Anyone here a Pheonix fan? They're a band from France, here's a song of theirs:
Anyway, here's a picture from their blog of some of the synths they use. Do you reckon they're touring that CS80? They titled the blog 'Preparing for tour'
I can't really imagine how expensive and risky it would be to tour with a CS80. I'm pretty sure they keep it in the studio. Heck, I've had problem transporting a Jupiter 4!
Re: Pheonix's synthesisers
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:20 am
by ERIC31
Aren't those CS-80's around 200 lbs? Not something I'd like to haul around!
Re: Pheonix's synthesisers
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:53 am
by tim gueguen
B3s weigh more than that and people still haul them around. But its more reliabilty I'd be concerned with than weight with a CS80, especially tuning stability.
Re: Pheonix's synthesisers
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:24 am
by iProg
The Yamah CS-80 weighs about 125 kg...the lower keyboard looks like a Korg Trident?
Re: Pheonix's synthesisers
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:50 am
by Operatron
Pfffff ! , the Phoenix Foundation has 3X the amount of awesome synths !:P,allthough I dunno if they just borrowed the synths for the video or they acctually own them.... , since the song itself doesn't acctually uses as much synths they are acctually pretending to be playing lol
Re: Pheonix's synthesisers
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:24 pm
by electro funker
They are a great band, the 1901 you linked to is a fantastic single. Though I allways thougt that their synth sound was more like roland jx-series, or something like that.
Re: Pheonix's synthesisers
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:24 pm
by T-John
I know that in the past ( for their first album, "United") they borrowed synths from both Air and Daft Punk for studio use, among them a CS-60. You hear it all over their records. If that's a snapshot of their CS-80, they've moved up a notch in the CS hierarchy since then...
Re: Pheonix's synthesisers
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 12:25 am
by Bitexion
But at CS-80 can be knocked completely out of tune with a swift bang to the side. A Hammond doesn't do that.
And it's a BIG job to retune it again with tiny screwdrivers..No autotune on those bitches, sadly.
Re: Pheonix's synthesisers
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 3:36 am
by tyrannosaurus mark
Operatron wrote:Pfffff ! , the Phoenix Foundation has 3X the amount of awesome synths !:P,allthough I dunno if they just borrowed the synths for the video or they acctually own them.... , since the song itself doesn't acctually uses as much synths they are acctually pretending to be playing lol
Haha! Yeah I know those guys, they're from my town (wellington). They don't tour with all that stuff (they don't seem to tour outside of NZ that much at all I don't think?), not outside of NZ anyway, looks cool in the video though
Here's Pheonix playing Saturday Night Live a month or two ago. What synths does he bring live? Don't see any CS-80
