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Keyboardist Richard Wright purchased this Farfisa Compact Duo organ in 1966 and played it up to 2006. He fed its distinctive sound into a Binson Echorec to create a delayed echo. This gave his music a distinctive ethereal character; an integral element in Pink Floyd's early work
festival Rockabilly Noisy Boys et des H-Bombs
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Praktica B200 ,Praktica B Mount , Adapter M42 + Yashica Yashinon-DX 50 mm f/ 1.4 Lens
Camera Pentax Z-1 , 35mm , film 24x36 , lens Tamron 24mm 2.5 ________________
FUJICOLOR SUPER G 100 ASA Fujifilm
Here's something that's been sitting around for a while waiting to be finished. A few weeks ago I finally ordered a big ol' enclosure for it and the tracking came through for that yesterday, so it's time to finish this thing up. It's an extremely complicated little beastie and I don't actually even know if it will work when I fire it up.
It's a 1776 Effects Multiplex Echo Machine delay. Those two 16-pin ICs are a pair of independent delay lines. This thing has a mode where it functions like the old Binson Echorec. Those things recorded audio onto a disc that looked a little like a CD (but was nothing at all like a CD) and then had multiple playback heads so you could "listen" to the signal play back from different places on the timeline simultaneously to set up syncopated delays. It was the, "Secret Weapon" of a few big names.
This box also has a Roland RE-201 Space Echo mode and an Echoplex mode.
Anyway, hopefully this little monster will work. The tiny PCB in the foreground is an optical modulation daughterboard.
Binson mémoire système Echorec
Lorsque BINSON ECHOREC, unités d'écho ont été introduits dans la fin des années 1950, la technologie des effets se limitaient aux effets de studio, des retards de bandes, chambres de réverbérations et la compression par tube. Les avantages de la Ecorce sur les autres machines d'écho est la qualité du son, le silence et la stabilité. Echorec a été considéré comme le sommet de la gamme d'écho.
L'appareil utilise 7 tubes, 1X ECC82 , 5X ECC83 et une EM84 pour l'oeil magique.
Right now they're a heinous pair of earrings, though. But when I file the post off one of them and epoxy it to the control panel of the Binson Echorec simulator I'm building...well, it still may look heinous, but it will be COOL! That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
'67 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Farfisa Compact Duo organ with power supply and gold Binson Echorec T5E, 1960s.
Richard Wright purchased this Farfisa Compact Duo organ in 1966 and played it as late as 2006. Its signal was passed into a Binson Echorec to create echo and delay sound. Nick Mason comments: 'Rick's Farfisa Duo - at a time when other keyboard players would probably have been using a Hammond organ or Vox Continental - was renowned for producing an extremely distinctive sound, which contributed to our overall sonic character.'
Syd Barrett stuff.
The left guitar is a Fender Esquire with mirrored body. A replica of a 1960s guitar owned by Syd Barrett. Constructed by Phil Taylor in 2014. (Pink Floyd collection)
Syd Barrett decorated his Fender Esquire guitar with silver Mylar reflective sheeting and polished metal circles. It’s mirrored surface reflected and enhanced the mesmerizing effects of Pink Floyd’s light show onstage. The original guitar is now lost.
The right guitar is a Danelectro Shorthorn from 1963.
To the right is a Selmer Stereomaster amplifier, Benson Echorec Baby (1967 model), Vox pedal and Zippo lighter (early 1960s model). (Pink Floyd collection)
Selmer Stereomaster amplifiers were used from 1966 and onwards by the Pink Floyd members. Syd used to plug his guitar sound through a Binson Echorec Baby, an advanced echo machine of the time. And the Zippo lighter, as we all know, were used as a guitar slide (the most known example is the beginning of the song See Emily Play)
Signal chain goes:
1. TC Electronic Polytune Noir Mini 2 tuner
2. AMT LLM-2 volume pedal
3. Area 51 wah
4. Hoxton OWL
5. Walrus Voyager overdrive
6. Skreddy Lunar Module Mini Deluxe fuzz
7. Earthquaker Grand Orbiter phaser
8. Catalinbread Echorec delay
9. Moog Minifooger MF Delay
(at this point, the signal splits into stereo)
10. Walrus Descent reverb
11. Electro-Harmonix Super Pulsar tremolo (rate controlled by Roland EV-5 expression pedal)
12. Pigtronix Infinity looper
Board power comes from a Walrus Phoenix power supply. Wiring is all Evidence Audio's Monorail signal cable. The board itself is Chemistry Design Werks' Dragonfly 1.0
If the Farfisa organ defined the moods of early Pink Floyd songs, the Binson Echorec defined the sound effects.
