Synthoid Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 I came across this recently. Definitely one sour synth sound. Not too bad when mixed in the background, but by itself... yuck. Kinda sounds like electric hair clippers. [video:youtube] Anyone else have a "favorite" in this category? When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real MC Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Anyone else have a "favorite" in this category? When Geddy Lee stopped using his Minimoog, he used a poor emulation on a modern keyboard for the Tom Sawyer solo. Hated it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuelBLupowitz Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 [video:youtube]LCIyeXn1sKQ The fun starts around 1:11. Samuel B. Lupowitz Musician. Songwriter. Food Enthusiast. Bad Pun Aficionado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 That's cringe-worthy guitar. When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 That's cringe-worthy guitar. No, it isn't. The digital playback device for the synth track was accidentally set to 48k, not 44.1. There was no way Eddie was gonna find that key. dB ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 Yes, I recall the story behind that performance. But to the casual listener, the guitar is way off. When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 But to the casual listener, the guitar is way off. The funny thing is, it's not actually that far off the correct pitch...but MAN, it sounds freakishly awful. That story never loses it's funny. EVH must have been losing his mind. dB ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analogika Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Prince had a knack for using really crappy sounds to make incredible music. Personal favourite is the terrible wobbly synth organ in the intro to Lets Go Crazy. "The Angels of Libra are in the European vanguard of the [retro soul] movement" (Bill Buckley, Soul and Jazz and Funk) The Drawbars | off jazz organ trio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marczellm Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Bill Wurtz is the continuator of that school [video:youtube] Life is subtractive.Genres: Jazz, funk, pop, Christian worship, BebHop Wishlist: 80s-ish (synth)pop, symph pop, prog rock, fusion, musical theatre Gear: NS2 + JUNO-G. KingKORG. SP6 at church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Paxton Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I used to have a live recording of Emerson, Lake & Powell doing "Touch and Go," with that huge, ballsy synth brass sound. Sounded great, until... the last time around Keith decided to play the line up an octave. Apparently that was the octave where that sound changed from "huge and ballsy" to "anemic, piercing and cringe-worthy." It was seriously painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardware Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 That's cringe-worthy guitar. No, it isn't. The digital playback device for the synth track was accidentally set to 48k, not 44.1. There was no way Eddie was gonna find that key. dB That was a nightmare. Only train wreck I saw worse then that was when Brandscomb Richmond successful actor who sings really well, was playing their 100th Series Of Renegade where he was Lorenzo Llamass partner. That were gigging in Vegas and everybody was there. But suddenly Wayne Newton came up to sit in on Johnny B. Good. He told everyone the key of A but started in A flat instead, the band tried to find him, then he found A while they were on A flat, just total embarrassment for everyone. Thankfully I played Guitar as a kid until I heard Keith Emerson, so I can look at the fretboard for situations like that. Actually my guitarist sometimes starts Move Like Jagger a half step low, and I wont come in with the Whistle until he works his way back to the real key. The Van Halen tour above was all around difficult. They paid outrageous money, my old FOH started the tour, huge pay but the guy has patents for IEMs so he didnt need the money, but the drama between the band was so bad they went through crew members like McDonalds goes through burger flippers. Magnus C350 + FMR RNP + Realistic Unisphere Mic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o0Ampy0o Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 ...to the casual listener, Roth's vocals are way off. The funny thing is, they're actually that far from the correct pitch. The synth sounded so lush. Note: Quoted text edited for pitch correction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyNQ Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I once played with a vocalist who dabbled a bit in guitar. He was not afraid to try technology at gigs but never really seemed to get the best out of it. Example: I remember he was using a TC Helicon vocal processor one gig and somehow he had the thing sounding so bad that the sound guy pleaded with us to turn it off at half time, and one audience member threatened him (via me, scarily) with physical violence. Anyway, he had some Roland guitar synth sound module thing that he tried for a few gigs. The lead sounds that he got out of it were...um...what's the opposite to "phat"? "Phin", maybe? Hard to describe except to say that these sounds would have had to run around in the shower to get wet. I'm willing to give Roland a mulligan on this one - I'm pretty sure he had no idea how to use the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 This is more of a serious vocal fail... but the keyboard playing is awful as well. [video:youtube] When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokely Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (and that's what you get for running tracks, just rewards....just call it karaoke and be honest about it.) Ok, have to bring out the big guns. [video:youtube] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tusker Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 [video:youtube]YQtpcESUEKM Sure, anyone would love to play one tenth as well as Chick and Herbie, but this doesn't measure up to the tastefulness displayed elsewhere in their careers . The Moog and Rhodes aren't bad but rest of the sounds don't sit together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song80s Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I am not concerned of synth sounds from 25-40 yrs