Bobro, Dave...thanks!
I am overwhelmed at how prog is alive and the power of the internet when it comes to music outside the mainstream. While the suits pound the masses into submission with I-VIII-II progressions http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif "la Resistance" covertly keeps the good stuff from disappearing (regardless of genre). So the message to anyone who isn't sure whether to follow their heart or follow their accountant is to go for it.
btw, the link is www.hamadryadmusic.com hamadryad was taken.
oh yes and, Bobro, thanks for the suggestion but my username is Sys-ex guy not Sy-sex guy (at least here, this is musicplayer not adult friend finder http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif ) LOL
Back to keyboards, here's a few tidbits about the keys on the album
- all keys were recorded as audio, not midi
- the organ was a C3 and was recorded to ADAT with 2 AT 4033's on top and a GT AM52 on the low rotor. The AT's were turned slightly off axis to control the growl of the moving air.
- the synth sound that closes "The Second Round, Part II" is not a synth at all. It is the main vocal, copied and processed with Wave Mechanics Pitchblender (a truly amazing plug-in that is somewhere on every cut)
- the synthish intro "eternal loop" is guitar feedback through three separate instances of Pitchblender. The tone that closes the intro before the pitch out (that sounds like guitar feedback) is a hot tea kettle resonating.
-the bass pedals are a pair of real Moog Taurus pedals. One of them had a B flat that wouldn't stay in tune that luckily was fixed with Wave Mechanics pitch doctor. FYI, Autotune claims that V3 now also will handle bass. We also had some clips and dirty pot noise that magically disappeared with the help of Amp Farm (a Bassman through "BIG cab").
-the Mellotrons were the Pinder CD through a ESI-32 + mucho plug-ins while the piano was a QS and the classical card in mono.
-a minimoog handled the synth solos while an XP-80 did all the pads and effects
All comments are most welcome.
Andy