#WeeklyTrack #9 - "bouncy pop harpsichord songlet"
The "harpsichord", "piano", and fake drums were all played on the Ensoniq Mirage. There's also a real electric bass, very low in the mix -- from a bass guitar which one of Tigger's friends had found left in a dorm room when doing cleanup after all the students moved out, and gave to me. (Student property abandonment also resulted in my acquisition of a rather interesting-sounding keyboard, except I found that one in a dumpster...)
Time-wise, I can pin this track down by the fact that the Ensoniq's output is buzzing noticeably (I've used denoising to ameliorate this substantially, but you can still hear it a bit) which means it was recorded after that started happening but before I fixed the problem by adapting a PC power-supply.
...which would put it at Amy St. in Providence, 1987-88.
The PC power-supply was connected externally with a DIN plug -- I drilled a hole in the Mirage's metal casing and another hole in the PS's metal casing, and mounted sockets on each so there wouldn't be any dangling cables to deal with.
I later learned why DIN isn't a good choice for power-delivery when one of the wires in the cable came unsoldered from its pin and, due to the lack of electrical isolation in the DIN shell, touched an adjacent wire and fried the Mirage's CPU.
(Spellcheck insists that "unsoldered" isn't a word, and I must mean either "soldered" or "undersold".)
I obtained the EPS/M as a replacement not too long after that... but I was without the Mirage for at least one MoG performance.
I still feel like there's a real song to be built around this...
Cover image courtesy of @flameReactor , with a bit of additional manipulation in GNU Imp
