Nobody's Diary - Yazoo Cover - feat. Marie Haddad & Casio MT-400V

This is a cover of the Yazoo song "Nobody's Diary." Marie Haddad did the singing, I did the music/production. This was largely an experiment to see what could be done with the cheesy old Casio MT-400V, which was used for all the sounds in the backing track. The video consists of a slow pan across the Casio's control panel. This MT-400V has a nice resonant analog filter, which was used heavily here. Some other effects were used on the Casio sounds, most notably a pitch shifter on the bass, to get it down an octave lower.

To hear this without the crappy YouTube mono/compressed audio, visit Marie at http://www.myspace.com/mariehaddad

Category:

Music

Tags:

• yaz
• casio

[pmahan0622]

very cool. I've got a 400v myself. What pitch shifter did you use for the bass notes? I've always wanted to be able to get an octave lower on it.

[peahix]

i can't remember offhand... maybe a sony plugin?

[kvfive]

This is fantastic !!!! was this seriously all done on this casio mt400v ??????

[peahix]

yes, all the sounds are from the casio, though i've manipulated them to varying degrees on the computer.

[kvfive]

Excellent !!!!

Another poster here mentioned the myspace page of the lady singing.... what is it please ? would just love to get my hands on a hifi quality version of this song :)

[peahix]

hi-

see the "info" box at upper right for full details.

[dubmoyet]

Great version!

[muldoonmax]

Brilliant!

[felipesancho]

this was going very good, so i pressed the like button... but then that bossanova rhythm marred it all... i take it back, arghhh!

[risteard01]

this is really good

[tonticule]

Excellent!

[Stelutte]

Damn How have I missed this

great  version great voice !!!!!

I can't stop listening to this

[mlusby]

super impressive! I'd probably have bought this back in the 80s! and a great homage to Yazoo. Well done mate!

[darklordojeda]

I like this and the singer is very good.

[gimmietheprize]

Very good work, well done!

[bestrickie2]

Hey brilliant version of a good old Yazoo chart clasic in May 1983, well played & sung. I've a few keyboards including a Juno G I've just bought. I play loads of Gary Nmn, sing & play the old classics for elderly groups, record bits of my own stuff & other but music is just a hobby. Nice 80s model casio, good drum sounds & keyboard sounds. Cheers from Rich