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**hanging out with audiophiles – hanging out with audiophiles**

My name is Jamie Lidell and I’m gonna delve into the heady magic of creating music in a modern studio, probe the depths of production, get tech crazy with mixing tricks, studio skills and equipment. I’ll be joined by fellow musicians, engineers and all-round audiophiles who kindly share their tips, stories and ingenious insight from the bizarre world of music production. I shall answer questions and seek knowledge from other music makers on a quest to discover how to make things sound RIGHT. I will also share some studio trickery on each episode as I explore some of my favourite innovations in music tech and my creations… outpourings from the weirdo brain! Welcome to a place for musicians, producers and listeners alike as we “cheers” our love of everything audio.

Latest Episodes:

HOWA EP 74 - OLIVER Oct 14, 2020

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Super chuffed to have Oliver on the show!

Such a big fan of the man.

We’ve had a chance to make a track together called “Charisma”

What struck me was the musicality and speed of the guys.

Now Oliver is one. Vaughn Oliver. A true badass that has been making amazing tracks for ages and now some of the most useful and successful splice sample packs.

There are now Two “Power tools” packs.

Here’s a link to the second that I was chatting about with him in the show:

Oliver power tools 2

In the intro segment I mention my collaboration with the terrific folks at

Sounds of Saving for world mental health day.

To quote them

"Music has been clinically proven to have a positive impact on mental health. The right song can affect our psychobiological stress system and create feelings of motivation, happiness and relaxation.We think the world should know that music can fight mental illness."

Hers’a link to my cover of Sly stone of “Thank You” cover

Music on the show comes from the ace Platz wave

Music linked here

Nitty 74 sees me demoing my latest modular synth creation - the Sergio

4 voice poly synth made with serge oscillators and very handy doepfer poly modules

During the segment I mentioned my fave max for live device. Grab it! So cheap, so good!

It's called Chordimist

Also the essential Div kid ocht - https://divkidvideo.com/modules/

Kind sponsorship for the episode comes from Splice.com

When you use the promo code audiophiles100 you get a month of Sounds 100 and it's valid until the end of November.

HOWA EP 73 - Dana Nielsen Oct 01, 2020

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Welcome to HOWA, the accomplished fellow Dana Nielsen who has been working with Rick Rubin for ages as a mix/engineer guru and has worked recently with everyone from Bob Dylan, Billy Corgan to Neil Young, DRAM and more.. Music for the show comes from Speck of Dust who's new LP is up on bandcamp here :) In the nitty I get into a comparison of the new S2400 which is a modern take on the classic EMU SP1200 which I own. I put them head to head. Old school/ new school challenge. Kind sponsorship comes from distokid click here for a 30% discount that HOWA listeners are eligible for !

HOWA EP 72 - Olivier Alary and Johannes Malfatti Sep 16, 2020

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Welcome to EP 72 where I’m joined by Olivier Alary and Berlin-based composer Johannes Malfatti as we discuss the making of their new collaborative album ‘u,i’

A remarkably timely release that strikes a powerful resonance with our recently heightened experiences of connection and isolation under pandemic conditions. ‘u, i ’ was recorded over VOIP (voice over internet protocol), using the technology as both creative tool and conceptual frame.

Fascinated by the way technology materializes memory, and by “the sound of its failure, pushed to its limits and breaking apart”, they suggest that their sound here “might be described as ‘Hauntological music 2.0’, as it has a certain ghostly melancholia and foregrounds an awareness of the medium transforming what you hear.”

Release date for u,i is 25th Sep 2020

I trust you’ll follow this link the label to find out more :)

https://130701.com/release/ui/

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Here's Olivier's Spotify playlist of contemporary music that he is into :)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1QhfwekXCGuHVjQyiq0TOe?si=cQlrwPQ4T0y-tNiJYxa34Q

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Music in this episode comes from a returning badass “good glued barometer”

He’s got a new EP to check out that you can listen to in the show.

It’s called “pedestrian-priority” and you can find it NOW NOW NOW!

https://goodgluedbarometer.bandcamp.com/album/pedestrian-priority

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In the nitty I try my hand at the low ways of the internet…

Here’s that naughty bandwidth eating app!

