Burning Up Time - The Stranglers and Hugh Cornwell Unofficial Forums

My two pence: with CCW - which was even worse and MOR than Wolf or his 10 contributions - Hugh alienated a big part of the stranglers following that would have stayed interested in Hugh as a solo artist. He became and still is a niche so to say - sometimes delivering quality sometimes not.... I'd s...

do you remember Rattus at Roundhouse gig 2007,keys packed up big time, they sorted it eventually. So not much more reliable, and I remember a Damned gig when Keys packed up, Dave Vanian was getting pissed off big time,all the keyboards were all digital, they eventually played gig with keys that wer...

Because it never worked so well even when it was new. If somebody sneezed in the third row the Oberheim would go out of tune. Not only that but it was big and heavy and so was the Hammond, plus you had all the other smaller synths for specific sounds. I think the unreliability is a bit overstated, ...

I'm guessing that in the 80s Dave wanted new toys to play with so out went the Hammond and in came the PPG Wave - which was all new tech and versatile but maybe not so great at replicating certain sounds. Post Hugh the Moog and Oberheim seemed to disappear too and again the replacement was new tech,...

I disagree about it being easy to replicate the vintage gear. I don't think it's easy. But isn't that the same territory as people saying they can hear the difference between 320kbps MP3 and FLAC? I find soft synths more than adequate but in the context of Dave's live setup, even the most rudimenta...

Well, it'll be interesting to see what the sound will be like now with someone else, especially if he uses all the same kit. Because I agree that in recent years some of the "plinkity plonkity" sounds coming out weren't the best. And I wonder whether Dave's arthritis was a factor in that,...

Yeah since about 1995 his keyboard noises sounded like muzak. Very layered and not much room to breath. I guess you can't expect the guy to lob a 70s fuck off keyboard around with him but a certain sparkle was definitely lost Jim But that's the thing - a light weight controller plugged into an iPho...

Absolutely not, I've missed the "full" sound of the keyboard bits in songs like "Nuclear Device". I recall there being talk somewhere about Dave wanting to experiment with what he thought of as more modern keyboard sounds rather than just sticking with the same thing all the tim...

I'm interested in this "Dave cheapo" kit thing. I know fuck all about keyboards but find it hard to believe that somebody of Dave's standing as an established musician wouldn't have anything but the very best equipment available.. Dave's set up in later years was very low end compared wit...

airflamesred wrote: ↑04 Nov 2021, 00:07 I'm pretty sure I read that it will be Dave's sounds until JJ says otherwise.

Is there an equipment list for Dave's setup (as it was 2019) anywhere? I know he had the controllers and a Novation synth but what sound modules/samplers did he use?

Here's a question: do you think that Mr Hounsham will be using the same equipment as Dave did live? Or will he try to mimic the sounds using a couple of synths? Important if they want to keep the same live experience. I believe he is using Daves keyboards. When I interviewed Baz recently he said th...