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We got this vintage Rhodes Mark II in on a trade today and I'm in love. I've always wanted one of these.
Extra points if you know the song.
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"Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson
off his 1975 album of the same name
Stolen Moments was the last album Nelson recorded
before his death of a heart attack later that year at age 43
#oliver nelson#1975#jazz#shelly manne#on drums#1970s#fender rhodes#electric piano#pls excuse the reduced birate#8min recording#so had 2 reduce to stay under#tumblr's size limit
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Fender Rhodes - Amp Comparison
Comparing different amplifiers for the Fender Rhodes electric piano. The direct signal from the Rhodes is recorded once and then sent through the different amplifiers with a re-amp box.
Instrument:
- Rhodes Mark I Stage Piano
Amplifiers:
- Fender Twin Reverb
- Roland JC-120
- Vox AC15H1TV
- Tandberg Model 2 T (TB2)
- Leslie 122
Microphones:
- Shure SM57
- Royer R-121
- Sennheiser e 602-II (for lower rotor on Leslie)
Signal chain:
- Rhodes with Avion Studios RetroFlyer Preamp
- Universal Audio Apollo
- Hairball Audio FET/RACK Revision D
- Radial X-Amp into amplifier (except for direct out example)
- Chase Bliss Audio & Meris CXM 1978 (almost inaudible, just adds some "air" and stereo width)
- DIYRE G Bus VCA Compressor
RetroFlyer Preamp settings:
- High pass filter in middle position (60 Hz)
- Mid boost/cut just below middle position
- Stereo tremolo is turned off (until the very end of each example)
#fender#fender rhodes#rhodes piano#electric piano#twin reverb#roland#jazz chorus#jc120#vox ac15#ac15h1tv#tandberg#tandberg tb2#model2t#rose leslie#leslie 122#rotary speaker#retroflyer#avion studios
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A couple of still frames of the Fender Rhodes electric piano I used on the recording of the live session with Guillermo Carrasco, Rafael Greco and Manuel Rangel, recorded at La Santa Mónica Estudios, Caracas.
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One of my autism powers is to be able to hear a single note and immediately recognize a Fender Rhodes
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Devin Drake
#Devin Drake#miniatures#minis#diorama#dioramas#music#art#synthesizer#synth#guitar#Fender#electric piano#Rhodes
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The Smile's 2024 Tour Rehearsal Setup
On March 5 and March 6, The Smile shared photos taken by Ade B during rehearsals for the band's 2024 tour dates. In the photos, the band are set up in Air Studios’ Lyndhurst Hall. It's a space where Jonny has frequently recorded orchestras, including for the Phantom Thread soundtrack. A photo from circa-2014 revealed that Radiohead’s string arrangements for Spectre (and possibly Man of War) were also recorded in the room.
The Smile’s live setup largely resembles the one they used for their tour dates last year. This isn’t a surprise, since many songs from the band’s latest album were written on the road. However, there is some new gear which seems to be intended for material off the new album. Further down in this post, we’ll list all of the gear, but we’ll highlight the changes first.
Electric Cello and Viola
Almost certainly the biggest surprise is that Jonny has added an electric cello and an electric viola to his setup. In the past, Jonny has occasionally played bowed string instruments on recordings, but they were always acoustic instruments, and he's never brought them on tour. Most of the time, Jonny only used his viola to sketch out string arrangements, which were then recorded by other players. And at live shows, Jonny has always bowed his electric guitar or bass to emulate those string arrangements, whether it's the harmonics on Pyramid Song or the col lengo crunch on Burn The Witch.
However, Jonny has started to play the cello more regularly in the past few years. In an interview from the 2010s, Jonny mentioned that he could make noises that he’s happy with on a cello, but claimed his left hand isn’t precise enough to perform with it. Then in 2019, he mentioned that, compared to viola, the cello "feels much more natural to hold and so much easier to make a nice sound on — I only wish I had moved on to it when I was a kid” (The Times). In 2021, he was credited with cello in the liner notes for the Power of the Dog soundtrack, applying banjo-style technique to the instrument. And this year, he was credited with cello in the liner notes for Wall of Eyes. In fact, Jonny can be seen playing his acoustic cello in a couple of polaroids posted in March 2023, during the recording of the new album.
