Name: Xmasabbath by Steve Christie +VKS
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Description: Written and recorded by Steve Christie in 2000. HIdden away on a reel of Ampex 456 ever since.

Dream Dreams Sweet Snow

A work in progress of a song written, played and recorded by Steve Christie at Vintage Keys Studios.

Glisten

Long And Winding Road

Written and recorded by Steve Christie in 2000. HIdden away on a reel of Ampex 456 ever since.

Xmasabbath

My version of the 1990 song Promise Me by Beverley Craven with Steve Christie on piano.

Promise Me

A rare demonstration of what is perhaps one of the most complex and exotic analog phasers ever devised.   The Triple Tube Hybrid Phaser was originally designed for Jean-Michel Jarre by Dani Wilson at Hideaway Studio and is one of only a very small handful ever built.

On a huge custom pcb it comprises of three 4-stage phaser blocks similar to the Small Stone with tube (ECC83) pre-amp and post amps and tube buffers between each phaser.  The OTA based phasers are combined in an unusual series/parallel arrangement with their own regen paths each modulated by one phase of a triple phase LFO generator thus allowing the phase spread to be set between each phaser block from  all three on top of one another for a huge plunging effect to being 120 degrees out for a swirly effect.   There are variable controls for the LFO offset, depth, rate and spread as well as a variable regeneration level (heard being turned up in the first minute of the demo).

The stuttering effect heard later in the demo is where the spread control is being set to a new position thus allowing the phasers to realign and commence on new phase spread angles.

Please note the phaser was recorded into delay to generate some stereo spread.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio

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Xmasabbath

Steve Christie +VKS

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