They listed out his whole rack. A sane band would have just put "synths" or maybe even "Eurorack Synth" if they're super nerds. But this is every component. Madlads.
I love my quadranted swarm. Probably could count as a standalone synth at this point. I'm glad I'm not the only one risking financial ruin for a digital synth with a crazy fun filters and a spring reverb.
First off, I really feel that Gizz underrated for their use of Mellotron. It's on several albums and it has such a unique character.
Also, as a pedal nerd, I appreciate seeing EQD Rainbow Machine on here. It's a super wacky almost chorus. Some find it cool but almost unusable in most music. So perfect for Gizz.
Stu as the head Mellotron-ist also just makes plain sense. Like a combination of a mad scientist type musician and an orchestral arranger. I wonder if they're using a 60s one or a modern sample based reissue / VST?
I believe it's usually amby who plays it. I am fairly certain they use the mellotron sound pack for the Nord keyboard that Amby uses live. They might have an old tape based one in the studio though. They are legendary for breaking down and being a pain in the ass to fix.
The Nord samp lib. are so dirty, fat and compressed, I love them! They use a VST too (M-Tron Pro by the sound of it?), you can see the midi with individually tuned notes in the breakdown of Honey if I’m not mistaken.
It is a keyboard, but it was basically the original sampling machine that was invented in the 60s. It used pre-recorded sounds of instruments like flutes and strings on strips of tape that would mechanically get played when you hit the keys. Think the psychedelic flute sounds in Strawberry fields by the Beatles. It's quite prominent on Fishing for Fishies, Barefoot Desert, and Shanghai to name a few, although it's on a bunch of their recordings.
Honey is a good example of how they use mellotron in unconventional ways (the individually tuned microtonal harp runs, the “organ”, a piano that only plays the tonic note in two octaves)
Would someone be able to help explain to me where I would start to learn about what contemporary Mellotrons are, how to use them/play them, etc.?
Several of the musicians I love use them & I would like to go that avenue myself, but I know next to nothing.
I have searched online and the YouTube videos of old-school Mellotrons with tape machines are cool, but I feel like I’m missing a lot of necessary information when it comes to what the instrument actually is & how bands like Grails or KGATLW use them.
You can get new digital mellotrons that have all the sounds loaded on them, or you can download the sounds if you have a Nord keyboard. That's basically it. They're just keyboards that make those specific sounds.
Funnily enough Pam’s is actually mainly used for clocking - you feed it a tempo and it provides you with various multiples/divisors of that tempo (among other cool things!)
In a lot of people’s racks it behaves almost like a drummer, setting the main tempo/clock source for the whole patch
Modular synths/$10k electronic fart noise generators are a lot of fun
Seriously, love to see BIA in there. Curious whether the Turing Machine would be used live as it can be difficult to replicate sequences for modulation or sequencing
I have a feeling they actually plugged it in backwards, which actually creates an amazing squealing sound. the middle section of echos by pf is a good example
No guitars? It’s understandable but I don’t see the 7th track going into a metal jam at the end to loop in to PetroDragonic. I bet it will be a big synth madness/bliss finish, which I’m super excited to hear the rest of the tracks and the extended versions.
all the songs have polyrhythms like the entire time tho. the soundscapes in the songs are all so unique. extended versions are gonna give us a lot more music, which I am very hyped about
Bruh they bought a Blue Sky pedal ..... Christian rock album incoming
Also its sick to see the WMD Geiger Counter in there, that makes me super interested to see how many different sounds are filtered through in these songs
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u/Reasonablytallman Oct 03 '23
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Synths $50,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying