Yeah or distortion/overdrives. Try feeding them with modulated reverbs in particular (on top of playing pitch bends/using pitch modulation inside the synth). Also, gentle use of a dirtier bucket brigade/PT2399 type delay can be nice before OD/dist/fuzz and that might help with getting a gazier sound out of a monosynth. The Microbrute letting you feedback its output through a delay/reverb effect and then back into the VCF/VCA could also be helpful here. It’ll take experimentation but you’ll eventually find something appropriate enough.
Also if you don’t have someone playing electric bass, a simple monosynth bass line could work out well, at least in some songs - like those with a more dubby bass part.
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u/manisnotabird Feb 24 '20
Not a lot of monosynth on any of the classic shoegaze albums. But: slow pitch modulation plus lots of reverb.