ago. There were a few decades of experimentation and sometimes somewhat cheesy sounds got recorded. I am more annoyed by what passes for creativity and or skill on synths on todays delightfully creative and wonderfullly skillful pop music. Here's an example and my grandpa rant follows: [video:youtube] I disregard the cartoon video. I lost interest in cartoons at 6 yrs of age, I focus on music- thats #1 mr Malone or his wise producers is running his mediocre vocal thru 'pitch correction ' software and/or a vocoder. this ' robotic voice' Fx came out 15 years ago. It was lame then and to my ears, its more than lame now. I much prefer a talented vocalist who can hit notes, have interesting tone and not rely on some trick to mask lack of/ or mediocre skill. Songs with over produced 'phony vocal ' tracks do nothing for me . I know listeners 'like ' the robotic/synthesized vocal. I can not relate to that. The music- in addition to a drum machine, I detect 4 simple synthesizer tracks with a dose of FX. These are not demanding to play, in that they are repetitive and sit in the mix. I call this ' copy/paste' synthesizer work. Likely Malone and his production partner messed around with simple synth parts until they got the glossy burpy- bleep bleep vibe they heard in their heads. Again, some like copy paste synth tracks. I understand some hope to get the studio work and pay some bills. My assertion is not much creative keyboard work going on. Why fit in, when you were born to stand out ? My Soundcloud with many originals: [70's Songwriter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Emm Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 The edgy, TURN-IT-OFF! 60-cycle hum joke floppy shown to me by an Ensoniq rep at a show. He called it "Roadie's Revenge." You can just see the keys guy scrambling to find the bad connection. If you listen closely, right before the loop point, you can hear him punching a laughing roadie in the mouth. Good times! "We're the crash test dummies of the digital age." ~ Kara Swisher, "Burn Book" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricBarker Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Ironically, probably the original example was one of the least cringeworthy. The Cure tone isn't awesome, but it sorta works in context, and they kind of own it. Herbie's Keytar sound is just AWFUL, though I had no trouble with Chick's (other than the attack on the his lead being a little flaccid for my taste). The Jump fiasco is just hilarious. Puck Funk! Equipment: Laptop running lots of nerdy software, some keyboards, noise makersâ¦yada yada yadaâ¦maybe a cat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 "Jump" in the wrong key -- it happened! :-) I love The Cure's sounds in "Love Song" and all of "Fascination Street" (plus the earlier stuff) and have successfully done a mimic of a few of those sounds as they were so inspiring for me. Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 Ironically, probably the original example was one of the least cringeworthy. Ok. It's just yucky. YMMV. When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuelBLupowitz Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Just to lay my cards out on the table -- and forgive me, because I'm sure at least a few of the members here stand by how undeniably iconic it is -- I think the Jump synth part is cringe-worthy even when it's in the correct key. I just feel like the sample-rate fiasco (and Diamond Dave riding around on an inflatable microphone) takes it all the way to Ludicrous Speed. That said, I love playing the damn thing. I used to do it to torture a drummer friend. Worked every time -- and the more accurate the patch, the more effective it was. Samuel B. Lupowitz Musician. Songwriter. Food Enthusiast. Bad Pun Aficionado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 [video:youtube] [font:Comic Sans MS]I win.[/font] http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyNQ Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I just feel like the sample-rate fiasco (and Diamond Dave riding around on an inflatable microphone) takes it all the way to Ludicrous Speed. Every time I watch that Greensboro thing, what strikes me as the most bizarre is how no-one in the audience seems to be overly concerned with how bad it sounds. Perhaps not so bizarre? It does reinforce my theory that most people who go to rock concerts don't actually listen to the music - they just think they do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I always hated the "worm" patch used in some funk songs. This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscapeRocks Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I always hated the "worm" patch used in some funk songs. Ohio Players---Funky Worm. 1973. Classic. David Gig Rig:Depends on the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffincltnc Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Trio "Da Da Da" on the Casio. Although, it makes for a good Volkswagen commercial. Yamaha U1 Upright, Roland Fantom 8, Nord Stage 4 HA73, Nord Wave 2, Korg Nautilus 73, Viscount Legend Live, Lots of Mainstage/VST Libraries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EscapeRocks Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 here SIDO a few years ago doing DA DA DA with Trio original Stephan Remmler. Unfortunately Trio guitarist Gert passed away from lung cancer several years ago [video:youtube] David Gig Rig:Depends on the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 Hey, Linda McCartney's Moog synth sounds are amongst my favourites, and ones I aim for in my own synth patch programming. Everyone has their own tastes, of course. I love the first posting too; great performance besides, and that raw synth sound adds some grit under a sparse instrumental backing that is basically lacking a lead guitar (vs. rhythm guitar or harmony guitar). Robert Smith's voice sounds fantastic through that Sennheiser MD441 mic. Surprised they could afford one then! Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Bird Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 Not so bad, just not close to the original. Yamaha MX49, Casio SK1/WK-7600, Korg Minilogue, Alesis SR-16, Casio CT-X3000, FL Studio, many VSTs, percussion, woodwinds, strings, and sound effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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