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I wouldn't rule anything out. lol

Think you guys are forgetting the frequency range of a synth can drop a hell of a lot lower than any bass guitar on the planet. Ive seen the ladies vibrate into an orgasmic coma and still had a couple of octaves left to go. Ahh the humble synth player dont underestimate us lol.

Damn straight. The US Army was even experimenting with subsonic weaponry that would do stuff to targets like make them crap their pants, or faint instantly. Or worse.

Of course, I can neither confirm nor deny this at the present time.

Irminsul … I think the “crap your pants” was dispelled by the Myth Busters awhile back.



Good thread … I think that being a keyboard player can be VERY expensive, during my time, anyway

I started out in the mid 60’s with a Hammond B3 with 1 Leslie playing R&R, Blues and R&B with my mentor being Jimmy Smith, Don Preston (Zappa) Don Airey (Deep Purple) for some reason Keith Emerson never did much for me, so one B3 keyboard.

In the late 60’s I got into YES (Wakeman), PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI (PFM) and started building my rig … I had a shop reworked Hammond B3 with outputs on my petals to drive a Moog, for-runner to midi, add a potentiometer to vary the voltage to the main tone motors, for-runner for modulation, added a 2nd Leslie and Fender Rodes, clavinet, 2nd Moog Synth and a mini Moog when it came out, Mellotron, and end up with like 8 keyboard by the time I finished. I ran this rig for about 6 yrs.

Then polyphonic synths (Yamaha CS-80) came out in the mid 70’s and again my mentor changed to Chick Corea /w Stanley Clarke, Mahavishnu Orchestra /w John McLaughlin Billy Cobham and Jan Hammer, Herbie Hancock, early Gino Vanelli, and so did my rig.

Now I buying very expressive polyphonic synth and learning this new jazz fusion style … my rig shrank to 4 keyboards … still using the micro moog.

Now I use only 3 keyboards, … but I have 3- Hammonds, the B3 I grow up with (400+lbs), a Hammond Porta B (150lbs) that I bought that in 76 /w a 145 Leslie, when I retired the B3 from the road and downsized my rig. And then 3 yrs ago I bought a Hammond XK2 (40Lbs) you see where this is going with the Hammond … I’m now planning to buy a Hammond XK3c Pro with is the same physical layout as my original B3 but only weighs 70lbs and break into 2 pcs. A older Technic PX7 piano and a Roland D 70 synth, I have returned to my roots of genre that I kinda started at. Only now I have a more varied groove that I can add from the entire genre that I’ve played.

All these changes to gear have added up to thousands of dollars down the tubes as the technology progressed and music genre changed. A guitar player might have a Gibson and Fender, maybe 2 fenders and a couple of amps, that he could’ve used through the same time period and all that he would’ve had to upgrade would have been his petals. … way cheaper. I don’t know if it’s any better now, maybe, but there always seems to be the next must have …. Just like the XK3c for me … there goes another 4K.

Ron

While I respect the sound, I've never been a huge B3 fan. I came from the classical-pianist-discovers-Moog sort of niche. The glory days started with fat analog like the Jupiters (Rolands) and then moreso with the development of crosswave synthesis (mixing analog and digital).

My rig now centers on piano with synth layers triggered upon need - SuperJV (Roland) on 88 key piano weighted source keyboard, MIDIed to Roland JX-305 with preprogrammed patch layers. It gives me all the hugeness I could ever need, with the simplicity of setting up a simple two keyboard stack on stage. With the advent of multitimbre-lism and layering, I could happily kiss my 5 keyboard set up days goodbye.

I always loved syn music!! I just purchased my second Micro-Korg and phatty(moog). I believe one can have a awesome musical experience with tunes from them!

Charles

Prevost82 I was referring to this -

http://www.acoustics.org/press/137th/altmann.html


While it takes pains to say that they didn't see a line of sonic weapons being unveiled by the military anytime soon, they did indeed experiment with them.

Mehe I play Synth yay for the wonderful Korg micro and electibe mix but getting hold of a good synth retro synth is ahrd for me =/

dude you totally zombied this thread, stupid synth player learn a real instrument lol I'm kidding synth/keys are amazing if done right, hope you find more active threads to throw your two pence at

dude you totally zombied this thread, stupid synth player learn a real instrument lol I'm kidding synth/keys are amazing if done right, hope you find more active threads to throw your two pence at

this entire part of the forum seems a little dead atm =/ And I do play more than synth ^^

Ah well, if you will live in such inaccessible spots, what can you expect? Once you're north of Morpeth there's nothing but sheep, surely (I speak as a former Newcastle resident). Now if you were looking for a keyboard player in Cheshire, I'd be your man....

I'm looking for a piano/keyboard player in Liverpool - are you that man?