Examples of the classic Binson delay effect can be heard on songs such as "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Astronomy Domine". In Floyd's 23-minute epic piece "Echoes", Roger Waters used a Binson Echorec to create the eerie underwater wind noise heard during the first interlude.
Ricks Farfisa Compact Duo organ was a significant part of Pink Floyds sound in the early years, especially combined with the echo unit Binson Echorec seen on the next picture.
Farfisa was - and still is - a manufacturer of electronics based in Ancona, Italy. The name is commonly associated with compact electronic organs from the sixties.
festival Rockabilly Noisy Boys et des H-Bombs
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Praktica B200 ,Praktica B Mount , Adapter M42 + Yashica Yashinon-DX 50 mm f/ 1.4 Lens
A Concert of Music and Psychogeography at Glasgow University, 28th January 2009. A series of works by composer in residence Drew Mulholland.
Mark Pilkington performed with John Cavanagh, whose EMS VCS 3, Binson Echorec etc. are seen on the right.
'67 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
On the left, Fender Esquire guitar with mirrored body. Replica of a 1960s guitar owned by Syd Barrett. Constructed by Phil Taylor, 2014.
Back right, Selmer Stereomaster amplifier and Binson Echorec Baby, 1967. Selmer Stereomaster amps were used by members of Pink Floyd from 1966 onwards. Syd Barrett fed his guitar sound into a Binson Echorec Baby, an expensive and cutting-edge echo machine. Echorecs were central to the early Pink Floyd sound and the band used various models, including the Baby and the T5E. Syd also created experimental sounds by using his Zippo lighter as a guitar slide, a trick possibly inspired by Keith Rowe of the band AMM.
David Gilmour's Vox pedal, Power Boost Pedal, Fuzz Face Distortion Pedal, Green Binson Echorec 2 and Fender Stratocaster Replica.
Farfisa Compact Duo organ with power supply and gold Binson Echorec T5E from the 1960s.
Rick Wright purchased this Farfisa organ in 1966 and played it as late as 2006. The signal was passed through the Binson Echorec T5E to create echo and delay and became a key part of Pink Floyds unique sonic character.
Pink Floyd - Their Mortal Remains Exhibition
13 May to 15 October 2017
Victoria & Albert Museum
London, England, UK
B+W negative (Holga branded fomapan 400 ISO + Kodak D76 1:1) developed at The Asheville Darkroom. Later projected onto foam core with a Dukane Micromatic II film strip projector. Digitally acquired in 2 shots with a Casio EX-ZR100 and reassembled in photoshop.
This thing hurt my dang brain to build. It's a 1776 Effects Multiplex Echo Machine. It's a dual-delay that has three modes that simulate a Binson Echorec, an Echoplex and a Roland Space Echo, respectively. I added on the optical modulation circuit (the two knobs on the left). The right footswitch is on/off and the left footswitch ramps up the speed of the Delay 2 line.
This is a really cool pedal, but almost all the sounds are really trippy, atmospheric stuff that I have no idea how to use musically. Someone years ago said I like, "German Delay." I want it to be exactly where I expect it and behave predictably at all times. I'm all like, "You're saying I'm a control freak, aren't you?" He's all, "I've known you for years and I've never seen the feedback on your delay set for more than one repeat." Yeah, so?
Tight squeeze. Tighter than I thought, actually. Getting that big rotary switch on the panel before the crease is going to be tricky.
This is a 1776 Effects Multiplex delay board with optical modulation daughterboard.
It can do Echoplex and Space Echo simulation modes, but the real draw is a dual-delay Binson Echorec simulation, which gets that David Gilmour syncopated delay thing that nothing else will really do properly.
Assuming I can build this without fouling it up somehow. Complicated little project.