ARP Odyssey Love, Brian Wilson...Plus Sample & Hold from Retrosound.
Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 04:55AM If you follow me on Twitter, you may know we've been in the UK for a good while....we played some shows and jumped over to Paris to visit my brother and enjoy a snowball fight or two in Montmarte and visited our friends at SonicState.com in Bath...it's all been great fun as I adore the UK, the music scene, the people's eagerness to listen and devour new music - it inspires me just to be here.
I sit here sketching out trunkfuls of new ideas on Logic 9 (yes, I finally upgraded from 7!), eager to share with you all the new projects we have coming for 2010. It's been a while since I've gone into 'monk mode' to write, and I'm excited to paint for you the sounds that are swarming and swimming in my circuitry at the moment.
Anyway, I often read about my hero, Brian Wilson, when the tides turns over for me to go into this aformentioned 'monk mode'...in my reading I found this photo (on the sweet blog Between Two Worlds), more charming than those several cups of vin chaud I consumed in Paris! Brian with an ARP Odyssey, 1973. Does anyone know more about the specific model he's playing?
I'm not sure who took this photo, if anyone knows, please inform! I think it may be Guy Webster.
Have you seen this? "Vintage" footage of Tara meeting Mr. Wilson, July 2007:
And speaking of the Odyssey, here's a clip from our friend Marko at retrosound - I highly recommend his wonderful synth demos...truly fantastic. This one shows the lush Sample & Hold of the ARP Odyssey III:
May your holidays twinkle like an ARP! Most likely I'll be in hibernation for a bit, keep up with us on Twitter for my many odd little clips and ramblings. See you in a bit!
Reader Comments (5)
Hi Tara,
thx a lot. The Oddy is really a fantastic synth. So many sound surprises. I do not know what synth I like more the Pro-One or the Odyssey.
Ok both ;)
Merry Christmas Tara
Greetings Ms. Busch.
It's a first-generation Ody (usually called a white-face for obvious reasons). They had a big dispute with Moog because it has essentially the same filter as a Minimoog, so these are considered the most desirable, though I don't necessarily agree- a buddy of mine had a later one with the "revised" (i.e. non-infringing) filter and it sounded wicked. More barky midrange than low bass Mini.
I used to have a white-face just like one in that pic that belonged to Daryl Dragon. I bought it for $100! He had SIX Odyssey's he was selling for that- this was a LONG time ago. I should've never sold it (I sold it for $300 and thought I was making a killing- ahh the days before ebay...).
They sound great, but like all old ARP's, the sliders get dirty and work like crap. And I personally find the panel layout a little hard to get my head around (even moreso with 2600's). A bit harder to use than a Moog or Sequential synth...
Hope your Christmas is white and all that. See ya's at NAMM? I'm playing with Sextus the first nite...
Mitchell
Hi Mitchell, happy xmas! Gosh, a 300 $ Odyssey. I really loved the sliders when I had the chance to play Tim Love Lee's ARP 2600; similar sweetness w the Macbeth M5.....that is, once I got my head around it - I agree, I find Moog to be a bit more intuitive.
We willl not be at NAMM this year, we're transferring to the other side of the pond. Send us pics?? : )
tara x
Hi Marko, Always a pleasure to post your lovely demos!! I love my Pro One also - though i do wish I had more of an arsenal...we shall see what the new year brings. Maybe I'll finally learn to properly use the sequencer! Perhaps you can instruct? : )
Happy holidays + a fine bleepy, blippy new year!
tara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ibSqfFnOE
Perhaps you can instruct? : )
;)
Sure! I will try.
When you ever has questions to synths or synth stuff, mail me.
All the best for you and your family in 2010.
Keep up the awesome work.
I am a fan. :)