Air
French band
Air's Gear
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.”
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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.”
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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.
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"The analog keyboards are super-fat. The more you record them direct, the more you can feel the soul of the machine inside. The fatness of the keyboard. The direct box is just the classic green one that you see everywhere; it's generic and cheap. We mostly used the Korg MS20 and the Memotron. The string machine you hear is the Solina, which is the ARP String Ensemble in the U.S."
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Nicolas can be seen holding it in this image
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can be seen in this post from January 14, 2020
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can be seen next the the pressure points in this image
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can be seen in this post from January 14, 2020
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In a Facebook post dated January 14, 2020, the artist Air showcases their use of the Mutable Instruments Elements modular synthesizer.
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can be seen in this post from January 14, 2020
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can be seen in this post from January 14, 2020
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can be seen in this post from January 14, 2020
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can be seen in this post from March 27, 2012
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In a Facebook post dated February 8, 2010, Air is shown using a Wurlitzer 200A.
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