This article was originally two separate posts, “Paint Me Silver Synths” and “Sweep Me Off My Feet Synths”. Here I’ve combined both posts into one article.

Sweep Me Off My Feet

Sweep Me Off My Feet by Australian psychedelic band Pond is a spacey synthpop song from upcoming album This Weather. It features heavily layered synths to underscore frontman Nick Allbrook’s fantastic vocal performance. In this synth tutorial I’ll look at all the individual layers that make up the song!

The song starts with a thick sounding deep synth bass, I tried a couple of synths and the Prophet was the one that got me closest to this bass sound. The Moog was too dirty and the Juno was too clean but any Prophet-type synth will really nail this sound. Set OSC B an octave below OSC A and set the volume so that it’s a little quieter and blends well with OSC A. Raise cutoff and have all the sustain up to max for a big full sound, then turn on legato and set the glide to roughly the right time (below it’s set to 450ms). The Prophet synths have a really distinctive sound when used for bass, I’ve used Arturia Prophet V but for a free alternative check out TAL-Elek7ro, a great free software synth to learn on and great for bass sounds.