From fstewart@mit.edu Mon Feb 07 14:48:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!fstewart From: fstewart@mit.edu (Fiona Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1994Feb07.144850.5331@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 14:48:50 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The instrumental B-side of 'Midnight Animal' is one of the most underrated synth tracks of the decade. On track 9's instrumental cut, the 14.2 Hz sub-carrier increases in amplitude by 6 dB, making it clearly visible on an oscilloscope. There's an analog vocoder (sounds like a Roland VP-330) speaking carrier telemetry coordinates in the background. Upload coming to the Ashford Poly incoming FTP directory once my upload finishes. -- Fiona Stewart Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man." From elopez@berkeley.edu Tue Feb 08 22:46:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!elopez From: elopez@berkeley.edu (Emi López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1994Feb08.224650.1908@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 22:46:50 GMT References: <1994Feb07.144850.5331@mit.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb07.144850.5331@mit.edu>, fstewart@mit.edu (Fiona Stewart) writes: > The instrumental B-side of 'Midnight Animal' is one of the most underrated synth tracks of the decade. > On track 9's instrumental cut, the 14.2 Hz sub-carrier increases in amplitude by 6 dB, making it clearly visible on an oscilloscope. That Roland VP-330 vocoder is unmistakable. The string ensemble section on that machine has a haunting, crystalline shimmer. -- Emi López "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1