Hi there
Yes, Pete Waterman was not a fan of the Fairlight.
(more the money he paid rather than the instrument itself I'm lead to believe)
He didn't like spending large amounts on instruments. It was used
more than Peter lets on as you can here it
on allot of track.The Series III library can be heard allot on the "Hit Factory"
songs but also allot of vocals were sampled. I still don't know if they
owned or rented a Series III but I'll look into it. I do know that there are
samples out there on 8" disk and samples on Tape Streamer (Series III) It's hard
to tell what is Emulator or Fairlight as these songs were produced in
top professional Studio and unless they only use the factory library would
you be able to tell. They used library but also allot of there own
samples. He did have a Emulator II+ and a Emulator III and was a big fan.
They had the best of the best. You can when at that time 80% of the UK charts
were S.A.W. I remember someone told me that Pete had just over 100 number 1's.
If this is true WOW....... I must find out for sure.
Hope this helps
Regards
Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: andyneilg@aol.comSent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 6:54 AMSubject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Less illustrious CMI users..."Pete could not get to grips with it and complained about paying the cost of it."
That sounds like Pete Waterman!!
Does this mean that the vocal sampling in SAW records (Mel and Kim for instance) is Fairlight sampled? I always thought it sounded more like an Emulator, which raises for me an interesting question. Is it easy to tell whether a Fairlight or Emulator has been used for (vocal) sampling?
Andy
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