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Jameson Kimball Group: Members Posts: 148 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Dec. 27 2004, 00:21 Has anyone found out when and/or where in any song does Oldfield use his Eventide 5000 harmonizer? -------------- www.soundcloud.com/jamesonkimball Back to top

Yuval Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 203 Joined: Nov. 2003 Posted: Dec. 28 2004, 03:55 Never noticed he had Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Dec. 28 2004, 08:10 That would be a DSP4000 that he has. It would be difficult to spot, as it's capable of all sorts of effects - pitch shifting is just one of the things which it's capable of. I would imagine that he used it on The Songs Of Distant Earth (the unit was released in 1993) - its capability to produce more unusual reverbs and similar effects would have been well suited to the album. Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 02 2005, 19:37 Possibly the section of original music in Maestro when you free the birds in the cave has a harmonised guitar line in octaves. It kind of sounds too legato to be actually played in two parts Back to top

Luca Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Jan. 03 2005, 06:04 Could the octave effect on the South Wind 2nd movement of Four Wind's from Guitars be processed? Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Jan. 03 2005, 09:03 Most of the recent uses of such effects are done with the VG8 - he uses its ability to tune the modelled guitar to a different pitch from the real one controlling it, in this case adding a set of virtual strings tuned an octave higher. You can hear it in various places from Voyager onwards. Back to top

Luca Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Jan. 03 2005, 13:05 Ah.. didnt think of that, i was just listening out for anything harmonised Back to top

Thea Cochrane Group: Musicians Posts: 445 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 10 2005, 19:31 The most common use of the Eventide harmoniser (and it's been around since the late 1980s) is to thicken sounds be slightly detuning them - almost like chorus or symphonic effects. That one is used a lot on those massed backing vocals you hear on many pop records. You can also do the thing where you have one voice and it turns into a little un-realistic choir, but it's mostly just used for chorus and reverb/delay type things. Maybe occasional bits of harmony or retuning parts back from before we had Autotune or Melodyne. I often imagine that the huge reverb Mike uses on solo sounds (starting on TSODE) might have a harmoniser involved somewhere, possibly modulating stuff before sending it to a Lexicon reverb. Back to top

emac Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Jan. 22 2005, 03:27 He used to use them live a bit. Listen to live versions of: Platnium, Mirage and others from around this time. It's a subtle effect to sort of replicate the dual lead sound that he had on the albums. Actually sort of a pitch shifter that could be blended slightly into the original sound. Kind of a parallel harmony rather than melodic harmony, gave a slightly on edge sound. Back to top

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