Looking to buy a synth

Hello,

I am looking into buying a synth but don't know much about them yet. Does anyone know what a good synth would be that would be able to get sounds from songs such as, "This Is Such A Pitty" and "Tired of Sex", as well "Friends of P" by The Rentals.

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Permalink Reply by Farkas on April 4, 2011 at 5:28pm

During Pinkerton, weezer used an electrocomp 101 monophonic synthesizer that rivers bought at either a pawn shop of music shop in CT and I'm pretty sure the rentals used some kind of moog synth. I don't know what was used for this is such a pity. I don't know much about synths either; I just know the kinds they used.

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Permalink Reply by SS2K PUNK on April 8, 2011 at 7:02pm

moog is def the way to go for that retro sound. in general though, you can kind of get whatever sound you want out of a synth (that's the point right!). you can buy a synth keyboard, synth guitar, or just download a synth software and synth pads for your computer, whatever you are most comfortable with. My suggestion would be look up the top ten list for synthesizers from a year ago or so. You can find those synths on the cheap, and they are all of amazing quality. For a custom sound, i recomend getting one on your computer, or at least getting a midi hookup and software to manipulate any physcial synth you get, cause then you can modify the sound coming out to get exactly what you want.

GOOD LUCK!

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Permalink Reply by Jamekae on April 12, 2011 at 3:32am

They used a cheap Casio on This Is Such a Pity as they felt it fit the song better than a Moog and other expensive gear, so note that price doesn't necessarily equal quality, as with any instrument purchase, suss out the gear in the context of what you're going to be playing.