Jobiebass Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 drunk in a pub over a year ago I said to a guitarist friend of mine "sounds like a stringray on this track" which was Kim Wilde's Kids in America. after he took the mess, I sent a message to "god" on those text numbers who stated it wasnt a bass it was a synth. Ok I could be wrong, but I still get the mess taken out of me for saying that over a year ago. someone prove me right please I cant find any info on it. If indeed it is a synth, would I be right in saying it would be based on a bass's sound, like a Rik, jazz, 'ray etc? PLEASE HELP. for my sanity please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 not any help, but that was the first single I ever bought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebasshead Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 If it helps I always thought it was a synth bassline, and I could get pretty close to it with a Boss SYB-3 and my Ric. I can't say whether the (or any) synth bass tone is based around any particular bass though, I kind of doubt it...but then again I've never thought about it before. Good Q actually! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 I remember the Top of the Pops appearance which had no bass player miming along! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 id say its definately an analog synth i can tell by the way the arpeggiator is set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witterth Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Really not trying to be smart@ss, honest. but I cant hear any other bass,other than sequenced/arpeggiated analogue synth. probably a pro88(?) if that what they were called...cant properly recall....., Mike Lindup had one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 [quote name='witterth' post='667763' date='Nov 27 2009, 08:54 PM']Really not trying to be smart@ss, honest. but I cant hear any other bass,other than sequenced/arpeggiated analogue synth. probably a pro88(?) if that what they were called...cant properly recall....., Mike Lindup had one[/quote] Sequential circuits prophet1 or prophet5. Awesome synths worth a lot now prophet 5s were one of the first to have MIDI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Quite how anyone could think the bassline is produced by anything other than a synth is beyond me... Something with two oscillators. The keyboard player on the TotP clip is 'playing' a Yamaha CS80. Could be that or a Prophet 5 or an OB4. Doesn't even need to be sequenced. Just provide a triggered gate signal and hold down the correct notes. Easy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass_In_Yer_Face Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 I'd forgotten how fit she was back then, how the hell did that twat Chris Evans slip her a length?...not so sure now she's turned into a middle aged frumpy gardener. There's no bass player in the official video either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirky Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Could be a Pro-One. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witterth Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 AH HA!! prophet5 Thats it! thank you, youma! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Sounds like a synth. Not a Stingray at any rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 [quote name='Kirky' post='669222' date='Nov 29 2009, 04:42 PM']Could be a Pro-One.[/quote] Almost defintely not. The SCI Pro One wasn't introduced until the Winter NAMM show of 1981. Kids in America was recorded in 1980 and released in January 1981. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witterth Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 I know but released, and studios have their greasy mitts on......? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Back in the late 70s and early 80s there wasn't quite the same obsession with having pre-release kit. Besides the Pro-One was essentially a cheap single-voice version of the Prophet 5 there would be no point in choosing it over a synth that did more and was already available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirky Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 It was monophonic but dual oscillator, big sounds for bass and synth lead. I had one at the time, along with an Oberheim "System" - OB8, DMX and the sequencer whose name I can't remember. Good gear. Don't remember the Pro-One being all that cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witterth Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 I remember a band I was in, shunning a kit player instead of an oberhiem (sampled kit sound drum machine, it was very expensive at the time) OBX.. whatever it was called... drum machine, which was great, when recording ,but at the time we,surely looked cun#ts when using it at (1 only) gig... before getting a real drummer but then it was 82/83..... and we all looked cun#ts anyway!!! 'cept me of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 [quote name='BigRedX' post='667838' date='Nov 27 2009, 10:52 PM']Doesn't even need to be sequenced. Just provide a triggered gate signal and hold down the correct notes. Easy![/quote] Back in the day, I had a Roland SH09 mono synth that I used in just such a fashion. Made some fabulous big Moogy noises! Wish I still had it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 [quote name='Kirky' post='669521' date='Nov 29 2009, 09:47 PM']It was monophonic but dual oscillator, big sounds for bass and synth lead. I had one at the time, along with an Oberheim "System" - OB8, DMX and the sequencer whose name I can't remember. Good gear. Don't remember the Pro-One being all that cheap.[/quote] I meant cheap, relative to the cost of a Prophet 5. I can remember looking forward to the release of the of the Pro-One only to be disappointed due to the cost (I don't think the £-$ exchange rate was very favourable to us at the time) and the fact that it had no program memories. The problem was that programmability was available because it was a cheap and easy addition once you had the chips and logic for polyphony, so it simply wasn't cost effective on a mono-synth at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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