How to play "Won't Get Fooled Again" intro

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The VCA gated effect was very popular with many bands back in the day when that stuff first became accessible. If you listen to the beginning of “Shine on you crazy diamond”, there is a sparkling descending sound effect that is just an oscillator pitch going down and a fast gate is turning the sound on/off very fast

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First, thanks for providing this gig file. I had already watched the video of how you put it together.

When I played Blinded by the Light, I used an electric piano patch for the main riff, combined with organ and mellotron choir for the second part that comes in as you transition into the verse. The balanced between the organ and the mellotron choir is slightly different between the first and second verses, so my two expression pedals are assigned to those two sounds.

There is still one additional sound in Blinded by the Light I’ve never quite fiigured out. It’s that slightly ryhthmic sound that almost sounds like a string instrument being played by a bow. I just don’t have enough hands to make it happen :slight_smile:

Thanks again for the gig file!

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There is a credit on The Roaring Silence album for string arrangement.

It sounds to me like there are multiple subtle string parts in various places in the song. One fades up at about 0:18 and is following the top note of the EP. At about 0:25, it sounds like that one fades out and is replaced by the single repeated note with a gliss from below between lines. That’s the most prominent one, I think. Something like that repeats on the second verse, but gets dark sounding, then fades away at about 1:45. You can heard strings doing the 4 descending low notes at about 3:00 for a little while near the end as the bass is playing a repeated single note. And it sounds like the last about 10 seconds has strings on it. Or maybe that last part is synth.

ETA: The times are for the single version, without the guitar solo part.

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@dhj Could you put some pics of ARP2600 cabling and settings of this last configuration ? I’d like to reproduce the same but with Spectrasonic Omnisphere. Thank you!