Most of our music starts when we jam, me playing the Hammond and Peter the Les Paul or White Falcon. Once the instruments make you feel good, the music starts to flow.
My Fender Rhodes is a 73 MK1. I
had a MK2 before, but it did´nt sound half as good.
This one is fine except for two notes
that we don´t get to sound right. They are too brittle. Adjusting
the P.U. or the chime won´t help. ( If you are an expert, please
mail me!)
I run the rhodes thru a H.K. Tubeman as
preamp, then in a Boss Tremolo/Pan pedal. Amplifier is a Roland Jazzchorus
for the stage. In the Studio I often use a class A custom tubeamp at low
volume and the Tremolo in the consoles insert for stereo panning.
My Wurlitzer. This nice piece of
60ties plastic and chrome really has a sound of it´s own. If you
listen to the track The
Task , you can hear it doing the wah---wah part in the intro.
The Wurlitzers noise level is pretty high.
You can use a gate when recording, but that is not always satisfying.
Are there any improvements, that can be
made to the wurly´s circuitry to improve the s/n ratio? (Experts...?)
The "Pink Piano" is a Yamaha piano. It was made with this pink colour, but everybody keeps asking me, if I painted it that way. It is not a grand piano, but if I mike it with a set of vintage tube micros, I usually get the sound I´m looking for.
In my Studio I also work with the Notator Midi sequencer, still running on an old Atari Computer, that is doing a great job since 1987.
The Oberheim Matrix 6 Rack was bought the same year and since then has become a part of my sound on cd.
The Akai 2800 Sampler is used for all the percussion samples and loops. Most of the percussion sounds of our albums
Recently I bought the Roland sc 880. It does a great job and is a handy tool for arranging.
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