Stuart Price

Unsurprisingly, then, he doesn’t use soft synths and favours using his own sample library in Logic’s EXS24. Plug–in–wise, he finds he continually returns to the PSP range and the Universal Audio UAD1 card.

"The 1176 Classic Limiter Plug-In Collection almost always works for me. I love it. There’s a lot of variety in there from essentially one unit’s history."

“A lot of the reverbs in that section were made using Space Designer in Logic,” Price explains. “I used to have an Akai S1100 sampler, which had this really good reverb preset on it called Cavernous. I always missed that sound, so I recorded some impulses through Space Designer, but what I didn't realize was that I accidentally had a Yamaha SPX-90 chorus stuck on the mixer, so the impulses got recorded with this chorus effect on it. But that ended up giving them this great swirling effect, which created a lot of that revolving panorama in the song.”

"I don’t like having things setup too nicely and I mostly patch stuff in when I feel like using it — that’s why the Apollo is really helpful. I have one cable that wherever it gets plugged in has some combination of UAD front end on it — the UA 610 Tube Preamp & EQ Plug-In Collection or the Neve 1073 Preamp & EQ Plug-In Collection, an 1176, an amp simulator, or the Boss® CE-1 Chorus Ensemble plug-in."

Unsurprisingly, then, he doesn’t use soft synths and favours using his own sample library in Logic’s EXS24. Plug–in–wise, he finds he continually returns to the PSP range and the Universal Audio UAD1 card.

"Also, the Fairchild Tube Limiter Plug-In Collection is great because it is unique; none of the other compressors sound like it. On the Killers Day and Age, that was often a drum compressor, for either individual sounds or the entire kit. It suits Ronnie’s [the Killers’ drummer Ronnie Vannucci, Jr.] sound well. His kit is really more like one single sound source than a collection of multi-micing drums."

"The Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery plug-in is also excellent on a bus because you can really start altering your perception of what the group was before. It makes suggestions that, if you were thinking too logically, you wouldn’t have thought of. "

Could you describe your current setup?

"Yes, it’s the new Mac Pro with an Apollo QUAD connected via Thunderbolt. I was using a UAD OCTO PCIe card in a Sonnet chassis as well which worked great too. I used that in tandem with a Neve Melbourn 12 channel board."

"I don’t like having things setup too nicely and I mostly patch stuff in when I feel like using it — that’s why the Apollo is really helpful. I have one cable that wherever it gets plugged in has some combination of UAD front end on it — the UA 610 Tube Preamp & EQ Plug-In Collection or the Neve 1073 Preamp & EQ Plug-In Collection, an 1176, an amp simulator, or the Boss® CE-1 Chorus Ensemble plug-in."

Stuart Price says: "Still the most original and best sounding filter".