Serato Vs. Vinyl With Fabrice Lig (aka Soul Designer) And Spirit Catcher
Fabrice Lig (aka Soul Designer) and Spirit Catcher have a large catalog of releases on a variety of labels. While in Detroit, we wanted to talk to them about their different approaches to DJing and production.
We caught up with them at a show at Buzz Bar, produced by Profound Sound Productions, a comprehensive event management company from Detroit. They introduced us to Fabrice and Spirit Catcher, and the interview posted here shows the results of that meeting.
While Fabrice uses mainly vinyl and CDs in his live sets, Spirit Catcher prefers to use Serato. In a live setting, both tend to lean towards Ableton Live, which really proved to be the hands-down standard at Movement 2007. Stay tuned for our second interview with Fabrice Lig and Spirit Catcher later this week.
BILL HOLLAND: Hey everybody. It's three-something in the morning in Detroit. I'm here with Gearwire.Com at Movement 2007, and I'm here with Spirit Catcher and Soul Designer. They did some awesome minimal techno tonight, and we're going to talk to them real quick about what they do when they're DJing and what they do when they do when they produce. What do you guys use outside of DJing in terms of software and hardware?
SOUL DESIGNER: [LAUGHS] [INDISCERNIBLE]
BILL HOLLAND: You want to talk about this?
SOUL DESIGNER: Can you repeat? [LAUGHS]
BILL HOLLAND: Okay what kind of hardware do you use for production?
SPIRIT CATCHER: For me it's Cubase. Yeah, for me I produce everything with Cubase. I like Ableton too but maybe more for the live act than anything but for producing music, I start it with Cubase, with MIDI and everything, and no as in use Cubase, lots of VST and everything. Yeah.
BILL HOLLAND: Any VSTs you really like?
SPIRIT CATCHER: My favorite one is Minimonsta from G-Forcem and I like the Minimoog 2 and all the plugins from Arturia, and yeah there is a ton of good thing, and there is a new one you need to check out. It's [INDISCERNIBLE]. Yeah [INDISCERNIBLE] yeah. [INDISCERNIBLE] interesting.
BILL HOLLAND: Fantastic. You know I checked out the Moogerfooger plugin a few weeks ago. It's really cool. I would definitely recommend it. But now when you're DJing, I notice you guys all play vinyl. Do you ever -- have you ever DJed a laptop? Do you every intend to? I know I'm a vinyl DJ but do you guys ever DJ with laptops or are you strictly vinyl?
SPIRIT CATCHER: I use Serato in fact but I like and I vinyl but it's just a question of it's more easy when you travel everywhere to bring the Serato with you. Yeah, and for me it's the best way to play and to have the same sensation with the vinyl with Serato, and Fabrice is still playing with vinyl and the mix again of vinyl between CDs and vinyl and....
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