Nick: Not so much the G-Funk, but more flamboyant southern sort of stuff, like Kanye flamboyant. Jay: That song is a sample of a Todd Rundgren song, really slowed down, sort of like G-Funk and hip-hop. Tell me about your new album… There’s this new song you played that has a repeating riff, I loved that. I played with some differents synths and think that the lead is either the Korg Poly-800 or a Roland Juno-106, which they also use regularly. They mostly used the Moog for basses and the Korg for chorused pad chords, and for Paint Me Silver they used guitar for the lead, so it’s hard to tell what was used for the studio recording. I was lucky enough to see Pond on their recent tour and their live synth setup consisted of a Moog Sub Phatty, a Korg Poly-800 and a Dave Smith Prophet 08. Although Paint Me Silver starts out with a direct sample from Cosmic Convoy, the main hook is based on the lead lick later in the song overdubbed by the Pond members. What a lot of people don’t know is that the main hook is based on a Todd Rundgren & Utopia song called Cosmic Convoy. Pond recently released their seventh studio album The Weather, and after my Sweep Me Off My Feet tutorial I’ve had a couple of requests for the synths in Paint Me Silver. The Prophet synths have a really distinctive sound when used for bass, I’ve used Arturia Prophet V but for a free alternative check out TAL-Elek7ro, a great free software synth to learn on and great for bass sounds. Raise the cutoff and sustain up to max for a big full sound, then turn on legato and set the glide to roughly the right time (below it’s set to 450ms). Set OSC B an octave below OSC A and set the volume so that it’s a little quieter and blends well with OSC A. The Moog was too dirty and the Juno was too clean but any Prophet-type synth will really nail this sound. The song starts with a thick sounding deep bass, I tried a couple of synths and the Prophet was the one that got me closest to this bass sound. In this tutorial I’ll look at all the individual layers that make up the song! It features heavily layered synths to underscore Pond frontman Nick Allbrook’s fantastic vocal performance. Sweep Me Off My Feet by Australian psychedelic band Pond is a spacey synthpop song from upcoming album This Weather.
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