What synth does Chromeo use?
P-Thugg of Chromeo revealed a few incites in this interview with Guitar Center:
P-Thugg: The drums are all either vintage drum machines, or an
Akai MPC1000, which is one of the two smallest ones. It might surprise you, but I actually don’t have a Roland TR-808, though I do have samples of it loaded into the Akai MPC. I also use an old Sequential Circuits DrumTraks.
What about that funky talkbox?
P-Thugg: Onstage, my Rocktron Banshee talkbox is probably my most important piece of gear.
Q: With the talkbox, what do you use for the sound source?
P-Thugg: An old Yamaha DX100, which is what Roger from Zapp used. I became friends with one of the guys from his band, and he sent me the patches by email as MIDI Sys Ex files.
GuitarCenter was on a roll, and decided to dig deeper into the low frequencies.
Q: All the Chromeo bass lines are killer, as well. What do you use for those?
P-Thugg: On Fancy Footwork, I split bass duties between a vintage Moog Prodigy and a Nord Modular.
Seems like P-Thugg has a real obsession with the old-school machines.
Q: In the studio, you used a lot of vintage analog synths. Do you take those out live?
P-Thugg: Yeah, in the studio we had a Roland SH-101 and a Juno-106, as well as one of my favorite synths from the ’80s, the Korg Mono/Poly – I’ll put it up against a Minimoog any day.
Chromeo Gear
Akai MPC1000
