Moonlight On The River - This Old Dog Tuning is around 452Hz standard (studio) Chord shapes relative to capo G6 350000 Em 022000 Am7 X02010 Amaj7 X13230 Add pinky to high e on the Am7 every now and then (Am7 X02013) Capo 4 (studio) Capo 5 (Live).
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Lastly, turn on the Chorus I effect to complete the sound. Stay on top of new and cutting edge music with this Review of Mac Demarco's This Old Dog written by one of our very own students Veronica Fedri. Mac DeMarco Moonlight On The River Instrument. After utilising synths for Salad Days’ Chamber of Reflection, synths took on a much bigger role in for 2017 album This Old Dog, with several synth-only tracks. To set the vibrato speed, set the rate fader in the LFO section to 1.24 Hz with a delay time of 0.23. Mac DeMarco is a Canadian musician known for his brand of old-school-influenced indie music, using a chorused guitar sound, simple arrangements and a varispeed tape sound. This controls the amount of pitch modulation, and finding the sweet spot is the key for many patches. Set the decay fader to 7, sustain to 0 and release to 5.5.įor the pitch vibrato, set the oscillator’s LFO fader (at the top-left) to 1.3. To create some movement in the patch, set the filter’s env fader (envelope modulation) to 2 and set the VCA switch to env, which will set both the filter and the volume to be controlled by the ADSR envelope. Set the main VCF filter’s frequency fader to 6 and resonance to 4, which will filter out some of the high-end, but still leave plenty of high-mids. But This Old Dog, DeMarco’s third album, does show some signs of growth. Raise the HPF filter to halfway, which will filter out some of the bass-end frequencies.
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The patch can be created in TAL-U-NO-LX, a fantastic and inexpensive software emulation of the similar Juno synths.įrom the default setting, turn on the square wave DCO and reduce the sub-oscillator volume to halfway.
The Chamber of Reflection lead synth was recorded on Mac’s Roland JX-3P, a vintage synth with a highly recognisable Roland chorus sound. The melody and chords are interpolated from the Shigeo Sekito song The Word II, reworked with vintage synths. Chamber of Reflection stands out on Salad Days as the only song that replaces Mac’s signature chorused guitar with swirling layers of synthesizers. Gibson J-45 Acoustic Guitar For his acoustic-heavy 2017 record This Old Dog, DeMarco has been seen using a ’60s model Gibson J-45, fitted with a Sunrise Soundhole Pickup in the performance above of the album’s title track for Pitchfork.