If his music isn't in your collection, there's a good chance his sounds are in that synth you own, a videogame you just played or the TV ad you just watched. Watch and let Richard take you on a tour of his North Carolina studio
very talented sound artist. i purposely avoid the "sound designer" label cause his music albums are very fun to listen to! its not just TV commercial sounds coming out of there.
I mey Rich in Phoenix many years ago. I asked what he uses and he said"the same thing everyone uses"Logic and Reaktor". Than as he ate his huge plate of fried foods we talked for like ten minutes about logic and he would get much more inthusiastic than I did about the subject of Logic. Like a kid talking about a toy.You can't meet a more down to earth guy that Rich.
I saw Richard Devine a festival recently and it was hands down the most amazing musical performance i have ever seen. His ability to manipulate sounds and explore every aspect of a sounds quality is unbelievable. He builds his own modular setup and then plays it masterfully live - a truly novel thing to see. You feel as if he and the machine used to make the sounds are one in the same
Have been fond of him ever since Lipswitch, especially Lens:Align. Saw him live at The Incredible Warp Lighthouse Party in 2000. Can't believe it's been 20 years.
was up Richard D you rock , I commend your hard work . it takes a lot to take what you love and push forward and become successful. Peace and happiness to you my old skate brother.
With the right time and materials you can learn the technical stuff. That's not the hard part. The hard part is knowing what to do with all of this. Knowing what to record and for how long and what context to use it in. That is where I get lost.
in this particular studio i'd probably be able to finish one single track per decade. it looks impressive, but i'd really not like to have that gear in my house, as all i'd end up doing day after day would be experimenting here, tweaking that and finding a cable long enough to patch trigger LFO x of synth z with some CV output of eurorack synth y. >_
It's a lot of gear. There's probably a reason he has it, or a reason he didn't throw it away. you're right, you could use singl pieces of gear to achieve stuff - the elektron boxes, nords. Eurorack, maybe. That was just the hardware :) If it were ME, I'd want a gear list and RTFM before I even walk in to avoid being overwhelmed...
yeah with just an elektron octatrack and a few pocket operators or korg volca units you can make millions of tracks in a tiny footprint. Heck the OP-1 and Elektron are perfect travel partners.
I had the honor to chat with him on a couple of occasions back when I was in Atlanta a few years ago. Richard and Amber (his wife) are really nice people, and his live sets were mind-blowing back then... :) I remember him explaining me his gear out on the parking lot before the show and walk into the club in his flip-flops and then suddenly make sonic miracles like he was walking in the park...
very impressive studio and collection of gear. everything looks ready to plug and play. its all perfectly optimized for him., he must have got an amazing workflow in there. would love to chill and make music there
Great studio and there was some good info, but whoever actually made the video should be fired/banned from making videos in the future. Why cut off the end of phrases (rude!:) and the camera follows richard maybe 50% of the time and half of that is out of focus. Such a shame when it's on such a talented artist with such a cool space.
What's going on with the editing and camera work?!? Nice little walk through, but surely you could've had higher production than that! the cross fades on the cuts are awful, surely you had plenty of cutaways you could've used and the sound recording device is on auto level so when he pauses, the background noise increases. Really amateurish and detracted from what could've easily been a really nice piece
Na man, that sounded like the "oh shit, I murdered someone and I have them in the closet" voice lol. Awesome stuff but I think he been in there too long.... 0_o
electric bill would actually be really low for most of that gear. Digital gear especially. All usually very low in the mA range. Older gear can use more, and especially tube gear uses more. But most of that stuff he has is pretty new so it won't be that high. You'll use 10 times as much electricity just turning on the heater or putting the dryer on.
Advertising for who. Every synth maker in existence many of which are guts who only make a synth a a hobby. He owns every synth from every manufacturer so no offense but your point is silly.
Pear Of Salamanca he is a sound genius and that usually entails a lot of hours per day of non talking activities. it makes complete sense why he sounds “nervous”
