Recreates The Rowdy Bass Patch & Chord Stabs From Caribou’s Honey On UDO Super 8
Musician and songwriter shows you how to cook up two of Honey’s primary sounds using one of this year’s hottest synths
Released back in May, UDO Super 8 remains one of 2024’s most impressive synth.
Described by UDO as a “hybrid-analogue” synth, Super 8’s architecture is based on high-resolution, FPGA-based digital oscillators and two analogue filters.
Taken from the album of the same name, Caribou’s Honey is a high-voltage slice of bassline house that’s been near-inescapable on the DJ circuit this summer, its wub-wub bassline and AI-warped vocals popping up in sets from Four Tet, Fred Again, Ben UFO et al.
In a video demo uploaded to UDO’s YouTube channel this week, musician and songwriter Hazel Mills walks us through how to recreate two sounds from Honey, one of 2024’s biggest tracks, using one of 2024’s biggest synths: the Super 8.
In the video, embedded above, Hazel Mills takes on both Honey’s rowdy bass patch and the chord stabs that appear in the build-up to its face-melting drop, cooking up imitations that sound impressively similar to the original sounds on her UDO Super 8. Even if you don’t have the UDO Super 8 at home, you should be able to follow along with most software synthesizers.
Pairing up the synth’s two oscillators with dual sawtooth waveforms, Mills captures the staccato articulation of Caribou’s chord stabs with careful application of the filter envelope, before dialling in pitch modulation and detuning and recreating the glitchy, ratchet-esque ornamentation using Super 8’s onboard delay. The bass patch is a slightly simpler affair, shaping a bolshy square wave with the synth’s envelopes and polishing it with a touch of filter resonance.
Topics covered:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Chord stabs
02:13 Sequence + variations
03:12 Bass
04:47 Combo
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