The OC2>oxide>Xero combo will get you as synthy as you need. I can nail the Rose Royce (Shake your Rump) sound with this combo and an expression pedal.
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Looking for THAT synth sound
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The OC2>oxide>Xero combo will get you as synthy as you need. I can nail the Rose Royce (Shake your Rump) sound with this combo and an expression pedal.
brown dog would be awesome and tight. But I am only talking from an octavius squeezer user perspective (which, like Jared said, can nail that tone (the 'scratching' of that sample (as I interpret it) I guess is tricky if you are looking to emulate that too).
The other pedal which has an awesome fuzz for synthy stuff is from copilot (I think its called an orbit). It has an awesome fuzz sans filter/octave too but its pretty gnarly getting your playing/settings right, but once you nail in its awesome. (also nails the beastie boys gratitude bassline perfectly)
The other pedal which has an awesome fuzz for synthy stuff is from copilot (I think its called an orbit). It has an awesome fuzz sans filter/octave too but its pretty gnarly getting your playing/settings right, but once you nail in its awesome. (also nails the beastie boys gratitude bassline perfectly)
I'm sure there are more economical ways to go about it but I'm able to get a similar sound using a Pitchfactor (synth setting)>b:assmaster>POG2(octive down envelope peaked)>BEF Pro using an expression pedal.
Here's a bump from 2011 in case anyone wants to weigh in on how to pull this off with newer synth/ filter pedals.
So, that sound is obviously a synthesizer. I would hope a bass player can hear that from a mile away. No combination of pedals / bass guitar is going to get this sound. (It's amazing how hard it seems for bass players to "think outside the bass"). This was almost certainly a Minimoog (and Im absolutely shocked that no one has suggested this on this thread). A Moog modular could produce the same sound but a lot more expensively. The Korg MS-20 is capable of near-identically reproducing this sound, in fact I would have said it was the MS-20 on the record but the MS-20 wasnt released until 1978, and this record came out in 1976. A wah pedal (which is just a band-pass filter inside a pedal housing) will never create the same sound as a 2 pole low-pass filter, which is the characteristic growl heard on the Rose Royce / Beastie Boys tracks.
In summary, that sound is a sawtooth wave oscillator being low-pass filtered with a reasonably high resonance setting, on a Moog synthesizer. It's not being distorted, no fuzz pedals required, its just a simple old sawtooth oscillator being filtered. Probably one of the simplest sounds one can program on an analog monosynth. Attached below is a quick and dirty recreation on my Korg MS-20, it would need some tweaking to get it exactly dialed in, but you'll hear the striking resemblance instantly.
In summary, that sound is a sawtooth wave oscillator being low-pass filtered with a reasonably high resonance setting, on a Moog synthesizer. It's not being distorted, no fuzz pedals required, its just a simple old sawtooth oscillator being filtered. Probably one of the simplest sounds one can program on an analog monosynth. Attached below is a quick and dirty recreation on my Korg MS-20, it would need some tweaking to get it exactly dialed in, but you'll hear the striking resemblance instantly.
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Actually that sound is pretty close to one of the stock presets in a Future Impact... the tough part... as with all synth bass lines being played electric bass is the picking and fretting technique. Gotta be clean, clean, clean.
I know this is a ten year old post, but the intent was to try and find out what was making that sound, and how best to recreate it.
"I don't really care if I can create it with effects on my bass or if a synth route is the way to go."
I would have to say that YES A SYNTH ROUTE IS THE WAY TO GO when trying to recreate a synth sound. There are myriad hurtles to try and overcome to make an electric bass sound like a Minimoog (for instance, the fact that the synth bass on the record has infinite sustain. How do you make a plucked string do that? compression? not quite) ... It's like trying to make an acoustic piano sound like a Fender Rhodes... Im sure it can be somewhat approximated but, if you want a rhodes sound, use a rhodes. Wouldnt that make sense? Likewise, just use a synth if you're trying to recreate a synth bass sound. And in this case, use a Minimoog (or a Korg MS-20, which was actually designed to compete with the Minimoog).
"I don't really care if I can create it with effects on my bass or if a synth route is the way to go."
I would have to say that YES A SYNTH ROUTE IS THE WAY TO GO when trying to recreate a synth sound. There are myriad hurtles to try and overcome to make an electric bass sound like a Minimoog (for instance, the fact that the synth bass on the record has infinite sustain. How do you make a plucked string do that? compression? not quite) ... It's like trying to make an acoustic piano sound like a Fender Rhodes... Im sure it can be somewhat approximated but, if you want a rhodes sound, use a rhodes. Wouldnt that make sense? Likewise, just use a synth if you're trying to recreate a synth bass sound. And in this case, use a Minimoog (or a Korg MS-20, which was actually designed to compete with the Minimoog).
Future impact has some sounds with flat and unaffected sustain, until your signal drops REALLY low. Both old school moog ones, and more modern, EDM inspired.
Even on my shortscale Longhorn, with old rounds, I get 10 seconds, without pre synth compressor.
On Paul's Boutique, they've simply slapped the "Carwash" soundtrack on a turntable, and had fun with the synth intro to the track "6 o'clock DJ (let's rock)" using a combination of terminating, and scratching.
On the original soundtrack recording, the most likely candidate for the synth used, is a minimoog.
On the original soundtrack recording, the most likely candidate for the synth used, is a minimoog.
That pedal IS a synthesizer, right? It has oscillators, so if you're just using the bass as a sort of voltage control for the VCOs built into the pedal (synth) then that makes sense about the 10 seconds of full volume sustain. When I said no combo of bass / pedal is gonna get you that sound, I wasn't referring to a synthesizer stuffed into a pedal... at that point, you're using a synthesizer now. I can see how that might get you close to the Rose Royce track.
Yes, on "Shake Your Rump" obviously the Rose Royce tune is being cut up on a turntable, I thought that bit went without saying (There are other samples from the Car Wash soundtrack used on "Shake Your Rump" as well). But yeah, I'd vote for either a Minimoog, or maybe an ARP 2600.
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