Monday, August 27, 2018

Harold Budd notes

AMS digital delay, an Eventide Harmonizer, an EMT 250 plate reverb, a Yamaha DX7 keyboard and a Casio CT-200.

  • Bel Canto CD2 with onboard DAC (CD player with Digital to Analog Converter)
  • Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference TT w/ Grado Gold (TurnTable)
  • Garrard 401 w/ custom aluminum block plinth with (TT)
  • Thomas Schick Arm w/ Benz Ace S Cartridge (TT)
  • Bottlehead Seduction Phono Preamp w/ C4S Upgrade (TT)
  • Yamaha CT-7000 FM Tuner
  • Manley Jumbo Shrimp Preamplifier
  • Manley Mahi Mono Amps
  • ADS L-910 Studio Monitors
Mirror canon 

Lexicon PCM 60
16-bit mono in/"stereo" out digital reverbration unit), PCM 70 (reverb), PCM 42 (digital delay), Yamaha SPX 90 (basic multi-effects including all sorts of reverbs, echoes, chorus, flanger, phaser, compression, and pitch shifting. Effects cannot be used simultaneously) and REV7 (digital reverb unit).

his concerts usually consist of him improvising on piano against a CD containing some of the electronic backdrops he has conjured in the studio.

“soft pedal” piano style, achingly slow and drenched in sustain, and Eno’s discreet processing, which transforms the instrument’s natural resonance into gentle swirls of snow and sheets of melting, cracking ice.