Synths and effects that work together

[sam]

I find certain things just work....I always use my A6 running through a Dimention D which gives the synth more of a vintage feel ect....For pads and strings it comes close to the memorymoog.

The MS range and ARPs work well.

Any thoughts..

[Mooger5]

Eminent & Small Stone; Farfisa Professional & Schulte Compact A

Korg EX-800 matches well with the Korg A5´s dirty digital distortion.

Roland S50 and R8 match well with the Korg A1.

Yamaha RY30 & Wavestation AD sound excellent.

[japan]

Crumar Orchestrator/Performer through a Smallstone, and even through a cheaper phaser pedal.

[Mooger5]

Crumar Orchestrator/Performer through a Smallstone, and even through a cheaper phaser pedal.

I´m starting to believe everything sounds good through a Small Stone. The other day I hooked the MC-202 to it and must have played the same sequence for over an hour. Just editing the sounds and speeding up the Rate, roughly in time with the music, it could go from sublime to trippy.

The Boss SE-50 is another. Noisy, but anything sounds good through it, even field recordings.

[Alex E]

Wedge + Ion

MS2000 and JP-8000 (fun combo before the MS2k's right output died. :/)

[guillermotin]

My Lexicon Vortex sounds good on virtually everything I throw at it. But I find the Jx-10 + Vortex combo to be one of my favourites.

[pflosi]

everything sounds good through a space echo…

aside from that, I don't have too much effects, but I enjoy the following combinations a lot:

Juno 60 (without chorus) and EHX memory boy deluxe. the delay time modulation on the ehx is really nice, especially with an expression pedal…

MS with Ibanez BC9 chorus.

808 with Boss RX100.

My acetone organ through all of them

The Boss SE-50 is another. Noisy, but anything sounds good through it, even field recordings.

Really? Have to dig this out of my closet…

[Mooger5]

The Boss SE-50 is another. Noisy, but anything sounds good through it, even field recordings.

Really? Have to dig this out of my closet…

Yes. Not noisy in the sense of the build-up with every delay repeat tipical of the BBDs and tape, it´s just the noisefloor that is rather high. Noticeable after Effect is set to ON. The SX-700 that came after is supposed to be better in every respect with the Roland Sound Space and all, but doesn´t sound as good IMO.

[Z]

everything sounds good through a space echo…

+1

808 with Boss RX100.

I like my 808 dry except a ton 'o 'verb on the clap and a little on the snare, rim shot, cowbell and toms/congas.

[garranimal]

Crumar Orchestrator/Performer through a Smallstone, and even through a cheaper phaser pedal.

Well, loving string synths followed by phasers. I've had a Boss PH-3, and have MXR Phase 100 but I think the award goes to EH Stereo Polyphase. With the Polyphase you can set the top and bottom points of the phase, so as low as you please or higher than the others.

I've often touted my love of the RE-20. It combined w/ a Moog sounded especially sick. Well I messed around w/ a Headrush and didn't think it was anything too special. When I saw Ladytron Mira had her MS-20 going through an Akai Headrush and that sounds pretty cool w/ their music.

I've had some chorus pedals hooked up to the Jupter 6: DC-2, CE-1, CE-3. It just wasn't as fun, or necessary, than the Juno-106 w/ built-in chorus.

Z hooked up a Slicer pedal to the Juno-106 and it was awesome - has a video of that somewhere. Ah yes...
[bbvideo]http://www.youtube.com/zibbybone#p/u/12/BgkZDox3t2A[/bbvideo]
Juno-106 being w/o any arpeggio/sequencer it seems to take it to the next level! And I would have bought a slicer but it appears limited to preset pattern-based groove and not capable of programing your own. Am I wrong about that?

You know, with all these FX everybody is building why don't they make a digital emulation of the triple- and quad- ensemble effects like in the Solina, RS-505, Arp Omni etc? Seems like it would be easy to accomplish, maybe not as good as the old analog effect but still what's to stop them?

[Z]

Also, I like running my ARP SE-IV through a MuRF Moogerfooger. I'm sure any stringer would sound good, too.

I had a lot of fun making that SL-20 video. I'll have to mess with that again sometime. Maybe put some reverb after the Slicer.

[nathanscribe]

I've often touted my love of the RE-20. It combined w/ a Moog sounded especially sick.

Agreed; except I sold my RE-20 lately to grab some cash, and was using the RE-20's wind-up effect too much. My own fault, I know. I have too many delays. But I do want a tape-echo (or simulator) again. Maybe not the RE-20 though as it was starting to feel a bit bland to me after the couple of years I had it.

I get a lot of use out of a pair of Digitech RDS 1900 rack delays, with almost anything going in. They're my favourite rough-sounding ropey old digital effect. Lovely. Good for adding movement to the more static digital synth patches.

[Stab Frenzy]

All my effects sound great on all my synths, but I've found myself using the Timefactor tape echo sim on the MEK to smooth out its harshness and push it back in the mix a little bit, and the MF-104Z on the output of the modular usually, but that's more because it's mono and has CV ins than because of what it sounds like really. The Eclipse sounds great on the modular too, but it sounds great on everything.

[Joey]

everything through my modular

my modular through everything

NI spektral delay

Altiverb

Lexicon PCM

Yamaha SPX50d on everything

my tip top audio Z DSP

samples of me f**k your mother through my friend's space echo

[pflosi]

The Boss SE-50 is another. Noisy, but anything sounds good through it, even field recordings.

Really? Have to dig this out of my closet…

Yes. Not noisy in the sense of the build-up with every delay repeat tipical of the BBDs and tape, it´s just the noisefloor that is rather high. Noticeable after Effect is set to ON. The SX-700 that came after is supposed to be better in every respect with the Roland Sound Space and all, but doesn´t sound as good IMO.

Really have to try it out, I've actually never ever used it…

…I think the award goes to EH Stereo Polyphase. With the Polyphase you can set the top and bottom points of the phase, so as low as you please or higher than the others.

that looks nice. Is it BBD?