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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: topic idea: what's your axe?
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 12:06:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 12:06:01 1985
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Summary: 

>> I've got an idea for this newsgroup.  Let's all talk about the synthesizers
>> we own, sort of like equipment reviews.

Okay. I suspect that I may wind up looking a bit odd for trying purposely to
use as little as is possible. What I have is what I decided was the all time
cheapest, best bang for the buck (given our finanaces, etc. and the fact that
I was using a Synclavier for most of my last recording):

1 electro-harmonix 16 second delay line. I know that guitarists hate their stuff(though the big muff fuzz box works wonders on a drum machine). This is a
massively useful machine for tape based compositional stuff. WIthin a couple
of simple changes you can record, overlay, loop and freeze nearly anything.
The high end tends to drop off on the long samples, bien sur. BUT, that is a
feature and not a bug. For my money, I tend to use the thing almost exclusively
for messing around with the excessively *clean* sound of most instruments I
process. It was also a spectacular buy-I picked the little sucker up for
about 280 big ones.

1 Casio MT-202. No rhythm box, no little chiclet keys. THis is the first of
the "full sized" instruments. It has about 15 marvelous pluck or bell timbres
on it, and the string and brass sounds lend themselves exceedingly well to
treatment. GIven a rack of equalizers, a good plate, and a decent mixing board,
this machine can sound like something that costs about 9 times as much. What's
more, lotsa people *Hate* them because they don't have the rhythm box, so
they show up on the market. It turns out that I know a fair number of road
people who use them because they're fast, light, and sound good.

1 Korg MS-20.(Now, I had two, but sold one to save for the DX). THe volkswagon
of the old time patheable 2 oscillator systems. A nice, neat little analog machine with a full patch panel in case you decide to use it to defeat the hardwiring and a frequency to voltage convertor for anything you want to use it for.

THese babies are on the used market for sure, you can get them for a song, and
there isn't much they won't do.

G(not low-tech, but appropriate tech)regory Taylor