The chordal stab sound you mention - That is the sound he said was preset 9 on a 280a Polymoog. Preset 9 is a brass sound. He ran it through an orange mxr phaser to get that phasing type sound.breakmixer wrote:The do do, d-d-du, du, d-du, du-du, do do, d-d-du, du, d-du, d-du, d-du, do-do sound?synthmagic wrote: When I described the sound to Leee John I described it as 'The sound that goes do do dooo do' lol he managed to get the sound I was burbling on about from that. Don't know how else to describe . It comes in at around 20 seconds in the track.
Tony Swain said the bass line was from a Roland SH-1000 and played in by hand to a multitrack reel to reel over a period of about 3 days as he had to overdub new parts to fix mistakes - They did not have a sequencer he said.
That's the sequence style sound I'm talking about(I think), sounds a bit like an electric piano played using a single key, however their is a chorded stab also just before he first starts singing - rather more a bright brass sounding stab.
The bass from 'Illusions' has been remade by Himalaya for Alchemy in his Vintage Sound pack.
I think as in the Freeez case it may of pre dated the 'Gonna Get You'(IOU/Pop Goes My Love LP), because they went to New York to do that album, Jellybean and Arthur Baker had a big hand in that LP(Baker used a micromoog and prophet 5 for Play At Your Own Risk/Planet Rock and I noticed similar sounds on IOU like the fairlight Orch5 and Roland 808 - so maybe the same synths). I think we may be looking at the 'Southern Freeez LP' period for the use of this Polymoog by the band themselves. Maybe...
My favourite sound on Southern Freeez track is that big paddy sweeping sound! 3:24 seconds > Wonder if you can spot an Polymoog sounds here steve?
He said he used a Boss chorus stomp box (CE2 I think)on the SH-1000 bass line.
I did not know Southern Freez was on Beggars Label - Great track, always sounds happy and makes me think of summers when I was younger(When we got summers in the uk):). You may be right about the Polymoog because I think Beggars would have had a few Polys with their connection to Gary Numan.
I'm not recognising that sound you mention in the track, but it could be using Vox H in VAR mode( with no modulation) and it could be through some effect.
They may have used a 203a aswell to get that sweep sound.
I'm still making the presets for ZOM ZOM so I will have a play around today and tomorrow and see if I can make some sounds like that.
Cheers,
Steve
Will do an indepth review on me blog (not that anyone reads it anyway 
) Have blogged the new Zom Zom for yer
