Rob Swire
Encyclopedia
Rob Swire is an Australia
n record producer
, singer and keyboardist. Swire is best known as lead singer
and producer
of Australia
n electronic
band Pendulum
and is sometimes referred to by the stage name
Anscenic. Originally from Perth
, Western Australia
, he relocated to the United Kingdom
in 2003 with fellow Pendulum co-founders Gareth McGrillen and Paul "El Hornet" Harding. Swire has since fulfilled a broad spectrum of roles as a member of Pendulum, ranging from song writing
to singing while performing live with an unusual guitar-like MIDI controller – Starr Labs' Ztar Z6-SP. Swire can also play guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion.
, Western Australia
. He attended Scotch College
, Swanbourne
, graduating in 1999, where he first met fellow bandmate Gareth McGrillen. Over the next three years he worked as a record producer
for several local drum and bass
, breakbeat
and metal
bands, during which time he occasionally used the stage name
"Anscenic". He also made a couple of independent releases with former hardcore
label Hardline Rekordingz, including a collaboration with the label's founder, Animal Intelligence, which was titled "Fat American Bitchcore". Only twenty lathe cut copies of the record were distributed, to help promote the label's 2001–2002 tour of New Zealand
. Swire also produced a track titled "Electrodes on the Skull" which was released alongside three tracks by other artists signed to the label at that time.
act Pendulum
with fellow Xygen bandmate McGrillen and local DJ Paul "El Hornet" Harding. Swire relocated to the United Kingdom
the following year, along with the other members of the band, and the band soon gained widespread underground recognition for their tracks "Vault" and "Trail of Sevens". Over the next two years Swire worked on material for the band's debut album, Hold Your Colour
, primarily as the band's songwriter
and producer
alongside McGrillen. The album was released in 2005, to considerable commercial success. When the band began performing live in October 2006, Swire became the band's lead singer
in addition to playing a Ztar – a guitar-like MIDI controller – during live performances.
After the band's first tour they started work on a second album, In Silico, for which Swire featured as the main vocalist, after already appearing on tracks such as "Spiral
", "Hold Your Colour" "Streamline" and "Still Grey
", in order to keep a consistent sound. In addition, he continued his former roles of writer and producer, although he relegated the task of vocal mixing
to a professional mixing engineer
. Swire was also extensively involved in creating publicity material for the new album, as he explained during an interview with Lucy Chakaodza of The Independent
.
Pendulum have since made a third album, titled Immersion
, which was released in the UK on the 24th May 2010. This is Pendulum's only number 1 album, charting highest in the UK album chart.
's track, "Ghosts 'n' Stuff". The music video has now also been released. Recently, Swire co-wrote Rihanna
's songs "Rude Boy
" and "Roc Me Out", and contributed bass guitar and backing vocals to the songs.
He is currently working on a new project entitled 'Knife Party' with fellow Pendulum
band member, Gareth McGrillen. The Knife Party remix of Swedish House Mafia
's "Save the World
" was Zane Lowe
's 'Hottest Record in the World' on May 31, 2011. Knife Party are soon to be releasing their first EP entitled 100% No Modern Talking.
since 1999, most recently for Pendulum
while producing the album In Silico, during which he was required to create demos
, record the tracks, and mix
the album. He is responsible for mixing most of the band's material, although more recently he has avoided mixing vocals, stating that, "Since I was doing the vocals, it's a bit harder to keep the objectivity on the engineer's side". To avoid spending too long worrying about sound quality, Swire drafted the demos for In Silico using Commodore 64
and Nintendo
emulator
s, and basic synthesiser
sounds. To record the album, the band travelled to various studios where the live musicians, including Swire himself, recorded acoustic drums
, guitar
s, bass
and vocals
. In addition to recording the various tracks that comprised each song, Swire recorded samples of the instruments used so that, if he wasn't happy with one of the tracks, he could then play the part himself using a keyboard sampler
. Swire has used Pro Tools for recording audio and Steinberg's Cubase for production, but now mainly uses Steinberg's Nuendo for production and post-production editing. Swire records the tracks using both hardware synthesizers and virtual instruments. He then transfers all the sounds into a virtual sampler, which he uses with his midi controllers during a live performance. This allows him to be able to exactly replicate the synth sounds he used on the original recordings without having to tour with racks and racks of synthesizers or rare, priceless or fragile vintage synths.
