Knife Party

When asked about sample packs with live drums, Knife Party's Rob Swire recommends the Double Platinum Drums (Akai) sample collection.

Rob Swire posted in Twitter a picture of a sample with the quote "Great job, Ableton. That's clearly where bar 1 is."

In the song "LRAD", at 2:13, there is a sample that plays that says "Everybody in the Club!" This sample comes from Vengeance Vocal Essentials Vol. 1 and the official sample name is "VVE 1 Vocal Phrases 036." This sample can be found in the following directory:

VVE1 Vocals\VVE1 Vocal Phrases

Rob Swire of Knife Party is a big fan of Nuendo 6. He says "it's amazing. get it. the interface will take some getting used to, but the new mixer / linking system / etc is incredible"

The Sennheiser HD 650 Headphones are mentioned by Knife Party's Rob Swire.

Knife Party produce their tracks using the Cubase 7 DAW. Rob Swire Tweets about it, saying:

@niknoisia you guys on Cubase 7 / N6 yet? I'm blown away, esp by the linking system

He also Tweets in 2014 making references to Cubase 5:

Shout out to everyone who feels terror when they see this

And also in this Tweet:

A 13 year old @Pendulum project in Cubase SX 2.0, playing on a 10 year old virtual machine in 2015 #justnerdthings

Rob Swire posted in Twitter a list of all the plugins that he has installed when he moved to his new studio in 2014

Rob Swire of Knife Party favors the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro Headphones for producing. In a separate tweet he says he likes these for producing on planes as well.

Rob Swire of Knife Party lists Sylenth as one of his favorite software synths.

In an interview w/ Sound On Sound, Rob Swire of Knife Party [formerly Pendulum] states this about his Sequential Circuits Prophet 10:

"We did record bass guitar," says Rob, "and it's used as a layer like the guitars on some tracks, because it adds a subharmonic that gets lost otherwise." Nevertheless, most of the leads and basses on the album are, as you might expect, synthesized, and although the studio boasts a mint-condition Prophet 10 and several other desirable analogue synths, Rob has some other favourite sound sources that are more unusual.

Rob Swire of Knife Party tweets a photo of his very nice Audeze LCD3 Headphones. Zedd tweets him asking if the low end of these headphones is tight, to which he replies "yes!"

When asked what in-ear monitors he uses for the stage, Rob Swire of Knife Party replies saying he prefers the ACS T2 Live! Dual Diver In-Ear Monitors.

Knife Party's Rob Swire tweets about the SynthMaster synth "quite liking synthmaster atm"

Neumann KH 310 A Studio Monitors can be spotted in a photo of Knife Party's studio.

"ATS-1 is such a ninja box" says Rob Swire (of Knife Party), in reference to the Anamod Audio ATS-1 Analog Tape Simulator.

In an interview w/ Sound on Sound, Rob Swire of Knife Party (formerly Pendulum) mentions how he used IK Multimedia's Amplitube 2 for processing guitars.

In this Twitter response to Nosia, Rob Swire talks about what phase correction plugins he uses

Rob Swire shows some Mainstage patches he made for Pendulum tracks on his twitter

In Knife Party's studio.

The Korg Kontrol49, Knife Party's MIDI controller of choice, can be seen in their studio setup.

Knife Party tweets about receiving a copy of Native Instrument's KOMPLETE 9 ULTIMATE software bundle.

Along with Massive and Sylenth, Knife Party's Rob Swire lists the Z3TA+ as one of his favorite software synthesizers. He calls it "such a sick little synth"

Kinfe Party's Rob Swire recommends the book "Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science" as a good starting point when asked to "share some good tips on how to make tracks sound loud"

To switch between multiple pair of studio monitors, Knife Party's Rob Swire prefers the Coleman M3PH MKII over products from Mackie and Presonus. He says the M3PH is "100% passive, clean+++"

Knife Party's Rob Swire is very impressed by the Tascam DR-40 Portable Digital Recorder for its live recording capabilities, saying that it captures better quality audio than most festival audio streams.

When asked if he uses a drum sampler or drags audio straight into his DAW, Rob Swire (of Knife Party) says that it depends. He mostly goes the audio route, but occasionally uses Kontakt if he needs to heavily manipulate samples.

"PS- Audio people: if you don't know about 'The Glue' yet, you are missing one badass G-series emulation buss comp ;) www.cytomic.com"

Rob tweeted a "List of every plugin installed, for curious nerds" and posted a link to a Google Doc (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Apl6GaN2mzzXdFZidHNJbEMzNDhWb2JuSnNDNEZjZWc&output=html ). Towards the bottom of this list, we can see Tone2 Gladiator 2.

Rob Swire uses "The Drop" for leads in his productions. "Well well well >:) now with OSCar, Jupiter-8, SH-101, Moog Prodigy filters <3 @cytomic"

In an interview w/ Sound On Sound, Rob Swire of Knife Party [formerly Pendulum] states this about the Roll Music Super Stereo Compressor:

One of the most important pieces of outboard gear in Rob Swire's studio is the Roll Music stereo compressor, which is a major component of the Pendulum sound. "It feels like pushing a mix into a pillow!" Rob explains. "Which I like. You just get some sort of resistance there, which you can work off. We'll start without it, and then when it starts sounding good we'll whack that on and keep A/B–ing between that and bypass."

"I love that, but I'm sure there's something that could do the job a tiny bit better. I've heard an SSL, and for our mixes I liked the Roll Music better."