Gear Spotting--ID FX Box atop Korg CX3

[ProfD]

In this video, Mitchell Froom is playing a vintage Korg CX3:

 

 

At the 2:09 mark, wondering if anyone can ID what looks like an effects processor taped to the left side of the CX3. 😎

[lightbg]

The size of the box resembles my JV-1010 module, but the upward tilted connectors don’t jive.

 

Jake

[JamPro]

Roland used to make a half-rack FX device (something-50, and later something-70).  I wonder if it is one of those.  Looks to me like there are direct cable connections from the keyboard to the box, which makes sense if the box is an FX device, and suggests the box is not a midi instrument playback (rompler) device. 

[mcgoo]

I watched it on my phone, so it was a bit hard to tell, but it looked like a Sonic Cell to me. 

[KuruPrionz]

Looks like vintage Electro Harmonix, the steel case, the angles, knob placement etc. 

Electric Mistress probably or something similar. 

[ProfD]

38 minutes ago, JamPro said:

Roland used to make a half-rack FX device (something-50, and later something-70) 

Boss SE-50 and SE-70. Looks like it could be one of them. 😎

[Jonathan Hughes]

Definitely not a Sonic Cell, SE-50, or SE-70. None of those were silver on the sides with a foot switch on the top. It's almost 100% an Electro Harmonix Deluxe memory Man:

 

https://reverb.com/p/electro-harmonix-deluxe-memory-man-1?hfid=51439223&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=12293041828&utm_content=campaignid=12293041828_adgroupid=114838717622_productpartitionid=1462251653470=merchantid=550098582_productid=51439223_keyword=_device=c_adposition=_matchtype=_creative=497275814538&gclid=CjwKCAjw3cSSBhBGEiwAVII0Z0CHM8Sk9fmv4bBXZvK_6VK7tXTPeHFE3I-kMUwy_pRYdAc8wPGP0BoCwhMQAvD_BwE

[dacm]

The video with Mitchell Froom is from 1999 and his analog Korg CX-3 is feeding some type of device where the sound can resemble a ring modulator. It happens again at 3:15. Other than that, he is playing some type of distorted snare drum sound that is syncopated in other parts of the tune if you watch and listen carefully. Note that the drummer has no visible snare drum.

 

It does look like an Electro-Harmonix device and if so,  it was/is now called the Frequency Analyzer Pedal. The latest EHX version appears to look different from the one below which resembles the one in the video more closely.

 

See supporting video from 2008 for more info.

 

51 years ago, when playing in The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jan Hammer made successful and creative use of a Maestro Ring Modulator made by Tom Oberheim on his Fender Rhodes Suitcase EP before getting a Moog Mini Moog.

 

 

 

[JamPro]

ProfD - exactly: the SE-50 and SE-70.  I still have an SE-50 that I bought in large part because it had an editable rotary sim (now it collects dust on my shelf).

[Konnector]

Looks like an old Electro-Harmonix pedal. There's a few with the same knob config. Hot Tubes, Frequency Analyzer, Memory Man & Electric Mistress. Can't tell which one it is.