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Can ya'll help me out here... I'm looking for a small analog keyboard just for bass lines, I know nothing about keyboards, just I want that muddy analog jazzy bass sound, like was used back in the day, but I don't need a full keyboard just for bass lines. Putting together a folk/rock/alt band with acoustic guitar, cocktail drums and percussion, and keys doing the bass lines. What am I looking for?

You're looking for something like this:


http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=702244

$399 at MF and GC.

Just get a bass player instead

bassjones wrote:Just get a bass player instead

burn.

Something like an old Sequential Circuits SixTrack? I can find one. PM me

After the intro the very first thing the dude plays is what I'm looking for, I'll probably never find this synth but that tone on the first thing he plays is what I'm after. What will do that, and sound that good?

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5gREuxTdvCM[/youtube]

bassjones wrote:Just get a bass player instead

I would but she can't play bass but she can play some keys, so we go that way...We know what we want it to do, just don't know what does it.. May end up with a midi keyboard and soft synth, but I'd rather have old school, ya know....

You could try to find one of these, on EvilBay. But, they cost...

The MicroKorg is a synth that creates digital models of analog synths, the closest you're likely to come unless you want either:

1) to spend a pantload of bucks on a vintage analog synth

2) to own a trashed-out POS vintage analog synth that won't stay in tune.

Trust me: I was in rock bands when synths were mono-only, when Korg was a brand new company, and when the god-forsaken suitcase MiniMoog we used would fade out of tune in the middle of a song if somebody opened a door and let a cold draft in the room.

However, if you really want a vintage analog synth for cheap that won't drive you slowly insane, here's the best one from the early 70's in an eBay auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Korg-Univox-Analog- ... dZViewItem

This mono Korg was a real workhorse (it replaced our drive-ya-mad Moog): stayed in tune, very versatile, and awesome sounding oscillators. We never used it as a bass, but it reproduced MiniMoog sounds perfectly, including the snaky lead synth in the Turtles "You Showed Me" and the overblown portamento lead in "Lucky Man."

If I was you, I would go with the MicroKorg and learn to do some wicked cool things with the arpeggiator and vocoder stuff. But if you gotta have vintage mojo, that Korg/Univox is a good bet.

Thanks Silencio,
I'll be heading out to Sweetwater to check out the MicroKorg this weekend. I'm sure it'll do what we need and a whole lot more, but yeah there is something to be said about that vintage mojo....

employee wrote:... there is something to be said about that vintage mojo....

I agree. You can jump on that Korg/Univox for cheap.

But in your group, I'll bet you'd find an arpeggiator and pitch and mod wheels to be a cool tools.

EDITED TO SAY: 5 days left in that auction and it's already almost $300. For a beat-up mono synth from 1972... and not even the really good Korg version, but the goofy Univox random-blink model.

All for some "groovy" lights. At this rate, it won't be cheap when the auction closes, but it will still be one of the most limited synthesizers ever. Vintage madness is a terrible disease.