A closeup of the electric cello (left) and viola (right).
Digital “Upright” Piano
On every tour since 1997, Radiohead have brought an acoustic upright piano on tour. Usually they brought a Yamaha U1, though more recently they’ve favored a Kemble KC121 (essentially a U1 built at Kemble’s factory in the UK, rather than by Yamaha in Japan). The same was true for Atoms for Peace shows in 2010 and 2013. The Smile followed this trend, bringing an acoustic upright along for all of their tour dates from 2021-2023.
However, given how few of the Smile's songs require piano, it’s understandable that they’d switch to a digital instrument instead. The one they chose is a Nord Grand digital piano, which features fairly authentic piano hammer-action made by the piano maker Kawai.
For some solo shows in support of Anima, Thom brought a Waldorf Zarenbourg for sampled acoustic and electric piano sounds. Thom only played it for a couple songs each night, so it was understandable that he didn’t want to tour with an acoustic upright. However, it’s interesting that The Smile are still using their vintage Rhodes electric piano, rather than using the Nord Grand for Rhodes sounds in addition to acoustic piano sounds. Perhaps keyboard action is the reason: the hammer action of the Nord might be accurate for piano, but it’s probably a little heavy for Rhodes playing. Plus it’s clear that the band enjoy having a lot of keyboard on stage to experiment with.
Closeups showing the Nord Grand in its custom black stand.
Sequential Prophet 6
One benefit of the digital piano is that its shorter stand leaves space for a keyboard to rest on top. For this tour, Thom has brought along his Prophet 6, which he previously used for the Suspiria soundtrack and for shows in support of Anima. This isn’t the first time that the band have mixed piano and synth. Thom did velcro a Dave Smith Instruments Tetra to Radiohead’s upright piano from 2012-2013. However, that synth saw little use, perhaps because of the Tetra’s minimal control layout.
The band now have three Prophet synths in their active setup: the Dave Smith Prophet ’08 beneath the modular, the Sequential Prophet 5 REV4 on top of the Rhodes piano, and the Sequential Prophet 6 on top of the digital piano.
Earthquaker Devices Blumes
In addition to the Earthquaker Devices Plumes overdrive on Thom’s board (note the green), it looks like he’s added a Blumes overdrive as well (the similarly-sized yellow box). The Blumes is intended as a bass-friendly version of the Plumes. Thom was already using the Plumes with his bass guitar for a very punchy sound, so it’ll be interesting to see how he uses the bassier Blumes.
The green of the Plumes and yellow of the Blumes can also be seen on Thom’s backup pedalboard, which is resting on top of one of the gear cases by Thom’s guitar stands.
Closeups of Thom's guitar and vocal pedalboards (left) along with his backup guitar pedalboard (right).
Eventide Pitchfactor
It looks like Thom has added an Eventide Pitchfactor to his vocal pedalboard. It's in the spot where he had an Eventide H9 on the last tour, so it's likely that he was using the H9 for pitch shifting sounds. The H9 features all of the algorithms from the Pitchfactor (as well as the other Eventide pedals), but it has far fewer knobs so controlling it is more cumbersome.
Jonny's Setup
Jonny's Chordophones
Gibson Les Paul Standard Natural Finish (late-1970s)
Fender Precision Bass Natural Finish (early-1970s)
Electric Cello
Electric Viola
Dusty Strings Ravenna 34 harp
Jonny's Gibson Les Paul Custom and ES-125 are probably on a stand out of view.
Jonny's Guitar Pedalboard
Currently unknown, but likely similar to his summer 2023 pedalboard.
