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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3, fx

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Contest: Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3 played fx on In the Beginning by The Moody Blues (1969)

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osc
noise + 1 sine sub, texture stack, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub sine -1, noise 0.57
filter
BP 12 dB/oct, swept
cutoff
3507 Hz
resonance
0.58, drive 0.06
envelope
A 348 ms D 400 ms S 0.5 R 1073 ms; long manual sweep across the passage; filter env amount 0.7
modulation
lfo tri 0.09 Hz to cutoff, mono
effects
long plate/spring reverb, tape saturation, none
notes
The album's spoken-word opener famously used the band's new EMS VCS3 to generate the bird and nature sound effects behind Edge's narration, alongside Pinder's Mellotron and Hammond. Pinder's Mellotron and Hammond organ plus the band's new EMS VCS3 (played by Thomas and Edge) for the album's musique-concrete textures.

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