Adrian Utley (Portishead)'s Synth Collection Tour
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Source visited Portishead's Adrian Utley in his home studio to get his reactions to the Arturia MiniBrute analog synth. While we were there Adrian gave us a tour of his analogue synth collection (the stuff that was there, that is!).
Massive thanks go to Adrian Utley for kindly letting us visit, and for sharing his thoughts.
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This guy is litteraly in love with his synths, and i find that beautiful.
sometimes i watch these musician collection videos and they just rub me the wrong way (*cough*...moby), but i would love to spend a week hanging out with Adrian. What a guy.
What a nice guy, I love the way his enthusiasm for sounds comes through, what a fantastic collection of kit, and nice to see an interviewer who really knows his stuff too - good job!
how cool to be able to get lost in sound and know that is just ok because you re part of Portshead!
6:10 - Beautiful spring reverb on the EMS
Hey, thanks. Adrian is such a nice bloke, it was a very easy interview to conduct!
this guy literally has ALL legendary synth devices
Maybe didn't notice but had he any Prophets?
stalkek I don't remember seeing one, but then he had other synths in storage and out for repair when I visited!
SourceDistributionTV Out for repair? That's what they all say. He's just a bloody amateur!
Ha!
yoyo
Adrian not only collects the synth, but the stories behind them
This unassuming synth boffin played one of THE greatest guitar solos on Glory Box by Portishead. Love this video
Sounds like a lovely chap. Incredible collection!
i love this video theres no bollocks at all - no stupid intro or self plugging just straight in there and ends on "is that enough" aha so good adrian is such a legend
The VCS among others is absolutely fabulous. I love the way the sound becomes a kind of hall of noises and voices at 6:20 ! We feel the passion and simplicity of Adrian Utley, so this visit is a pleasure, as with a friend opening his laboratory of sound !
This takes me back to the 70s. The good old days. I recently found a Prophet 10 in a junk shop for $100 (no cord). Easy to fix. They were so well made. Am looking for some old Moog equipment to fix too. Love electronics. Spent 50 years working with electronics in the aerospace industry.
fnersch Ouch!! That's quite a find...
fnersch who's so stupid and sells a prophet 10 for 100 bucks...
DBR This was about to be sold as scrap. It was no good to anyone. On a risk I offered them $100. It turned out to have a cracked circuit board. I was able to fix it. This is where my nearly 50 years of electronics experience came in. Sometimes specialized knowledge comes in handy.
fnersch you are a pretty lucky guy :o
The next best thing after building your own is fixing and using it. The satisfaction is immense, knowing that you made something work. And congratulations on such a great find.
The Minimoog Adrian used for live gigs sounds like the one I had restored and then sold to him in px for an SH101 !
No wonder why Portishead albums sound so immersive
as technology becoming more accessible and the real gear rear, these kind of videos are so great to have
thanks
"Amazing" to quote the narrator
Yep. Spring reverbs and modulars are a match made in heaven...
8:24 he's stroking his VCS3 because he's in love
So much gear, so little time... walking into that room must be heaven everyday. Great interview and insights, thanks for sharing this segment.
OMG, I would pay money just to be in that room and study his set-up.
i'm forever grateful
What a sweet collection.
I did the CV Gate jack socket mod on my SH-101 to run my Kenton MIDI-to-CV into it.
That won't be for sale till I'm dead...
great man and a great interview/tour, also enjoyed the MiniBrute video. Thanks for sharing this, particularly nice to see a video with such a well informed interviewer too, makes all the difference.
Did anyone else laugh in excitement like a little girl at Christmas?! Gosh I'd KILL to go & talk with Adrian about all these wonderful old synths. If you listen to Portishead's 3rd, which is probably one of the most expressive albums ever made, you can hear so much analog & organic detail that at parts you're overwhelmed with it all & become lost in it. In a way, Beth had less a spot light than in Dummy because of how powerful the synths were! Just madness!
Cool guy. Great musician.
The sound AU got out of his ARP was very much like Weather Report. Great sound.
i tried to purchase the Mini Moog which AU discusses in the interview but the sale sadly did not materialize. It was decorated in a Union Jack design !!
Great interview, thanks.
