ashes to ashes

ubertar · Post by **ubertar** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:29 am

what is that sound?

knobtwirler · Post by **knobtwirler** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:22 am

The Norwegian metal band?

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:13 am

Do yoo mean the synth with some type of modulation (from the wheel maybe?) on the Bowie song?

ubertar · Post by **ubertar** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:08 am

drumsound wrote:Do yoo mean the synth with some type of modulation (from the wheel maybe?) on the Bowie song?

Yeah. What is that?

Rodgre · Post by **Rodgre** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:45 am

to me, it always sounded like a piano, with a parallel mix of it run through a delay with modulation on it. That era of Bowie records has a lot of interesting use of effects. There were a lot of experiments with Eventide delays/harmonizers from what I can tell.

Roger

Paul Fury 161 · Post by **Paul Fury 161** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:35 pm

Tony Visconti was in Sound on Sound talking the making of "Heroes",and about
"Reality" (includes some reference to older material)

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct04/a ... tracks.htm

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct03/a ... eality.htm

Pretty interesting reading. I thought I had read exactly how they did that sound on "Ashes To Ashes" in one of those articles, but they don't mention it - maybe I read it on the TOMB!

Hope this is of interest, I love Bowie and especially the records he makes with Tony Visconti,.

Take it easy yallz,

Paul Fury 161

jrsgodfrey · Post by **jrsgodfrey** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:44 pm

Sounds piano through a Leslie to me, a la "Wild Honey Pie," maybe with extra processing on top.

apropos of nothing · Post by **apropos of nothing** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:05 pm

Piano through delay with some regen and wide-sweeep LFO set to delay time.

What really gets me about this recording though is the utterly weird timing on the B-part. Vocal line starts on the three. Its in eight but offset against the vocal phrasing it sounds like some odd-time meter.

Yeah, Bowie's the shiznit.

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:57 pm

I think these guys are right. Some sort of modulated and mangled piano.

apropos of nothing · Post by **apropos of nothing** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:45 am

I guaruntee it. I've gotten that sound using nothing but some crappy piano sample and blue-face MXR delay with delay-time mod.

trashy · Post by **trashy** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:12 am

ashes to ashes is the most underrated bowie song. That is all I have to add.

joelpatterson · Post by **joelpatterson** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:48 pm

"Station to Station" is more under-rated, maybe because it's worse.

Slider · Post by **Slider** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:09 pm

Great song.

trashy · Post by **trashy** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:19 pm

joelpatterson wrote:"Station to Station" is more under-rated, maybe because it's worse.

*can't post, due to blown mind*

space_ryerson · Post by **space_ryerson** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:34 pm

Apparently, Roy Bitten of the E Street band played that piano part. I'd bet that effect is the Eventide H910. In plugin land, Eventide makes a plugin of it, and 'audio damage' makes a clone called 'digitalis:discord', which I've been meaning to try.

Ashes to ashes is also one of my favorite bowie songs as well.

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