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mmmender · 24th October 2006

Hi there, someone on my forum (www.cocteautwinsforums.com) directed me to this link so I thought I'd toss in a few things. Both Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde are forum members at the forum so some of you might be interested in joining to get first hand Guthrie details on his sound techniques. For now here are just a few quotes on some of his sound sources.......

"I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great." -Robin Guthrie, October 14/06

"[With Victorialand] I used an acoustic guitar, which I still have which was made for me by the Kinkade brothers in Bristol, England, where Russell Fong was learning his craft at the time. It's quite simply the most beautiful acoustic guitar I've ever played. True, of course, is the fact that it is processed to shit, using, mostly, a unit I liked at the time called and Eventide SP2016. There is as well Richard Thomas who plays soprano sax, like an angel would, tablas, played by Richard also, some beatbox, a Roland Compurhythm CR8000 and lots of other processing." -Robin Guthrie, February 4/06

"[List of drum machines used per release] garlands : roland tr808, lullabies : linn lm1, peppermint pig : linndrum, head over heels : emu drumulator, sunburst and snowblind : emu drumulator, treasure : : emu drumulator modded with the rock chips set (samples of john bonham), aikea guinea : roland tr707, victorialand : just a roland cr78 on one song, echoes in a shallow bay/tiny dynamine : roland tr707 and tr727, blue bell knoll : emu SP12, Yamaha RX5, heaven or las vegas : Akai MPC 60 MK1 (this is the one designed by roger linn) , Emu SP1200, four calendar cafe : Akai MPC60 MK1, Roland CR1000, milk and kisses : Akai MPC60 MK2....Of course there were usually other sounds triggered, but for the most part these are the machines used. For all of the later records, the machines used were sampling drum machines (ie the Akai's and the emu sp series) therfore the machines didn't actually contain the sounds used. The sounds came from 'a variety of sources'..." -Robin Guthrie, December 1/03

I hope some of you will stop by!

mmmender

24th October 2006	#23
mmmender Gear interested Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1	Hi there, someone on my forum (www.cocteautwinsforums.com) directed me to this link so I thought I'd toss in a few things. Both Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde are forum members at the forum so some of you might be interested in joining to get first hand Guthrie details on his sound techniques. For now here are just a few quotes on some of his sound sources....... "I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great." -Robin Guthrie, October 14/06 "[With Victorialand] I used an acoustic guitar, which I still have which was made for me by the Kinkade brothers in Bristol, England, where Russell Fong was learning his craft at the time. It's quite simply the most beautiful acoustic guitar I've ever played. True, of course, is the fact that it is processed to shit, using, mostly, a unit I liked at the time called and Eventide SP2016. There is as well Richard Thomas who plays soprano sax, like an angel would, tablas, played by Richard also, some beatbox, a Roland Compurhythm CR8000 and lots of other processing." -Robin Guthrie, February 4/06 "[List of drum machines used per release] garlands : roland tr808, lullabies : linn lm1, peppermint pig : linndrum, head over heels : emu drumulator, sunburst and snowblind : emu drumulator, treasure : : emu drumulator modded with the rock chips set (samples of john bonham), aikea guinea : roland tr707, victorialand : just a roland cr78 on one song, echoes in a shallow bay/tiny dynamine : roland tr707 and tr727, blue bell knoll : emu SP12, Yamaha RX5, heaven or las vegas : Akai MPC 60 MK1 (this is the one designed by roger linn) , Emu SP1200, four calendar cafe : Akai MPC60 MK1, Roland CR1000, milk and kisses : Akai MPC60 MK2....Of course there were usually other sounds triggered, but for the most part these are the machines used. For all of the later records, the machines used were sampling drum machines (ie the Akai's and the emu sp series) therfore the machines didn't actually contain the sounds used. The sounds came from 'a variety of sources'..." -Robin Guthrie, December 1/03 I hope some of you will stop by! mmmender