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Thanks Will, and sorry for the late answer!
I use a fair amount of effect pedals, and though I used to be an "all analog" man, I've been using digital pedals for a few years now, my favorite brand is Source Audio.
Every effect your hear on the album is from Source Audio, except the Wah, and some of the Overdriven sounds, though I also use their L.A Lady overdrive on this album.
Thanks again for your feedback and your kind words!

Hey everyone,
I'm very happy to announce the release of the first album of my group "Solar Magnet", the title of the album is "Dreams Ablaze".
It's filled with Rhodes.

Here's a link to our SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/solarmagnet4/albums
(We're also on every music streaming service)

Here's a link to watch one of the video we shooted while recording : https://youtu.be/lyzT2IXG3wU?si=2QQrgYfRbMJFqtS8

I hope you'll like it, please tell me what you think, like, dislike!
Best,
Jean-Pascal from Paris

 

Nicely done!

Sweet!

Thanks!

Thank you Alan!

De rien!
Thank you for the kind words, I'm very happy with my Rhodes sound these days, and wanted to share!
Have a nice day!

Hey all,
Here's a video I just posted, a version of "How Deep Is The Ocean", lots of Rhodes here. (And a bit of Arturia MicroBrute)

https://youtu.be/GfmvMglbRVY

Thank you very much !
 

Hey all,

Just made that video, a cover of "i heard it through the gravepine", there's Rhodes and stuff...Hope you'll like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZy7cBvTV0

you could also try EHX Ring Thing with an expression pedal.

Nice music and a good moment with a MkII Rhodes, but the bad guy of the show plays it!

Philippe Potier, près de Rennes :

http://www.fenderrhodes.com/v2/service/254/One+More+Tine+Rennes+Bretagne+FR.html

The best...

Hi Guys,
My favorite phaser is the ehx stereo polyphase, the smooth sound of the small stone, but with many more possibilities to adjust the effect to what you like.
Here's a link for Maestro Lovers:
http://www.heptode.com/fr/pedale_d_effet_virtuoso.php
I brought an amp that needed some fixing to this guy, he's very good.
I think you can buy this pedal in The US(Heptode is near Paris...Where I live)

hey chris,
i tried many delay pedals and love the "diamond memory lane jr" for its very clean, clear, (and yet fat) sound, and how easy it is to use.the modulation on it is really beautiful too.
for "dirty" repeats i use a "malekko echo 600(B)", which i also really like very much.
these two stompboxes are on my board, always ready for the rhodes.

i also use a "catalinbread montavillian" for my moog synth, really nice, can be both subtle or omnipresent, and with a tone settings for the repeats, which allows you to have many differents moods....

you should try to put the wah first

Thanks! it was really fun to record this, though programming drums can be a real pain.
I have a few other tunes to record, and hopefully will bring themon stage with real human musicians...

hey guys,
here's a new tune i made entirely on an ipad, using auria app...
https://soundcloud.com/jean-pa/olympiads
hope you'll like it!
jp

Here are a few mini sound clips with ehx stereo polyphase(which i use in mono...)

http://soundcloud.com/jean-pa/ehx-polyphase/s-Ll9Lk

I've tried many phasers and this one i like the most

I love the pure sound of the Rhodes, but also want/need to add effects on it...
I've tried many stompboxes, and am happy now with this:

1)Near Feet:
Wahzoo
Germanium 4 Big Muff
Stereo Polyphase
Malekko Echo600 B

2)Near Hands:
Diamond MLJr
MXR M-134 Chorus
MXR M-159 Tremolo/Pan
Boss DD7
TC Hall of Fame

The 2 other stompboxes on the photos are for a slimphatty...

very cheap and easy:

http://www.thomann.de/fr/millenium_laptopstand.htm

i put velcro on it, and on the bottom of a small synth, and it's ok.

thanks again for your suggestions and helpful informations.
i tried a tetra and didn't like it(though i really wanted to like it too)
i tried a little phatty (1st version) this weekend, and really liked it.(very much)
so i'm about to go for the slim phatty, and control it with a 61 keys masterkeyboard.
i'll come back here with my first impressions soon!

thanks for your answer, and for your questions!