Love that final question, "is that enough?" No amount of synths is EVER enough :)
I recognise that voice... Mr Mylarmelodies!
I was just thinking it was Alex.
HE. HAS. A VCS3.
Jean Michel Jarre has 4 of them.
Of course he has 😇
Oh big deal
Fantastic Arp 2600
he has everything
He looks so happy playing with that vcs3 haha
Did anyone even see a polyphonic synth anywhere in sight? Idk why but if he's literally only using monophonic/duophonic and modular stuff, that is really impressive to me.
Very interesting, but I wish he would have played more of those synths :)
Portishead man
PS, Good last name!
If your 2600 board is anything like my Arp Omni, when you mash a key there's a wire on the inside that comes down and makes a connection to sound the note , that small wire will simply snap off . It's the easiest fix I've had on a board.. get a small piece of a solid guitar string like the G string and solder it on.. it'll be obvious what size to cut it just looking at the others.. I actually repaired it a couple of times between sets at a gig.. lol. Well good luck with it..
it looks very similar to my collection! I wish I had that mixing desk!
Beautiful
its unbelievable that if you can easily download digital copies of these for free... i dont want to imagine how much money was spent into that studio. anyway the analog sound is faaaaar far beyond the digital softsynths of today.
There is definitely at LEAST a quarter million dollars in that room
amen, sir.
This is pure heaven.
fantastic
My dream synths are
Yamaha motif XF
Korg titron
Roland Jupiter 8V
+animesaint :3 I daresay you'll accomplish said dream for very little money, mate.
I've been mucking about with breadboarding an LFO and using it on the VCF input on my old LG function gen, output to a speaker. Great fun, but I wish I was doing it on a Moog.
I'm pretty new to these synth sounds but I could imagine some of those sounds coming out of the panels on the Starship Enterprise (the 70's episodes). Finding myself immediately attracted to these sounds, no idea why though...
The vcs3 Reminds me of that song "I'm on a Mexican radio"
Eatin' barbecued iguana?
I dial it in from south of the border.
Thanks for this !
As soon as he mentioned Terry Riley's "In C" and showed us his Dymo-tape-labelled VCS3, I knew this guy was cool.
Love portishead. Now I know why!
Love to the Re-301 and the Echoplex.
what a room !!!
Pete Townshend is another musician famous for recording with the vcs3. He recorded an organ thru a VCS3 to get the intro/backing track for the song Wont get fooled again.
I wondered about that one too! Didn't ask about that on the day, does anyone know? He's got a Yamaha CS60 there too which we discussed briefly too but didn't make the final cut, and of course as he mentions, loads of other things being repaired or in storage elsewhere!
I remember the SH 101, borrowed it back in the day for a bit from you Guy`s to mess with in Studio 2 room and I loved it, I wonder if you ever used my Jupiter 6 in our main studio room ? circa mid 90`s
As if my respect for Adrian Utley could not go any higher, he knows and was friends with The Startled Insects. Blimey!
oh god, 6:09, what a sound. is that a built in spring reverb? lovely...
Adrian Utley strangely reminds me of Rick Stein... a useful comment.
Does Rick Stein get boob sweat?
great video!TX!
4:47, underneath the moog: Philicorda GM754 !!!!
Thanks, I couldn't work out what that was!
@@macronencer Small combo-organ made in the Netherlands, from the '60-s till early '70 (this one is the last model from 1972). Has a small cult-following over here (including me). Surprised (and a bit proud) to see it in the collection of a large international artist.
@@radiognome1971 I can imagine! Wow, so it's pretty rare then. I didn't even know.
Oh this thing on the floor. Just an SH-101. No biggie... put it back on the floor then? Right. Cheers.
Awesome
4:45 oh great --- Philips Philicorda GM-754 organ!!
Master !!!!!!!!!!
i saw a 808 under the arp 2600
Good spot sir!
Props!
Everyone needs a bottle of Olbas Oil in their studio.
Cerebral Vacation Ha I spotted that too. Proud to say I have one in mine.
Yes,a shout out to Joe Zawinul!!
Aye the on the run Floyd reference got me
Endless. Entertainment.
Fascinating it's like Aladdin's cave in there.
too cool!!!!!!