, including guitar
and electric piano
on Hold Your Colour
, synthesiser, bass
and percussion
on In Silico and synthesizer and guitar on Immersion
. He has also been the band's main vocalist since the release of In Silico, for the purpose of creating a consistent sounding album. When performing live with the band, Swire typically plays a guitar-like MIDI controller, Starr Labs' Ztar Z6, in addition to performing vocals
on tracks for which his voice was originally used. Swire's favoured MIDI controller keyboards when performing live are the CME
UF70 Master Keyboard and the Korg
Kontrol 49 MIDI Keyboard. He also uses a Novation Launchpad, which controls Ableton Live. An Aviom
A-16 CS mixer is used by Swire to control instrument and microphone levels.
Pendulum are avid users of the Muse Research Receptor Unit, a computer designed to run and store digital and virtual instrument
settings such as virtual synthesisers and guitar preamplifier
s. Several of these units can be seen occupying the racks that also serve as a docking station
for the band's laptops and other computerised hardware. A small computer screen displays the sound setup for the song that is being played. A vocoder can also be triggered by assigned buttons on the body of the Ztar. He also uses pitch correction and a Rocktron talk box during live performances of The Other Side
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, singer and keyboardist. Swire is best known as lead singer
Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
and producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n electronic
Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment...
band Pendulum
Pendulum (band)
Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass and electronic rock band founded in 2002 in Perth by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding.Swire and McGrillen were members of the rock band known as Xygen. After hearing Konflict's "Messiah" at a club, they were inspired to enter into the drum and...
and is sometimes referred to by the stage name
Stage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
Anscenic. Originally from Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
, he relocated to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
in 2003 with fellow Pendulum co-founders Gareth McGrillen and Paul "El Hornet" Harding. Swire has since fulfilled a broad spectrum of roles as a member of Pendulum, ranging from song writing
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
to singing while performing live with an unusual guitar-like MIDI controller – Starr Labs' Ztar Z6-SP. Swire can also play guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion.
Early life
Swire was born and raised in PerthPerth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
. He attended Scotch College
Scotch College, Perth
Scotch College , is one of Australia's leading independent schools for boys, situated in Swanbourne, Western Australia, Australia. The school is a member of the Public Schools Association and is now a Uniting Church school, although it was founded in 1897 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia...
, Swanbourne
Swanbourne, Western Australia
-Facilities:Swanbourne includes the 18-hole Cottesloe Golf Club and Swanbourne Beach. Swanbourne is also well-known for having the only nudist beach in Perth. The beach, situated on army land and thus not subject to local council authority, is immediately north of the officially named Swanbourne...
, graduating in 1999, where he first met fellow bandmate Gareth McGrillen. Over the next three years he worked as a record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
for several local drum and bass
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
, breakbeat
Breakbeat
In 1992, a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged, and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out,...
and metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
bands, during which time he occasionally used the stage name
Stage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
"Anscenic". He also made a couple of independent releases with former hardcore
Hardcore techno
Hardcore techno is a type of electronic music typified by the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal industrial-like beats and samples...
label Hardline Rekordingz, including a collaboration with the label's founder, Animal Intelligence, which was titled "Fat American Bitchcore". Only twenty lathe cut copies of the record were distributed, to help promote the label's 2001–2002 tour of New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. Swire also produced a track titled "Electrodes on the Skull" which was released alongside three tracks by other artists signed to the label at that time.