-i don't need any audio input
-the midi/usb thing can be convenient to edit sounds, right?but not a priority for me.
-i really go for a monophonic synth(and tried a mopho and didn't like it, cause i found it too "agressive"(but maybe i just didn't manage to make it smoother)
-number of keys are very important to me, and that's why it doesn't really matter to me( ) cause i could buy a desktop synth, or a 25 keys synth, and control it with a midi keyboard.
-for the moment i have a little mixer (mackie 402vlz3), i plug rhodes and synth and then it goes to 2 guitar amps (zt amps the club), or in the sound engineer mixer.
-i have no problem with buying used stuff, if it's in good conditions of course
-it is for gigging, absolutely yes
-i'm looking primarily for leads, but will play some bass too

i've seen a few demos of the novation bass station2, but not sure about the way it would sound for leads, i've tried the mopho and didn't like it, and the plug-in host i have (plugiator)...well...it's a plug-in host...but i'll keep it for pads and/or small gigs.
the minibrute seemed fine too, but no presets!
so back to the slimphatty(or subphatty, but i prefer to have no keys than 25, and it's more expensive, and there are some slim phattys on the used market...)

thanks for the advice about oscillators stability

hi,
i'd like to have a better (and analog) synth on my rhodes,i had a "use audio plugiator", and a "eowave domino", both very different but nice in their own way.
i love the moog sounds(who doesn't?), especially for its possibility to get sweet, soft but fat leads, and i think i'd go for the slimphatty, the cheapest of all, but the only one i can afford now...
does anyone here have any suggestions?

it's so nice and sweet, it would need another cover to cover the cover

I'd go with the yamaha p90 or p80, they have a good piano sound and a more realistic touch response than many other "light" keyboards, i had a p90 that i liked very much when i had to be far from my accoustic piano...

desert island?

Thanks, here's another one with a few other effects:

https://soundcloud.com/jean-pa/mini-demo-germanium4-big-muff

I'd be happy to go to wisconsin, i must find a way to find good gigs in paris first,a world tour will come next

very nice delay pedal,
short demo here:

http://soundcloud.com/jean-pa/mini-demo-memory-lane-jr

i like what i hear all along, but prefer from the beginning till 0'18", then at 0'32, and at the end.
the sound is richer, more dynamic, is it the mark1?

hi,
around 150$ i think (not shure, the prices aren't the same here in europe!)you can get the mxr m134 stereo chorus.
i tried many chorus pedals(well, not so many, but at least 10)and liked this one immediatly.
it's creamy, deep, and has enough control knobs to get the sound you need for a song.(important maybe,it's in 18v)
i use it in this video all the time, and change a few settings on the pedal at 1:17 and back at 1:50 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP7qaW24mec&feature=plcp

i want to have 1 (or 2) synth and my rhodes together on the same amp for small gigs, and was looking at the kc150, has anyone tried it?
the bigger one (kc350) is too heavy and loud(and expensive) for me...

I'm very happy with Dunlop MXR M159.
Tremolo and Pan, and stereo IN if you have other stereo effects you want to put before that.

charlie,
if you're new to all this, i think you don't want to spend too much money on something you don't exactly know what it sounds like.
some effect pedals mentionned here are really excellent but are almost the price of your piano.
on the other hand, buying too cheap stuff won't bring you anything but bad sound.
i am myself the happy owner of a 76 stage73, but only for two years, and had the same questions about effects.
i began with cheap stompboxes and it was a bad thing because it sounds not good, and they're hard to get rid of.
now i have mostly "middle price" stompboxes(here in europe, about 200 euros each), and am very happy with them.
it's mainly ehx and mxr stuff, except the overdrive (fulltone ocd v4)and the wha (voodoo lab whazoo).
good search!
jean-pascal

by "solo" i meant there's nothing but rhodes, no bass, no drums or anything.
thank you very much for your comment, i hope i'll record in good conditions someday!

hi guys,
this one is a solo one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP7qaW24mec&feature=plcp

hope you like it!

first thing that comes to mind:
pan effect(square wave form or close to that),synchronised to the tempo of the tune, in eigth note i think.

