Daft Punk's Behringer Compressor: Let's Finish This.

I can't get over how many awesome discoveries you guys have made on this thread! I wish I could help you out by Identifying some more gear, but I'm terrible at it!

The only way I can help is by giving you guys this! - https://ibb.co/album/syJwSz

Its some pictures I have in my photo collection where you can kinda get a decent view of their gear, so hopefully this can help clear up any theories you guys have.

If you have seen them all, then hopefully there are some more HQ scans in here that can help!

I can't get over how many awesome discoveries you guys have made on this thread! I wish I could help you out by Identifying some more gear, but I'm terrible at it!

The only way I can help is by giving you guys this! - https://ibb.co/album/syJwSz

Thank you so much, Mr. Gomez!!!!

I can't get over how many awesome discoveries you guys have made on this thread! I wish I could help you out by Identifying some more gear, but I'm terrible at it!

The only way I can help is by giving you guys this! - https://ibb.co/album/syJwSz

Its some pictures I have in my photo collection where you can kinda get a decent view of their gear, so hopefully this can help clear up any theories you guys have.

If you have seen them all, then hopefully there are some more HQ scans in here that can help!

Wow! Thank you so much, Finley!

Studio Electronics SE-1 sighted! Here's the lead from this article. The same graphic appears in this page from this article.

Studio Electronics SE-1 sighted! Here's the lead from this article. The same graphic appears in this page from this article.

Great find! Does the article mention the SE-1 specifically? That could just be something the graphics department whipped up from closest images they could find... this was a time before the internet was full of hundreds of images of each synth ever made.

Great find! Does the article mention the SE-1 specifically? That could just be something the graphics department whipped up from closest images they could find... this was a time before the internet was full of hundreds of images of each synth ever made.

Unfortunately, no.

Alright, here's a giant list of old Daft Punk interviews (with links) for your perusal. I just peeked at every one leading up to 2000 and I say, they went through a lot of different ideas for hiding their faces!

Great find! Does the article mention the SE-1 specifically? That could just be something the graphics department whipped up from closest images they could find... this was a time before the internet was full of hundreds of images of each synth ever made.

Unfortunately, no.

I just noticed they also put a Jomox XBase09 drum machine in the corner of that collage. I've owned the XBase09, if you have a 909, which they did, you'd have no need for an XBase09... the XBase09 was just something you could still buy new then, that came close(ash) to what a 909 could do for less money... so I think they were just using the best images they could find with things that were sort of close to the DP sound.

Alright, here's a giant list of old Daft Punk interviews (with links) for your perusal. I just peeked at every one leading up to 2000 and I say, they went through a lot of different ideas for hiding their faces!

Consider me gobsmacked, Tom. YOU RULE!

Just cracking into this, but already there are some fun gems from days gone by.

Here's a fun one to start your day: looks like Thomas used a Roland DJ-70 mkii for a few solo DJ gigs in the late '90s. I know these are grainy, but find me any other keyboard in the course of human history with a backlit LCD in that spot AND a big "scratch" platter on the right side of the keyboard.

• Image 1 is from this Facebook video
• Image 2 is from this video

Question: should this be logged under Daft Punk, or under Thomas Bangalter?

Image 2 shows that the "DJ-70" text on the body is orange, not white, making it a MK II

https://imgur.com/FzxoZkZ

https://imgur.com/qPaqHhX

Here's a fun one to start your day: looks like Thomas used a Roland DJ-70 mkii for a few solo DJ gigs in the late '90s. I know these are grainy, but find me any other keyboard in the course of human history with a backlit LCD in that spot AND a big "scratch" platter on the right side of the keyboard.

• Image 1 is from this Facebook video
• Image 2 is from this video

Question: should this be logged under Daft Punk, or under Thomas Bangalter?

Image 2 shows that the "DJ-70" text on the body is orange, not white, making it a MK II

https://imgur.com/FzxoZkZ

https://imgur.com/qPaqHhX

I’d say under Thomas Bangalter.

I’d say under Thomas Bangalter.

10-4. Logged it. I wasn't sure what the guidance was when someone was primarily part of a duo that is logged here as an artist, not a band. Just because there is a separate Bangalter profile here, doesn't mean that's how the EB folks want us to handle these things... but my gut was to just put it under Thomas, especially now that DP is no more. Thanks for confirming.

I’d say under Thomas Bangalter.

10-4. Logged it. I wasn't sure what the guidance was when someone was primarily part of a duo that is logged here as an artist, not a band. Just because there is a separate Bangalter profile here, doesn't mean that's how the EB folks want us to handle these things... but my gut was to just put it under Thomas, especially now that DP is no more. Thanks for confirming.

No problem!

I'm still stuck on the Mutronics Mutator. It's really bugging me that one of the supposed key components of Daft Punk's sound was apparently never in any of their live rigs and never mentioned in any interviews?

