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wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:19 am

Lotuzia wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Old synths sounded like crap without FX. My Moog and ARPs were garbage, IMO. I never understood how they sounded so good on record and so bad in my home studio, which at the time was a Teac A3440 4 channel recorder. It wasn't until I started added on "stuff" that these things sounded "good."

Some synths sound better than others. Some actually sound quite good dry. But to some extent I agree with one of the posters here (forgot which one) who said that it's the FX that make the sound because a lot of the old hardware was thin and terrible.

And I still have my old Moog so i can drag it out of the basement if I have to, record it live and dry so you can hear just how horrible it really sounds.
Totally agree with you. I'll be happy to help you to get rid of that horrible sounding Moog of yours. Just sell it to me for a vile price, and you'll have some spare room for good sounding things.

Don't thank me. I'll do this ... for you

I'm curious as to what a "vile" price is.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:22 am

A vile price should match the horrible sound of this instrument my dear ( I'll only use it as a table to put flowers on it, as we both know its horrible to make music. So let's say the price of an honnest table at a wellknown swedish store -used of course-)

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:24 am

Lotuzia wrote:A vile price should match the horrible sound of this instrument my dear ( I'll only use it as a table to put flowers on it, as we both know its horrible to make music. So let's say the price of an honnest table at a wellknown swedish store -used of course-)

Let me think about it. I don't even know if it still turns on.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:27 am

I was kidding Wag Tunes, your Moog, in good shape, is probably worth a lot of money. So just sell it for a good price if you dont like it.

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:31 am

It's really about FX, modulation and frequency splitting imo.

I agree with Wag to a certain extent - My synths tend to have at least 5 FX and there would be parallel processing going on as well.
Some synths get you closer then others, as Wag pointed said as well.

That's actually one of the reasons I still like sylenth, because it shortens the chain. Nave is like that too and sounds fantastic. It cuts through the mix very easily.

Dune 2 or impOSCar 2