Screw guitars, I want an old skool synth

goldtop

The only bad thing about synths is that you can so easily disappear down the sound design rabbit hole instead of making music. You have a musical idea, start to find the right sound, find the wrong sound which suggests another musical idea, then you tweak that and about an hour later when you take a swig from a now-cold cup of coffee, you have no idea where the original idea went.

So I've got a ROMpler with a squillion presets on the way (having had Funky's JV-2080 and then an Integra 7). That's for working out musical ideas - no tweaking allowed! And on the other side of the 'studio' are the synths - analogue and digital - for twiddling.

But I still drink a lot of cold coffee.

Freebird

goldtop said:

The only bad thing about synths is that you can so easily disappear down the sound design rabbit hole instead of making music. You have a musical idea, start to find the right sound, find the wrong sound which suggests another musical idea, then you tweak that and about an hour later when you take a swig from a now-cold cup of coffee, you have no idea where the original idea went.

So I've got a ROMpler with a squillion presets on the way (having had Funky's JV-2080 and then an Integra 7). That's for working out musical ideas - no tweaking allowed! And on the other side of the 'studio' are the synths - analogue and digital - for twiddling.

But I still drink a lot of cold coffee.

Wait until you start reamping through your FX and amp chains 

57Deluxe

I have always loved synths more than guitars but started with an electric guitar cos couldn't afford a synth when I was 16. from 3 years of Saturday job saving, it was either a Mini Korg 700s or a new FS1e and a SG copy and a Woolies amp. S/H weren't options in those days for good synth gear.

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