Garbage - Milk (Live synth cover)
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2020
- This is our live synth performance of @garbage's Milk, an overlooked gem of the 1990's, originally released as a single in 1996 for their debut album. Please expand description for more nerdy talk.
From left to right, gear list and synth players were:
M-Audio Keystation - Douglas Araujo - Synth pad #1 (Mellotron strings)
Arturia Keylab 49 - Gegê Teófilo - Synth flutes (Mellotron flute)
Sequential Sixtrack, Roland Sp-404 - Guillermo Caceres - Bass & drum loops
Yamaha An1x - George Frederick Marques - Synth pad #2 (Saw pads)
Vocals - Quésia Carvalho
Despite Garbage is generally labelled as an alt-rock band, Milk is quite a classic trip-hop track: it features female vocals hovering over a cushy synth bed with a classic hip-hop beat. Not surprisingly, it was remixed by some of the trip-hop medallions of the time, including Massive Attack and Tricky, and some of these remixes received at least as much airplay as the original.
With many versions to choose from, Garbage has performed the track in a number of ways, alternating between combinations of sampled drum loops in sync with acoustic drums, electric guitars and bass, and a sampler keyboard (e.g. Kurzweil K2500) for pads and flute sounds. For this video, we chose to stick to the original album version, but using an all-electronic set up. After all, since this is practically a trip-hop track, we thought we could play it using typical trip hop hardware: a sampler and a few synths.
Compared to others in our repertoire, this was not a particularly challenging track. With some strategic playing, all parts could have been performed by a single musician using a keyboard/sampler. Still, for fun purposes, we decided to split parts to fit our usual line-up.
The sounds in the track always seemed Mellotron-ish to me, but there were several ways to get Mellotron sounds in the mid-1990s. The key to get the authentic sounds of the track came from a Musicradar article in which Steve Marker, the band's guitarist, comments the first album, track by track. He recalls: “We had some crappy keyboards. It was like a rackmount E-MU Proteus or something that we would have used. Now that we have 5,000 Pro Tools-based plug-in synths, it’s really hard to get those sounds back." Well Steve, guess what? We actually found the sounds!
So, based on Steve's inside info and using some of my (frequently) useless knowledge on archaic synths, it was possible to narrow the sounds down to the E-mu Vintage Keys/Plus modules. The problem was finding one we could use on short notice - we didn't. So, the viable alternative was to get the E-mu Vintage Pro soundfont from Digital Sound Factory and use it on Kontakt. Our guess proved right on point: the Mellotron Strings and Mellotron Flute presets are exactly the ones used in the original track. If this had not been possible, the closest alternative would have been to use a Roland JV/XP/XV/Fantom synth with the Vintage Expansion Board, which has very similar (good) Mellotron samples with a 1990s flavour.
So, the M-Audio controller on the far left plays the Mellotron String preset, and the Arturia Keylab next to it plays the Mellotron Flute preset. The two are MIDIed to a single laptop running Kontakt on Windows with a Native Instruments audio interface (under the table), and its audio output was connected to the mixer (Yamaha Mg12).
In the center, the Sequential Six-trak plays the synth bass, programmed to loosely resemble an electric bass. The bass was the only non-electronic instrument used in the original track, and is usually played live in the band's live performances of the song. Next to the mixer lies the Roland Sp-404 sampler (the same used in our other videos), but the cameras did not get a good shot of it. The sampler plays a layered drum loop that, while it is not the exact one used in the original recording, was programmed in true '90s fashion, by combining and layering drum loops taken from Polestar Magnetic's XL1 Akai sample CD (which is a goldmine of 90's loops if you're into that sort of thing). The result sounds heavier and dirtier than the original drum loop, but we intended that vibe.
On the right side, the Yamaha An1x doubles the synth pad part by adding a more silky texture that nicely complements the harsher Mellotron strings, achieving this wider, richer synth pad thing. Next to the An1x is our Roland Jx-10, which didn't see action in this specific track. The original recording also used different layers of pads and a truckload of reverb to mesh things, so we did no different. Quesia's vocals used a Lexicon MX200 rack for reverb, but it also had some of the Yamaha's built-in reverb mixed in along with the synths.
The audio was recorded by two Zoom H4n (4 tracks) and one Zoom H1 (2 tracks), routed from the mixer.
