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<<> The drum solo on Groon, from King Crimson's EARTHBOUND, is processed > through an EMS Synthi100. i'm afraid not. it was processed through a VCS3 operated by Pete Sinfield. a Synthi 100 would not have fit in Crimson's tour van.>> Actually, it's not Sinfield. By the time of the US tour that Earthbound from which Earthbound was recorded, Sinfield had left the band. I believe on that tour, it's actually Hunter McDonald operating the VCS3. This is also how they got the distortion on Boz's voice on 21st Century Schizoid Man (and presumably, also on Greg Lake's voice on the studio version). That was one of the cooler things about old analog synths from that era, that they could be used as effects devices for processing other audio signals. From what I understand, this is also how Pete Townshend got the keyboard sound on Won't Get Fooled Again...it's actually an organ processed through the VCS3, and Brian Eno used to appear on a lot of records basically just processing the other instruments through his VCS3. I know the Mini-Moog also allowed you to do this (though you only had the one low pass filter to work with there), and I remember someone telling that all the old modular synths permitted this as well. It's nice to see that a lot of the current wave of virtual analog synths are offering this option again. Up until a few years ago, Doug Walker of the NYC based band Alien Planetscapes still used his VCS3 in live performance (I guess he started having technical problems with it, and has since replaced it with virtual analog equipment). ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute