Fake Synths Process Post
Prophet 5 assembly nearing completion. The keybeds were stolen from broken casio and yamaha portasound boards. True story: A few weeks before, I drove to see Murray at Harmony Organ Repair thinking he’d probably have an attic full of dusty broken keybeds. He wasn’t home and I rambled off an explanation to his wife, who immediately offered me the ornamental casio some joker had yoinked off their garage the previous night. It was a serendipitous end for the weathered & floppy casio.
At the shoot, with old cruddy cables patched for authenticity.
Weekend at Burn-ies…
Nik’s real Voyager was used for the pre-burn portions of the shoot, then the stooge was swapped in and burnt. A flammable goo was dabbed onto various sections and lit. A burning fake keyboard has a very uh.. robust smell.
More goo residue on the P5
I learned a lot doing all this. It seemed kind of ridiculous to be that anal about detail when the edits were going to be so choppy and the details would be most likely obscured by the medium, but I still felt compelled to do things this way. I really wanted fellow synth nerds to have a few heart palpatating moments of uncertainty when watching the video, wondering if we were actually burning a $10000 modular or not. I’ve now moved on to building 5U kit modules to replicate the fraudular for real. Process thread to follow in 2021.
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Raymond Biesinger:
March 13th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Astounding. I know the feel of needing the fraudular to be as real as possible. Otherwise, guilt sets in.
Yrs.,
R.
Matthew Skopyk:
March 17th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Wow! Great work Lyle, thanks for doing this step-by-step!
Erin:
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 am
Gotta say, that the attention to detail and will that went into making the faux mod seems pretty amazing. It looked incredible in the video. Choice.
Arturo:
April 13th, 2011 at 10:41 am
These are incredible! Honestly made my heart skip a beat. Great work. When’s the video out?
ps. Love how you linked to muffwiggler when referring to your “fellow synth nerds”.
sduck:
April 13th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Very nice mash up of dotcom and motm style modules!
poppaneedsanap:
April 13th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Thanks fellerz. I did indeed base these off both DotCom and MOTM panels. Good Eyeballin… This video came out quite a while back, in 2009.
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