SOS NS2 Review

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SOS NS2 Review

Post by GRod926 »

In his review of NS2, Gordon Reid refers to applying the rotary speaker effect to other instruments and being able to call up sounds for "your favorite Beatle songs". This is more trivia than anything else, but does anyone know which songs he's referring to?

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Re: SOS NS2 Review

Post by Hanon_CTS »

Hello GRod926,
It seems that I can't read the review without buying it, and I'm not likely to do that.
However, I can only guess that many of the vintage sounds emulated by the NS2 evokes memories of "Get Back" "Strawberry Fields" "Lucy in the Sky" ....etc.
In reviewing the NS2 patch names, there are many homages to famous songs like "Tom Sawyer" "Axel F theme" "Logical Tramp" "Go and Jump" "WhiterShade"....etc
but I found few, if any with Beatles' song names.

Cheers, Hanon
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Re: SOS NS2 Review

Post by hapbarb »

My guess is that Reid was alluding primarily to G. Harrison's classic guitar-through-Leslie sound, as found on Cream's "Badge," and Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy." So more than Beatle SONGS, it's really a Beatle's POST-Beatles sound! The only instance of applying rotary to "other" instruments that I can think of on a Beatles disc is piano-through-Leslie on "Don't Pass Me By" (White Album). :)
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Post by bdodds »

Another speculation, but I'm thinking Strawberry Fields Forever's Mellotron flutes and the like combined with anything Billy Preston or Sir George Martin contributed on keys.

edit: (or for that matter any of the keys that the boys themselves played, there's quite a bit of it)
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I believe George Harrison's vocal goes through a leslie on Blue Jay Way as well.
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