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   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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DamoSuzuki Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: December 04 2009 Status: Offline Points: 10	Topic: Soft Machine - Equipment 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?

harmonium.ro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989	Posted: April 16 2010 at 04:20
	According to Wikipedia, it must be one of these two instruments: Hohner Pianet, Lowrey organ. Check them on YouTube, you might find samples of their sound.

DamoSuzuki Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: December 04 2009 Status: Offline Points: 10	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?

harmonium.ro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989	Posted: April 16 2010 at 16:15
	What can I do if you don't follow my links Mike Ratledge of the Soft Machine switched from a Vox Continental to a Lowrey Holiday Deluxe sometime between late 1966 and early 1967, and used it from then on, adding a fuzzbox and plugging it into a Marshall stack. To prevent 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 legato. Edited by harmonium.ro - April 16 2010 at 16:17

himtroy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 20 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1601	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