Jonny's Guitar Amplifier
Fender '65 Reissue Super Reverb No1
Fender '65 Reissue Super Reverb No2
Jonny's Bass Pedalboard
Boss TU2/3
Boss DD200 (replaces Akai Headrush E2)
Two Notes Le Bass preamp
Jonny's Bass Amplifier
Ampeg SVT Classic amplifier head (1990s)
Ampeg SVT Classic amplifier head (backup)
Ampeg 8x10" Cabinet
Jonny's Laptop Setup
Apple Macbook Pro
Furman M-8Lx
MOTU MOTU Midi Express XT No1
Focusrite Clarett+ 8pre No1
MOTU MOTU Midi Express XT No2
Focusrite Clarett+ 8pre No2
Radial Engineering SW8 8-channel auto-switcher
Hinton Instruments Z4 Quad Channel Long Haul Converter
Blackstar Live Logic 6-Button Foot Controller No1 (kept by laptop)
Blackstar Live Logic 6-Button Foot Controller No2 (velcro'd to Studiologic pedal)
Jonny's Synthesizers Setup
Sequential Prophet-5 REV4
Peterson Strobostomp HD tuner (for Prophet 5)
Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run delay/reverb (for Prophet 5)
Studiologic MP-117 MIDI Pedalboard (controls Prophet 5)
It appears that Jonny has stopped touring with his Oberheim SEM Pro synthesizers, which he'd used for bass sounds on previous tours. So he's likely either using samples or his Prophet 5 for all of his bass synth needs.
A closeup of Jonny's setup.
Thom's Setup
Thom's Chordophones
Martin 00-18?
Fender Jazzmaster Black Finish (1963)
Fender Jazzmaster White Finish (1964
Epiphone Casino Royal Tan (mid-1960s)
Epiphone Casino Sunburst (circa-1962)
Gibson SG (1964) No1
Gibson SG (1964) No2
Martin 00-18?
Fender Jazz bass
Gibson EB-0 bass
unknown classical guitar
unknown (semi-)hollow bass
Fender Mustang bass
unknown (semi-)hollow electric guitar
Thom's Guitar, Bass, and Vocal Pedalboards
Thom's current pedalboards seem mostly similar to the ones he used last year (see Thom's pedalboards page), aside from the changes mentioned above and the removal of the Soma Cosmos from the guitar board.
Thom's Guitar Amplifier
Vox JMI Vox AC30/6 (1962)
Thom's Bass Amplifier
Fender Super Bassman head
Fender Super Bassman head (backup)
Fender Bassman 610 Neo cabinet
Thom's Synthesizers
Waldorf STVC
Moog Matriarch
Sequential Prophet 6
A closeup of Thom's setup.
Tom Skinner's Synthesizer Setup
Tom Skinner's Prophet Setup
Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08
Roland FS-5U (sustain pedal for Prophet '08)
Tom Skinner's Modular Setup
Boss TU-3S tuner
JBL GO3 Portable Waterproof speaker
Unknown 4-knob Mixer
Elektron Octatrack MK2 (sequences the modular)
Make Noise Strega
Make Noise 0-Coast No1
Make Noise 0-Coast No2
Mutable Instruments Yarns MIDI-to-CV
Make Noise Richter Wogglebug random generator
Make Noise Echophon delay
Vermona twinOUT dual balanced output No1
Vermona twinOUT dual balanced output No2
Some other modules aren't possible to identify from this photo, but they probably match the ones seen in previous photos.
A closeup of Tom Skinner's synth setup.
Shared Keyboards
Nord Grand (in custom black stand)
Fender Rhodes piano
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Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Les Grandes Vacances - this one is essentially a library music album as it stands ("The Great Vacation"). I don't think I noticed before that this is a one-man "ensemble"
Jakarta Records is proud to present “Les Grandes Vacances” courtesy of Beirut’s Cosmic Analog Ensemble, aka multi-instrumental phenom Charif Megarbane. The LP is an expansive musical odyssey, one that paints a melodic tapestry woven from an eclectic panorama of sonic tools. Funky beats, dreamy melodies + cinematic flair combine to create an experience that transcends time. From vibrant funky energy to introspective moods and library-inspired tunes, “Les Grandes Vacances” captures the essence of past and present, inviting you to indulge in the perfect balance of “groove-stalgia.”
