Rusko Announces North American Tour Dates

Dubstep trailblazer Rusko has announced a month-long tour starting September 18th in Dallas, Texas and ending October 30th at the HARD Haunted Mansion. The UK-bred DJ released his debut album earlier this year, O.M.G.! on Mad Decent, which features dirty-south staple Gucci Mane, Amber Coffman of the Dirty Projectors, Rod Azlan, and more.  His live

Tobacco on Creating Fuzzed-Out Sounds for Maniac

Tom Fec certainly knows how to fuzz things up. When he’s not distorting synths for Black Moth Super Rainbow, he’s tweaking sounds and twisting knobs as Tobacco, his solo, edgier alter ego. Case in point is Tobacco’s latest release, Maniac Meat (Anticon). It’s full of gritty, dirty, sinister-sounding synths layered upon sweet effected vocals, all

Home Brew ADR, Part Three

The situation recap: The studio is set up and ready to go. The talent is in the booth and aching to get this done so they can go to their Hollywood premiere. The director is sitting beside you in the control room wondering when you’re going to put this magazine down and start working. Well, it’s almost time to deliver the project, but we have just a couple of more things to cover. . . . Dialog and Ambience Make sure the actors mimic as much of the expansiveness or closeness of the scene as possible. For example, if the filmed scene shows the actor far away, using a close mic to record the dialog will probably sound odd. On the other hand, you have to stretch the aural truth a bit, because even though the actor is far away

Toolbox, August 2010

By Mike Rozkin All prices are MSRP unless stated otherwise Roland Octapad SPD-30 What Digital percussion pad Why Trigger technology from Roland's V-Drums, the pads feature an extremely natural and responsive playing feel. How Includes 50 kits and hundreds of cutting-edge drum and percussion sounds. Onboard effects include 30 types of multi-effects that can be used on individual kits, and Ambience with an Equalizer and Limiter that can be applied to the overall Octapad SPD-30 sound. The Phrase Loop recording feature allows the player to loop recorded sounds in real time, and then overdub additional parts or sounds. With the ability to record three parts per phrase, Phrase Loop is a powerful creative tool for live