10/01/2008

TV On The Radio's awesome vectorscope video

Nick writes: "TV on the Radio has a great video posted to their MySpace page. It sounds like a song composed of one synth track and looks to be run through an oscilloscope. I could be wrong about that. I can't tell what the hardware is. Anyhow, beautiful video. While I was watching I thought to myself, "I wonder why I'm not watching this on MusicThing"? I think it's a vectorscope - one commenter suggests from an SSL 9000. Anyone know more? Anyone willing to buy TVOTR a decent video camera?
UPDATE: It looks a lot like a DK MSD200. Thanks, Kåre.

15 comments:

  1. synth? it's clearly a rhodes.

    Wavelab does this when you are recording - it doesn't have the same analogue beauty, but is anyhow pretty mesmerizing.

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  2. Anonymous3:31 pm

    Possibly not a synth. The tag reads "rhodes", which seems to imply to me it's a distorted rhodes (or patch) and some delay to me. Which I often like better than synths anyway :)

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  3. Anonymous3:31 pm

    ah, beat me to it.

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  4. Anonymous3:45 pm

    It looks like a Stereo version of the DK MSD600M++5.1 meter made by DK. The best digital metering I've ever used.

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  5. Anonymous5:48 pm

    It looks like a MSD 200 which has a yellow EL-display. That model was made by dk-audio (now DK-Technologies) some years ago.

    The audio vector scope (the middle part of the display) is a really cool tool for seeing all kind of properties of a stereo signal.

    See page 13 and 14 here if you want to know more: http://www.dk-technologies.com/downloads/Audio%20Levels.pdf

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  6. Amazing. Maybe Windows Screensaver is inspired in this :)

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  7. Anonymous3:38 am

    probably the other way around

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  8. Anonymous11:32 pm

    you guys might like this, as its quite similar in concept: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=31592

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  9. Anonymous11:26 am

    It's from their song Love Dog

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  10. Anonymous6:56 pm

    Robin Fox has been similar type stuff with lasers.
    see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yM7WTvSKu4&feature=related.

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  11. I composed a piece for the harmonograph... kind of similar
    http://www.lunetta.com.br/avea/1_sound_space/dorian/dorian.html

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  12. Anonymous10:55 pm

    I would guess its the scope from an SSJ 9000 J board, specifically the one at Chalice Studios in West Hollywood. I only can guess at this based on the fact that the folks from tv on the radio (david specifically, who was on the lemonade/maple syrup/cayenne pepper diet at the time) were mixing across the way while I was mixing my album with spike stent for a few weeks in june/jul at the SSL G board there at chalice. btw the nin year zero also was mixed by reznor and a.moulder at that same board. amazing studio, that chalice.

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  13. I second the SSL comment, from the one I saw at the old track record studios.

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  14. Anonymous3:27 pm

    Yes it is From a SSL 4 Sure

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  15. Anonymous7:10 am

    its just a Lissajous waveform of the stereo audio.
    Here is mine:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl507zEkxD0

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