Air

Nicolas Godin of Air is pictured playing a Fender Mustang Bass in various videos and images, including a user-uploaded photo titled "Godin-strums-the-bass.jpg" on Wp.

At 31:09 on this video, we can see Nicolas Godin playing a Fender Musicmaster bass.

The item can be seen at 3:20. First TV appearance of Air playing with additional musician from the band Phoenix.

Since January, however, AIR have been working on new songs, and Nicolas has discovered NI's Reaktor. As Jean?Benoît Dunckel says, "If we build a new studio per album, our records had better sell!"

"We used actual vocoders such as the DigiTech Talker."

Can be seen at 0:23

At 4:16 in the official videoclip of Air 'La Femme d'Argent', J-B Dunckel uses a Korg MS-20 synthesizer.

S.O.S interview of Air members on how they built their own studio. Air give up the names of their synths plus photo of them

S.O.S interview of Air members on how they built their own studio. Air give up the names of their synths plus photo of them

S.O.S interview of Air members on how they built their own studio. Air give up the names of their synths plus photo of them

It's been used by Air, Atomizer, Bare Naked Ladies, Beck, Prodigy, Yesterdays, The Killers, KMFDM, Royksopp, Owl City, LCD Soundsystem, Jean-Michel Jarre, Nick Rhodes (of Duran Duran) and The Pet Shop Boys.

I love to work on KRK E7s. They are not available any more, but I praise them.

The gear they used included an Apple Mac G5 running Digidesign Pro Tools; a bevy of period keyboards including an ARP Solina, Korg MS20, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Wurlitzer, Memorymoog, Moog Source and Minimoog; a classic Roland TR-808 drum machine; and some modern synths such as an Elektron Monomachine and a Manikin Memotron. They patched and mixed everything through a 24-channel Trident Series 65 console, and also employed a '70s-era Rogers drum set, various MoogerFooger processors and three Neumann U47 mics.

S.O.S interview of Air members on how they built their own studio. Air give up the names of their synths plus photo of them

S.O.S interview of Air members on how they built their own studio. Air give up the names of their synths plus photo of them

in this picture you can clearly see the Korg VC-10

The main reverb on this album is an AKG BX20 they own — they have a BX5 too. It's mono, and it's on every track. Whenever we needed stereo reverb, Jean?Benoît added his Lexicon 200, always using the same preset. No reverb plug?in was ever used!

There were no plug?ins in their computer, so I installed several that I needed to work. I also made them buy some outboard [two Chandler Germanium compressors and an Alan Smart C2] and a PreSonus FaderPort, to work easier.”

"On this record, we play every instrument we ever used in our career, and new ones too,” adds Dunckel. "Vibraphone, for example, or Mellotron, heavily filtered most of the time. We had bought some new instruments that we had never used in our records until then: a Moog Source, a PPG Wave 2.2, a Prophet 5, a Vermona DRM1, an Elektron Monomachine SFX60. We even bought a Vox guitar amplifier, for its warm sound and its tremolo, and a vintage Neumann microphone too, to record our voices.

There is also 'modern' audio gear in the racks: two Avalon VT737 input channels, two Chandler Germanium compressors, a Demeter Stereo Tube Direct and two Urei 1176 compressors, along with some vintage Ibanez (AD230), Ensoniq (DP4), Korg (SDD2000) and Roland (SBF325) effects — an essential ingredient of the AIR sound from the beginning. In the studio itself, there's a Yamaha grand piano, a drum kit, a vibraphone, some kalimbas, a Neumann U47 microphone and Godin's collection of guitar and bass amps.

There is also 'modern' audio gear in the racks: two Avalon VT737 input channels, two Chandler Germanium compressors, a Demeter Stereo Tube Direct and two Urei 1176 compressors, along with some vintage Ibanez (AD230), Ensoniq (DP4), Korg (SDD2000) and Roland (SBF325) effects — an essential ingredient of the AIR sound from the beginning. In the studio itself, there's a Yamaha grand piano, a drum kit, a vibraphone, some kalimbas, a Neumann U47 microphone and Godin's collection of guitar and bass amps.

We wanted a large control room, to host most of our keyboard instruments, but not too large either. We could choose from around 20 keyboards, always ready to use, connected to a 16-input Speck X-Sum, used as a line mixer, and place them as we wanted. There's an analogue console in the middle, a 28-channel Trident T24, and Acoustic Energy AE1, K+H O300 and Auratone speakers. No large speakers, we don't need them. Huge windows at the rear give us natural light, there's wood everywhere, and the acoustic is dry.”

We wanted a large control room, to host most of our keyboard instruments, but not too large either. We could choose from around 20 keyboards, always ready to use, connected to a 16-input Speck X-Sum, used as a line mixer, and place them as we wanted. There's an analogue console in the middle, a 28-channel Trident T24, and Acoustic Energy AE1, K+H O300 and Auratone speakers. No large speakers, we don't need them. Huge windows at the rear give us natural light, there's wood everywhere, and the acoustic is dry.”

The gear they used included an Apple Mac G5 running Digidesign Pro Tools; a bevy of period keyboards including an ARP Solina, Korg MS20, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Wurlitzer, Memorymoog, Moog Source and Minimoog; a classic Roland TR-808 drum machine; and some modern synths such as an Elektron Monomachine and a Manikin Memotron. They patched and mixed everything through a 24-channel Trident Series 65 console, and also employed a '70s-era Rogers drum set, various MoogerFooger processors and three Neumann U47 mics.

Can be seen in the background of this live concert at the Niedemeyer Space for ARTE.

At 0:28 in the official videoclip of Air 'La Femme d'Argent', Nicolas Godin play a Hofner 1967 Club Bass

From 0:33 to 0:40 in the official videoclip of Air 'La Femme d'Argent', Jean-Baptiste Dunckel play a Fender Rhodes Mark 1 Stage 73

At 2:33 in the official videoclip of Air 'La Femme d'Argent', J-B Dunckel play an Eminent Solina String Ensemble

The item can be seen at 3:50. First TV appearance of Air playing with additional musician from the band Phoenix.

The Guild d35 can be seen 1:05 into this live video on french TV.