Using Live to its fullest, live improv recording

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dckyoto
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Using Live to its fullest, live improv recording

Post by dckyoto » Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:10 pm

Here at work we have a lunchtime jam band and because I own the company I built out a little sound-proof studio (surprisingly cheap to do actually) and got us an Apollo quad and an OctopreMk2 all hooked up live to Ableton, with less than 6ms latency total. We run Live on a Retina macbook pro too which gives us quite a bit of cpu performance.

The band is called The Electric Bends and we have uploaded a huge (as in no. of these Live recorded, and then Live post-produced tracks to soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/dylan-cuthbert we even have some tracks with vocals! All recorded improv with Live's realtime effects and then re-mixed/re-balanced and adjusted afterwards before uploading.

When I started doing this I had no idea what I was doing, but bit by bit I've really come to understand how Live manipulates the sound and I do all kinds of crazy (and sometimes quite experimental) stuff to the separate tracks as I master them up. I've received advice from several luminaries in the pro music industry, such as Alex P from The Orb and that has helped a hell of a lot too.

If anyone has any questions about the tracks or are just interested in how I "produce" some of the sounds, fire away! Remember that pretty much all these tracks were recorded live (in Live 9 and Live 8 for older tracks) in one take, and then the power of Live post-production was unleashed on them, it can do MAGIC! :mrgreen:

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