Hardware for Brapping

by **Hobb** Fri 9 Dec 2016 - 15:48

Info on the Moogs behind the Madness

The initial gear for SP is sometimes borrowed from Images in Vogue, so it's worth noting what Dave Oglivie says "It blew my mind that in Canada, somebody was using all these synthesizers, Simmons drums, computers, sampling stuff - everything was from the cutting edge of that time - that's what 'Images' was using."

by **Hobb** Fri 9 Dec 2016 - 15:57

I've already come to realized how important echo effects are to early techno/industrial. I usually avoid echo effects except on guitars, but using the 'dub-tempo' delay setting on the drum beats gives a great full-bodied yet washed-out sound.

CEVIN KEY wrote:"Everything we made was run through the Lexicon PCM41. I had no idea what it was actually doing at first, other than what I heard, so it felt like the perfect machine".

Power For Living, 17 December 1985 wrote: PFL: What’s your favorite piece of equipment?

NO: For myself, it’s my Multi-Moog, the daddy of industrial synths and distortion pedal.

cK: Mines a PCM 41 Digital Delay Lexicon with a rhythm massive repeat switch. And I don’t think any of our music could be in existence without a digital delay, I think that has been a pretty important piece of equipment for us.

Key's PCM41 was borrowed from Image in Vogue's keyboardist, it is a digital delay processor. The PCM41 was also used on Oghr's vocals.

Hardware for Brapping Lexicon-pcm41-21

Hardware for Brapping Lexicon-PCM-41-Copyright-Vintage-Digital

Even the song before "Back & Forth" demo tape has the PCM41

CHRONOLOGY wrote:[May 1983] 'To A Baser Nature' is recorded by cEvin and Joe Vizvary at IIV's warehouse. cEvin adds further loops and effects - using Joe's PCM41 delay- at home.

The PCM41 was in Skinny Puppy before Ogre. It appears again in Key's brief description of the "3rd or 4th song written for Skinny Puppy", Dead of Winter:

Cevin Key wrote:"4 track cassette recording made at 1040 Barclay Vancouver in late '83. Pro one, pcm 41 delay. The long ending is one of our early experiments with feedback loops although we didn't know it at the time."

The keyboardist for Alien Sex Fiend also gives a echo processor in their first gear

Alien Sex Fiend wrote:Nik Fiend: Cheap was the operative word in our world! If it made a noise that we liked & we could afford it, we used it. Back then, bands like say New Order had expensive gear we couldn't afford, so we couldn't have sounded like that even if we'd wanted to.

Mrs Fiend: No, we couldn't afford to buy a poly synth at all first off (which can play more than one note at a time) so I had to be the "one fingered" keyboard player for a while, even though I'd had some years of piano lessons & was quite capable of playing chords - thank you very much! But I think those restrictions made us sound different [...] In the early 80s cheap synths & drum machines were starting to become available, so we used a mixture of those new electronics with the older, or more established guitar & drum kit.The first gear I had was a small casio keyboard, an echo unit & a £25 syndrum.

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