{"id":2153,"date":"2026-06-05T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:00:03","slug":"big-mouth-mimic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"Big Mouth Mimic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Big Mouth Mimic\" width=\"652\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkNl27h2fpo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a song where I recreated the sound of the &#8220;Big Mouth Singers&#8221; toy keyboard from the 70s \/ 80s (Google it). The Behringer Poly D was sequenced to provide the rhythm. I&#8217;m playing the NiftyKEYZ keyboard with the pitch switch set to the highest setting. It is controlling my Minimoog via midi (not shown) because I can&#8217;t quite get this high using the Minimoog&#8217;s own keyboard. The Minimoog output is going through an Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 pedal using the &#8220;TREM&#8221; setting with a rather choppy waveform to replicate the Big Mouth Singers sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a song where I recreated the sound of the &#8220;Big Mouth Singers&#8221; toy keyboard from the 70s \/ 80s (Google it). The Behringer Poly D was sequenced to provide the rhythm. I&#8217;m playing the NiftyKEYZ keyboard with the pitch switch set to the highest setting. It is controlling my Minimoog via midi (not shown) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,108,74,91,54,94],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-music-video","tag-behringer-poly-d","tag-big-mouth-singers","tag-cre8audio-niftykeyz","tag-ehx-oceans-12","tag-jremusic","tag-minimoog","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephrellis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}