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In a message dated 6/26/05 10:18:20 AM, mclilith@charter.net writes:<BR>
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notice, that the album was made *without* using an Aphex Aural Exciter? The<BR>
Aphex was pretty popular at the time, and for some reason, they made a<BR>
point of telling the world that their album didn't use one. I always<BR>
wondered what they had against the Aphex unit, and why it was such a big<BR>
deal to them, that they had to tell the world they didn't use one?<BR>
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take care,<BR>
Glen<BR>
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Really just guessing but: <BR>
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--The Eagles have that airy sound in their harmony singing. <BR>
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--The Aphex Exciter, if my memory & understanding serve me, uses some kinda combo of hipass and distortion to generate upper harmonics (exciting freqs) in an otherwise dark or dull sounding recording or sound source.<BR>
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--The Eagles didn't want fans or other musicians thinking that any of their trademark vocal sheen was coming from a machine. Like John Houseman speaking for EF Hutton, they wanted folks to know they got their "air" the old-fashioned way--they earrrnned it. Sure, maybe it was captured & abetted by mic choice/placement, studio acoustics, tape formulation, double tracking, Neve EQs or whatever in the signal chain, but never synthesized even in part.<BR>
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Again, totally guessing here. <BR>
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But if correct, one might say, very broadly speaking, that it's another Luddite slight at processed/synthesized sound. In the context of tape recording and other attendant recent technologies used by the Eagles and others pop artists a-plenty, it's another arbitrary and confounding distinction (maybe the anti-exciter fashion theory posted is indeed more on the mark here). And if from the Eagles heyday, yet another from the 1970s. <BR>
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Whatever the reasons, I wonder if such a non-usage announcement would seem as important to them nowadays. And whether they'd stand by that notice or think it needless & silly in retrospect.<BR>
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Having seen synths from both sides now, back to lurking,<BR>
K. Seward<BR>
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