Pretty Lights
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Pretty Lights' Keyboards and Synthesizers
In a live performance, Pretty Lights utilizes the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08 Module 8-voice Analog Synthesizer, as seen in a user-uploaded photo on Imgur.
Pretty Lights is credited with using the Wurlitzer 200A in the album "A Color Map of the Sun."
Pretty Lights used a Fender Rhodes Mark II Stage 54 in the creation of "A Color Map of the Sun," as evidenced by the album credits shown in the user-uploaded photo on Imgur.
Used during the composition of A Color Map of the Sun, as stated by Pretty Lights in this July 1, 2013 Electronic Musician interview.
“There were no demos. I had a Wurlitzer and a small Virus Polar polyphonic synth so I could come up with chord progressions on the fly and bring it to the musicians, one at a time. I would literally go to the guitar player and say, ‘All right, strum D-minor,’ and he’d strum that, and then I’d say, ‘Okay, now add the 9th. Now strum it slower; now finger it up on this register. No, strum it up instead of down. A little faster.’ He’d finally get the strum and the chord exactly how I wanted it and I’d say, ‘Great! Stop, remember that. Stick with that.’ Then I’d go through the same process with the keyboard player on the Hammond and Wurly, the other guitar player, the horn players, and the bass player. A lot of times I would play bass, too, so we’d have two basses. (...) But through that first session, I so fell in love with analog modular synthesis, and I feel my ears really learned the lesson and could hear the difference between what my Virus sounded like when I just played a saw waveform and what the modular sounded like when I played a saw waveform. So that’s when I made the decision to make even the synthesis aspects of the record completely analog and modular. I built a big old modular synthesizer that I had to teach myself to use, and I used that for everything monophonic, and then I also purchased a polyphonic Dave Smith Prophet for the chord synthesis.”
Brain Coogan, a member of Pretty Lights' live band, can also be seen playing a Virus Polar in this photo from the beginning of the Episodic Tour 2016.
In the "Pretty Lights - Tour Bus Studio" video on YouTube, Pretty Lights is shown using the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 synthesizer.
In a live performance, Pretty Lights' keyboardist, Borham Lee, uses the Farfisa TS 901, as shown in the user-uploaded photo on Imgur.
Pretty Lights incorporates the Moog Little Phatty Stage II in their live performances, as demonstrated by Brian Coogan and Borham Lee in the image sourced from Imgur.
In the "Pretty Lights - Tour Bus Studio" video, Pretty Lights is seen using the Fender Rhodes Mark II Stage Piano 73 during the creation of "A Color Map of the Sun."
Pretty Lights incorporates the Hohner Clavinet D6 in their live performances, as seen in a user-uploaded photo featuring Brian Coogan and Brandon Butler.
Used live with the Analog Future Band, as stated in the description of this Facebook photo album.
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Discography
Taking up Your Precious Time
2006
Filling up the City Skies (Disc 1)
2008
Filling Up The City Skies (disc 2)
2008
Passing by Behind Your Eyes
2009
Making up a Changing Mind
2010
Spilling Over Every Side
2010
Glowing in the Darkest Night
2010
A Color Map of the Sun (Deluxe Version)
2013
A Color Map of the Sun (Remixes)
2013
The Hidden Shades
2014
Album Credits
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The Atlas Underground (Instrumentals)
Tom Morello · 2019
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