Radio Gator - A secret weapon for your music productions! 

This is brilliant . Some of the most innovative techniques I’ve ever heard . Thank you for sharing this occult madness !

Holy shit this explains so much of how that specific effect is made! It doesn't even have to be radio, can be another track/song you like or made, mixes you prepare for it! This is so good!

Why am I only finding this now?! This is amazing, I'm gonna record some stations from my 1970 radio and use it in a breakcore project. Big up from Bristol, your channel is really underrated - your work is fantastic!

One of the best tools that I found for getting strange sounds to use this method on is internet shortwave radio. You'd be amazed at some of the strange sounds that you can dial in. There's dial up-modem type sounds, strange bursts of static, numbers stations, people talking about random stuff, as well as music stations from other countries. And the internet shortwave radios that are out there that you can access through your browser also 99% of the time have a "Record" button somewhere in there so you can just record what you want and download the file.

Skinny Puppy has been in my top three favorite bands since I got a hold of Bites way, way back when. Thank you. This is utterly priceless. I even have Too Dark Park tattooed on my leg.

Thank you for making these videos, Ken! Every single one is insanely inspiring.

This is such a great channel and this technique with radios and gates is awesome! Thanks

This is really good stuff, for sure can hear the old school skinny puppy in the way this technique shapes the song, nice.

Wow! Super neat trick! Another fun one is to use things like Radio/noise as the gate trigger for pads/drones to give the 'broken/glitchy signal wire' effect. Super addicted to your channel now, keep the content coming!! Been SP junkie since 88 and love to hear your take on things!

Thanks ken, you are a genius. I was lucky enough to finally meet you in Atlanta at the Masquerade in 2017. Ohgr and Kmfdm. You ran the sound board, and I got to say hello and just a few things in between those sets. You're one of the coolest and nicest sound guys I've ever met....thanks so much for doing these session videos and for being you.

Very exciting!

This got me motivated to figure out how to do it in Cubase. And it worked! Thank you!!

This is such a cool insight into some history and music I love! Thank you so much! I just got done setting this up & I'm really excited to keep playing with this... I feel like a glitch bazooka just got added to my musical arsenal! Keep 'em coming Ken, these tips are golden!

Fantastic trick and great insight into my favourite band's production technique. SP were so ahead anyone else in the music scene!

I'm hooked to this channel! This is brilliant!

Wow, so cool. I love your videos man so much to learn from Super knowledgeable and creative people like you. Thank you so much 🤘

Always wondered about the radio in SP live stuff. So cool thanks for sharing!

Fantastic! this was simply awesome. Thanks a lot, really.

Great :) I'm not a pruducer, but I was always wonder, how all those crazy sounds were made. Damned, the last thing I expected - is car stereo :))

would love to hear more SP recording/composing techniques. this is very cool. you should bring them on the show at some point if they'll let you.

Cool idea! I recently got an Akai MPC One, and I'm trying to figure out how to do this on there, but the gate settings are not obvious. I'll keep plucking away at it, and hope it's possible! If not, that's fine. I am really enjoying this little box as it is, and trying to take in little bits of your advice while I work on some songs. It's really nice to be making electronic music again, and the workflow and capabilities of this thing blow my previous gear out of the water!

PLEASE keep making videos Ken ! Such a treat every time ! ❤️💜❤️

That's cool I recorded a bunch of radio stations on my phone. But I would record the station frequency that was right before or right after. So the radio recording would have an overlay of static noise dubbed into the music. But I never thought of triggering the recording with drums... That really cool. I don't use protools though, I use propeller heads reason. So I'm not sure if I can do something similar, I'd have to check... But they're all single recordings just me switching from one radio frequency to another and recording the noise. I might try it out... See what I can do.

Definitely going to give this go- thanks!

You are a great teacher!!

Thank you for this!🙏 please share more stories like this one? Thank you!✋✌ it actually reminds me a lot of the live "ain't it dead yet?" Dave "Rave" era

Hey Ken, this is by far one of my favorite production technique videos on youtube. Would you consider doing more videos on sound design and experimenting in the studio? "Weird stuff that sounds unexpectedly cool" is a big theme around my studio, especially when working with old hardware, so I'd be curious to hear more of your experiences along those lines. Listening to the albums you worked on in the 90s is actually what inspired me to choose sound design and engineering as a main career, so these little gems of wisdom are a real treat.

Thanks for the tip, this is great!

This is amazing! I am working on a track and i think this technique will fit perfectly!

OMG. Wow.

Awesome idea.

Very cool.

I have wondered about this for YEARS!!! Thank you su much for sharing!

This is a spectacular alternative to (or maybe more appropriately- evolution of) the old midi drum triggering of samples. What a killer channel!

CBC and LG73 radio samples never sounded to good in the 90's Thank you for sharing this technique as I always kinda wondered what was up with that randomness Also surprised you didn't just use an old 4track multi tracker to drive loops into the gate but this is great info right here

This is incredible, I may have to lock mesen in't studio for a few days

That's so cool. An endless source of sounds to manipulate further. Radio is cool. I sat for hours in front of transistor radio and tuned them. What fun. Is the SP "we got the taste" sample the result of your radio gator rigs?

This is great Ken, I'm a long time SP fan. To be honest they were the reason I started writing music. I studied the credits and always remembered who was producing and mixing so when I saw you had a channel I was elated. I do a lot with recording "controlled chaos" and this video hits the mark for me. Please post more of these inspiration tips and techniques. I am diving into vocoders because of your videos!!

figata totale!!

How many hearts and enthusiastic roars of appreciation can I bestow on this video? :D :D Thanks so much! YOU ROCK!

Thank you for these videos! I can't wait to try this!

I got here from the 2020 version. Is this how you guys did Running (back & forth) from the Dragon Experience album? This reminds me a lot of that!

Like a souped up version of Zappa's ""Apostolic Vlorch Injector" from the Uncle Meat sessions, keyed to drums instead of played directly.

came here for an obscure radio fx vst, stayed for the gated radio.

This really does drip with that tdp and last rights era sound.

This was incredibly innovative! I was also wondering, did you use this on the "Ain't it dead yet" live vid? Also, I love these segments you do!

😎💙💙

ok... fuck yeah!!!

I have a Radio plugin I'm going to try this with too!

Oh boy, I'm not a hoarder BUT I do have a couple boxes full of old cassettes and VHS tapes that I recorded from radio and TV in the 80's and 90's that would be PERFECT for this technique. Question: is it worth going to the trouble to "tune" any of it so it's in key with the song?

It's funny, the vids I thought I had the least interest in ended up being the most interesting.

How do I do this ? Does the gate require a side chain function or Do I buss the drums and radio track to a master buss with a gate ?

GAWDAMN.

Two days? Try two weeks :)