Composition, production, arrangements and mixing: Charif Megarbane
Instruments: Charif Megarbane
Instruments: electric guitar, 6 & 12-string acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric bass, theremin, vibraphone, piano, harpsichord, electric koto, Mellotron, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, Moog, Farfisa, melodica, flute, drums, drum machine, percussion, field recordings, vocals.
Recorded in Beirut & Lisbon in 2023.
#Bandcamp#Cosmic Analog Ensemble#library music#Charif Megarbane#2024#hisstology#jakarta records#lebanon#spain
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KING CRIMSON - Easy Money
Live in Providence Rhode Island (June 30th 1974)
The Great Deceiver (Live 1973 - 1974)
Personnel:
David Cross - violin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert Fripp - guitar, mellotron, electric piano
John Wetton - bass guitar, vocals
Bill Bruford - drums, percussion
* Stormy Monday Selection (Occasional Series)
#King Crimson#Robert Fripp#David Cross#John Wetton#Bill Bruford#Stormy Monday Selection (Occasional Series)
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The Doors - Riders on the Storm (1971)
(Album Version | 2012 New Stereo Mix)
Jim Morrison / John Densmore / Ray Manzarek / Robby Krieger
from:
"L.A. Woman" (LP)
"L.A. Woman" (CD | 40th Anniversary Mixes)
"Riders on the Storm" / "The Changeling" (Single)
Jazz Rock | Proto-Goth
JukeHostUK
(left click = play)
(320kbps)
Personnel:
Jim Morrison: Vocals / Whispers
Ray Manzarek: Fender Rhodes Electric Piano
Robby Krieger: Electric Guitar with Ttremolo
John Densmore: Drums
Jerry Scheff: Bass
Produced by The Doors and Bruce Botnick
Recorded:
@ The Doors' Workshop
in West Hollywood, California USA
December, 1970 – January, 1971
Album Released:
on April 19, 1971
Single Released
June, 1971
Elektra Records
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I demand the return of omnipresent Fender Rhodes electric pianos to popular music. They just sound so cool.
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Daily Instrument — Rhodes Piano
The Rhodes piano is an electric piano primarily seen in 70s and jazz music. The development of the Rhodes piano begins in being a lightweight instrument for recovering soldiers from World War II to learn piano on. The Rhodes piano has a standard keyboard layout, each key connected to a hammer that when pressed strikes a thin tuning fork. The vibrations are picked up by a pickup and then are sent to an amp or speaker
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here you can find musics i've made throughout time that i've put on youtube, you could let this stuff play as go about your day, or your night, or maybe you could ask the panera bread guy to play it throughout the whole restaurant, or just maybe you could listen to it just for the sake of listening and give me your thoughts :)
(NEEDS TO BE UPDATED!! im lazy)
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453.65 Kelvin (songs made with beepbox)
Glowstick Gladiator ☆ Tear Away
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THE NEW CURRENT STATE OF RHODES MUSIC
NEON BUZZ DSCO ☆ CUT & BAND-AID ☆ FLAVORED SOAP ☆ MOSTLY FLESH ☆ THE CONCIOUSNESS OF A ROCK INSIDE THE BODY OF AN INSECT ☆ EVERY POSSIBLE SOUND IS MEANT TO BE MUSIC ☆ FLOATING DUST PARTICLES ONLY I CAN SEE ☆ LIGHT SHINES BRIGHTLY ☆ REPRISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF A LONG WINTER ☆ ANCRAOPHOBIA ☆ PHANTASMAGORIC FULMINATION ☆ THANK YOU MANUAL BREATHING ☆ I FORGOT MY STUDENT ID
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THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING POKÉMON EMERALD GUIDEBOOK
BOOKKEEPING ☆ MY SOCKS MAY BE WET ☆ ELECTRIC CENTIPEDE ☆ .---- ---.. ---..
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songs made with audiotool
rhodes-1 ☆ rhodes-2
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Week1(?)
