A Gibson Les Paul and EBow lead is on the left channel. A Moog Mavis with my EHX Oceans 12 “cello hack” is providing harmony on the right channel as well as bass (panned to the center).
A Minimoog was used for the “vibraphone” track. A Moog Mavis / NiftyKEYZ keyboard was used for the “string” tracks. An Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 pedal was used with my “cello hack” setting for the strings and the TREM setting for the vibraphone track. Drums by BeatBuddy.
A Moog Mavis and Minimoog (not pictured) create a cool bell-like chime. Also using my “cello hack” on the Mavis.
Bees peacefully pollinating flowers…suddenly, the hive is being threatened! Attack! Be sure to listen to the end to hear the swarm!
This song is one of my better “cello” emulations. It’s about 3 minutes, so please take the time to give it a listen. The cello part comes through with quite an emotional feeling.
I felt like this song was missing a few things…mostly bass and percussion. This version fixes that with the addition of a Rickenbacker bass track, an egg shaker, a rattle and some brass chimes.
Here’s a song where I recreated the sound of the “Big Mouth Singers” toy keyboard from the 70s / 80s (Google it). The Behringer Poly D was sequenced to provide the rhythm. I’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’t quite get this high using the Minimoog’s own keyboard. The Minimoog output is going through an Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 pedal using the “TREM” setting with a rather choppy waveform to replicate the Big Mouth Singers sound.
