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Centrist Dad
Nov 13, 2007

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How do I recreate the fuzzy organ sound in Dead Kennedy's Stealing People's Mail?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jHQqcky_Aw

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Centrist Dad
Nov 13, 2007

When I see your posting
College Slice

Misc posted:

My guess would be a Vox Continental with some overdrive/distortion, some ring modulation maybe? Paul Roessler played half the keyboards on Drug Me as well. The sound you want is so distorted I think you could just as easily pull it off with a Rhodes or an overdriven guitar with octave pedal, too.

You can hear more of the band playing with Paul in this live recording at the Mab if you need to "study" it some more—he's almost entirely in the left channel. I wouldn't overthink it, though, I guarantee they didn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB_kQ-r7QJ4&t=1712s

Make sense...I tried just a distorted keyboard but it didn't have that sort of "fat" organ sound. I'll give your suggestion a shot. Thanks!

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