Once more, please forgive the shaky cameras, the terribly grainy images, and other small imperfections, we were just having fun. Thank you for watching :)
#Garbage #SynthCovers #LiveSynths 
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One of my favorite Garbage songs!! This was utterly beautiful, thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful cover and vocals 🤍💫
These performances are world class, please upload more of them!
Please make more music. We are desperate for it.
Por favor, se possível continuem upando novos vídeos! Desde que vi vcs tocando Streets of Rage eu me apaixonei pelo projeto! Vcs são incrivelmente talentosos e dedicados, meus parabéns!
Finally new video! Great performance! And also, i would like to mention i love Quésia since she performed Happy Nation, and i can't get rid of her wonderful voice from my head :-p
And this time also, this beautiful woman doesn't disappoint. Good job everyone, and keep'em coming!
Excelente cover, que voz tan melodiosa
Excelente, saludos desde México y chida la playera del Chávez (chavo del 8)
faz umas duas semanas que eu entro aqui no canal e fico vendo todos os videos e me perguntando se não iria sair nada novo, chega me arrepiei ao ver que tem vide o novo, vocês
são demais!
FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goosebumps while listening... Great song, excellent perfomance ❤❤❤
awesome cover and awesome information on the description!!!
PLEASE MORE, MORE AND MORE...MAS ,MAS Y MUCHO MAS..ME ENCANTARON ..
I'm glad to hear about you again, Synt5! I didn't know the song, but it sounds great! Thanks for sharing!
Shirley should do this one live with you,guys)
Blissful.
Cara... que coisa mais linda!!!
That makes a lot of sense that Massive Attack used this.
This rendition is just amazing! And big thanks for long and detailed description - it's very useful for synth geeks :-)
Thanks! It really seems that very few people is actually interested in those details, but I enjoy writing them anyway...
Congratulations on the beautiful music performance❤️🇧🇷🇧🇷
awesome
Meu, que sensacional!
Valeu! :)
wow, this is just absolutely outstanding! Quésia has such a power vocals
Please do more videos ! I love your covers ! I am responsible of at least 20 views of your former videos lol
prazer em conhecer essa banda
Please a cover of Kraftwerk song's "The Model" in homage of Florian Schneider.....
Liked before starting play :))
love you lads and ladies wish youd upload more!
Imaginem um Kraftwerk brasileiro, com a adição de um vocal feminino SEN-SA-CIO-NAL da Quésia! É o que eu enxergo nesses caras. São pouquíssimos grupos que tocam teclado/sintetizador ao vivo. Vocês são demais!!!
This is absolutely great ❤️
Wow, I love this. You guys are so amazing 😍
Very good work! Sounds really great and the cute singer has a beautiful voice. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! I remember watching your videos waaaay back and enjoying them, why didn't you upload more?
Vocês são maravilhosos!
Awesome 👍
Esta Perfecto!!!! Y la voz ufff tiene el color
LOVE the information in the description..... I hunted down a sketchy download of the Polestar Magnetic's XL1 Akai sample CD... NEED that in my life.
It's cool you liked that... I can't keep my nerdy research to myself when writing these descriptions, even though very few people will actually make use of it. But note that the XL1 is not the "original" loop used in Milk - but where I sourced a very similar one to build our version.
@@Synt5 Understood! You should check out my song "Wine (A Sea Of Future)" on my channel. I wrote it for a scene in my film. Originally, I was gonna do a cover of Milk and went through the same nerdy-ness you did trying to craft an authentic track, but realized I couldn't achieve the magic of the original. So, I instead wrote an original song (Wine) heavily inspired by Milk and the rest is history!
@@Synt5 do you have a download for the drum samples we were talking about? my download link failed :(
@@ryderhoustonx Search for user CyberYoukai on archive(dot)org, who is compiling a backup of these files. If that doesn't work, reach me out on reddit (synt5) and I'll guide you through other options. Cheers!
@@Synt5 Do you have a sample of the drum loop that you guys reconstructed? Could I use it?
Synt5 é a coisa que eu mais sinto falta da UFC
oura!
You guys should try a cover of supreame beings of leasure your girl has the voice to pull it off. Have a listen to STRANGE LOVE ADDICTION....try it
Sera que o canal ressucitou?