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ARP synths of the mid 70s part III

How are y’all doing on this snowy day… listening to some mid-seventies Tangerine Dream LPs and flippin thru a giant pile of old DOWNBEAT mags that I picked up at an estate sale this past wknd along with an enormous radio. Here’s a few ARP bits+bobs that caught my eye. Anyone have the above-depicted demo record?

The ARP Odyssey c. 1977

The ARP Minus Noise Mixer c.1976. Anyone know exactly what is the gimmick here?

Herbie Hancock at the 2600

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Also this is pretty neat

chris

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Joey D'Kaye says:

01/24/2014 at 12:03 am

The Minus Noise Mixer's gimmick is that has a one-knob noise gate/expander on the main output. We had one of these at Don Wehr's Music City as our keyboard demo controller. The noise gate worked fairly well, as long as you didn't overdo it. It also had an onboard spring reverb. Strangely, it was a monophonic mixer, but it had two XLR main outputs on the back that were simply the same mono mix. It did however make it easy to feed a stereo power amp directly (bridge/parallel switches on power amps were not very common in the 70s.)