Chords for Stereolab Frontman Tim Gane Dishes On His Favorite (And Least Favorite) Keyboards

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_ _ _ _ you know, that we could put up with.
Because we used them on the past two tours,
and it was so depressing to sort of hear the_
I mean, I think what they're good at is making sounds
and doing kind of everything.
But when, for instance, when you have organ sounds,
I mean, they're pretty bad, I think.
And I had to tweak them a lot, and still it's like, oh.
So it's like, it's just that, for me,
it's like what gives you the character
when you play a chord is what makes a chord sound good.
And you just have a Jaguar, for instance,
a basic Vox Jaguar, which is not a fantastic keyboard
by any means.
Then it just instantly sounds like a great sound,
you know, when you're playing live.
It's got a kind of inner energy to it, you know.
Whereas I find the Nords, good as they are,
I think, of the type, are lifeless, you know.
And need to be constantly tweaked and make up
or put on them and constantly buffeted up to get the sound.
But it's not their fault.
They're trying to do [G] something
which is infinitely more complex, [N] I think.
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_ _ _ _ Yeah.
Well, no, we bought a lot.
I mean, we bought the Vox Jaguar,
which is not the one we use on records.
We use the Continental on the records,
but the Jaguar is a bit more hardy.
_ _ And the Clavernet that we use,
we have an original, the Hohner Clavernet.
We bought that with us, and you'll hear that tonight.
_ And the Rhodes that we use, we bought that with us.
And we have the Moog Voyager,
which we used all over the record,
and that's brought with us.
And Letizia plays a little Faddy,
which is the baby version of that.
So yeah, we're pretty much using
what we played on the record in general. _ _ _ _ _
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Yes, yes, I mean, he's based,
I mean, Andy's always had a VCS3 Synthi,
which is my all-time favorite synthesizer.
So this is the one I really wanted.
We did start to get a lot of stuff from Derpfer
and _ Analog Solutions, Analog Systems, whatever it's called.
They look kind of similar.
We've got those in the studio.
We use them from time to time.
My favorite piece of gear is the EMS-2000 of Okoda.
_ And I'm not sure if John, John's got one.
I'm not sure who got it first, me or us or him,
but maybe I'll ask him tonight. _ _ _ _ _ _