What effects or other sound design tips might help me make pads like the one in the first half of the attached sample? (from: DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World)
I don’t even really know what adjectives to use to describe it; hollow? round? full? smooth?
It sounds like there might be a couple of things stacked, like maybe a rhodes and some other more sustain-y thing.
I’d love to create layers like this from scratch, so any hints appreciated.
According to the sleeve notes on my vinyl copy the songs has Rhodes and bass played by Pohjola (and a guitar too, obviously). I don’t think there’s a bass on top of the Rhodes in the beginning half though, but that it rather refers to the solo at the end (at least I think that’s bass…). The rhodes is obviously put through some heave phaser or wah effect, possibly even both.
To my ears it sounds very much like a univibe or rotovibe but given the period when the original track was recorded I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an actual leslie rotary speaker: