Helping them achieve their vision was The Cure’s Robert Smith with whom they collaborated on the standout track, How Not To Drown. “We wanted to have control over every aspect of the sound so we could sculpt it into what we wanted it to be.” “It was a scary decision in some ways, but we were buoyed by the confidence that no one knows the music better than us,” says Iain. Rather than using the skills of engineers such as Mark “Spike” Stent, who has mixed previous albums, they instead opted to tackle this task themselves. Screen Violence marks several steps forward for CHVRCHES’ process and the calibre of collaborators. “But sometimes I wonder whether it’s worth spending months learning how to use one thing when I can hit a button on the Prophet, and I’m in there already?” The Bock Audio 251 is based on the Telefunken ELAM 251, one of the finest vocal condenser mics ever made “It’s obviously really amazing, and if I sat there for months and months, I’d probably master it and enjoy making music,” adds Martin. While they conspicuously embraced new technology for Screen Violence, musical gear acquisition has been a recurring theme for Martin, Iain and Lauren as they’ve progressed through their records. It opened the door to me using hardware in ways I wouldn’t have done before.” Beyond the go-to Junos and Prophet-5, the band also have a Mellotron M4000D Mini and an Italian SIEL OR400 from 1983 It means I can move all of the gear on my racks around on the screen like plug-ins rather than having to patch in different sounds. “This system is a 64-point digital analogue patch bay. He says that the Flock Audio Patch system is at the heart of his new studio set-up, around which everything else revolves. That way, I would never suffer the anxiety of losing something – all music makers must know what that feels like.” I wanted to make sure that if I hit a keyboard at any point, I could record it instantly. “I find that I need instant feedback from a piece of gear as ideas can come and go in a flash. Martin’s studio is stocked with Barefoot MicroMain27 monitors, a Softube Console one and all the other outboard gear under the sun
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