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When I'm performing

There's

There's

Basically two types

The show Smallville I think maybe three but

For conversation

DayQuil keep it down the two we can we come to a show and the bee show

Mac Show is

Where we show up and I bring in a lot of gear and we bringing a lot of production

All are on lights are on sound guy and all that stuff in the Beast show is more

Like me just kind of showing up at someone else

Thing and they've got all the

The production setup

Or you

Most electronic music festivals for everyone would be Abby show

And that's kind of when you just kind of show up with some minimal amount of stuff now performing live

During an airshow

Would be bringing

Nothing

That's very small modular a lot of sense mostly mode

What's the stuff that's like

Kind of okay to get lost I call it as in so I don't I don't take a lot of my

Studio stuff so I either hire out a rent

Just by duplicate

Things to

Contour beaters

That are not replaceable

I'm in that kind of thing I'm Abby show

Is a scaled-down version of that where I'm still playing stems of all my stuff I'm just

Playing the audio stems of them so instead of playing you know like a two-track

Stereo mix and it name-calling that a song I'm playing like 1/8

Attend one where I'm using you know a couple of

Simple midi controllers like the whole setup we would fit in a backpack

You know when I just checked

Batshit on the plane and then get to where I got to go

And

You know with that then I can you know

Add some VST effects on to those other stems and then use midi controllers to control brand

Filtercopy Messer

I want to be repeat that for like half a second,

You're innocent more DJing than their butt

Yeah a little more getting you some flexibility and saying the playlist

The order is not

2

Important

When it comes to Abby show because you know you just have a

I was called a Vijay just kind of

Jamming out

Playing video clips appropriate to that song and he's doing his own thing and you're doing your own thing you don't really need to send any kind

Sonic user data back and forth

Because there's not a whole lot going on because not even your production anyways

So you just do it

You make with what

What was given to you kind of thing

We do rehearse before a live show but not in the sense that we were Hurst

Every show

We rehearse once

Basically I don't know Warehouse in Pennsylvania

In a Amish town

Caldwell

For approximately

Two to three weeks

And what we do is we replicate the state we build the whole

Stage the whole show might smoke everything all the bells muscle

What you see

Up on the thing and we build it in a big

Amphitheater and that's where we we kind of bring together all the elements we worked on

Side together

I am and make them all work with each other we only have a very

Like small window

Every time I introduce a new stage or

I knew major element in the stage or major change

Strip the whole thing down

Rebuild it in a warehouse

Snn rehearse it that way

In-N-Out

Same carbon copy

About with the same equipment gets

Song

Directed at every other

Festival and stuff like that so none of that changes so we don't have to rehearse every show

But we we definitely do rehearse

Every Idle race

Avenues

On stage at an a show it it's usually about

324 computer systems

One being you know kind of the one that

Produces the audio and incense all the MIDI

Another one is it is it almost at an exact mirror of that in KC

The crashes are whatever in

Oddly enough for my whole career doing it live I have never had a single

Failure to the point where we had the

Switch to that clone computer but

Redundancy is

Super important for those kind of things so we bring that anyway

The third computer actually control some custom software that we've written

That goes out to a giant touch

That run some software with about that

Sew-in and it's essentially an elaborate MIDI controller but it's a modular work service that I can

Glenside

And see what's playing when's playing how it's playing and in some parameters for it so I can adjust

Some filter cut-offs be repeats here or you know see which

Sensor on and all that

Kind of like Mike

But my eyes are on all the

4th computer controls motion control systems and Lighting

And then we would I would use a front-of-house mixing.

Actually on stage

You witches 32-channel

Front-of-house mixer kind of thing

And that's what I would use so I would do my own FOH mixing and then send us some doubt put so the

Actual front of house is only getting a stereo Channel but I'm

I'm wrangling and managing 32 of them sub mixing them down to

Sending our front of house

I was too and then they send that to

The head audio at that an event

Bisho similar thing but with like

4chan

I like to work with all these systems and

Try to come up with ways to keep myself

Falling asleep up there and

Nn

Innovating things in a way that you know is like our light guy

Programming lights with a

With a

My grandma's Consul and all that stuff in

And one day I noticed that the Grandma had a midi input on the back and I said what somebody in Port for on the

On the desk for me cuz I don't know I mean you I think you can maybe like

Program like he's with Minnie and I'm like wow that's interesting and I went and read up on that and

At rehearsals one day took an extra output and went into the back of the of the light.

