Talisman Ft Trevor S.
By Earp Lug on April 25, 2026 6:07 am
I've been extremely busy this past week, so I only started this song when my buddy Trevor came over this afternoon.
He played his Sonicware Liven XFM throughout the song while I played my new custom patch that I've been creating for a live show on my MicroKORG. I ran my keyboard through a looper pedal, reverb pedal, my new compressor pedal, and then into my donner Harmonic Square pedal that was set to play a second version of my music an octave lower.
I played a little ditty for about 50 seconds or so into the looper pedal and looped it so I could mess around with the settings on the pedals live, and then after a second loop I paused the playback and brought in my Stylophone CPM-DS2. I took each oscillator output and put them on opposing sides of a stereo input on my mixer, and set their LFO depth to be diametrically opposed. This bypasses the feedback and reverb sections of the unit, so we added them in in post.
To end the song I played the loop one last time while fading out the DS2 oscillators, and then Trevor played us out on his keyboard. Thank you for your beautiful work Trevor!
For the video, Trevor told me there was a really cool mound of dirt out at Mesa Del Sol outside of town. I think it's for construction or something, and it probably won't be there long, so we hurried out there to try to get some cool shots before the sun went down. I grabbed some random costume supplies from my basement, including a Chucky wig, long-nosed face mask, hat that my buddy Quinn gave me after the top came off, and some other stuff that I ended up not wearing. Daylight was going fast, so Trevor shot everything at 120 FPS on his GH7 camera so we could extend the shots out as necessary.
Initially we just got a few shots of me walking up the hill and dancing around and then running down it, but we kept coming up with additional shots to get and we found this cool bead thing that someone had left at the top of the hill.
In the editing room, we found this really cool abstract story we could tell with the shots we had. I'm stoked about how my cape billows in the wind gusts throughout the shoot. And Trevor sure can point a camera I tell you what!
We then did some basic color correction, with a lot of temperature adjustments in Lumetri Color because the sun started going down and half the shots that ended up in the middle of the video were actually shot at the end of the day, and they were super blue. I then added a little color curve silliness after Trevor went home because it's after 11:00 and he needs his beauty sleep. I think it makes the imagery feel a kiss more magical but I guess it's up to you to decide.
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