Paul Woolford

May 28, 2019, Resident Advisor:

I'd want a stab from an Eric B. & Rakim record or a vocal from the Bomb The Bass album. I'd try and sample breakbeats but there wasn't enough sample time on the SK-5 to get the full loop in. But you quickly realise that if you play a lower note on the keyboard the sample plays lower and slower, and if you hit a higher note it pitches up and speeds up. As a kid I always wanted to speed everything up.

Resident Advisor May 28, 2019:

So the Manley was a total game changer for me as well. Once you've had it a few days you can almost tell who else is using it. Some people's sound comes from this EQ. I won't name names but once I got my own I realised "Ahhhh, it's the Manley that does it." I was using the Sequential Circuits Pro One a lot when I got it. I'd sample a bass note off the Pro One, loop it, run it through the Manley and then sweep all the frequencies around. It sounded mental, I'd not heard sweeping like that before. Then I'd sample those sweeps and play them with the keyboard, so once you've got a riff going, those sweeps are all moving around in strange ways.

May 28, 2019, Paul Woolford bares all for Resident Advisor:

The guy there was so patient with me. I'd go in and say, "Right, what can I get for £120?" Then he'd be like, "You can have this, that or that." One was a Yamaha CS-5, the other a BOSS DR-660 and the third bit would always be something a bit more expensive, which in this case was the Roland R-8. I ended up getting all three of those bits. And even to this day, I love them all. I didn't have the R-8 long, maybe two years, but I made loads of tunes on it. I had the CS-5 for 12 years. I put it in storage but it disappeared with a few other pieces a while back. I was gutted and I still think about that synth now. Need to get another.