I wasn't huge fan of Van Halen keyboard tunes in Sammy era but always loved this song. First sang along to it at 24 and still singing along to it at age 60.
Hey man it's your cousin here. I see your channel is starting to take off. Keep making great content and using your awesome talent! A lot of people love it! Great work!
Thank you for this Dam Eddie was so talented... God bless you Alex... This band help me get though some speed bumps down the road... Thanks to all band members... And a big nod to Michael Anthony truly the backbone of this awesome endeavor... For all the highs and lows... you guys Rock!!!!!
Thank you so much, and I hope you do! I lucked out - I got mine way back in the early 2000s when I was single and they were only going for about $1000-1200.
Thank you so much, John! I'm honestly not sure about the keybed, and I don't know how to check. I've read online that some people felt the original keybed had a "cheaper" feel or something, but no complaints from me.
How do I get this sound in out-of-the-box Logic X? I’m a guitar player and I couldn’t even tell you what to call that sound. Kinda sounds a little like the organ they play at hockey games but darker. Help I need a vocabulary lesson!
I'm not familiar with Logic X, but the preset in the manual is called, "Accelerating Rotary Organ." Hopefully that helps! You might also try "Jazz Organ."
I been chasing these sounds for years and here you are so spot on! Is there anyway to get a pic of the settings on this one like you did for the other guy? I'm beyond impressed and Ed would've loved this!
Thank you! Yes, the lower half is AB1 (Bass1) and the upper is A5 (Accelerating Rotary Organ), but modified. Cranking the modulation gets you that cool clicky sound.
@@malcolm77 Congratulations!! I should have the presets I use for other VH songs in their video descriptions, but if I don't, I'll be adding them soon. Have a BLAST!
Perhaps someday, but not soon. That was done on a Minimoog, which I don't own, and I don't have much interest in trying to re-create it on a different synth. They're very expensive, so if I did do it, it'd be with a VST plugin. But first I want to explore all the songs the OB-8 can do, and I'm looking into some of the other, more affordable synths Eddie used to re-create some songs.
I didn't! I used the software Izotope RX8 - specifically the Music Rebalance module. It can take stereo recordings and do a pretty good job of isolating it into four categories: Drums, Vocals, Bass and other.
I'm so sorry, but it's going to be nothing but Van Halen for quite a while. His death has hit me hard, and doing these videos make me feel like he's still around.
As a guitar player, EVH was the reason I picked up the instrument some 30 years ago. He's always been known as a "guitar hero", but personally I don't think he gets the recognition he deserves for song writing and composition. Than you for this, you capture EVH's playing perfectly. :)
Thank you so much! And I agree 100%. I don't think his playing would have gotten all the recognition it did (deservedly) without the amazing songs to back it up.
FINALLY!! Sombody has done a near spot on cover of one of my most favorite Van Halen "keyboard" songs and with the correct sound!! I've been searching high and low for years to find out what Ed used to get that keyboard sound and here it was his trusty Oberheim all along. Thank you sir and bravo!! 👏👏👏
i miss evh too :) i'm sitting down to work on "summer nights" on guitar right now but this popped up so i figured i'd check it out. the tone you have here seems perfect. do you know if evh used an ob-8 on the studio recording? thanks!
I'm actually not 100% sure, but just on how this sounds, I'd bet it's an OB-8 on the record. I know it is for "Why Can't This Be Love?", so it makes sense. Looking forward to your "Summer Nights" vid!
Thanks John! I'm honestly not sure about the sounds available on other keyboards. This patch was called, "Accelerating Rotary Organ" (A5, for those fellow OB owners) but I messed with the modulation knob to get the clicking sound on the attack. So I would start with the rotary organ type sounds and go from there. Good luck!
I tried to set this split up on my new OBX8 and when every I do it the arp plays on the lower and upper at the same time, can't seem to just get the bass to arp by itself.
@@inasimplerhyme I finally figured it out, didn't realize there was an upper and lower button also near the arp and I had them both checked off instead of just the lower. The synth sounds great!
Nice job on cover. It sounds great through the OB-8. I never even knew that keyboard existed, but it sounds great and certainly is dead on for Feels So Good. I would love a link to your track that excludes the organ......
Thanks so much! I'll see if I can send you a link to a "minus keys" version in the next week. Though I tried to do that for Right Now for someone, and RU-vid actually blocked it.
Here the backing track that I used the record to. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aY-YtyTIdbE.html As you can hear, there's keyboard bleed. My software can't differentiate between guitar and keyboard, so I have to rely on other tricks to keep them isolated. It sounds pretty messy, but once you add the keys, it all seems to work!