And then started feeding notes

So maybe is coming out of my computer and it's telling the desk to fire these fixtures off or rotate them assert

Certain way or play this whole sequence

Stop and I can do that anytime I want during this and I'm like what's brilliant

Because I like guys

That traditionally when their programming lights they kind of do it manually

So you're at the mercy of him you know hitting a button and doing that and he's not always bang on because

He's not

Compensate what life is really well-trained he is but

Typically if he doesn't know that

Sound only travels at 350 seconds hope your 400 feet away you're almost like you know half a second

The Beat from when I hear it too by the time it gets to you so

If you hit the light

Like you because the

Front-of-house is 100

252

A252 weight

Everytime you cute even though you're getting it right it's not right because you're not accounting for that

Time delay

But I can with midi I can do that I could just shifted over slightly sewing rehearsals we had it all like Ray

Running a hundred percent being triggered for me and I thought wow that you know that's really interesting let's incorporate that

System in rotini and Dora shows who were doing that

And then

We would find the problems like midi suck

Cuz it's old nnn were using these midi cables in the data is

You s*** and then you don't researching that let me into finding that all midi can be traveled over TCP

VIP over anything that cable which is going to be

A million times more robust way faster because it's in

Dustin is going to be safer because of those parody checks on the

On the other end of the data so you know sending midi over IP and then sending midi over IP wires flea which is a ray

Really bad idea too fast

Which we try to only once

And will never do it again

Because he attwifi is cool and all that in it and a small control the room but

Out out in the wild Wi-Fi doesn't do so good but that's how you learn and you know

The secret to keeping your

Stage equipment or your ear

Your booth equipment safe is a

600-lb Samoan guy named Kimo

Who don't take no s*** from nobody

No nothing safe on stage

In terms of

Things that could go wrong

I mean

Yeah she goes around not saying LED walls fall down all the f****** time and you may or may not

He killed her or whatever that's

That's rare

Just keep in mind when you when you do bring things on tour

Make sure they're either cheap

Or robots

Nothing in between

Because

You know it's just going to break she's going to get stolen a roadie is going to be f****** sitting on your mug

Voyager 1 day

Organovo

Some crazy dude waiting in the outrigging for you know your crew to start loading in and he runs up and grabs a mouse

Outside gets away with it

Replaceable is key now I'm a PC guy first and foremost I love PCS I love the modularity of them

Knowing what's going on under the hood all the f****** time I tore

And I perform life with Mak

Right because

If one of these PC shuts the bed we are going to have to go to

2A probably 20-30 different stores

It's going to take us about 8

210 hours to build a whole new

The Mack

F****** throw that thing to the curb go to the nearest Apple store by another one bone done

You no problem solve no exotic Hardware no problem

All that stuff

It will go wrong

You can't foresee like you don't

Computer crashes can be prevented just

Keeping a clean

System in knowing General PC or Mac

If you if you can have a computer for

Performance don't put anything

Anything you don't need

You know just rip that thing down don't don't install

Don't use it

Check your emails in the hotel room and then don't do that have another one

If you if you can do that

You know

If you can't then

Be very careful

I do have one very fond memory of playing at musikfest

Texas

Once where

I would

Play in the end we'd start the set and the way that that show built up

Cuz we started with some chords

It's in the way that some chords

Start sit

Start cycle.

Kind of a drone home and then goes up and then and then a a mid-range kind of grinding beat starts.

The predict this matter

And so as

Soon as you know everyone's ready for that drop

Anime super the bass note headphones

System's down

And I was like oh okay

Well that's alright

Because that's not my f******

I know exactly what happened we overloaded the amps or something like that so

I casually play that one off and on like

Alright

So I'll just

Sit here and

You not freak out

And wait for

Some okay dude your thing is go

Alright I got it back

Okay that's good

Find you know what

I'll just roll it back if you

A minute and then we'll try this again

So did it again

Up up up up up

Big Crescendo and

Are hitmen

Hickman

Soon as the transit cakes

Power down again

Almost like oh my God anyway and what I think they're now I'm getting a little fresh

It happened

GHIN

Third time

And this time I might

I I don't know what the problem

Because it's not my

I'm looking at my system my systems on everything's running nominally

But what I did notice

Is the playback back head

Stopped

It's like somebody

Stopped

Right as soon as that beat hit but only when that beat hit in the house

What a f****** mystery

So I'm thinking okay you know what I'm going to go under the preferences

As in you know disable the keyboard

For a second

And what I found out

Is to get into the preferences you have to hit like, piso Ergo I need to find my keyboard which I usually kind of taco

Wait because you do not want to accidentally touch a button on that f****** keyboard

Shift

The whole set of had a few bars

Stop that are plays it from somewhere else or not

So I kind of talk that s*** out of the way

Well

What had happened was an audiotech who used to work

Had wrapped my

Keyboard up around a post

That helped my monitor

And then lean the keyboard up

Against that

Switch

Kind of look like a good idea at the time but what he didn't know is that when the face was hitting

Sage was shaking

Cuz that's what f****** kicks drums do at f****** yo 60,000 and

And f******

Spacebar

With hitting the post

So it was just stopping the set

Call motherfuker

You know it just

S*** like that's going to happen in India

The thing to take away maybe out of this little anecdote here is that

When that kind of s*** happens Do Not freak out

That there's nothing more f****** embarrassing

When I'm watching a DJ

Play a CD in the CD starts

Skip

I'm not really so old the CD skip I'm just more Curious and and and

I'm learning I'm what that DJ is going to do like how's it going to react

The nfu you if one is so inclined you can YouTube a few

Good

DJ fails if you will

An end in some people

Blow their s***

Play Clayton

Like these they have to blame something like don't blame anything

Shift going to happen

And then just play it off Pico and do you think

People patient the way now I'm in midair might not understand right then and there but because that s***'s going to be YouTube

Tube and recorded from every f****** Angela you better make sure you're just like