"Flash in the night" cover

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"Flash in the night" cover

Post by gcoudert » Sun Mar 02, 2014 7:34 pm

My latest intrumental cover. I was playing around with my recently-acquired Yamaha 01X mixer / control surface and this is what happened... If, like me, you grew up in Continental Europe in the 80s, you will know this song!



Edit: new mix (15 Mar 2014)
Last edited by gcoudert on Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:14 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: "Flash in the night" cover

Post by adamstan » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:37 pm

I cannot play it - I get the "this track is currently not available" message :-(
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Post by gcoudert » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:55 pm

It should work now...
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Re: "Flash in the night" cover

Post by gcoudert » Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:00 pm

Drums: Roland R8
Voice-like lead: Korg Mono/Poly VSTi preset
Fluty lead: Arturia MiniMoog VSTi
Guitar: Vintage V100 + Korg AX3000G effects
Everything else: Roland Jupiter 50

Recorded in Cubase SX3 via Yamaha 01X. Lexicon reverb.
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Post by vcs3 » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:07 pm

Great cover!
I also grew in continental europe.

Allways wonder how the voice-like lead was made.

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Post by Lackan110f » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:10 pm

Greate production, and great sounds too. Wish you had increased the bass for a little more power, but it is very authentic this way.

As a note; I live next door to Ulf, the keyboardist of Secret Service here in Stockholm. He is still active and runs a small studio. Very nice guy. :)

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Re: "Flash in the night" cover

Post by gcoudert » Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:53 pm

Lackan110f wrote:Greate production, and great sounds too. Wish you had increased the bass for a little more power, but it is very authentic this way.

As a note; I live next door to Ulf, the keyboardist of Secret Service here in Stockholm. He is still active and runs a small studio. Very nice guy. :)
That'll be XTC Productions AB in Älvsjö, right? I have always regarded Ulf Wahlberg (and Tim Norell) as a major influence on my keyboard playing and arrangements. "Cutting Corners" still ranks as one of my favourite albums of all time; OK, Secret Service's lyrics were full of grammatical errors and Ola Håkansson's heavily double-tracked vocals often left to be desired but hey, who cares?! The songs were catchy and the sounds they got out of their SCI Prophet 10 & Pro-1 (according to Micke) were fantastic. I discovered them in 1982, when "Flash in the night" was used as the theme tune for a French TV programme, although "Oh Susie" had been a minor hit a couple of years before. I still like their music 30 years on and am lucky enough to have picked up their albums on Russian bootleg CDs.
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