Things are picking up pace in the studio, the EP is almost complete…had a major hard drive crash which killed me for about a month trying to restore everything from backups and reinstall all the software and endless plug-ins I use. As much as I’m ok for backing things up I still lost ‘some’ work [...]
Archive for the ‘Production’ Category
Dewanatron
Posted: December 10, 2011 in Audio, Music, Production, Science, Sound and Lighting, Sound Design, Studio, Synths, Technique, TechnologyStrange people make strange noises. Bleeps, bloops, strange unusual noises.
We’ve just come back from playing the Kinetik festival in Canada…and naturally any transatlantic show means a lot of preparation work goes into the event. Esp as we’ve been slotting new tracks into the live show so there is a learning process there and a case of “How do we adapt this track to play [...]
Ben Burtt
Posted: June 3, 2011 in Audio, Computer Graphics, Film, Production, Production, Sound Design, Studio, Technique, Technology, VideoHaving watched Wall-E for the first time the other day my first thought was that it was an absolutely charming film, the second was that it allowed itself to be a film in the same sense Easy Rider did…the dialogue was minimal, the story was told through images, actions and sound. In particular interest [...]
Still drooling over one of these babies. Do I eat beans for the next month and buy one now? Or wait till the next cheque comes in. Hmm. About 20 hrs in airports/planes coming up in the next week though and that’s 20hrs I could be working on music right? Yes. And a happy Geoff [...]
Interesting article here from The Guardian on the Kaoss Pad. One of the coolest pieces of kit we use is the Korg ‘Kaoss Pad’, ie: the little box covered in LEDs I play during the live show. Essentially it’s an effect box with a touch pad that I can use to mash up and glitch [...]
Works in progress get called the first thing that pops into my head when I click ‘Save’, giving you a rather Rorschachion insight into the creative process! Sometimes that stays, sometimes not. A few of the ones from the new album: Crack Rats (Rats that eat crack? Or something far more sinister?) Melodyne (I don’t [...]
In the box Computers have now reached the point where we can stay entirely ‘in the box’ and produce compelling professional sounding music. But something is amiss with that experience, especially to the real musicians amongst us who are used to far more physical interaction with their instruments than simply pushing a mouse around. The [...]
One of the most frequently asked questions I get is…what kit do you guys use? The live show runs from a Macbook Pro with Rhys triggering everything from Ableton Live with a Korg trigger pad. Mostly samples, beats and glitches but he switches to a keyboard part in one of the new tracks. Then me [...]
