Universal synth-love?

[The Dark force of dance]

Y-ellow Y'all.
At 11:39 PM 4/24/98 +0100, Anthony Bowyer-Lowe wrote:
>>>I don't think there's _any_ piece of gear that _everybody_ likes.
>>
>>Man, I think everybody here likes the Minimoog...
>
>Not me - too generically synthy, too much of a status symbol, too
>expensive, too much hassle explaining to people exactly how 'Moog'
>is pronounced.

Yea I'll second that. The trouble I had with using the Mini on the EUS CD
was trying to make it not sound like, Well, like a Mini. I mean every time I
hear a Mini it sounds like Rick Wakeman's playing it. Even if it's some
18month old kid going plonk plonk on it. Love the filter. You can keep the
rest. My SH-5 has a Moog-like Ladder filter and IMHO, the rest of the synth
is far superior to a Mini. It is actually my intention that this become a
flame war. "My Mini is better than you Roland" kinda thing with any luck. :P

>Of course, if I was given one I wouldn't complain, though I would
>spray the panel in camouflage colours, add patch points, replace
>the knobs with eyeballs, use a budweiser bottle for pitchbend, and
>rename the poor beast a MiniMorgue.

Yea that's the ticket. I Badge everything. My DA30 DAT machine has a Rambler
badge on it. When we took it in to get it serviced once we asked the guy for
a discount because it was a rambler not a Tascam. He had to do a double
take. Our samplers use to be badged as Sony Video recorders. "Hey we can
Badge Engineer with the best of 'em" But the best one was when we replaced
all the alpha dials with bath tapes. Hot 'n' cold. I had them made up the
day before and when we went to the gig we went round replacing everyone's
Alpha dials when they weren't looking. Strange how it was only the Guitarist
who complained. And he didn't even own a synth. Let alone anything with an
Alpha dial.

>I'm simply like that...

We should form a society. "Synth bastards unite!" :)

Oh I just realized. The SH5 now is a Rambler SH5 and the DA30 has a
"DIGITAL" badge off a DEC microvax. :) I wonder when I did that? Ya'know
what I hate? When they print their logos onto the plastic or metal. It makes
them so hard to badge. :(

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