Boys Noize

“I never use this to mix, I just wanted something I could record through. What I sometimes do is make mirror images of the EQ bands on the left and right channel which is a trick I read about, but that’s all I use the EQ for. I have the effects set up on the busses, but again it’s just for recording.”

"When you mix digitally it's squashed through one output, so this is great at giving headroom and a bit more life to the individual sounds in the mix."

"For me, Elektron produces the most futuristic machines. The Machinedrum is my favourite by far! It's so easy and fun to program amazing sounds and patterns that just sound different to all the generic electro house and dubstep beats that I really can’t stand. For example, I love when the kick drum changes within the track, not the sound, more the frequencies or the filter."

"Classic drum machine. It has different tones, different accents. So what I do is I program something before, like two or three sequences, and then just play around with it. What I like a lot is really about those live sessions you can do. Maybe not so many possibilities with this one because it's quite simple."

"This is my beloved 707. It’s a custom made one from Diabolical, from the States. What they did is that for every single instrument - bass drum, snare, toms - they put different filters in, bit crush, and pitch as well. This one I sync to the 303. I've used it on a couple of tracks already, like my acid track '1010'. It's called actually '1010' because 707 and 303 added together. It's cool, like especially on snare and toms, it sounds really cool with that effect."

"What I did with the 808 is that I took out the trigger signal from the clap drum into the SH-101, which is also has an extra distortion and filter. What I love is when you add just a little bit of desk distortion on the 808. I really love the sound of an 808 being distorted just a little bit. The clap drum triggers the notes of the SH-101. So you can just go on load and play any notes, and then it will play the pattern of the thing which is the same thing - it's pretty cool."

"It's very small but it's actually one of my newest favorite drum machines as well. We used it on 'What You Want' for the main kick drum. It's also a German brand."

"Here's a new drum machine brought to you by Roger Linn and Dave Smith. It lets you add compression and distortion. You can do some roll effect and you can also set the roll on different bars. You can program it really easily to go on the sound. I can also put other samples on top of the sound. So you can put two analog inputs, so to say, and also later you have two analog ones and two digital. You can do analog inputs. It's really cool, really modern. It's a good mixer of analog and digital. So, buy it!"

"For me this is the easiest solution to get a sequence because you can also have four different CVs all doing a different sequence at the same time. I think you can have one CV with 32 steps, two with 16, and I think if you go four CVs then it's just four or eight steps left. it works fine for me. It's also synced to the drum machine."

When asked what compression he used on his track "Missile," Alex Ridha says, "I used my Prime 4000 compressor...which is a model of an SSL and it sounds really nice."

"The Elektron Machinedrum, Elektron Octatrack and the [Roland] Jupiter-6 are my favourite hardware machines."

"...right now, also, one of my favorites. Because it's basically any kind of sampler where you put in all your sounds, or you put in loops, or even longer pieces of music. And you can real-time chop them up in here. It's very intuitive. There's a lot of randomness I like about it. This also - similar to the Monomachine - you have 8 tracks where on each track you can program one sequence... it has different FX sections as well, the first which is the most important is the pitching, but also you can choose the start point of the sample. So you can basically choose where the signal should start from the whole audio file. And you can move around, most of the time a lot of cool things happen."

When asked what gear item he would like to get next, Boys Noize says, "Maybe the Eventide H3000 Ultra Harmonizer for processing drums and vocals."

"What can I say, you know? So many hits with the 909. Techno, house, whatever. Classic sound."

Watch Boyz Noize's have some fun with his Filterbank in a Vine video clip he posted.

Boys Noize talks about his LinnDrum vintage drum machine:

"When you make a track with a LinnDrum, you can’t really add a big bassline or something. You need to find the right sounds to give the LinnDrum its space in the mix.

Prince had just his voice, a LinnDrum and one keyboard and it was enough. No bassline or anything, just nice programming. That’s what I like about it, it’s got such a strong sound."

Boys Noize posts a pic of his TR-606, given to him by a fan.

The TR-8 is seen multiple times in Boys Noize's studio, such as 0:42, 1:45, and he can be seen using it at 2:15.

Picture from Futuremusic studio tour article. The VT-1 is seen in the lower left corner, the small orange box.

"It wasn't all hardware on the first record,I had the Arturia plug-ins, and maybe a few others here and there. Actually the track Battery was named after the plug-in! Every sound from that track came from the plug-in.

At 0:32 you can see the Rytm w/ the drum pads sitting to his right.

You can also see it being used on the bottom rack here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bei4OTsAJ60/

"On the buss in my DAW, I usually use the Duende SSL Buss Compressor. I like to go a bit harder when mixing on the buss to get the mix pumping. The settings I use depend on the track but usually it's a low threshold, a ratio of about four-to-one and I usually set the SSL's release to automatic."

When walking through his track "Missile," Boys Noize talks about how he used Massive: "On this bit it's also Massive I've used. I've kind of rediscovered it. I used it in the beginning when it came out, then I didn't use it for two years, and now I've used it again because I think it still has super strong filters, and the sound is just really, really good."

"I love...Native Instruments' Kontakt."

"Sugar Bytes Effectrix… makes it on to most tracks, in one way or another."

"To be honest, I love pretty much all the UAD-2 plug-ins, Native Instruments' Massive and Kontakt and Sugar Bytes Effectrix or Turnado. I think they all make it on to most tracks, in one way or another."

"Razor really stands out for me - the phat sound is very unique and 'outside-the-box'."

On the WOW 2 page on the Sugar Bytes website, it says "Get WOW2 now! (Skrillex, Boys Noise, SiriusMo, Modeselektor, MouseOnMars already did)"