Pendulum
In 2002, Swire formed drum and bassDrum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
act Pendulum
Pendulum (band)
Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass and electronic rock band founded in 2002 in Perth by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding.Swire and McGrillen were members of the rock band known as Xygen. After hearing Konflict's "Messiah" at a club, they were inspired to enter into the drum and...
with fellow Xygen bandmate McGrillen and local DJ Paul "El Hornet" Harding. Swire relocated to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
the following year, along with the other members of the band, and the band soon gained widespread underground recognition for their tracks "Vault" and "Trail of Sevens". Over the next two years Swire worked on material for the band's debut album, Hold Your Colour
Hold Your Colour
Hold Your Colour is the debut full-length album by Australian drum and bass band Pendulum. The album was mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis in London. It was released in 2005 and reissued in 2007 by Breakbeat Kaos...
, primarily as the band's songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
and producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
alongside McGrillen. The album was released in 2005, to considerable commercial success. When the band began performing live in October 2006, Swire became the band's lead singer
Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
in addition to playing a Ztar – a guitar-like MIDI controller – during live performances.
After the band's first tour they started work on a second album, In Silico, for which Swire featured as the main vocalist, after already appearing on tracks such as "Spiral
Spiral / Ulterior Motive
"Spiral" / "Ulterior Motive" is the first single by drum and bass band Pendulum. It was initially released on 10 July 2003, while the band were still based in Perth, as a promotional single by Kog Transmissions' sublabel Low Profile...
", "Hold Your Colour" "Streamline" and "Still Grey
Back 2 You / Still Grey
"Back 2 You" / "Still Grey" is the third single by Australian drum and bass band Pendulum. It was released on 22 March 2004 by independent label Timeless Recordings, and was their first and only release with the label...
", in order to keep a consistent sound. In addition, he continued his former roles of writer and producer, although he relegated the task of vocal mixing
Audio mixing (recorded music)
In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
to a professional mixing engineer
Mixing engineer
A mix engineer is the person responsible for incorporating all the different recorded elements of music to make the final version of a song. These mixing professionals have many years of experience and training with audio equipment which has enabled them to master the art of audio mixing...
. Swire was also extensively involved in creating publicity material for the new album, as he explained during an interview with Lucy Chakaodza of The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
.
Pendulum have since made a third album, titled Immersion
Immersion (album)
Immersion is the third studio album from Australian electronic rock/drum & bass band Pendulum. The album was announced in early 2009, with the name being confirmed in December 2009. The album was released 21 May 2010 in Australia and Ireland, and 24 May for the rest of the world, followed by a UK...
, which was released in the UK on the 24th May 2010. This is Pendulum's only number 1 album, charting highest in the UK album chart.
Other work
Swire recorded vocals for deadmau5Deadmau5
Joel Thomas Zimmerman , better known by his stage name deadmau5 , is a Canadian progressive, electro, and house producer based in Toronto...
's track, "Ghosts 'n' Stuff". The music video has now also been released. Recently, Swire co-wrote Rihanna
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
's songs "Rude Boy
Rude Boy (song)
"Rude Boy" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, taken from her fourth studio album, Rated R . The song was released as the third single from the album on February 19, 2010, through Def Jam. It was written by Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Ester Dean, Makeba Riddick, Rob Swire...
" and "Roc Me Out", and contributed bass guitar and backing vocals to the songs.
He is currently working on a new project entitled 'Knife Party' with fellow Pendulum
Pendulum (band)
Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass and electronic rock band founded in 2002 in Perth by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding.Swire and McGrillen were members of the rock band known as Xygen. After hearing Konflict's "Messiah" at a club, they were inspired to enter into the drum and...
band member, Gareth McGrillen. The Knife Party remix of Swedish House Mafia
Swedish House Mafia
Swedish House Mafia is a Swedish House Music group consisting of the three disc jockeys and producers; Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso. The group officially formed in late 2008....
