question about dr. dre - bang bang

[omglol]

yo first of all i'd like to say that i'm a new member and this is my first post here looks like a great forum =)

now to my question, i guess that most of you know the song "bang bang" by dr. dre off his 2001 album if not, there are several versions (also an instrumental version) of the song on youtube.

i wondered what kinda synth / instrument dre used for the main melody of the song?
i own a pretty modern and good synthesizer (roland fantom x) but couldnt find anything sounding like this.
does anyone know or can assume what kinda thing dre (and mel-man ofcourse ) used to get that sound? it just sounds so dope!!!

thx in advance!

 

[Danon BREZ]

The instrument you are talking about is a guitar. The way that it is played suggests that it may be a sample from Mike Elizondo and made into a synth patch. It is definately a real guitar sound though. The only reason it sounds like a synth keyboard patch is because the notes are so perfectly placed with no extra noise and I am a guitar player so I can tell you how difficult that would be to play in real time but still possible. If you are looking for that kind of sound on your fantom you are going to have to get a good sample of a guitar and tweak it or get someone with a guitar to try and recreate something similar on their amp setup and sample that.

 

[Obitheincredible]

The instrument you are talking about is a guitar. The way that it is played suggests that it may be a sample from Mike Elizondo and made into a synth patch. It is definately a real guitar sound though. The only reason it sounds like a synth keyboard patch is because the notes are so perfectly placed with no extra noise and I am a guitar player so I can tell you how difficult that would be to play in real time but still possible. If you are looking for that kind of sound on your fantom you are going to have to get a good sample of a guitar and tweak it or get someone with a guitar to try and recreate something similar on their amp setup and sample that.

Or they could be using a variax and some line 6 plugins. After all Mike is sponsored by line 6 and has been using they're stuff for years. All digital...No noise. But seriously, no offense, just because you can't get a clean sound without noise doesn't mean everybody cant...

 

[omglol]

some dude on the inet told me it cud be a hammond organ, might that be the case?

and cud someone tell the chords for that melody mayb?
did they play multiple keys at the same time for that melody, or only one key at a time?

 

[Obitheincredible]

Why? Just cause of the trem? Leslie like effect?

 

[Danon BREZ]

Or they could be using a variax and some line 6 plugins. After all Mike is sponsored by line 6 and has been using they're stuff for years. All digital...No noise. But seriously, no offense, just because you can't get a clean sound without noise doesn't mean everybody cant...

I never said that I couldn't get a clean sound from a guitar. I am a very good player and I don't of any other guitar players who aren't famous who can play an arpeggiated chord with such a short release without vibrating the wood in the guitar and getting any finger noise or anthing. I can do it with focus but this style is much easier to do with a sampling synth.

some dude on the inet told me it cud be a hammond organ, might that be the case?

and cud someone tell the chords for that melody mayb?
did they play multiple keys at the same time for that melody, or only one key at a time?

It is a guitar for sure. The notes are chords but no notes are played at the same time.

 

[Obitheincredible]

You don't have to be famous to do that....

 

[skillz]

The instrument you are talking about is a guitar. The way that it is played suggests that it may be a sample from Mike Elizondo and made into a synth patch. It is definately a real guitar sound though. The only reason it sounds like a synth keyboard patch is because the notes are so perfectly placed with no extra noise and I am a guitar player so I can tell you how difficult that would be to play in real time but still possible. If you are looking for that kind of sound on your fantom you are going to have to get a good sample of a guitar and tweak it or get someone with a guitar to try and recreate something similar on their amp setup and sample that.

Yo Brez? Aren't you the same danon brez that was going to meet up with Aftermath a little while ago?

I think i still have some of your old beats, from long ago. How'd the whole Aftermath/ghost producing go?

Also that sound is boiund to be a guitar, they used it on next episode and all over the album. Got to be sampled and re played on the triton. Triton keys are perfect.

 

[Straight]

I'm not sure which sound we're talking about. The melody is definetely a guitar, Hammond sounds nothing like it.

but there IS a hammond-like sound in this song, it starts at 0:20. It has a deep tremolo effect or something on it.

 

[Danon BREZ]

Yo Brez? Aren't you the same danon brez that was going to meet up with Aftermath a little while ago?

I think i still have some of your old beats, from long ago. How'd the whole Aftermath/ghost producing go?

Also that sound is boiund to be a guitar, they used it on next episode and all over the album. Got to be sampled and re played on the triton. Triton keys are perfect.

Yeah, that is me. That situation never worked out because I was told to become a mixtape dj and make myself a big name before I could get the meeting with dre that I was told I already had set. Then my computer crashed and I lost all of my beats. I was so frustrated that I quit makin beats and sold all my equipment because I had writer's block. This was like 2 years ago and I have only been back making beats for a year now. I only hope that I am good enough now to get back into ghost production. I already have that one song with eve, nate, and snoop that I did and I did a demo for Megan Rochell.

 

[omglol]

well whats that effect you guys talkin about? something ryan leslie uses?