Here is a cover of the Genesis song, "MAMA" from their 1983 Album, Genesis (sometimes referred to as the Mama Album.)
New Updated Version:
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=12931900&q=hi&newref=1 This updated final version includes some minor volume changes in addition to changing out the organ during the Bridge part. Alkie provided a better sounding organ for this part. Also cleaned up the Koto a bit. These updates are in addition to the last update that included a new lead synth sound. Based on information provided by James, I found a product called The Beast by UVI which is a Synclavier II emulation. Sounds a lot more like the original Genesis sound. Also included in this mix is more verb on the lead vocals, and ran the master version through a multi-band compressor. The old version is still posted below for reference. Appreciate all the comments and suggestions.....
First Version:
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12927108
This cover was sort of an unplanned event. I got an email from Arturia a few weeks back about an anniversary sale. I wasn't really familiar with Arturia but was interested in the Spark Vintage Drum Machines (a bunch of classic drum machines from 70's and 80's including a few Linn Drum machines, Roland, Yamaha, etc...They had a bundle called the V Collection with 30 classic drum machines and some Synths like the ARP 2600, Jupiter 8, Moog Mini, Oberheim SEM, Wurlitzer. Was playing around with the Linn Drum Machine beats and stumbled across a Mama'ish beat so I decided to do a cover.
Most of my stuff has been traditional classic rock so I haven't experimented that much with synths, or, drum machines so decided to try a different style for this one. This song is all the Arturia synths except for the repeating 16th note synth which is the Synth Magic Quadra Arp (requires Kontakt 4 or higher) I went with Quadra over the Arturia synth for that track because it offered a unique effect that was not available on the Arturia version. The Synth Magic Quadra emulation has a Mama pre-set. The synth is a virtual version of the Arp Quadra that they used on the Genesis record. The percussive hits that Tony Banks triggered with their Linn Drums are triggered with MIDI notes in this virtual instrument, giving the sound an initial percussive hit and then falling off quickly between 16th notes.
The intro drums are all from the Spark Vintage Linn Drums wiht varying degrees of effects on them. The main kit that comes in later is EZDrummer 2, 80's Drum Kit. The Verb effects are the newly released UAD AMS RMX16 Reverb emulation which Genesis used on much of their stuff after 1982. I am using the AMS emulation on guitars, drums and vocals, the vocal verb is a preset called Reverse Reverb. The vocals are also running through Sound Toys Microshifter which is an Eventide sort of effect popular in the 80's
Once I got done with the backing track I pinged Alan K. (Alkie on the Forum) to see if he would be interested in singing on the track, I knew from his previous posts that this was something that he might be interested in, and capable of doing. Sent him the backing track and he returned the vox in something like a day;) Most of the time spent since has been tweaking with mix, Alan had a number of suggestions about the mix, and provided his own mix to convey many of the changes that were incorporated into this final version.
Let us know what you think.
Regards