The Secret Weapon

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Fredd-E

Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:31 pm

polar sky wrote:It's on ebay.


ebay schmebay
Hexagon_Son

Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:10 pm

BunnyRabbit wrote:
Hexagon_Son wrote:Awhile back, in one of their interviews, they mentioned a Grundig tape machine that they use. They said it has a sort of "magic eye" on it, and when you hit that magic eye at just the right level, it's at that exact spot that it is saturating the tape, and once they accomplish that they believe it's like "adding a thousand years grain to the audio."

Two examples of an old Grundig - The Grundig Technicolor:

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Oooh no, I don't think so. I think they're refering to a reel-to-reel from the TK series of machines.

Something like this TK5 http://www.rolaa.de/sehensw/radio/tonband/tape1/tape1/tk5_e.htm

I couldn't find one with a good picture or description of the magic eye just now but there's loads of bumf on the web.
Yeah, you're right. It even mentions the magic eye in the spec's.
wwbjd

Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:34 pm

"The Magic Eye"

Holy crap, never noticed that on the Grundig before.

What happens when you play Magic Window through the Magic Eye?
polar sky

Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:25 pm

wwbjd wrote:"The Magic Eye"

Holy crap, never noticed that on the Grundig before.

What happens when you play Magic Window through the Magic Eye?


You still don't hear anything.
polar sky

Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:26 pm

Fredd-E wrote:
polar sky wrote:It's on ebay.


ebay schmebay


your mom is a schmebay. what ever that means. :wink:
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Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:39 pm

polar sky wrote:
Fredd-E wrote:
polar sky wrote:It's on ebay.


ebay schmebay


your mom is a schmebay. what ever that means. :wink:


:lol: :lol: :lol:
wwbjd

Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:50 pm

polar sky wrote:You still don't hear anything.


Any other dreams you want to crush?
polar sky

Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:56 pm

wwbjd wrote:
polar sky wrote:You still don't hear anything.


Any other dreams you want to crush?


Hahaha. I love magic window. It is said that a magic window can open other dimensions. Cause of it's frequency.

The life energy frequency (in the near ultraviolet): Magic window

38000-40000 Hz: Magic window

1.1-1.3 MHz: Magic window

150-160 kHz: Magic window

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriang ... freq6.html

I am sure you know this already, but you know? For people who don't.
steve-o

Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:02 pm

polar sky wrote:
steve-o wrote:here is the real secret weapon.........They are extremely talented musicians, with experimental leanings. I think folks forget that no matter what synths, ice cream machines, coffee makers, gongs, bongs, thongs, headphones, samplers, butter cherner, mousetrap, ninendo, chopstix, phonebooths they use, Boards of Canada first and formost are amazing musicians.


Oh shut the hell up :wink: I just posted this because they said they had a secret weapon, I thought this sounded like something they would use. It's a really nice synth. Of course they were most likely kidding around. Of course they're good musicians. I love the music I listen to cause it is good, it has a lot to with me and I'll make up my own mind what it is about. You don't have to get all, "I am a real musician who doesn't dig too deep to find the truth about the music, cause I am that damn good". Pfffff. You don't need to tell me they are good musicians. I know.


Yo, calm down. It wasn't directed at you or anyone in particular. Also i'm not sure where you got that quote, because I sure don't remember saying anything like that nor would I ever. I wasn't posting a "better-than-thou-post". My point was that they would make great music if the "secret weapon" was Auntie Hellen's silverware or just an acoustic guitar.
polar sky

Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:36 am

steve-o wrote:
polar sky wrote:
steve-o wrote:here is the real secret weapon.........They are extremely talented musicians, with experimental leanings. I think folks forget that no matter what synths, ice cream machines, coffee makers, gongs, bongs, thongs, headphones, samplers, butter cherner, mousetrap, ninendo, chopstix, phonebooths they use, Boards of Canada first and formost are amazing musicians.


Oh shut the hell up :wink: I just posted this because they said they had a secret weapon, I thought this sounded like something they would use. It's a really nice synth. Of course they were most likely kidding around. Of course they're good musicians. I love the music I listen to cause it is good, it has a lot to with me and I'll make up my own mind what it is about. You don't have to get all, "I am a real musician who doesn't dig too deep to find the truth about the music, cause I am that damn good". Pfffff. You don't need to tell me they are good musicians. I know.


Yo, calm down. It wasn't directed at you or anyone in particular. Also i'm not sure where you got that quote, because I sure don't remember saying anything like that nor would I ever. I wasn't posting a "better-than-thou-post". My point was that they would make great music if the "secret weapon" was Auntie Hellen's silverware or just an acoustic guitar.


I hear ya man. Sorry about that.
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Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:50 pm

wow, wicked find polar sky! becoming a bit of a budding synth geek myself, this is definetly interesting to hear. but yeah, i DEFINETLY recognize the sound.
thedisavowed

Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:39 am

polar sky wrote:
wwbjd wrote:"The Magic Eye"

Holy crap, never noticed that on the Grundig before.

What happens when you play Magic Window through the Magic Eye?


You still don't hear anything.



It spits out a secret code revelaing the secret location of a secret party held on a secret island in a secret place somewhere near the secretive United kingdom. Only real boc fans, who study and know such secrets, can fully focus their chi in such a way as to interpret and respond to the message.

I am one of the few who have responded.
wwbjd

Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:59 am

That Yamaha CS70m still looks freakin' HOT.

In the meantime.. I still had some fun with my Korg Mono/Poly this weekend.

Korg Mono/Poly
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Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:07 am

wwbjd wrote:That Yamaha CS70m still looks freakin' HOT.

In the meantime.. I still had some fun with my Korg Mono/Poly this weekend.

Korg Mono/Poly


thats funny...I was just playing monopoly with my little sister...
wwbjd

Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:30 pm

Cupz wrote:thats funny...I was just playing monopoly with my little sister...


Haha :)
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Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:39 pm

wwbjd wrote:That Yamaha CS70m still looks freakin' HOT.

In the meantime.. I still had some fun with my Korg Mono/Poly this weekend.

Korg Mono/Poly


YES! you nailed that...awesome!
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secret weapon

Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:02 pm

the real secret weapons are:

1 Pentland hills
2 water from Threipmuir resovoir
3 Low winter sunsets


simple
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Re: secret weapon

Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:05 pm

derm wrote:the real secret weapons are:

1 Pentland hills
2 water from Threipmuir resovoir
3 Low winter sunsets


simple


sure why not...at this point...why not
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:55 am

Beautiful sounds.
polar sky

Re: secret weapon

Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:31 pm

derm wrote:the real secret weapons are:

1 Pentland hills
2 water from Threipmuir resovoir
3 Low winter sunsets


simple


Did you get that out of Readers Digest?
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