Day1 ☆ Day2 ☆ Day4 ☆ Day7 ☆ Day11 oak
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Bats
Prologue ☆ thats the building ☆ ays? ☆ I_CAN_MOVE ☆ Bats
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Smear of nervous tissue
collab :) ☆ randomly generated harmony ☆ omg! fish ☆ seagulls [clean ver w/out compression] ☆ infinite north / aqwe3 ☆ magic machine
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Rhodes Random Note Challenge
these are a collection of videos in which i randomly generate some numbers that are in between 1 and 12, and i convert those numbers into notes and attempt to make a song that uses those notes! there are 3 in total
not in a playlist:
DISTRICT EP [A - BUSY DAY / BLAZING IN THE SPACE ☆ B - THE TIME IS NOW / ON A RAFT ☆ C - HERE WE ARE / BLAZING IN THE SPACE] ☆ Miscellaneous Rhodes Mix #1 [ATLAS ☆ MAGIC SPIDER ☆ RHODES DEMON ☆ ALL OF THIS ] ☆ Castle of Crows piano comp ☆ Thermal Thoughts ☆ Pokemon DPP - Route 216 (Rhodes Rhemix) ☆ anti-icky_rhodetic_health_agent ☆ Isometric Sphere ☆ Firefly Departure ☆ Soda Can ☆ a wingless bee on a flower with no petals ☆ d3v3loping <- eyestrain warning! ☆ please be honest rhodes ☆ RHODES COMMUNITY PICKS: VOLUME 1 [Red Orange ☆ Inner Space ☆ Vertigo ☆ Radio ☆ The Ravine ☆ Rubber Band Music ☆ Bicycle ☆ Here We Are / Blazing in the Space] ☆ 117_TRS_CHRS_NM_NMR ☆ TPIC_B_MBIW ☆ wave your ｆｅｅｌｅｒｓ in the air ☆ time_fkery ☆ Mars With Rings ☆ Rhodes RNC #1 Extended Mix ☆ BURNT C00K1ES
and theres much more music on my discord server, more or less serving as an online archive for my old tracks (this is where the community picks came from)!
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still playing in the community college ensemble despite not being enrolled (I'm the only bassist and it's good networking/XP/also very fun) but anyway. the theme this semester is "yacht rock" and it's very funny to me that EVERY time I'm about to start learning a song I'm like ugh, lame, what a mid song. why did I join. this sucks. and then half an hour in, without fail, I'm like hmm yeah this might Actually be the best song ever written. i think I'm just allergic to the sound of the rhodes electric piano
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This is quite beautiful! 3 tracks recorded live at Morisound Studio by 問題總部 It's Your Fault =D
The songs are: 日落時間 platform at dusk, nowhere train, 錯覺 not home. Tracks 3, 4, 5 from the new 6-track album, 《我在這裡》 moment: now (LIVE SESSION)
Lyrics: 丁佳慧 Hana Lin
Composer: 丁佳慧 Hana Lin / 問題總部 It's Your Fault
Music Arranger: 問題總部 It's Your Fault
Vocal: 丁佳慧 imtyping._ (Hana Lin)
Electric Guitars: 蕭瑋德 Wade Hsiao / 黃子恩 John Huang (also in MoonD'shake)
Acoustic Guitar: 蕭瑋德 Wade Hsiao (also in 厭世少年 Angry Youth)
Electric Bass: 陳建安 Jason Chen-bass (also in 烏流 Kuroshio)
Drums: 林子祈 Benny Lin-drums (also in 烏流 Kuroshio)
Piano / Rhodes / Synthesizer: 吳昱陞 Sam Wu
Backing Vocal Arrangement: 丁佳慧 Hana Lin
Backing Vocals: 羅莎莎 Sabrina Lo / 高真 TRU / EQ Zhu
Links: StreetVoice, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, Bandcamp, Hana Lin's imtyping._ Instagram.
Full a/v credits at YT.
