Analog (Mis)information

[Joachim Verghese]

On Thu, 16 May 1996, Kevin Lightner wrote:

> The Moog sound is due to the chip board case and knobs, NOT the filter or
> glide.
> 
> The Odyssey because of it's steel case (only the last rev used steel, btw)
> and not IT'S  filter either.
> 
> BUT!!!! EMS copied those filters using diodes instead of transistors and
> that IS the reason that their's sounds the way IT does??

He says that the sound changed because the sweep range was restricted,
and the controlling envelope had trapezoidal shape. What controls a filter
is much more important than the filter itself.

> Listen to ELP, Pink Floyd, Jan Hammer, etc, etc, etc,- Do YOU hear a wood
> case?????

As far as I can tell, Graham was referring to the *playing* experience.
ELP, Pink Floyd and Jan Hammer felt the wood case, the smooth knobs and
chunky switches, and that, in part, made them play the way they did.

> Some people will take the unpopular view point and defend it to the death,
> just to be different.

Well, I talked to Graham before he published that WWW site, and he
feared that a lot of people would get the wrong end of the stick
because of the way he writes. He was right.

-joachim