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Moog Minimoog, bass

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Contest: Moog Minimoog played bass on Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) by ABBA (1979)

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Settings

osc
1 saw + 1 square, unison 1, detune 8 cents, sub sine -1
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
900 Hz
resonance
0.2, drive 0.2
envelope
A 2 ms D 80 ms S 0 R 40 ms; short punchy pluck on each 16th note, kept tight and round rather than resonant; filter env amount 0.45
modulation
mono
effects
none, kept dry and tight for the club low end, drive
notes
A single-oscillator monosynth bass shadows the arp riff an octave down with a fast, closed filter so it stays a rhythmic pulse rather than a sustained note, exactly what a four-on-the-floor 1979 disco floor needed. Left dry with no reverb to keep the low end mono and punchy against the kick.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem