Setting up the Tyros 4 to play The Young Ones

[Hugh-AR]

Setting up the Tyros 4 to play The Young Ones

Having listened to JohnT playing this on his Tyros 5 I asked him about the guitars he had used (and the STYLE). He told me this was one of the numbers in Music Finder, so I went to look for that .. but I reckon the one I had in my Music Finder was not the same as the one in his Tyros 5. The STYLE selected was 60'sGuitarPop and it only had one guitar in the One Touch Settings, which was VintageAmp. The guitars JohnT had used were Shadowed guitar and Warm electric guitar .. but I had neither of those on my Tyros 4.

I was happy with the sound of the VintageAmp guitar, but needed a change so as not to have the same sounding guitar all the way through .. something with a bit more of a 'bite' to it. I found a "Regular" guitar on the PSR website called electricguitar588, so put that into both the MIXING CONSOLE and VOICE SET to make some changes to the overall sound (for starters, electricguitar588 had no Vibrato on it, so I have added some Depth, Speed and Delay). The VOICE I have ended up with I have called TwangyGuitar, and if you want to try it, it is downloadable from the Attachment at the bottom of this post.

When playing the melody I found I had to be very 'precise' with my fingers when using that Vintage Amp guitar, lifting them off the keys before playing the next note .. or I got a 'thump' instead of a guitar note playing.

Using MULTIPAD CREATOR I created a MULTIPAD with some Strings to get that little 'echo' to the melody in the places I wanted it.

I have used the STYLE as from the Music Finder (60'sGuitarPop) but have knocked out CHORD 2, PAD and PHRASE 1 (nothing in PHRASE 2). The backing sounded really messy to me with all that lot in! Also, CHORD 1 had a Steel Guitar, and I have changed that to a Nylon Guitar .. and put the Volume up from 45 to 75. The Steel Guitar had too much 'echo' on it for me; the Nylon Guitar gave a more 'solid' rhythmic beat.

I have also used the STYLE BubblegumPop for two bars to get that 'piano break' in the first part of the song; and then used 60'sVintagePop for the 'Chorus'. The 'off beat' and the choir voice go very well with the melody at this point.

Here it is for you to listen to:

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http://www.ar-group.org/Files/TheYoungOnes2_T4.mp3

Hugh

[Brian007]

Hi Hugh,

Nice one, you do right to take out a lot of the tracks in the style and start off with just the basics of what you need and add what extra tracks are necessary as and when as otherwise it can get to muddy, one thing I have started to do is to pan some tracks 68% left or right so you can hear them better, anyway liked your version of the song.

All the best. Brian007