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Anyone familiar with VINTAGE SYNTHS/KEYBOARDS? what keyboard sound is at the begininng of this song?
It opens up with a swelling keyboard string sound that sounds unique. I assume it's vintage. here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ebD6pT0c0
Can anyone tell me what synth this is? How can i get this sound?
Thanks
im pretty sure that it's NOT real strings.
Answer:
If you're talking about the string sound in the intro, that's real strings. It sounds pretty crappy, but that's definitely real strings.
EDIT: Go ahead and disagree with me, but I'm telling you it's real strings. That song is from the album "The Gambler" released in 1978. There were 10 STRING PLAYERS credited on that album. I was a working keyboard player in 1977 and 1978. The only string synthesizers that were around in 1977 and 1978 were the ARP String Ensemble and the ARP Omni. I owned both of those instruments, and they both sounded awful and nothing like the sound you hear on that record. Granted, the live strings may have been augmented by Edgar Struble, who is credited with playing the ARP synthesizer on "The Gambler," but the sound you hear on the record is the live strings, not a synthesizer. The strings were recorded terribly, which is why they may have been augmented.
So if you want to "get that sound," go to Nashville, hire 10 string players, record it terribly and double it, and augment the sound with a crappy ARP string machine. There you go.
*sheesh*
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