Concordo. O Vicente deixou o nome na música mas não entendo o motivo de ter deixado o Depeche Mode.

lol me too. The guy is a legend. So that’s all it took for me to keep watching

It was like they were talking a different language…..😎

You absolutely nailed what I think is Vince's greatest musical strength (he has many), and it is evident in nearly all of his music, even in early Depeche Mode songs such as "Any Second Now" (especially the instrumental version) and "Dreaming of Me".

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Cool! Dry-joint and PSB! Please, put the track out :)

not according to Alan.. Minimoog and ARP2600 triggered by ARP sequencer

Well, he has so many vintage analog synths, none of which are very stable (well, except for a few, like the Roland Jupiter-8, Juno-60, and Juno-106, for example), so keeping them in tune has got to be quite a chore and/or expense. The more stable a synth is, the more likely he is to like it and use it, although obviously that is not the only consideration. He has so many synths that he complains about in this regard that he must like their sound quite a lot. If he doesn't, then out it goes.

British

It does have a very similar tone

Correct SE London Bromley v Essex pronunciation.

@@thurstonmurru English

In no way a bad thing ❤

RoofLight00 true. He says in one of the interview videos that having the equipment is great but ultimately it’s about the song and the ideas. It’s no good getting lost in the gear.

@@Martin-mf1dn Yep, and that's why he doesn't keep around any synths that he doesn't actually use, anymore. He went through a collector phase, but is mostly over that now, except for some treasured relics from his past, like Depeche Mode's original drum machine.

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Three major bands he defined the sound for and in many cases (most?) he composed many (most?) melodies for the group, but nobody wanted to talk about him: only Andy, David, or Alison. :) I get the impression he might have preferred it that way. Getting him to open up is like pulling teeth.

Well, he didn't show up for his Depeche Mode induction. Vince was definitely invited, was inducted, and got his little trophy and everything, but he chose not to participate publicly (it was a Zoom session because of COVID-19 at the time). The exact same goes for Alan Wilder, too. The three current band members at the time (including Fletch, RIP 😢) thanked both Vince and Alan, though. Alan didn't release a public statement, but Vince said that he was only with Depeche Mode for a short time, and therefore didn't deserve to be recognized, since it was the others who made the band what they were and are. Hmmm...while he's not wrong, without Vince there would be no DM, and he was the main driving force at the beginning who made them successful, which is why he was inducted. He didn't turn down the induction, but didn't feel entitled to public recognition. Vince is not big on speeches, anyway. Not long ago, he had won some other kind of award, and he did show up online to accept it. Andy Bell was also online, and gave a lovely, heartfelt, heartwarming 10-minute speech on Vince's career and their work together. Then Vince finally came on, popped open a bottle of beer, took a swig of beer from the bottle, smiled, and said "Cheers!"--that was it. 😆

I had to do the same to finance a move to the other end of the country. £10k+ gear and nothing left apart from an old Korg N5.

Sorry to here that mate. On the plus side though, you can get going again relatively cheap given the glut of new stuff like the Behringer stuff. Hope you get up and running again.

OK what is vinces real. Name

@@ianfielding6840 Vincent John Martin.

I preferred his old one, the dome shaped spaceraft thingy. Worth an image search!

@@ben1210 thanks, i am gonna look for that :D!!

He used to have a Moog Modular, if I remember correctly, but he eventually got rid of it because he couldn't keep it in tune--this drove him crazy, I recall him saying, and he hadn't been using it much anyway.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Vince still has a Minimoog, which I believe is visible in the corner at 3:47.

He hadn't been working with Eurorack modules until the COVID-19 pandemic, at which time he started to dive into them. He's said as much in interviews promoting _Songs of Silence_ . Unfortunately, the basement studio shown in this video is no more. Vince Clarke sold his Park Slope, Brooklyn townhouse and moved to a loft in TriBeCa, Manhattan.

where would you like him to start his cartwheels?

Lethoscorpia mine too, still have it somewhere

He uses logic.

There is footage of him using a CZ101 from back in the day.

