From: paul hartnoll http://www.myspace.com/paulhartnollmusic Date: Jan 3 2007 2:22 PM Subject: RE: Gear List/Signature Sound on Insides Body: as far as i remember the drums on the box were the only copressed things on insides and that may have been just the single 'b side' drums come to think of it! synths on insides oberhiem expander jupiter 6 101 sh09 emu samplers 808 909 arp 2600 sytem 100 303 wave station ----------------- Original Message ----------------- From: Mike Baas Date: Dec 24 2006 11:30 PM Paul, Wow, I'm so happy to see that you have a MySpace and that you are still working on new tracks! I've been working on a gear list for Orbital with the sole intention to try and understand what gives 'In Sides' its sonic characteristics. I just read the new Sound on Sound article about Chime where you said "I don't think I understood what a compressor was until about the fourth Orbital album, and that probably accounts somewhat for the sort of sound that we got. Everything was completely uncompressed until it got into the mastering room." I assume that fourth album was 'In Sides', correct? Did you use compression on any individual sounds on 'In Sides' or was everything uncompressed until mastering? Here's the gear list: http://www.mikebaas.org/orbital/ Everything listed with a 'Year' is any sound generator that could have been used on 'In Sides' given the date. I hope you are up for talking about this stuff. I've been obsessed with this for over 10 years and the Internet finally appears able to help me complete my quest! Cheers! mb