Posts tagged with "Minimoog"
SYNTH SENSE
SYNTH SENSE
Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess lets you in on the secrets to making your synthesizer sounds soar
If you’ve listened to pop music created since the 1960s, there’s little doubt you’ve heard synthesizers at work. Innovators have been trying since the 1800s to create devices to replicate sounds otherwise unavailable to the layman, but it was only in the last four decades that the synthesizer became thought of as an instrument in...
GEAR – PEDAL POWER
Selecting the right effects stompbox will keep your sound on sure footing
Many legendary rock moments—Jimi Hendrix wailing through an Octavia on “Purple Haze,” or the Edge’s lush delay on U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name,” for example—were crafted using carefully chosen effects pedals. Guitarists of all genres use these small, specialized signal processors to tweak their instruments’ sounds in wildly creative ways. And they’re...