#問題總部 It's Your Fault#丁佳慧 Hana Lin#蕭瑋德 Wade Hsiao#黃子恩 John Huang#陳建安 Jason Chen#吳昱陞 Sam Wu#林子祈 Benny Lin#羅莎莎 Sabrina Lo#高真 TRU#EQ Zhu#morisound studio#taiwan#music video#Youtube
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'Wall of Eyes' Film and Zine Gear Updates
On January 18, The Smile and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Wall of Eyes film collection was premiered at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, London. The first piece in the collection is a silent film showing the band recording Wall of Eyes at Abbey Road. We initially see the band playing and talking in the live room at Studio 2, but as it progresses we also see them giving direction (and reacting amusingly) to the London Contemporary Orchestra (a slight surprise as Jonny usually record strings at Air Studio’s Lyndhurst hall).
As you might expect, most of the instruments and gear used by the band is similar to what they brought on the road. In an interview with Lauren Laverne for the BBC, Thom mentioned that the songs were mostly written very quickly, some on tour and some in studio. “Especially with Tom [Skinner], he’s super quick… so we could have an idea, and suddenly it's off the ground within like half an hour, and we started getting into this habit of like — take three was like ‘that’s it, move on.’” So it makes sense that the band would use much of the same equipment as on tour, if only to speed up the recording process.
However, there were a couple of surprises in the silent film. One shot showed Jonny with an Eventide H9 pedal floating beside his pedalboard. Previously, only Thom had used the H9, and Thom used it as a vocal effect. Another shot showed Thom playing his black 1963 Fender Jazzmaster. Thom’s old big-box Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail could also be seen beside his pedalboard, though it wasn’t plugged in.
The Wall of Eyes Zine
In addition to watching the film by PTA, attendees could also purchase a “zine” full of photos taken by Sam Petts-Davies during the recording of the new album. The zine is printed on newsprint, reminiscent of Radiohead’s Universal Sigh and The King of Limbs newspapers. The zine mostly shows the same gear seen in Sam's previous photos of the session, and some of the photos were previously shared on social media. But there are still plenty of new details to take in!
Jonny with Thom/Nigel's worn sunburst Fender Telecaster Standard. You might mistake it for Jonny's Tele Plus given the wear on the "horn" of the guitar, but the pickups and the white binding show that it's the Tele Standard that Thom first played for AMOK touring in 2013 (it was still very worn back then).
In one photo, we can see Thom playing a Martin acoustic, perhaps from the recording of the single Wall of Eyes. Another photo shows a be-speckled Jonny on a couch with Thom/Nigel's worn sunburst Fender Telecaster Standard. But before you assume Jonny has abandoned his Les Paul, he can be seen playing his (plugged in) natural finish Les Paul Standard in the studio's control room in another photo. Jonny is also seen with the Les Paul in photos from the live room at his home studio (the grey-blue painted room from which the Smile have previously shared rehearsal footage and photos).
This photo by Sam shows Jonny with his natural finish Les Paul Standard in the control room at Abbey Road Studio 2. It's very similar, but not identical, to the photo included in the zine. This photo was posted on the band's twitter on Oct 9, 2023, but it was most likely taken in March 2023, and only posted in October to help publicize the band's fall 2023 tour. If you want to look around the control room, a 360º view is available on 360cities.net, but it appears the room has been renovated slightly since that was taken.
A wide view of the live room at Abbey Road Studio 2, taken partway up the stairway to the control room. Some particularly notable bits of gear include the Prophet 5 REV4 between Thom and Jonny's stations (presumably for shared access) and the Elektron Analog Rytm (partly blocked by Thom's head) on top of the Rhodes electric piano.
One of the largest photos in the zine, spanning two pages, shows a nearly full view of the live room of Studio 2. On the left, we can see an impressive array of synths resting on top of the grand piano, including Thom's Moog Matriarch and one of Jonny's Oberheim SEM Pro synths. Clearly the band prefer the sound of upright pianos for this project. While the grand is used as a synth table, there are two mic'd uprights just behind Thom's area. Jonny Sequential Prophet 5 REV4 is also visible on a stand between Thom and Jonny's stations, suggesting it's getting a lot of shared use. On tour, Jonny used his Studiologic MIDI pedals to play synth lines on the Prophet, and the synth can be heard layered with strings on the new studio recordings. The MIDI pedals aren't visible in studio photos, so presumably Jonny decided to play those parts by hand for the studio recordings.
