[sdiy] Mystery synth sound

[Jacob Watters]

That sounds like a bit crusher to me. Have you tried that?

*Jacob Watters*
JacobWatters.com <http://jacobwatters.com/>


On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi synth fans,
>
> I'd like to pick your brains about how a particular synth sound was
> created...  I've always liked this sound that features on a number of
> Jam and Spoon tracks (Rolf Ellmer & Markus Loffel) from the 90's and
> early 2000's.  It sounds like a resonant lowpass filter sweep but there
> is something else to it, and I've never heard anything quite like it
> anywhere else.  The resonance seems to have a dirty and distinctly harsh
> "scratchy" sound to it which I think works nicely in the genre they used
> it in.  It appears all over their album "Tripomatic Fairyfales 2001"
> like it's their trademark sound!  I'd love to know what piece of kit is
> used to produce this sound if anyone knows?
>
> I'm guessing it might be the result of filter FM or some kind of
> overdriven digital filter, but I've never managed to get anything like
> this out of any of my filters, digital or analogue.  Or maybe it's some
> post processing like decimation, although it doesn't sound quite like
> aliasing to my ears either.
>
> The best example I've found is at the start of "Follow Me":
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfR7o8NI2W0
> The synth starts at 0:00 and is initially quite smooth and clean
> sounding while the filter is closed down, but gets really scratchy from
> 0:30 onwards as the filter opens up.
>
> There are other examples in "Tripomatic Fairytales 2001" too:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvf4wwDpaCw
> The synth starts at 17:35 but getting scratchy from 18:20 throughout
> that song.
> The synth starts on another track at 49:00 but getting scratchy from
> 49:10 onwards to the end of that song.
>
> Any ideas?  This has been bugging me for about 20 years, so I'm all
> ears! ;-))
>
> -Richie,
>
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