Vince actually did get heavily into soft-synths at one point, albeit it was more out of necessity than anything else. He and Andy had an album to record, and the New York apartment he lived in at the time didn't have room for his analog synths, which were still back in the UK and needed new power supplies to be used in the US anyway. So having finally converted to modern tools like Logic anyway, he looked into using soft-synths, and not expecting much, I think he was pleasantly surprised at how good they were. He used them almost or perhaps completely exclusively for _Nightbird_ , which he also produced on his own--it is the only Erasure album to prominently feature soft-synths and the only one that is self-produced, as well, I think. Afterward, Vince even designed a soft-synth himself, so I think he kind of liked them, especially for their convenience, as all he needed was his Mac laptop and a basic recording booth (which he did have in this apartment) to do practically all of the work. However, once Vince finally got all of his beloved analog synths stateside and set up in The Cabin, his then-new studio in the woods of Maine, where he had moved, he fell in love with their sound all over again, and seems to have put aside soft-synths for the most part, if not entirely. They're convenient, no doubt, but they don't sound quite right to Vince, and neither does _Nightbird_ . Personally, I love that album, but I can sort of see (or rather hear) what he means--the soft-synths sound fantastic and clearly Vince had learned to master them (especially since he produced the album himself), but they do sound a bit, uh, clinical for an Erasure album--maybe a little too perfect. There is something in the very nature of analog synths that subjectively sounds a bit less predictable and "warmer" (a loaded, vague term, I realize) in terms of subtle imperfections. Now Vince is back in New York (Brooklyn), of course, and here we see his eye-watering analog synth collection in the basement of his home, which is much larger than the apartment he had lived in previously. I doubt he'd bother much with soft-synths anymore with all of this vintage awesomeness to twiddle, although I wouldn't entirely rule out the possibility that he'd occasionally use a soft-synth to get a particular sound, especially if it's not available in an actual physical form.

Correction to my comment: the Erasure album "Light at the End of the World" also sounds a bit "clinical" so I looked into it, and it turns out that while it was written and produced after Vince had moved to Maine, this was before he had managed to set up his Cabin studio there, so he was still using soft-synths at this point and on this album in addition to "Nightbird". I think he got even better at using them, but as I said there is a missing raw or organic quality to the sound. Don't get me wrong, these albums sound fantastic and Vince did not miss a step despite using this relatively new technology, but they do sound different and Vince prefers the less mathematically perfect, perhaps more interesting sound of his real synths (especially the analog ones, of course).

Like mine

And his legendary Casio CZ-101.

The Juno-60 and Juno-106 are also pretty inexpensive synths (for the time) that he owns, even though they are legendary. The same goes for the Oberheim SEM, which he owns, as well.

@@carlosserrano3985 Yeah, we can't forget the CZ-101, which by the way is a great sounding synth of its basic type. All of Vince's cheap synths sound pretty great.

They are all hooked up. 11:15 he asks about it

Actually i think it may have been the Roland System 700 because i seen it in a video when Erasure played a demo of Perfect Stranger and Chorus kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbeqfch3y766YJ8.html . Ive also seen it on the music video to Stop as well.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fK-aotSes5vYqas.html. On a side note i was obsessed with the Chorus album and Chorus itself as a kid. I loved all the noises on it.

Paul Buswell I adore Yazoo. It might be his best era.

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Yes, good catch! Not sure what he was using it for - probably using the CV-outs to control the System 700.

Some guitar players like to own many guitars. I’m sure even Vince just reaches for a guitar too sometimes.

@@karaloca Vince composes mostly on acoustic guitar and microcassette recorder (or maybe digital these days), but he's not really a type of musician who plays. Sometimes he composes on a sequencer, instead. He's one of those anti-musicianship pop artists. :) Not that he's against musicians, he's just not a very good player of instruments, and he'd be the first one to tell you that. But hey, Hans Zimmer is of the same ilk, and has nonetheless had a spectacular, award-winning film composing career, much like how Vince has had a spectacular pop songwriting career.

Yea I was wondersing why the hell would he keep it there among all the other proper synths...

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@@Mr_ToR Well, Vince has other digital and virtual analog synths, such as the Clavia Nord Lead (rack version now--he used to have the keyboard), PPG Wave 2.2, Waldorf Microwave, Korg M1, and Akai samplers. He used to own a Fairlight CMI. Oh yeah, I think he still has his Roland D-50, although if I remember correctly, he eventually sold his Yamaha DX7, which he didn't like all that much. He also uses software synths such as Absynth on occasion. So he's not a 100% analog synth purist and never has been, although his signature sound is obviously very analog, and so are the vast majority of the synths he uses. Vince has also occasionally used real acoustic instruments (played by session musicians and recorded, not from samples) in his songs, by the way, so he hasn't been 100% electronic, either.

Theres one at my local guitar shop selling for $500 aud atm...

_I_ love synthesisers.

Reed Crisis 🤣 you’ll be old too buddy if your lucky 🍀 good shit is good shit though. Old stuff can’t be beat in a lot of ways and still used today by artists in the know.