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"This is how you get your brain out of the technical side": Chromeo's live rig - exclusive tour
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Canadian duo Chromeo have a lot on their hands when it comes to playing live - synths, vocals, guitars, bass, sequenced beats and more. We met up with P-Thugg during a soundcheck to get a deep dive on the technical ins-and-outs of what makes their hybrid electronic/band setup work on stage.
In this video:
00:35 - Ableton: the 'brain' of the setup
09:24 - Guitar effects
11:38 - MIDI and networking
18:26 - Talkbox and Auto-Tune
21:00 - Automation
22:42 - Synths
Chromeo's new album Adult Contemporary is out now.
Keep up with the latest tour dates: chromeo.net/
Thanks to SWX Bristol
This is a little insane to me. I love the insight and being able to witness the inner workings! 🍻
mad scientist right here!!!!! nuff respect P!!!!
Wow. What a treat to see this. Ableset seems awesome
P Thug is insanely skilled and talented. What exactly can't he do?
Chromeo is one of my favorite bands. Dave and P thugg are so good live.
Amazing!
Wow great insight. I'd rather get a band together for live gigs
nice i think is the Melkweg location in Amsterdam
holy shit that Iceman guitar
P must be stoked Ableton now has auto tune
9:30 Club?
Chromeo test track beats left beats right
Awesome setup, everything is thoughtful
Click Beeeep Chromeo test track beats left beats right
People are gonna look at this and say it's an insane 26 min. of super technical babbling, so why are they acting like this is non-technical 😂 ... But you gotta realize P is a top-tier geek and most DJs/artists are never going to be going this deep on the live sound/lighting setup. Big acts don't do their own lighting - at least not without a huge crew of nerds like Deadmau5 has. Com Truise knows how to do his own lighting with like zero other people, but other than that I can't think of anybody who's doing this with just a few people. P's got everything right there in that little rack case and it looks like he's plugging straight into the FoH and into the big MA lighting desk thing. Normally the really cool lighting setups are because you're at a festival and they've got a whole separate team of lighting people and FoH people messing with ShowKontrol or Resolume or whatever. The act just shows up with a USB.
Impressive setup indeed, but seems like complexity for complexity sake. Wouldn't it be easier to run a dedicated backing tracks player and just perform with live instruments over top? You could still sync the visuals and lighting to it and remove the technical nightmare of programming and rigging this beast.
> Wouldn't it be easier - it would. It would also be a lot less engaging for the audience. There's a million reasons why artists go through the headache of translating their songs for the stage in this way, and I think it's hubris to underestimate it.
@@machinate "Hubris?" It was an innocent question. Maybe, instead of pontificating, you could illuminate them/us on a few of those "million reasons." Many of us may simply not be BTS 'black t-shirt' guys.
This whole setup is crazy minimal! It just looks complicated because he spent a lot of time talking about MIDI/network connections. P is doing a lot of stuff himself that would normally be taken care of by lighting techs. But it looks like he sorted out the light show himself and integrating it with the GrandMA3 at FoH.
If P wants to use live DSP autotune with Ableton and an Apollo, then obviously they need a computer. Listen to what he's saying. They've got everything in Ableton, and each track has different autotune presets. They've got a super streamlined setup for using backing tracks + external gear + live autotune + lighting cues + per-track presets for everything.
Live acts with hardware usually show up with several huge cases of rack gear. Look at Orbital or Tangerine Dream. Chromeo has a much simpler setup when they're not using that crazy chrome modular stuff.
Think about it from an organizational standpoint. If they're using external gear they need patch management. If they're not keeping track of patches/program changes in the DAW then that's added complexity. If they're limiting the number of patches they use and doing all their patch management manually then that's extra work just to make sure that their hardware is in a show-ready state.
Their setup is really flexible, too. I'm sure they can change which instruments they want to noodle around on from one show to the next just by triggering different clips. That's a lot better than having to play the same type of part over the same backing tracks every show.
But I think they do simplify it sometimes by just DJ-ing their own songs and singing over them.
@@CentaurusRelax314 @machinate You guys both sound like dorks. Shut up.
Filming/focusing is so shoddy, isn't this a pro publication?
Chromeo are total pros. 🎛🔊 You can tell they got to this point of having all the redundancy and backup through a LOT of hard-won experience.