sound

[hdog]

does anybody know what the sound is at 58 seconds in this song

[desmond]

It's a synth sound or sample more likely.

Why?

[hdog]

trying to figure out if its a guitar sound or a electric piano synth sound or a keytar

[desmond]

trying to figure out if its a guitar sound or a electric piano synth sound or a keytar

It's a synth sound or sample, but it has some characteristics of a distorted guitar timbre (slightly distorted, lots of harmonics).

Nothing to do with a piano, or with any particular type of controlling keyboard.

[hdog]

trying to figure out if this a sound that a roland d 50 could produce

[desmond]

Not really, it doesn't have any samples that are in the ballpark, and doesn't have distortion effects.

[madtheory]

Ya definitely not a D50. It's from a sampler, that's for sure. Same sound for the main riff here:


And I remember hearing it on some other house records at the time.

[sandwich]

It reminds me a bit of those distorted guitar samples in the Emu library

[Hyde]

Chopped up looped sample & Pitch Wheel?

[Z]

Sounds like a sample of a distorted guitar power chord.

Like what Ozric uses in this track