Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 04:49:16 EDT
From: Djadun@aol.com
To: bizarro@tir.com,
    mr_kkbb@hotmail.com,
    analogue@hyperreal.org
Subject: [AH] electribes review (shorter)

Ok I tried out the electribes the other day at guitar center and I liked them 
a lot at first. The drums sound "unique" but when I think about it more they 
do sound anemic and not punchy at all. With ind outs this could maybe be 
helped but oh, fucked there. 
Teh synth did a similar thing for me. I loved it at first. Then whiel I was 
messing aroung I found someting very annoying about it. I was twiddling the 
cutoff and i heard both crackilng and very noticable stepping of the filter. 
Im not sure if it was the way I had the osc set, or if the showpeice was 
screwed or what, but it sounded crappy. I had the distortio on, filter 2 at 
100 percent, ummm, I should have looked at what i had it set on more now that 
I think about it. Has anyone else heard the stepping in this? Couyld the unit 
I was tweaking have had a shitty pot or what? 
These things seem showy to me. When i bought my mc202 I hated it. Now I would 
not give it up for anything, after I got to know how to use it and learned it 
quirks and tricks i can get insanity out of it. The opposite seemed to happen 
with the electribes. I was happy cause the synth is 202ish ( a little) and 
sounded fat. The I twiddled with it and became uninterested. Im just glad I 
had a few minutes ( ok hours) to tweak it, if i had heard an audio demo or 
something i would have bought one right away. If you are thinking about 
buying one just make sure you play with it quite a bit before you buy it. 


Djadun