Finally, a good Rhodes sound

[Arpangel]

Well, this’ll do until I give in and get a real Rhodes, and that’s saying something.
An unlikely journey, it’s the "Classic Rhodes" in Garage Band, I’ve got it running on my laptop, no effects, dry.
I’m running the laptop through my mixer, with a TLA valve compressor on the the inserts, and a little bit of 224 reverb from the UA Golden, sounds great, exactly how I like it, it’s taken me ages to get this far, but I didn’t have a recent copy of Garage Band, it’s very underrated.

[amanise]

I can also vouch for 4Front Rhode x64 if you can still get that. Very simple. Rhodes emulators can get very complicated with all that Tine adjustment stuff some of them come with.

A real one would be the best thing ever, I agree, but have you seen the price of them now?

[resistorman]

Well, this’ll do until I give in and get a real Rhodes, and that’s saying something.
An unlikely journey, it’s the "Classic Rhodes" in Garage Band, I’ve got it running on my laptop, no effects, dry.
I’m running the laptop through my mixer, with a TLA valve compressor on the the inserts, and a little bit of 224 reverb from the UA Golden, sounds great, exactly how I like it, it’s taken me ages to get this far, but I didn’t have a recent copy of Garage Band, it’s very underrated.

Coincidentally, I just wrote my first song in Garage Band, and I used the Rhodes. Turned out great!

[Arpangel]

Well, this’ll do until I give in and get a real Rhodes, and that’s saying something.
An unlikely journey, it’s the "Classic Rhodes" in Garage Band, I’ve got it running on my laptop, no effects, dry.
I’m running the laptop through my mixer, with a TLA valve compressor on the the inserts, and a little bit of 224 reverb from the UA Golden, sounds great, exactly how I like it, it’s taken me ages to get this far, but I didn’t have a recent copy of Garage Band, it’s very underrated.

Coincidentally, I just wrote my first song in Garage Band, and I used the Rhodes. Turned out great!

Good isn’t it, but you have to fiddle with the velocity on the instrument to get it just right,

[N i g e l]

.A real one .... but have you seen the price of them now?

£8k-ish straight from the factory ?

[Eddy Deegan]

Funny you should mention a Rhodes. I was experimenting with that sort of sound recently.

I'd be interested to hear the sound you discovered and liked Tony

[amanise]

.A real one .... but have you seen the price of them now?

£8k-ish straight from the factory ?

Easily, should think. I love 'em. Use them on everything as a skeleton for everything else to hang on. Two impossible wishes for me would be 1) A real Fender Rhodes, 2) The ability to play it, rather than use Midi all the time.

1) is out of the question now I think - and 2? My hands are very guitar shaped now - but I keep trying.

[Arpangel]

Funny you should mention a Rhodes. I was experimenting with that sort of sound recently.

I'd be interested to hear the sound you discovered and liked Tony

That’s good Eddy, but it’s got more tine and it’s a bit more "DX'y" than mine,
mine is basically the Garage Band "Classic Rhodes" with a few tweaks, don’t worry, it’ll be appearing on our stuff soon, or you can hear it next time you pop over!



I’m running into trouble, the output of my Behringer 202HD is very low, the output gain has to on maximum to get a healthy level into my little Mackie, this has always been an issue, I may have to get another interface.
The comp running Garage Band is using it.

[resistorman]

I have found the Focusrite Scarlett to be an excellent sounding M1 Air interface with lots of output. Use it our live synth jams.

[Folderol]

What exactly is a good Rhodes sound?
I've heard lots of therm - all significantly different. I don't think I've heard the real thing, although I might have unknowingly.

[Hugh Robjohns]

What exactly is a good Rhodes sound?
I've heard lots of therm - all significantly different.

Exactly. There is no absolute "good Rhodes sound". A Rhodes can be tuned and setup for a very wide range of sound characters. What Tony thinks is a 'good Rhodes' will be a sound that some other player hates... And different Rhodes characters suit different styles of music, too.

[amanise]

I bet.... a real Fender Rhodes would make a great prize in a Sound On Sound competition....

[tea for two]

Aaaah yes. What is a good rhodesering

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I just EQ the bundled Rhodes in Logic to my taste to suit a museek piece, mess abooot with the reverb a little : jobbe done for me.

[Aled Hughes]

What exactly is a good Rhodes sound?
I've heard lots of therm - all significantly different.

Exactly. There is no absolute "good Rhodes sound". A Rhodes can be tuned and setup for a very wide range of sound characters. What Tony thinks is a 'good Rhodes' will be a sound that some other player hates... And different Rhodes characters suit different styles of music, too.

...and didn't Tony come to the conclusion a few months ago that the "Rhodes sound" he was endlessly searching for was a Pianet all along?!

[Drew Stephenson]

Yeah, but that was over a week ago so...

[Hugh Robjohns]

... and the Lexicon FX pedal that was completely rubbish last week and nothing like the real thing is now perfect with the GB Rhodes.

[Folderol]

WARNING promo alert

Yoshimi has quite a nice selection of Rhodes-ish sounds.
(I particularly like Synth Rhodes2)

[N i g e l]

What exactly is a good Rhodes sound?
I've heard lots of therm - all significantly different.

Exactly. There is no absolute "good Rhodes sound". A Rhodes can be tuned and setup for a very wide range of sound characters. What Tony thinks is a 'good Rhodes' will be a sound that some other player hates... And different Rhodes characters suit different styles of music, too.

yeah, YAMAHA did a "Chick Corea mark V Rhodes" sample based sound pack for the Montage/MODX/MOTIF/etc. I think its a free download.
Any way, that aged Rhodes had been well maintained, tweaked & modified to CC's preference. Other Rhodes are available, as they say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yLuOq1jjSE

the making of ... [with CC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUI79B7GEuM

[Arpangel]

... and the Lexicon FX pedal that was completely rubbish last week and nothing like the real thing is now perfect with the GB Rhodes.

That’s because no one wanted to buy that pedal, after repeatedly advertising it at a silly low price.
So now I know it’s worthless, it makes it sound a hell of a lot better.



Yes, I’m talking about "my" Rhodes, not anyone else’s.
Tea For Two, I’m guessing your Logic Rhodes is probably near to the standard Garage Band one I’m using.

[Ben Asaro]

Funny you should mention a Rhodes. I was experimenting with that sort of sound recently.

I'd be interested to hear the sound you discovered and liked Tony

That sounds fab! I was waiting for the rest of Zeppelin to come in!

[Arpangel]

Funny you should mention a Rhodes. I was experimenting with that sort of sound recently.

I'd be interested to hear the sound you discovered and liked Tony

That sounds fab! I was waiting for the rest of Zeppelin to come in!

When you hear mine you’d better be wearing blue shades.

[MortSahlFan]

yeah, a REAL Fender Rhodes sounds great.
When it overlaps in the very beginning, it's beautiful.

https://youtu.be/KSANJ-XiXuU