Logic Pro 7, M-Audio Axiom 25 and PreSonus BlueTube DP: Studio Gear To Lust, Murder And Box Over
In crafting their dense, layered, industrial sound, LUST MURDER bOX knew they were going to need a lot of MIDI channels in their studio, so they opted for Logic Pro 7 running on a G5 PowerMac as the core of their recording setup. An M-Audio AXiom 25 gives them hands-on control, and a PreSonus Bluetube DP adds a bit of tube warmth to their tracks.
Also integral to the LUST MURDER bOX sound: all-black control room walls.
ERIK GUSTAFSON: Well, moving on to the studio, Nox just recently bought us a Mac Pro right here. We’re very happy about the Mac Pro. And that --
PATRICK OGLE: And I’m assuming you’re running Logic?
NOX MOUNTEBANK: Yeah. We’re running Logic Pro 7. We haven’t moved up to 8 yet but that will probably happen soon, but yeah we are on Logic Pro 7 and the great thing about it that we can actually control all of our MIDI gear directly from there. You’ll notice right here we’ve got this small little controller board Axiom 25 that, yeah, goes into Logic, that’s routed into Logic and then we can control the Motif, the ASR10, the Bass Station, and if we want to we can even expand out further to the 8080 or the XP-30, so but it’s all drive through Logic, and one connection there, one connection into Logic and all the connections basically out through a Mark of the Unicorn MIDI timepiece. So, yeah Logic works great because we need the MIDI implementation. For a while, we were trying to use Pro Tools but the MIDI implementation at the time just wasn’t there. So, you can get one or two tracks of MIDI and we use a lot more than that.
ERIK GUSTAFSON: And especially the editing in Logic as well is more geared towards like tweaking and just like really chopping -- [INDISCERNIBLE] the [EXPLETIVE] out of stuff. Sorry. [INDISCERNIBLE] the crap out of stuff.
PATRICK OGLE: You can say [EXPLETIVE].
ERIK GUSTAFSON: [LAUGHING] All right. Yeah, so it’s --
PATRICK OGLE: This isn’t for the Disney Channel.
ERIK GUSTAFSON: Oh, it’s not?
NOX MOUNTEBANK: The great thing about Logic is it’s got a very visual aspect to it. We can get in there and even with MIDI chop things up and rearrange things like puzzle pieces and sometimes we get almost doubt that ask on it and just flip things around just to see what they sound like. But yeah that’s our -- And just as a side note, this is our little Blue Tube amp input, a little tube amp that we used to route guitars and whatever else we want to at times...
ERIK GUSTAFSON: Into the [INDISCERNIBLE] in there.
NOX MOUNTEBANK: ...into the rig except that’s only external stuff.
ERIK GUSTAFSON: Although we have gotten quite a bit seduced with the softsynth world, most of the new songs -- I usually sort of come up with the seeds of ideas for songs first and almost all of that is strictly softsynths. Especially now with the Mac Pro, it’s very, very, very powerful so I -- It doesn’t even flinch about having six or seven softsynths and, you know, samplers up and running. But we do have a lot of older toys, so we definitely got a [OVERLAPPING]
PATRICK OGLE: It’s a mix of things.
ERIK GUSTAFSON: Yeah.
NOX MOUNTEBANK: And that’s a great thing for us. It’s that while we like having the technology of the softsynths, we still like to get our hands dirty and play around with things and twist the knobs every once in a while.
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