The idea of making an album with only one venerable EMS VCS3 had been tempting me for years.
I wanted to push the concept further by rebuilding a 70's home studio, deliberately limiting the technical possibilities.
If I easily found the VCS3 and the tape recorders, borrowed from "old" friends, the effects I wanted were harder to find. After a few weeks of searches, a London collector, friend of an "old" friend, sent me the machines I was looking for.
It was a real pleasure to do "The Zinovieff Synthdrome", with the strong impression of a "return to the past"...
The 70's home-studio :
- 1972 EMS KS keyboard
- 1973 EMS VCS3 Mk2
- 1972 Quad-Eight RV10 spring reverb
- 1974 Wem Watkins Copicat tape echo
- 1972 Teac A-3340 4 tracks recorder
- 1974 Teac Model 2 6-2 mixer
- 1971 Revox A77 Mk2 2 tracks recorder.
https://jihel.bandcamp.com/album/the-zi ... synthdrome
I wanted to push the concept further by rebuilding a 70's home studio, deliberately limiting the technical possibilities.
If I easily found the VCS3 and the tape recorders, borrowed from "old" friends, the effects I wanted were harder to find. After a few weeks of searches, a London collector, friend of an "old" friend, sent me the machines I was looking for.
It was a real pleasure to do "The Zinovieff Synthdrome", with the strong impression of a "return to the past"...
The 70's home-studio :
- 1972 EMS KS keyboard
- 1973 EMS VCS3 Mk2
- 1972 Quad-Eight RV10 spring reverb
- 1974 Wem Watkins Copicat tape echo
- 1972 Teac A-3340 4 tracks recorder
- 1974 Teac Model 2 6-2 mixer
- 1971 Revox A77 Mk2 2 tracks recorder.
https://jihel.bandcamp.com/album/the-zi ... synthdrome
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