Gabrielle Aplin's recent UK tour found the artist mixed nightly on a Soundcraft Si Performer 3 console. Independent sound engineer Darryl Walsh worked with Aplin on her tour and helped select the new Soundcraft console after it was decided they would bring their own system to each of the smaller venues. The console's 64 channels and eight stereo inputs met the eight-piece band's complete microphone and in-ear monitor needs.
by Clive Young Battles has always been an interesting band, staking out a musical space somewhere between the conformity of modern electronic loop-based music and the improvisational nature of experimental, freeform rock. The trio mines the tension between musical forms, but recording that push-and-pull so that it maintains an organic truth isn't a simple processand that's captured in the short documentary, Battles: The Art of Repetition.
"People don't have the budget to score [with an orchestra] when you're working on million-dollar-and-under pictures. But if you can give them a taste of what it would feel like to have a real string section, then it's your responsibility to do it." - Marc Vanocur, Media Toaster