of warble), so every synth pedal I've looked at seems to be the wrong direction.

I'm thinking something like the sustain and slight saturation of an overdrive without the actual breakup, and something that also adds a slight farfisa organ-like coloration without necessarily using octaves to emulate chord structure.

I'm going to experiment with adding a memory toy to an SFT and a muff or odb-3. This will probably get the organic sustain but not any of the farfisa coloration.

[Tractorr]

Have you thought about an octave pedal?

My Micro POG is very organ like. Paired with a mild overdrive (for tone and sustain) it will probably get you fairly close.

[giacomini]

Originally Posted by Tractorr

Have you thought about an octave pedal?

My Micro POG is very organ like. Paired with a mild overdrive (for tone and sustain) it will probably get you fairly close.

+1 for the EHX Micro POG or even better, a POG2 or a HOG (all Electro Harmonix). Check out some vids on youtube, they make basses and guitars sound very organ-like.

[jumblemind]

That's the thing, I don't really want/need the generated octaves, just the altered tone of the single note I'm playing. I guess I should try some overdrives with low gain settings mixed with some kind of modulation effect.

[HaVIC5]

Originally Posted by jumblemind

That's the thing, I don't really want/need the generated octaves, just the altered tone of the single note I'm playing. I guess I should try some overdrives with low gain settings mixed with some kind of modulation effect.

Part of what makes an organ sound like an organ is all of the harmonics (octave, fifth, etc) that are generated upwards from a fundamental blended together to create a bigger, fuller sound.

[jumblemind]

I guess that's why I don't like the POG sound, the octaves are all separately audible, not blended together. Sounds really cool if you want organ chord swells, but that's not what I'm after. I just want the singular slightly synth note.

[Tractorr]

Originally Posted by jumblemind

I guess that's why I don't like the POG sound, the octaves are all separately audible, not blended together. Sounds really cool if you want organ chord swells, but that's not what I'm after. I just want the singular slightly synth note.

Perhaps an analog octave pedal. The POG is known to be rather clean sounding. However, the POG's clean audibles kind of work better in a band setting. With other instruments that clarity is not very obvious but you can hear the octave effect.

[Meddle]

The POG is ok for Hammond sounds, at a push.

However Farfisas are a lot thinner and more 'pure sine wave' sounding. I would go for a modified Boss OC-2 (the synth mod is common), then use some reverb, some EQ and some sort of trem/vibe pedal that allows 100% wet effect to get the same tremolo sound.

Farfisa also made the sferasound pedal (sp?) which was a huge optical-driven volume pedal that contained a crude leslie simulator. The tremolo on old Farfisas is a repeat-percussion affair as well (an inverse sawtooth wave iirc), all of which should be copyable with pedals.

[jumblemind]

Cool, that's what I'm talking about. Some good launching points, thanks.