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Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
#840237 - 15/06/10 07:35 PM
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Always wanted to know this, but does anyone know what the huge wash pad is from on Deep
Blue Day?
Very Ambient washes underneath the main guitar - Think the album is
early 80's? so I would think something analog (and not his favoured DX7?)
On
the same album, I always wanted to know the pad/synths used in "Ascent (an ending)?
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840287 - 16/06/10 07:47 AM
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The apollo album was '83, so just into the DX7 era. I'm not sure about the 'Blue Day'
sound but I think Eno said that 'An Ending' was multi-tracked Prophet Pro One monosynth
(with masses of processing).
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840288 - 16/06/10 08:04 AM
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I don't know the album, but bear in mind that some of Eno's work is created using tape
loops or Frippertronic techniques which can create dense pad like sounds.
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840304 - 16/06/10 08:53 AM
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Its "Apollo - Atmospheres & Soundtracks" album... A Great listen.... 
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840316 - 16/06/10 09:49 AM
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Yeah e did love his DX-7 eh? I really want to start getting into it more or the
FM8....
Anyway
I used my virus c to get the strings fairly
similar in my remix* that was released on Armada a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbWSLQkvIhI&feature=related
*awaits barrage of "sacrilidge" comments! :P But dont worry, he gets all the
publishing money from it!
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Edited by Michael Dow (16/06/10 09:52 AM)
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840327 - 16/06/10 10:24 AM
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Quote Michael Dow:
*awaits
barrage of "sacrilidge" comments!
Oh dear...dear....
Never touch a classic son... 
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840331 - 16/06/10 10:29 AM
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Quote Pitchfork:
Its "Apollo -
Atmospheres & Soundtracks" album...
A Great listen....
 Silly
me, I own that album! I have obviously never looked at the track listing. It is a
wonderful album.
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840334 - 16/06/10 10:34 AM
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840340 - 16/06/10 10:42 AM
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Thanks Richie, thought i'd looked there, but must have missed it.. So the DX7
was out and used, but I bet as a cold FM synth it didnt do those lovely warm pads??
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840347 - 16/06/10 10:55 AM
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There are ways to warm up the coldest of synths  I have a particular delay plugin I use that I mostly only use for one preset, which
instantly turns any cold, sterile, flat and lifeless synth sound into a gorgeous warm pad
with thickness, movement and life. So even a DX7, programmed, played, arranged
and recorded appropriately, using nice choice analog hardware, tape, tape delays, EQ can
be turned into thick warm lush soundscapes...
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840353 - 16/06/10 11:06 AM
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840355 - 16/06/10 11:06 AM
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Quote Pitchfork:
Quote Michael Dow:
*awaits
barrage of "sacrilidge" comments!
Oh dear...dear....
Never touch a classic son...
Indeed, that would normally be
my feelings too. But that track is my Dads all time great tune. He's a huge huge huge
Brian Eno fan, and he also likes trance and likes the stuff i do in that genre. So i
decided i'd make him a remix. When i finished it i sent it out to get some comments and
Armin Van Buuren just signed it straight away. So i was hardly gonna say no!
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840356 - 16/06/10 11:07 AM
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Haven't heard it, but could it be a CS80? Quote:
Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno: Apollo
- Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Notes: In 2008 Daniel Lanois told Gearslutz:
"The main synth was a Yamaha CS-80. This is a polyphonic synth, one of Yamaha's first. On
Deep Blue Day there are two guitars, a strumming Strat plays the rhythm and the steel
guitar is my Sho-Bud single neck Professional. They were both recorded DI. Eno put a
massive treatment on everything. The complexities of the chain are unspeakable! But those
treatments were worked on for weeks on end."
http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/discog.html
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Re: Synths used on Eno's Deep Blue Day?
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#840366 - 16/06/10 11:50 AM
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Can't get more polar opposite than a DX7 vs a CS80..! 
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