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It looks like Black Cat's tribute to the Maestro may return soon.

Nice!

I like this dude's channel a lot:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2FWdEayDk[/youtube]

That ring mod may not be real enough for lordgalvar, but I still think it sounds pretty good.

Haha, I ain't that much of a purist... That is similar to a lot of them on the market. Sounds nice. I forgot about that dude though!

http://electro-music.com/forum/phpbb-fi ... od_140.pdf article from the 1970s



Sorry about the big picture....but a bode ring mod. And it looks like there was some kind of built in compression/limiting to create balance.

Hard to read schems of the bode ring mod http://www.matrixsynth.com/2014/10/haro ... g.html?m=1

More Harold Bode (just in case):
http://120years.net/the-melochordharald ... rmany1947/

Yeah, Bode is awesome. I still want a frequency shifter.

Skimmed that article, good find.

Heck yea! Didn't know about the symphonies*:

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3YBKQeQztg8[/youtube]

I like ring mod.

* I am from Bakersfield. We don't do "high art" haha.

Sounds like he's using ring mod here, but you can never really be sure w/ Sun Ra:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws7k7lmdM3w[/youtube]

Here too?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HG8HWpQuvs[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URkens-9izw[/youtube]

Maybe?

Yeah, Sun Ra liked a lot of "chime-y" keyboards.

He is listed as playing a Moog synth on that record though.

This one definitely sounds like ring mod (or something) :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGy_PmY6Ny0[/youtube]

1970...minimoog was out in some form. It had an input, but no ring mod (at least I don't think...

So, probably some form of FM using the dedicated percussionist. My first thought was something like a marimba...they probably mic'd it up and ran it through the synth. The second sound sounds like a chimey high octave oscillator, probably also FM'd.

That is what I think in the first track at least.

Second one is a bunch of different stuff. Sounds like every instrument was ran through something on a synth at some point. Studio stuff and layering.

Says on Wikipedia that Bob Moog gave him a proto minimoog...so I am guessing that a model b or c was what was used. C looks identical almost to the D (production). B looks like it might have added controls by the filter controls...but I doubt they are ring mod. The model A (long shot as the one used) looks like it may have a ring mod on the front panel...haven't found good photos yet.

But who knows? Haha

Yeah, I'll stop posting Sun Ra stuff in this thread. Too difficult to tell what he was actually using.

Since I haven't managed to read through the whole thread but I want to follow, I'll just add this.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4puYO087w[/youtube]

Chankgeez wrote:
This one definitely sounds like ring mod (or something) :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGy_PmY6Ny0[/youtube]

Sounds like FM maybe.


Minimoog FM:
[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlJjNTspPVc[/youtube]

Minimoog external input:
[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAhZUJXStn8[/youtube]

Granted, we do know Sun-Ra wasnot using the model D in 1970 and was using one of the prototypes.

More Sun-Ra maybe ring mod posts please! I'm going to get to the bottom of it...haha

I'll post more Sun Ra. You don't have to twist my arm.

I just did a Google search for: Sun Ra Ring Modulator

and this came up as the second result: https://books.google.com/books?id=5xW0K ... or&f=false

this came up as the first because of a comment on the vid:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nAmESsO0k[/youtube]

… and also, in honor of Clara Rockmore's birthday, here's this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTVGxIIRdrM[/youtube]

As an aside, here are a couple of the strange finds that do modulation work in my studio. This A R Vetter stuff was purpose built as an analog tape solution to a paper chart recorder, since recording DC (or AC only over a period long enough to share the attributes of DC) signals is highly problematic on what amounts to audio tape, the incoming signal is modulated into a higher AC frequency that is printed to tape, then on playback it's demodulated and output as original. At least, that's the theory - I haven't fed it anything other than audio signals, which do come back full of carrier bleed. Doubly fun is sticking a normally recorded tape onto it and letting that rip, especially since the tape speed range is so huge.



I couldn't resist buying another of their units, this is like three poorly tuned lofi leaky ring mods running in parallel. It's truly primitive and honestly doesn't hold a candle to a well tuned audio ring mod, but it's not without it's charm, and DC pass through results in some mighty apparent low end smear.