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Jongleur · Post by **Jongleur** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:26 pm

I'd like to start a thread where you name a famous recording and tell what synth was used. For example, did Edgar Winter play an Arp2600 in Frankenstein? what did Genesis use to record Abacab?
What did Vangelis use on Albedo 0.39? With all the retro soft synths coming out, this knowledge would be useful.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:50 pm

mchlwlsn wrote:I'd like to start a thread where you name a famous recording and tell what synth was used. For example, did Edgar Winter play an Arp2600 in Frankenstein? what did Genesis use to record Abacab?
What did Vangelis use on Albedo 0.39? With all the retro soft synths coming out, this knowledge would be useful.

an average of 10 synths per album would be my guess for any album

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:15 pm

It was fashionable in the seventies to list all the gear they used on the album cover. Re-releases on CD often don't have that info anymore.

For stuff of the eighties just look at the year (and month if possible) it was produced. Any synth released in the 6 months prior to that would be used, since the studio owner wanted his huge investment to be used.

In 9 out of 10 cases you can get very simular sounds with ANY analog-ish VSTi plus some vanilla effects. If they really made an effort (the other 1 out of 10 cases) then knowing what gear it was will not make it any easier to attempt to recreate the sound.

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:19 pm

or you could just go to vintagesynth.com, look up a synth and see who played it...

Jongleur · Post by **Jongleur** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:52 pm

Your collective wisdom is humbling.

Now that I see it in the light of day, this was a stupid idea for a thread

LBN · Post by **LBN** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:25 pm

mchlwlsn wrote:Your collective wisdom is humbling.

Now that I see it in the light of day, this was a stupid idea for a thread

Not really but just a giant topic to cover. Especially when you're talking about some songs from artists like Vangelis or Jean-Michel Jarre who used multiple synths. It would probably be easier to ask about specific songs and possibly even specific sounds on specific songs.

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:28 pm

Also see this thread, which is quite simular (and futile, much like my resistance)

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=67972

Branst · Post by **Branst** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:18 pm

I'd really like to know what synths are used on the Beach Boys Love You album but I doubt many people here own that.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:54 pm

Dunno what synth, but several sources have said it was "layered with piano and organ."

How's about "Good Vibrations?" Think it's a Theremin doing the vibrating? Nope! It's Paul Tanner's...

Electro-Theremin!

Has a mechanical pitch control that the player slides about, connected by dial cord to a tuning capacitor. It also makes a pure single tone rather than the the nasal, violin-like sawtooth of a real (traditional) Theremin.

=^_^=

Here's a comparison of the two, with photos. You can buy one if you're patient.

Meffy

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:56 pm

What synth was used for the lead at the end of Gary Numan's Cars?

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:19 pm

Sicklecell666 wrote:What synth was used for the lead at the end of Gary Numan's Cars?

A Polymoog I believe.

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:31 pm

dystonia_ek wrote:
Sicklecell666 wrote:What synth was used for the lead at the end of Gary Numan's Cars?
A Polymoog I believe.

Whatever it was, it kicked ass..I love the last half of that song..

ianweb123 · Post by **ianweb123** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:36 pm

Sicklecell666 wrote:
dystonia_ek wrote:
Sicklecell666 wrote:What synth was used for the lead at the end of Gary Numan's Cars?
A Polymoog I believe.
Whatever it was, it kicked ass..I love the last half of that song..

Sometimes hard to be precise , I can remember GN or his band members using polymoogs on Top of the Pops but that wasn't neccecarily any guarentee that that was used for the actual recording..

Voidoid Surrealist · Post by **Voidoid Surrealist** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:31 am

Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - Journey (1973):
EMS VCS3, ARP2600, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Mellotron 400. Cool and innovative album, everyone sould hear it at least once.

I'd LOVE to know just what sort of cheap-arsed thing was used by Suicide...whatever it was, it rocked.

Jongleur · Post by **Jongleur** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:12 pm

How about Led Zeppelin's All My Love? Anyone know what keyboards were used? There are 2, the strings and the solo.
I know, I know, it can easily be emulated by almost any other keyboard, I'm just curious what they used back then.

What synth was used...?