What is the sound at the beginning of the Police's Synchronicity II and Bauhaus's Mask?
Is that from a bass?
What am I hearing? (a UK 80's thing)
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Sounds to me like guitar(s), synth(s), or bass(es) recorded with the tape machine at a different speed, and in the middle of playing a note when record was pressed.
Might be generated by a synth alone, or with the help of a pitch shifting pedal or modulated delay of some kind. Andy Summers is famous for his use of the Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress flanger. That's one piece of gear I know they used for sure that has some kind of time component to it.
Ring modulator with a variable modulator frequency?
Might be generated by a synth alone, or with the help of a pitch shifting pedal or modulated delay of some kind. Andy Summers is famous for his use of the Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress flanger. That's one piece of gear I know they used for sure that has some kind of time component to it.
Ring modulator with a variable modulator frequency?
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the only thing i'm semi-confident of is that it's the same sound.
there's obviously some kind of filter sweep.
i figured sting is a bassist, and bauhaus were minimalists (though they did have other sounds than guitar,bass,drums), so it's probably a bass?
if it were a guitar, we'd hear it more often. amazing sound. i've never heard anything like it live that i can remember, though i have seen bauhaus a few times. then again, maybe my ears were blinking.
there's obviously some kind of filter sweep.
i figured sting is a bassist, and bauhaus were minimalists (though they did have other sounds than guitar,bass,drums), so it's probably a bass?
if it were a guitar, we'd hear it more often. amazing sound. i've never heard anything like it live that i can remember, though i have seen bauhaus a few times. then again, maybe my ears were blinking.
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