's "Save the World
Save the World (Swedish House Mafia song)
"Save the World" is a song by Swedish house music group Swedish House Mafia. The song features vocals from Swedish singer John Martin, who co-wrote the song with Axwell, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Michel Zitron and Vincent Pontare. It was released on May 13, 2011 as a digital download, and...
" was Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe also known as 'Zipper', is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland, where he was a presenter on the local music station Max TV, before moving to England...
's 'Hottest Record in the World' on May 31, 2011. Knife Party are soon to be releasing their first EP entitled 100% No Modern Talking.
Production
Swire has worked as a record producerRecord producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
since 1999, most recently for Pendulum
Pendulum (band)
Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass and electronic rock band founded in 2002 in Perth by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding.Swire and McGrillen were members of the rock band known as Xygen. After hearing Konflict's "Messiah" at a club, they were inspired to enter into the drum and...
while producing the album In Silico, during which he was required to create demos
Demo (music)
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...
, record the tracks, and mix
Audio mixing (recorded music)
In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
the album. He is responsible for mixing most of the band's material, although more recently he has avoided mixing vocals, stating that, "Since I was doing the vocals, it's a bit harder to keep the objectivity on the engineer's side". To avoid spending too long worrying about sound quality, Swire drafted the demos for In Silico using Commodore 64
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...
and Nintendo
Nintendo video game consoles
This is a list of Nintendo video game consoles. As of October 2, 2008, Nintendo has sold over 470 million hardware units.-Color TV Game:The Color TV Game series were five different dedicated consoles, each designed to play a specific game or set of games. They were very similar to the early Pong...
emulator
Emulator
In computing, an emulator is hardware or software or both that duplicates the functions of a first computer system in a different second computer system, so that the behavior of the second system closely resembles the behavior of the first system...
s, and basic synthesiser
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
sounds. To record the album, the band travelled to various studios where the live musicians, including Swire himself, recorded acoustic drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s, bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
and vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
. In addition to recording the various tracks that comprised each song, Swire recorded samples of the instruments used so that, if he wasn't happy with one of the tracks, he could then play the part himself using a keyboard sampler
Sampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...
. Swire has used Pro Tools for recording audio and Steinberg's Cubase for production, but now mainly uses Steinberg's Nuendo for production and post-production editing. Swire records the tracks using both hardware synthesizers and virtual instruments. He then transfers all the sounds into a virtual sampler, which he uses with his midi controllers during a live performance. This allows him to be able to exactly replicate the synth sounds he used on the original recordings without having to tour with racks and racks of synthesizers or rare, priceless or fragile vintage synths.
Performance
Swire has performed a wide range of instruments while recording material for PendulumPendulum (band)
Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass and electronic rock band founded in 2002 in Perth by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding.Swire and McGrillen were members of the rock band known as Xygen. After hearing Konflict's "Messiah" at a club, they were inspired to enter into the drum and...
, including guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and electric piano
Rhodes piano
The Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes during the fifties and later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender and after 1965 by CBS....
on Hold Your Colour
Hold Your Colour
Hold Your Colour is the debut full-length album by Australian drum and bass band Pendulum. The album was mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis in London. It was released in 2005 and reissued in 2007 by Breakbeat Kaos...
, synthesiser, bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
and percussion
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
on In Silico and synthesizer and guitar on Immersion
Immersion (album)
Immersion is the third studio album from Australian electronic rock/drum & bass band Pendulum. The album was announced in early 2009, with the name being confirmed in December 2009. The album was released 21 May 2010 in Australia and Ireland, and 24 May for the rest of the world, followed by a UK...
. He has also been the band's main vocalist since the release of In Silico, for the purpose of creating a consistent sounding album. When performing live with the band, Swire typically plays a guitar-like MIDI controller, Starr Labs' Ztar Z6, in addition to performing vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
on tracks for which his voice was originally used. Swire's favoured MIDI controller keyboards when performing live are the CME
Central Music Company
CME is the registered trademark of Central Music Company, a musical high-tech company founded in Beijing, China in 1993. Its main focus is consumer and professional digital music production equipment...
