Thickening up the Moog Voyager. I should mention 2 things right away though. First, I don't think the Voyager needs its tone altered in any way, it's just that the mixer out jack makes it easy. Second, and more obvious, this is clearly not the only way to thicken up the sound of this instrument, and I don't claim to be an expert by any means at all.
So what's really happening here? As you can see and hear in the video, I've routed the oscillators out of the Voyager and into a Malekko B:assmaster Germanium. Then the signal goes into one of the Macbeth Moroco's voltage controlled filters and voltage controlled amplifiers. The Voyager's MIDI OUT signals when the Moroco's envelope will trigger. This setup removes the Voyager's own dual filters and VCA out of the equation. I think it sounds very good and provides a nice contrast from the Voyager alone. I tried to keep the sound as authentic as possible, but unfortunately we're still at the mercy of streaming video compression.
fine video as always. i'd watch that even without the sound.
ReplyDeletethanks man. the sound is direct, by the way. not recorded with camera.
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ReplyDeleteSounds great!
Do you find the Culture Vulture and the Assmaster compliment each other, or overlap too much sonically? I've also got the CV and am considering the Assmaster. Sounds great here!
hmm i posted earlier, but we had a power failure. i wrote:
ReplyDeleteI use Culture Vulture and Assmaster very differently. CV more for subtle use, while Assmaster sounds pure wonderful, and more the main attraction.
This only intensifies my lust for a voyager ;{
ReplyDeleteSounds good, are those riffs your own? You have cool phrasing. Although I'm an organ player and guitar player I had a long period of doing experimental music. I fell in love with a Maestro Ring Modulator ( the big flat one ) http://www.wingspreadrecords.com/maestro_ps1_page.html . Another staple of my studio was a DB1 Dynamic Range Expander. Actually put it between my Hammond A100 organ's speaker-to-line out converter and a Wurlitzer Spectratone cabinet. With the DB1 being stereo was able to put it at the beginning AND the end of the chain with a a stereo 20 band EQ before and after as well. Then ran output to an EICO 70 watt tube power amp to power the Spectratone cabinet. The headroom of a piece of gear is often difference between a poor sound and a great one. The DB1 does a great job at bringing out the headroom. BTW the circuit is encased in epoxy so not sure how they did it. Would love to know though:)
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