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Moog Minimoog, lead

The Spirit · The Moody Blues / Single (1986)

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Contest: Moog Minimoog played lead on The Spirit by The Moody Blues (1986)

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Settings

osc
1 saw + 1 saw -5, wide lead stack, unison 2, detune 24 cents, sub none
filter
LP 24 dB/oct, vocal-like sweep
cutoff
2349 Hz
resonance
0.39, drive 0.31
envelope
A 33 ms D 200 ms S 0.75 R 471 ms; singing sweep tracking the melodic phrase; filter env amount 0.55
modulation
lfo sine 6.31 Hz to pitch, glide 38 ms, mono
effects
plate reverb medium, tape delay 1/4 feeding back once, none
notes
Edge and Moraz's rare co-write is built around a prominent lead Oberheim synthesizer line, Moraz's most compositionally central contribution to the band. Moraz's Oberheim and CS-80 stacks, Visconti pushing the synth textures further forward than on The Present.

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  • Seedsystem