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8. Inside the Vibrazone - Cosmosis' Studio
1 year ago
Dr Funkenstein - Live Looping
Recording loops on the fly, live dub mixing, and guitar improvisation.
The whole arrangement was created spontaneously using just two short loops:
1. Two bar drum loop
2. A one bar Rhodes piano riff based around Amin9
The variety is created using realtime tweaking of filters, effects, dub mixing, fading stuff in and out with faders and track mutes, adding some loops on the fly. The guitar solos as well as the arrangement were improvised i.e. made up as I went along.
Equipment:
PC Slaptop running Ableton Live and a bunch of plugins (using Ableton's native plug-ins exclusively), Novation NIO audio interface, PEAK midi footswitcher, Digitech RP350 guitar multi FX pedal (including an octaver for the bass sound) , Wah pedal, Novation Launchpad, Korg Nano Kontrol, Ibanez plank, Calvin Klein underpants (essential for getting that analogue sound)
Download the loops here: cosmosis.co.uk/blog/cosmosis-live-looping-loops-download
Recording loops on the fly, live dub mixing, and guitar improvisation.
The whole arrangement was created spontaneously using just two short loops:
1. Two bar drum loop
2. A one bar Rhodes piano riff based around Amin9
The variety is created using realtime tweaking of filters, effects, dub mixing, fading stuff in and out with faders and track mutes, adding some loops on the fly. The guitar solos as well as the arrangement were improvised i.e. made up as I went along.
Equipment:
PC Slaptop running Ableton Live and a bunch of plugins (using Ableton's native plug-ins exclusively), Novation NIO audio interface, PEAK midi footswitcher, Digitech RP350 guitar multi FX pedal (including an octaver for the bass sound) , Wah pedal, Novation Launchpad, Korg Nano Kontrol, Ibanez plank, Calvin Klein underpants (essential for getting that analogue sound)
Download the loops here: cosmosis.co.uk/blog/cosmosis-live-looping-loops-download
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thank you!
Cheers, Bill
Cheers
Sure with sequencing stuff one has total control over every minute aspect of the sounds, but the trade off is losing the fun part... :)
Cheers,
Bill
Give it a go if you have Ableton.
Cheers,
Bill
Cheers, Bill
I never heard Mandrill s peace and love suite. I guess it was good...?
Bill
what's the trick to the delay + verb you have on the send? it's almost like there is a fade-in to the delay. for example you using it on the rhodes and the rhythm guitar via a dial at 1:09, 1:21, 1:50, etc.
percs sound very natural, i love the hats.
will this be released? can we expect a funkenstein album at some point? i'm a long-time fan of your dub/funk/chill. keep the funk strong!
.... to specifically answer your question, the fade up comes from having the delay send on a knob.
There's more options available with a send knob rather than say, a send switch.
One option is to impose a fade envelope on a sustaining sound - as you heard.
Bill
thanks :)
The Ibanez is going thru a Digitech RP350, I use the same box onstage for the Cosmosis gigs.
Delay tweaking is just standard old school dub delay technique. All the channels send to the delay via the top knob on the little Korg which I've configured as a send knob per channel, and I have a knob to control the feedback of the delay.
The delay runs through a slightly modulating band pass filter to simulate how the "real" thing sounds when doing this on a proper analogue console.
How I used to do this on a real as opposed to virtual console would be to cut the bottom and top and make a tiny mid boost on the delay return channels using the e.q. on the delay return channels (which would be returned to 2 x standard desk channels panned hard left and right rather than standard aux returns which are more commonly used for fx returns)
The e.q. curve would reiterate on each loop through the delay circuit causing the tone to change over time giving that Jamaican studio flavour.
As you observed, the delay returns can also be fed into a big verb at appropriate moments via a switch on the little Korg for truly humungous dub outs.
>an we expect a funkenstein album at some point? <
That's a damn good idea :)
The Dr Funkenstein project was actually thunk up as a live project to bring some spontaneity/chaos back into live performances - it's so much more interesting that way for me... I have my 2nd Dr Funkenstein gig the weekend after next at SNE Festival in Switzerland, but a live album is a really good idea...
Cheers,
Bill
Bill