Thom is seem sitting at the Rhodes piano, playing a guitar or bass. On too of the Rhodes he has a sheet of (presumably) lyrics, and also his Elektron Octatrack (which Thom previously used on the album recordings for ANIMA) Elektron Analog Rytm drum machine (which he used heavily on Tomorrow's Modern Boxes and (at least on tour for) Anima). Behind him, his phone is visible resting on top of his favorite amp for the past seventeen-ish years: a fawn JMI Vox AC30/6 from 1962 (the pre-Top Boost version).
Tom Skinner is seen playing in one of the two isolation booths for drums. Another isolation booth is set up in Jonny's section, but instead of Jonny it's Robert Stillman recording in it (at least, one can only assume Stillman based on the saxophone horn visible through the booth's window). Jonny himself appears to be sitting hunched over near the couch and coffee table — it's unclear if he's playing an instrument, or perhaps manipulating a Max patch on his laptop.
Stillman is visible recording saxophone and clarinet in other photos from Studio 2 as well. He's credited for clarinet on Read the Room, and for clarinet and saxophone on Friend of a Friend, Pete Wareham, who previously played with Skinner's past band Sons Of Kemet, is seen recording flute in another photo from Studio 2. Wareham is credited for flute on Teleharmonic and Read The Room.
This photo of Tom Skinner in Studio 2, previously posted on the Smile's twitter page, was also included in the zine. It appears to have been taken during setup: the isolation booth isn't fully set up yet, and a ladder can be seen on the right.
Another photo (above) shows Thom's guitar and bass pedalboard. The first row of pedals (closest to him) are all favorites from the past few Smile tours (check his pedalboards page for more info). On the second row, EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life pedal has been squeezed between his EQD Afterneath and his Telenordia Kompressor. There's also an array of (unconnected) overdrive and fuzz pedals resting on the riser at the top of his board (we saw many of the same pedals arrayed there in a previous photo from the session).
In that photo, we also see Thom playing his modified 1960s Gibson EB0 bass guitar through an Ampeg B-15 Portaflex combo amplifier. The EB0's original single coil pickup is replaced by a Kent Armstrong Tele Dual Rail pickup (thanks to Makoto for pointing this out) on a custom plate, presumably a mod by a previous owner. Jonny is a big fan of the Ampeg Portaflex, having used a 2000s Portaflex B15R for sessions with Radiohead and Shye Ben Tzur, and also for the Smile’s debut live stream from the 2021 Glastonbury festival. The original 1960s Ampeg Portaflex was favored as a recording amp by American bassists like James Jamerson and Donald “Duck” Dunn — both notable influences on Jonny’s brother Colin.
It's interesting to note that none of Jonny's ondes Martenot are visible in the photos from Abbey Road. On tour, it's understandable that Jonny doesn't play the monophonic Ondes, because he almost always needs to play many notes at a time to fill out the rhythm section on the Smile's songs. But the the bridge/coda of the Wall of Eyes single prominently features Ondes Martenot (though it's often layered with strings). Perhaps Jonny overdubbed those parts at his home studio, or at another studio during mixing.
This photo of Thom in the control room of an unknown studio was posted on the band's twitter account on August 30, 2023 (photo by @sampettsdavies). It's definitely not from the control room in Abbey Road Studio 2. Perhaps it's the mysterious "StudioFour" in London, which is listed as the mixing location in the album's liner notes.
This photo of Jonny on stage during a soundcheck with The Smile is also included in the zine. It was posted on the band's twitter account on Sep 5, 2023 (photo by @sampettsdavies). It, like the photo set posted 4 days earlier, is probably from the band's July 2023 tour.
#The Smile#Wall of Eyes#Jonny Greenwood#Thom Yorke#Tom Skinner#Robert Stillman#Friend of a Friend#Read the Room#Teleharmonic
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