BILL HOLLAND: How's it going? It's not talking. I'm Bill Holland for Gearwire.Com, and I'm here in the U.P. with Jim Bellmore. Well that's not Jim but you'll see him in a second. We're here at Da Yoopers Studio to talk about producing an album and how to take that live with Jim Bellmore, who has produced multiple bands across the U.P. including his own band Da Yoopers, so let's go talk to Jim.

Cool. It sounds like a lot of it's playing around the studio, experimenting, rehearsing, and I mean you run into those songs occasionally that don't work, and the one thing that I was wondering. How do you handle things like prerecorded either sound effects or the various things that show up in your recordings. How do you handle those in a live setting?

JIM BELLMORE: Right. Fortunately, there's one keyboard that we have which is really ancient actually. It's the SQ80 that Lynn uses. We programmed synthesized flatulence on that thing, I don't know, in the late 80s or early 90s. We're still using that keyboard. They sound amazing. It's so much easier doing it that way. Well, sure enough, you know the keyboard like two or three gigs ago it suddenly -- The thing is old. It just quit working on her. So I'm singing lead on the song, you know, and Hoolie is over there, doing this little dance with Lynn where Lynn is supposed to be farting. So suddenly, I'm having to make these fart sounds into the mic. [SINGING] "I though that this was only gas, [FART SOUND]! So I went and let one pass [FART SOUND]!" Well, there's only so many fart sounds I can make. I mean, you know, I mean it -- of course I'm trying to sing or whatever, but anyway...

BILL HOLLAND: So what did you do?

JIM BELLMORE: ...that -- Well, normally we got the keyboard but otherwise I just do that, you know, but anyway, if we could program sounds into her keyboard, that's normally what we do. I like to have -- She uses a Kurzweil, which is a digital piano basically, but I like to have one synthesizer available so I can program, if I need to program a gunshot in there which I, that SQ-80, I had programmed a gunshot in there so during certain hunting skits or songs, if we need a gunshot, she's got it right there. We also have our sound man. We make sure he has either a cassette deck or if he's got a CD player, we'd utilize the sound effects we'll find, either make our own waves or find then online like if we need a cow mooing or whatever, and he will just, you know, he'll know when to play that sound effect, but there's plenty of ways to do it. I mean they've got those little samplers that you can pick up but we've never done that yet. We haven't needed to. We really don't use that many sound effects live, but if we can get her keyboard to do it, you know, her to be able to do it with a synthesizer, that's how we try to do it, you know.

BILL HOLLAND: All right. Well thanks Jim for the advice, and hopefully this is something that everybody can use when they go on the road. I know a lot of people out there trying to get their band together and really actually getting to play. A lot of people never leave the studio but thank you so much for joining me.

JIM BELLMORE: Well, thank you.