![]() ![]() ![]() And he is an uncommonly popular denizen of the internet. He is championed by a specific brand of bro. His albums sell well enough, given their overhead. Indie rock - a meaningless, iterative phrase that was once used on the internet to delineate “not major label” and then “artful and serious” and then “commodify me, please” - has been in a vague moment of silent crisis for years now. Influence is a messy thing for an artist working in what feels like an antiquated form. This Old Dog has drawn comparisons to the music of ’70s bards, like James Taylor (if you favor the fragile emotionalist), Harry Nilsson (if you favor the wry romantic), Randy Newman (if you favor the wry fatalist), and Neil Young (if you favor the fragile fatalist - or if you’re DeMarco, who explicitly cites Harvest as an influence). They sound like they’ve been recorded in a room decorated with fun-house mirrors. There’s something slightly off, something rounded and strange about these songs. Released Friday, it bears all the hallmarks of a Mac DeMarco album - a curious combination of plainspoken cliché (“Wishin’ for tomorrow today / She still says she’s true”) and subtly clever turns of phrase (“My heart still beats for you / even though you don’t feel it”), wrapped in notes that bend and quiver. Lastly, turn on the Chorus I effect to complete the sound.Mac DeMarco’s new album, his third full-length, is called This Old Dog. To set the vibrato speed, set the rate fader in the LFO section to 1.24 Hz with a delay time of 0.23. 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. Raise the HPF filter to halfway, which will filter out some of the bass-end frequencies. 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. ![]()
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