Soft Machine - Equipment
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Topic: Soft Machine - Equipment
Posted By: DamoSuzuki
Subject: Soft Machine - Equipment
Date Posted: April 15 2010 at 23:01
Does anybody here have any information on what instrument is used by Mike Ratledge on the Soft Machine album Third? I'm specifically referring to the outro of "Out-Bloody-Rageous", where he beautifully manipulates some synth-sounding instrument. I'm in a band currently and I'd like to set some goals... maybe getting one of those could be one them? 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 04:20
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According to Wikipedia, it must be one of these two instruments: Hohner Pianet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowrey_organ - Lowrey organ . Check them on YouTube, you might find samples of their sound. |
Posted By: DamoSuzuki
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 15:52
| Did he use some sort of synthesizer to multiply the sound? Or is it an arpeggio setting that would come with either of those? |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 16:15
What can I do if you don't follow my links  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ratledge - Mike Ratledge of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Machine - Soft Machine switched from a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Continental - Vox Continental to a Lowrey Holiday Deluxe sometime between late 1966 and early 1967, and used it from then on, adding a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzbox - fuzzbox and plugging it into a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Amplification - Marshall stack. To prevent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_feedback - feedback in the silences between notes (consequence of playing at a very high volume), Ratledge invented a style of his own avoiding the between-note gaps by soloing in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legato - legato . |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 18:07
| Yeah, all Mike had in his set up at that time was his organ and Hohner electric piano. He is just using echo and overdubbing at the end of Out bloody Rageous. I know he had an Echoplex echo pedal |