What were they playing?
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Who saw what? I saw a Fender P-Bass and a couple Ashdown 610 bass cabinets.
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Rusty has had a Jazzmaster on MIA lately
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Saw Rusty with an old Danelectro at the Carrier Dome last Saturday.
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Saw the priceless Hofner.
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We saw Paul in Brisbane 2017... finally, after waiting my whole life
Anyway, I NEED to know what Wix (Paul Wickens) was playing. It was some sort of wind synth he was blowing into. We only got a quick glipse of it every now and then and I don't even know what to Google to find it Any ideas??
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Rita Lin wrote:
We saw Paul in Brisbane 2017... finally, after waiting my whole life
Anyway, I NEED to know what Wix (Paul Wickens) was playing. It was some sort of wind synth he was blowing into. We only got a quick glipse of it every now and then and I don't even know what to Google to find it Any ideas??
He demonstrates it in this clip,
(starting at 1:38), and uses it in, e.g., Lady Madonna for the sax sounds. He says in the clip that it's a TEControl Breath Controller (MIDI I assume).Glad you Aussies finally got your long overdue visit!
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Rita Lin wrote:
We saw Paul in Brisbane 2017... finally, after waiting my whole life
Anyway, I NEED to know what Wix (Paul Wickens) was playing. It was some sort of wind synth he was blowing into. We only got a quick glipse of it every now and then and I don't even know what to Google to find it Any ideas??
https://www.keyboardmag.com/artists/wix-wickens-zen-and-the-art-of-multitasking
"As soon as the breath controller came out from Yamaha, the BC1, that was like another foot pedal for me. I used that to add brightness to things, or to try and play pretend wind instruments back in the day. I was a very early adopter of that and I’ve used it ever since. I use that in MainStage all for the sax sounds and I use it on the brass now to give it a bit of timbre to help the swells."
