Duncan MacKay
production music composer
Duncan MacKay's Gear
Mentioned in an interview on page 34 of the July 1979 issue of Beat Instrumental.
Whatever it was, he's now a full-time member of 10CC, and the heart of all his gear is a Hammond B3.
"I've got a graphic equaliser built in which gives a punch to the sound," said Duncan.
He's got the equaliser built in at a stage where the Hammond will sound raunchy at any level.
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Mentioned in an interview on page 34 of the July 1979 issue of Beat Instrumental.
For a quieter sound, and for a string and choral sound, he uses a Polymoog.
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Mentioned in an interview on page 34 of the July 1979 issue of Beat Instrumental.
And then there's his Yamaha CS80 synthesiser. The Yamaha CS80 has only six memory banks but Duncan has had it altered to take another four.
"There's this guy down at Yamaha called Dusty Miller that did it."
He has high praise indeed for the Yamaha, saying that he used to have six ARPs on stage but now he's got the Yamaha he doesn't bother anymore.
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Mentioned in an interview on page 34 of the July 1979 issue of Beat Instrumental.
Sticking with Yamaha a bit longer, he also plays one of their electric grands, the CP70B, with a Roland digital chorus plugged in for a honky tonk sound. Under all this he has a set of Moog Taurus bass pedals.
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Mentioned in an interview on page 34 of the July 1979 issue of Beat Instrumental.
Sticking with Yamaha a bit longer, he also plays one of their electric grands, the CP70B, with a Roland digital chorus plugged in for a honky tonk sound. Under all this he has a set of Moog Taurus bass pedals.
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Mentioned in an interview on page 34 of the July 1979 issue of Beat Instrumental.
Sticking with Yamaha a bit longer, he also plays one of their electric grands, the CP70B, with a Roland digital chorus plugged in for a honky tonk sound. Under all this he has a set of Moog Taurus bass pedals.
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Mentioned in an interview on page 34 of the July 1979 issue of Beat Instrumental.
A friend of his by the name of Beat's new ed Tony Horkins with positive proof that rock stars do wash! Chris Quail, who does bits of work on his gear, also designed a 12 into 2 mini -mixer. All the effects are fed into the mixer, like his Kepex noise gate (especially used on the Hammond), an MXR studio flanger, MXR studio phaser and a Yamaha digital echo. As all these effects are fed into the mixer they can all be used on any piece of equipment.
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Mentioned in an interview on page 34 of the July 1979 issue of Beat Instrumental.
On the other side of the boards lies a 4 -way crossover distributing the signal into various channels. The bass and low mids go to a Peavey 400W stereo power amp, and the uppers go into two Quad 405s. Quad 405s are actually hi fi amplifiers, and Duncan was so impressed by them on his hi fi that he decided to use them for his keyboards.
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