PSB - Love Comes Quickly, live acid remake

Published on May 15, 2015 Tony Horgan

"My live instrumental version of the Pet Shop Boys' "Love Comes Quickly".
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Tech details... The Roland TR-8 is the master, which starts, stops and syncs the Korg Volca Keys and two Cyclone Analogic TT-303 Bass Bot units (TB-303 clones). The Korg Volca Bass is playing the chord sequence. To get the Volca Bass to play a long enough sequence, it's synced manually, with its tempo set to 30bpm (a quarter of the track's tempo of 120bpm).

I'm playing everything with one hand and recording via a camcorder in the other.

All the patterns were programmed directly into the onboard sequencers of each unit. The second Bass Bot is going through a Danelectro FAB Distortion pedal.

I'm not exactly using "best pratice" with the fader levels here (fading up on the devices instead of fading up on the mixer), but it works for me when I don't have much time.

It was mixed and recorded on the Tascam DP-24, using its internal compression and delay effects. I could have done another mixdown and improved the sound (because it records each track dry and lets you adjust the levels and effects after the performance) but I haven't had time. It sounds good enough to me for now!"