| PFloyd was one of the first bands (to the best of my knowledge)
to use guitar synthesizers, although then they weren't called
that. The one used on Dark Side (but not after that album) was
a piece called the Synthi-Hi-Fli made by Sola Sound (UK).
It stood on a pedestal, and had 2 foot pedals that could be
used to operate a filter frequency, output level, output pan
and wah-wah effect. The unit would probably be considered a
bit primitive by today's standards.
It had a VCA, VCF, lo and hi octaves (filtered square wave got
by a smoothing a diode-rectified sine input), a ring modulator,
spring reverb and a lo-freq and audio-freq oscillator pair to
control the VCA and VCF,ring-mod respectively.
I believe it cost a couple of 100 pounds in those days. Hope
this helps.
/ravi
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| Doesn't predate DSOM, but FYI, Steve Morse was using an early
version of the 360 slavedriver in concert in 1975 (or possibly earlier
as that's when *I* first saw him), and has been doing guitar synth
stuff in concert ever synth.
db
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| In 1972 (I think) I wrote to EMS (Electronic Music Studios, London)
for information on guitar sound processors (you wouldn't get a reply
if you called 'em "effects"!) and they sent me a parcel that weighed
about 5 pounds and contained detailed user manuals, reviews and
literature on their products. One of the reviews mentioned the
(possibly now extinct) magazine called "Studio Sound", in which I
saw an ad by Sola Sound about their Synthi Hi-Fli.
I wrote off for a manual but received only a promo leaflet and a
polite note saying that these units were available on a "one-off"
basis and would I care to order one?
Those were the years of Rick Wakeman's Journey, my trusty VOX VG2,
posters of Jim Morrison and Vietnam plastered all over my wall, Iron
Butterfly's Gadda-Da-Vida and my first love. Ah, but I am
reminiscing again...
/ravi (hopelessly lost in the late 60's)
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