• From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
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Topic: Mike Oldfield's Vibrato

Does he really play all the vibrato by hand or is some electronic trickery involved? Listening to Wonderful land off QE2,it has a very artificial sound, but what would have been used to create it?

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  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Re: Mike Oldfield's Vibrato

If I'm not mistaken, which I often am, Oldfield's use of deep chorus, rapid tremelo, plus his amazing vibrato are some of the factors that give him his 'unique' sound.

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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Re: Mike Oldfield's Vibrato

VIBRATO or VIBRATOR??? Old Mike Field was real popular with TUBULAR BELLS.
I really don't know if he could repeat his success. TB is in fact the only record I know.
Isn't he also very active in writing music for movies?

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  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
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Re: Mike Oldfield's Vibrato

Mike Oldfield has done dozens of albums. The first two after TB, Ommadawn and Hergest ridge, were thought of as flops but between them they virtually invented Ambient music. In the mid-70s he reinvented himself and the albums had more individual tracks, singles material even (checkout 'Five Miles Out' and 'Moonlight Shadow'). He's a great guitarist in his own right, check this clip;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-O-WXcLuM0

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