UF70 Master Keyboard and the Korg
Korg
is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners...
Kontrol 49 MIDI Keyboard. He also uses a Novation Launchpad, which controls Ableton Live. An Aviom
Aviom
Aviom is a pro audio equipment manufacturer of personal monitoring systems. Headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Aviom produces distributed audio networking gear which uses a proprietary digital audio transport system called A-Net, based on the physical layer of Ethernet and carried over...
A-16 CS mixer is used by Swire to control instrument and microphone levels.
Pendulum are avid users of the Muse Research Receptor Unit, a computer designed to run and store digital and virtual instrument
Software synthesizer
A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth is a computer program or plug-in for digital audio generation. Computer software which can create sounds or music is not new, but advances in processing speed are allowing softsynths to accomplish the same tasks that previously required dedicated...
settings such as virtual synthesisers and guitar preamplifier
Preamplifier
A preamplifier is an electronic amplifier that prepares a small electrical signal for further amplification or processing. A preamplifier is often placed close to the sensor to reduce the effects of noise and interference. It is used to boost the signal strength to drive the cable to the main...
s. Several of these units can be seen occupying the racks that also serve as a docking station
Docking station
A Docking station or port replicator or dock provides a simplified way of “plugging-in” an electronic device such as a laptop computer to common peripherals...
for the band's laptops and other computerised hardware. A small computer screen displays the sound setup for the song that is being played. A vocoder can also be triggered by assigned buttons on the body of the Ztar. He also uses pitch correction and a Rocktron talk box during live performances of The Other Side
The Other Side (Pendulum song)
"The Other Side" is the third single from Australian drum and bass band Pendulum's second album In Silico. It was released on 28 July 2008 to coincide with their iTunes Festival gig at London's Koko. The song peaked at number 54 in the UK Singles Chart on 3 August, one week after it was first...
.
Discography
| Year | Song | Release |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | "Fat American Bitchcore" | Self titled white label release |
| "Electrodes on the Skull" | Efil4Zanildrah - Part 2 | |
| "Parameter" | Pendulum Recordings 09/02 Mix | |
| "Aphid" | ||
| "Moving Forward" | ||
| 2006 | "Nervous (Creep)" as mixer (DJ Fresh Fresh (musician) DJ Fresh is an English Drum & Bass and Dubstep producer and DJ. He was one of the principal members of drum & bass supergroup, Bad Company, alongside Darren White , Jason Maldini, and Michael Wojcicki... ft. Mary Byker) |
Escape from Planet Monday |
| 2009 | "Ghosts N Stuff Ghosts N Stuff "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" is a house song produced by progressive house and electro house artist deadmau5 featuring Rob Swire from Australian drum and bass/electronic rock band Pendulum... " as vocalist (Deadmau5 Deadmau5 Joel Thomas Zimmerman , better known by his stage name deadmau5 , is a Canadian progressive, electro, and house producer based in Toronto... ft. Rob Swire) |
For Lack of a Better Name |
| "End Credits" (live) as mixer (Chase & Status Chase & Status Chase & Status are an electronic music production duo from London consisting of Saul Milton and Will Kennard. MC Rage & Andy Gangadeen also make up the live band.-2003-2005:... ft. Plan B Plan B (rapper) Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew primarily known as Plan B or Ben Drew, is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, actor and film director from Forest Gate, London. Plan B first emerged as a hip hop artist releasing his critically acclaimed debut album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words in 2006... ) |
"End Credits" single End Credits "End Credits" is the first single from Drum and Bass duo Chase & Status' second studio album No More Idols. The single was co-written, co-produced and features vocals from Plan B and was released on 29 October 2009, reaching a peak position of No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart... |