Re: Space Station, 2290 comments

[dan sumner <permadan@yahoo.com>]

can you tell me who makes the space station?
Dan
--- Todd Madson <crash@waste.org> wrote:
> I think the reason the 2290 has so many things
> discontinued on it is
> that the box effectively uses memory chips that are
> no longer being
> manufactured.  It appears TC has moved on to
> smaller, more powerful
> boxes (Finalizer, G-Force, etc.) but at the same
> time, we know that
> Fripp has several 2290s maxed out - perhaps a TC
> dealer has one of
> the upgrades in stock but perhaps forgotten
> somewhere.
> 
> The Space Station is a very cool effect and I want
> one (my wife keeps
> going: "Space Station?  They cost hundreds of
> millions of dollars just
> to keep in orbit, we can't afford that!" [ha, ha]).
> 
> Yes, it does have ring modulation and backwards
> guitar fx, but it 
> also has the waycool string pad swell, the weird
> pixelization effect,
> and the sample and hold guitar effect, a built in
> tuner and I think it
> would work greatly with the Lexicon Vortex effect
> (another misunderstood
> effect).
> 
> When I was using it at the local music store, I was
> playing weird 
> chords with the string pad effect and it sounded
> just like Allan
> Holdsworth's string pad work on "The Un Merry Go
> Round."  I'd 
> gathered a small crowd just playing with the thing. 
> Then I played
> some single note stuff thru the pixelization patch
> and it sounded 
> like some techno rhythm guitar part, but live.  I
> finished with 
> the sample and hold part, playing robotic eighth
> notes and sounded
> like some Tangerine Dream outtake from the early
> days.
> 
> I handed the guitar to a kid on my way out and he
> switched the pedal
> to the sample and hold and starting playing this
> really fast staccato
> stuff and the guitar started making this weird
> POP-POP-POP-WHOP-WHOP
> WHOP sound that made me laugh out loud.  He switched
> to the string pad
> part and started playing high position three note
> chords and it sounded
> like a demented harpsichord since he was muting
> stuff and playing real
> fast. 
> 
> Todd Madson
> Musician, Mountain Biker, Stunt Kite Flyer,
> BeOS/MacOS/Linux/WinNt user.
> http://www.waste.org/~crash/index.html
> 
> 

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