[Quetscher]

Congratulations, Lowboy, these are fantastic studies!

First of all I wonder how you managed to make the melodica sound so dark without EQ’s; is there a trick? Did you hold it against your chest while playing? Or was it the mic position?

I have tried to imitate some of your articulations and realized that it takes a large amount of skills even to get near your results. I like your bendings and your WahWah’s which actually sound harp-like (meaning that they sound like someone blew into the instrument forming a certain vowel and then changing vowels while playing). I also love your chord studies and your distortions although I don’t understand if there’s any difference between the distortion on Track 2 and what you call “self distortion” on Track 3. Anyway, they both sound great.

In my opinion singing into the melodica is a topic for endless studies because you get so many different results depending on what you’re doing (singing in unison, humming a certain note all the time, singing slightly out of tune compard to what you play…).

The keyboard noise is very interesting for emphasizing the rhythm, it’s funny to hear the difference between certain instruments (your melodicas sound like “clank” whereas the Vibrandoneon sounds like “clock”…).

Thanks for sharing!