Found this under the tolex on the lid of a Suitcase 73 that's in the shop for restoration. Anyone know who M.B. is?

Mr Bean ?

This is what i use and I'm very happy with it (works with a regular 9v battery):


EL POTATOR is a brand new active pre amp designed for the Rhodes stage piano.
low, hi, mid EQ and volume controls. fits perfectly the rail with original nameplate.
easy to install.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iy1CCOAllI


One More Tine:
http://www.fenderrhodes.com/v2/service.html

Or...
It can FEEL lighter...if you're stronger!
work out

why wouldn't you try a boss ls-2 or a "stompbox size" little mixer?
it works great.

by the way, i use it to have  both the stereo outputs of 2 stompboxes that are mono in and stereo out(ehx polyphase and mxr chorus)...it took me a few headaches to solve that

an effect i'd like to have...

i have a nord electro 3 73 and really like the sounds (rhodes,clavinet,wurlitzer)
there's a sample section in which you can load many sounds from the nord sample library.(mellotron,strings and much more)
the B3 is  excellent, and there are farfisa and vox sections.
i bought it to rehearse and gig (9 kg...)
the only thing i don't like is the waterfall keys but i got used to it now( though it's ok with the organ sounds of course)
and also there is no delay.

these two "problems" have been solved in the last edition : nord electro 3 hp : heavier touch and a delay section with tap tempo, and apparently it's always lightweight!

i have played the korg twice and liked it, but not as much as the nord!
last thing: in real life i really like  my mk1, but the mk5 sound on the nord is the one i prefer because it's clear in every range of the keyboard.

a few pics of my stage73:

https://picasaweb.google.com/115155801831460433127/RhodesPics

i recently bought a fulltone ocd (v4).
i like it very much.

i had a boss od-1, a digitech bad monkey, a ibanez ds10, a maxon od-820, and to my ears the fulltone reacts really good to the dynamics of the rhodes. (better than the ones i had before)

also it's good to get punchy sounds from a wah used as a sort of booster, or if you have some kind of eq, or just getting the rhodes mics nearer to the tines, or mixing a bit of all that

happy with my 73, but i have to say that a few lower notes would be great!
my ideal rhodes would be a 80!
C lowest note and G highest...any good tech interested in building it?

Thanks for the kind words.

About the amps...it's such a subjective thing...

First you should post in the right section of this forum: amps.effects and recording techniques:

http://ep-forum.com/smf/index.php?board=3.0

and reading what has already been written there should help you finding your way through all this...or not?

About the ce-3, what i meant was that it lowers the signal and eats a lot of bass.
The MXR (M-134 stereo chorus) is still in production, but i'm shure other rhodes players won't agree it's better than the ce-3!
Again...personnal choice.

I know only the demos on youtube about the vintage vibe preamp so can't tell very much about it except that it seems great.

sorry for being not very helpful, and for my bad english too!

i don't know this amp, but i think everyone agrees that 12" is a good choice.
i think a plain solid state amp, with no fx or amp simulation would fit better, but a little bit more money will help,or for the same price a fm65r?
i really like some effects in stereo (chorus,phaser,delay, panner...of course)and sitting at my rhodes, in between of two amps is a real pleasure!
about the ce-3, it gives this spatial effect rather well, but considering the dynamics and the settings possibilities i would highly recommand the mxr stereo chorus, or any other chorus that wouldn't be a "tone sucker"...like the ce-3 i own is!

Are the late 1975 and 1976 the bastard rhodes that no one wants? Thats all I ever see being sold.

I can never find a 1972 or a earlier 1975.

the rhodes i have is a 1976 piano, and sounds really good to me...but a great rhodes specialist worked on it before i bought it...

great job, bravo!!!and thanks!

thanks!
i'm looking for a reverb with stereo inputs,not too expensive but with quality sound and in a stompbox pedal...
i still think i'm gonna get the cathedral,but the nova reverb seems good too...any thoughts or advice here?

ok i hear the ghost note you're talking about.
it's in fact an A, i think the player uses here his right thumb...