#11 2020 june #1

Welcome to The www.Ask.Audio Synth Stories podcast. Each episode features artists and producers who describe their personal experience with a synthesizer and show how they make those synth sounds on their seminal tracks and songs.

Synth Stories

The infamous rock outlaws WEEDEATER return with 'Goliathan', their long-awaited new album. 'Goliathan' is the crossroad where true Southern rock/metal meets raw humor and old religion, and embodies the bands trademark shuffle and swagger rightly.  Syrupy slow riffs are buoyed by canyon-deep bass and some of the hardest-hitting drumming since Keith Moon. Full-on bruisers "Cain Enabler", "Claw of the Sloth", and the aptly-named "Bully" demonstrate that 'Goliathan' is vintage WEEDEATER and the soon-to-be gold standard of Southern sludge metal. 

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WEEDEATER - Cain Enabler

In the first episode of Synth Stories we're joined by Andreas & Daniel from The Glitz. They demonstrate how they created the main synth line from their track, Chubby Cheek on Desert Heart Records, using the Arp Odyssey.

SynthStories 001 - The Glitz - ARP Odyssey

In episode 002 of Synth Stories Panic Girl reconstructs the synth drums using the JoMoX XBase 09 drum machine on Magick from her new EP, The Breeze.

Synth Stories 002 - Panic Girl - Jomox XBase 09

Sara Snyder and James Hopkins from Stereospread share their secrets using the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 synthesizer on their popular track "Frozen". Sara also re-create 3 signature sounds from Frozen using the Prophet 12 and explains their technical and creative process.

Synth Stories 003 - Stereospread / DSI Prophet 12

Matthew Pusti is Makeup and Vanity Set. In this episode Matthew reveals his how using the Moog Mother 32 analog synthesizer and Meris Mercury7 he creates expansive, magical synth soundscapes.

Synth Stories 004 - Makeup & Vanity Set - Moog Mother 32 & Meris Mercury7

Portishead's Adrian Utley explains and demonstrates why he loves the special sound of the Minimoog analog synthesizer and how he used it in the creation of the recent Portishead cover of ABBA's SOS.

Synth Stories 005 - Portishead's Adrian Utley - SOS & Minimoog

Spaceprodigi is Mack Bartsch, a young talented 16 year old musician and analog synthesizer enthusiast who has become well known on social media for creating popular synth performance videos using eurorack modules and synths like the Moog Mother 32.

In this episode Mack deconstructs her synth workflows and composition techniques for the powerful and playful track Antimony from her first EP release, Launch, available on Beatport, iTunes and Spotify. 

Mack focuses on the Moog Mother 32 and the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6.

Synth Stories 010 - Spaceprodigi - Antimony - Moog Mother 32 & Prophet6

Belzebong - Names Of The Devil

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ORCHID - Heretic

just a tryout mix and match to the original. lacking of mids i must say. guitar using a strandberg boden 8 run through a pod gx. using toontrack ezmix2 vst. meshuggah presets. addictive drums, and midi bass to a meshuggah bass presets. mastering using all ezmix presets. just a 10 min mix. 

Meshuggah - demiurge cover

Version 2.0

Guitars, Bass, Drums: C.G.
Vocals: T.R. 
Mix/Mastering: The Fool Studios
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Ophan - Demiurge - Meshuggah

Ask.Audio Synth Stories podcast focuses in on the hardware synthesizers musicians and producers program and play on their tracks. Because every synth has a story!