I wonder what happened to the vcs3 Middlesex poly had. I played on it a few times with Eddie Franklin white and another chap who gave us lessons. Can't remember where it was. Crouch hill?
Proper gear for a properly fed chap, nice!
omg when he turns on the vcs3
The legendary Robert Moog, "Bob" to Adrian Utley
How do people get to build up a studio like this? I know you start off small but this here is just tons of money. Anyway great interview. Guy sure knows his stuff :D
Back in the late 80's you could pick up this stuff for peanuts. Yamaha CS80s for £400 and Jupiter 8s and Minimoogs for £450 Sci Pro 1s, Moog Prodigys and Roland SH101s for £75. I wish I had the cash back then.
Because Portishead
That's like seeing human DNA and say "hey when worms became this!!?" WELLL..... Adrian spent his life being an artist loving and collecting his stuff dude !! DONT TRY to sound anything similar, this happened the last 20 years, you're watching the last 2 seconds of a Big Bang !, he's like a Blue Label Johnny Walker !!! Think if this sounds will survive next 30 years!! WHO KNOWS ?? he was moved by inspiration and love to music, not watching gear in youtube !!
If you were lucky to be collecting old analog synths when the digital revolution hit in the 80s, when people thought analog didn't have a future and sold the old gear for pennies on the dollar, you made out like a king. I wish I spent all my allowance and gift money on this stuff back then, but unfortunately wasn't into synths at the time.
Being a multi platinum global guitar sensation and songwriter will do this for you.
ems vcs=electronic music studio voltage controlled studio
Shepard Fairy is everywhere. Sick
Love my sh 101 and yes I thought the Brute was similar
anyone else knocking one out over this?
Cool guy
You forgot to demonstrate the Philicorda under the Mini Moog
This guy is a freakin genius.and if you don't believe it,listen to portishead
dope
So many times i watched this, now i can hear its mr mylar melodies haha
Nice video >>>>>>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Philips Philicorda GM754. not quite a synth, but sounds lovely.
I came here to see the Casio SK-1, where is it!? 😅
Anyone know what mini piano he plays on the Live NYC concert in the beginning of the show?
Is that a odyssey ppc controller on the 2600's keyboard?
Wel thats the first time...
Nice collection aaaaaarg
Dang!!!!
Rumor has it, Korg is following up the Odyssey remake with a 2600 remake. How close is that to being a reality?
Was Adrian Utley really involved with the making of In C? Never heard it, but I know it came out on Columbia Records at the exact same time as Switched-On Bach.
No I think he was saying he was involved in a performance of it!
Turns out you were right! KARP 2600 is a thing now (and possibly Behringer too)
Was that a Roland Echo Plex sitting on the top ??..
No, Roland did not make Echoplex. That is a Roland Space Echo. Very similar to an Echoplex though. It was based on it. Not sure if the Roland has tubes though.
I think the model he has there is the RE 150
@@craigbenttimaki2806 I hear ya.. the Roland we used back then had chorus and echo.. tape driven .. I remember the name echoplex.. I think we had a space echo . Wish I had it now..
mylar melodies guy?
What is the organ or synth which is beneath the old minimoog??? they pass it over, looks an interesting thing
Oh , just realized it shows , sh 101 , I'm a guitar player, composer, been into keyboards for backgrounds and stuff always but now I want something analog, so I'm looking into getting the Minibrute, but the 101 might be a good option too ?
microbrute is probably a better bet. it's got a patch bay that allows you to control the destination of several parameters and it's also directly compatible with eurorack.
TheRealHucasys add eurocrack modulares like clouds and the harmonic resonator with the efeverb in a separate case
TheRealHucasys two years later, how did you feel about the minibrute? I have a similar story to you and just recently got into synths then fell in love with the dirrrrty bass sounds I'm getting out of the thing.
Korg Minilogue. It’s not super complicated. Has a great workflow, it’s analogue, and even though it’s relatively cheap musicians everywhere love the hell out of it. It’s a great intro synth for learning with lots of tutorials on RUclips.
Anyone know the actual name of the 'dot dash' shelving system they talk about in this?
EDIT: It's DEXION in case anyone else wants to know.
oh shit is that @mylarmelodies???