![]() ![]() NS: “We ordered a few of those and started sending things through the radio and recording this old boombox Amelia found.” NS: “For our song “Free” I picked an ⅛ inch radio transmitter - do you remember, before you could plug your phone into the car, before Bluetooth, those little things you plug into your Discman? Then you would tune your radio station in the car to that frequency.”ĪM: “This piece of gear didn’t work very good - which was why we loved it.” It was one of those things where it’s like, it’s a triangle wave, how can it be that different? It was so frustrating - we finally had to borrow someone’s Voyager and redo it.” 3. But we couldn’t beat the sound of it with anything else. I thought, I’ll just remake this on something else, make it tight and play it better and all that stuff. Because the waveforms I was using were so simple, it’s literally a triangle wave and a sawtooth. “It’s actually funny, too, because we were recording it, assuming we were just recording the demo. There’s no way that song would have happened that way, had that thing not been sitting there. Because we were sitting with that, that part became that classic, Moog-y, almost Hornsby sound, with one oscillator tuned to the root and one tuned to the fifth above. “Right away she came in and I wrote that bassline, the main riff of the song, using that. But we couldn’t beat the sound of it with anything else ![]() Which was the kind of thing that - especially back then - we would never have access to this giant, beautiful instrument. ![]() At this place, they had this absolutely insane Moog Voyager XL. NS: “Amelia wrote this at our friend’s studio, and we were trying to sketch it out. ![]()
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