Even Softube's official marketing namechecks Daft Punk, but there's not a single source I can find.

A Highly Regarded but Short-Lived Analog Filter

Mutronics Mutator, based on technology developed for analog synthesis in the 60s, was the go-to stereo analog filter and envelope follower for many of the bands and musicians who shaped the 90s sound, including Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Garbage, Beck, REM, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Nails. Unfortunately, the Mutator abruptly disappeared from the market when a key component that gave it its unique sound was discontinuedand the designers couldn’t find a suitable alternative. After that, people could only find the Mutator on auction sites, often at highly inflated prices. But finally, a worthy alternative is here.

Why wouldn't they bring the Mutator with them on tour?

Sure it can be a bit unpredictable, but so can a MIDIMoog, a TB-303 and a lot of other stuff they lugged all over the world.

I'm still stuck on the Mutronics Mutator. It's really bugging me that one of the supposed key components of Daft Punk's sound was apparently never in any of their live rigs and never mentioned in any interviews?

Even Softube's official marketing namechecks Daft Punk, but there's not a single source I can find.

A Highly Regarded but Short-Lived Analog Filter

Mutronics Mutator, based on technology developed for analog synthesis in the 60s, was the go-to stereo analog filter and envelope follower for many of the bands and musicians who shaped the 90s sound, including Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Garbage, Beck, REM, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Nails. Unfortunately, the Mutator abruptly disappeared from the market when a key component that gave it its unique sound was discontinuedand the designers couldn’t find a suitable alternative. After that, people could only find the Mutator on auction sites, often at highly inflated prices. But finally, a worthy alternative is here.

Why wouldn't they bring the Mutator with them on tour?

Sure it can be a bit unpredictable, but so can a MIDIMoog, a TB-303 and a lot of other stuff they lugged all over the world.

They probably ditched it in favour of a more simpler / easier to carry device? This video springs to mind where Thomas is using some sort of pedal to do all of the filtering https://youtu.be/hVN5dgIbZQY (Apologies about the obnoxious watermark haha)

a lot of people ditched their mutators and akai filters for effectrix filter factories and shermans at this time due to replaceability more than anything.... you could buy an effectrix in a guitar center so if yours didn't fire up you could get a new ne as long as you knew early enough ahead of the show.... its the reason only top name guitarists toured with the early boutique FX and vitnage stuff like tape delay went out, no one thought a PCM70 or a Buss DD3??? soudned better for guitar than a space echo or an echoplex but you can't replace a bad hhand made or vitnage unit last minute if it goes down while travelling but a Boss? If you're going to use a discontinued piece live, have 2 or more.

In a studio setting my tape echoes go down ALL the time, they don't travel, they still get finicky and I have to use something else and spend a day taking them apart and finding the tiny little issue and fixing it.... don't let the service guys kid ya, a perfectly serviced unit will still just flip shit and the tape will pull away from the head and the pinch roller will stop pinching and stuff because its thursday and god wills it...

but back to my point, I would think guys this clever wouldn't take a discontinued piece on the road

but back to my point, I would think guys this clever wouldn't take a discontinued piece on the road

We're talking about the late '90s here, and the Mutator was discontinued in 2007 according to MusicRadar.

Daft Punk road gear that was already long discontinued by 1996:

• Linn Drum
• TR-909
• TR-808
• TB-303
• Juno 106
• Alesis MMT-8
• SP-1200
• And the era of MIDIMoog they used could potentially be one of the ones made from a salvaged board of an original MiniMoog

http://gph.is/28SGQbX (I kid, not trying to start nuthin')

wow, I'm conflating a decade's worth of stuff, nevermind

lets be honest, the pieces they were taking were irreplaceable even today.... f you ask me there is no equivalent to most of it apart from great 303 clones finally.... and the MMT8 is bulletproof, I ahdn't turned mine on in YEARS and last time I fired it up in 2020 it was fine. It had been through 2 moves, jostled, and unloved.... if you can break an alesis MMT8 its ebcause you program it with a hammer

but I guess the filter factory came out later too, I can't remember when I got mine but it was new, why did I sell it?! it was 2000s not 90s, you're right, Ic an guess by who I remember working for back then... I got one after trying his and it was a lot of money to me then

They probably ditched it in favour of a more simpler / easier to carry device? This video springs to mind where Thomas is using some sort of pedal to do all of the filtering https://youtu.be/hVN5dgIbZQY (Apologies about the obnoxious watermark haha)

Finley... I spent more minutes than I will ever admit to staring at the very fuzzy version of this video that I linked to in my Bangalter DJ-70mkii submission. I studied that blue FX pedal, in particular...fruitlessly... the fact that you have a crystal clear copy in your possession blows my mind. Maybe we can finally figure out what this pedal is now, thanks to you.

You, good sir, are a treasure.

I see a vent for a tube.... hmmmm.... I know this brand, maybe a guyatone?