Network link conditioner lets you can explore the goodies in the bad call at will:

https://nshipster.com/network-link-conditioner/

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Thank you to ADDAC systems for kind show sponsorship !

https://www.addacsystem.com

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HOWA EP 71- DANA WACHS Sep 02, 2020

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Dana and I have known each other for 15 years now which is a bizarre fact to me. Feels about right, although I have no idea how 15 years ought to feel. I have so many fond memories of hanging out with her on our many epic road trips where we’ve traveled from Spearfish Dakota to Osaka Japan, played massive festivals and dive bars galore. I’ve been really happy to see her musical project Vorhees come so far and you’ll hear in our chat about the huge array of different disciplines Dana Has taken on and the way that it all begins with a leap of faith and an admission that you know nothing when you start out. It reminds me of a great interview with David Bowie where he talks about the necessity to be in over your head when you start a creative project so that you’re not going through the motions. It’s great to be reminded that we all start this as absolute beginners but Dana and I have definitely put in our 10,000 hours though by now :-) it’s great to have her on the show.

Check all her excellent work here:

𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘀𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰.𝗰𝗼𝗺

… In this episodes Nitty I will attempt to turn my humble acoustic guitar into a string ensemble and all for only four dollars!

Music for the show comes from REV One. Check him on bandcamp here :

https://revone.bandcamp.com/album/patterns

Kind sponsorship comes from distrokid.

For less than $20 a year you can upload your music to all The major streaming platforms with ease. It’s really a no brainer.

https://distrokid.com

HOWA EP70 - JACK HARRIS Aug 05, 2020

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NEWS FLASH. Jack Harris schooled Prince!

He was a famous DJ in Minneapolis in the 60s when station KUXL was the only station playing R and B

It was a daytime station only run from a Motel!

Prince would literally hang there as a 12 year old. Wild!

Jack Harris also sang and had his own band, writing and releasing music on Chess Records where he’d hang out with Howlin Wolf and all those amazing artists!

Just incredible to think of it.

He ALSO is an undeniable reason why I met my wife.

All shall be revealed!

Such a pleasure to invite this legend to the show!

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Music for this EP70 comes from Becena (pronounced buh-see-na).

Support him here :

https://becena.bandcamp.com/releases

Wonderful stuff

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In the nitty I get busy with the rare and magical box that is the Moog 16 channel vocoder. Immense sonic power that I run many vowels into and which provide 5 octave sample packs that I’ve packaged as 24 bit Kontakt instruments for the $10 Tier to get busy with.

Every show yields a nice curated sample pack.

All the sounds are royalty free and you can get making with them. The $10 soul science level exists for the makers to make from my makings :) the cycle of make!

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Yep, another fantastic company to buy from in 2020. BraVO Qubit

Thanks to QUBIT Electronix sponsoring the show :)

https://www.qubitelectronix.com

They Just recently they released “Surface” the super flexible multitimbral physical modeling voice.

Sounds like a wobbler. You know Ill be into it!

HOWA EP 69 - ANDREW WYATT Jul 13, 2020

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Welcome back after this 2 month pause! To the news:

I put out 3 new songs on an EP called 3 4 U that can be found on my Bandcamp page here

https://jamielidell.bandcamp.com/album/3-4-u

All money raised goes to Black Lives Matter so please dig deep and chip in if you can. To all of you that have already been generous enough to contribute, thank you!!!

I was on the fence about releasing this material as it’s very private but I now want all my art to be direct and belong to my life in as deep a way as possible. Maybe another positive of this time. There’s no need to hold back what’s eating you. Art can heal if it’s allowed to burn.

I wanted to read a quote from an article that found its way to my phone today. It’s written by a lawyer in New York by the name of TaLona Holbert.

I find all of this to be self evident but also it’s very clear that remaining silent on matters of race in this time is unacceptable.

It’s not got anything to do with politics, it’s a matter of acknowledging racial inequality and not denying it. It’s a matter of justice and education. We can all do our part.

Talona says:

I believe that change is possible and that change is imminent. I am hopeful that someday, Black children will not need to be warned about Black inferiority and can move through life expecting and receiving the same opportunities as equally qualified white people. I hope that Black children can one day bask in the same innocence that white children have always enjoyed. I want Black children to see themselves reflected in textbooks, toys, everyday personal items and mainstream American culture and society. Because they, too, are American.

Black children should see streets, schools, buildings and bridges named after accomplished Black people whom they can admire. Black children should see a succession of American presidents that is as diverse as the American electorate. They should see monuments and currency reflecting the many Black people who have contributed to our society. And when future Black students are finally taught about anti-Blackness, Black inferiority, police brutality and racial injustice, it is my hope that those lessons are taught in the past tense.

My guest on the show is now an academy award winning writer. That’s a first! Well, actually.. Mark Ronson won that too for the Gaga song “Shallow” that they both wrote. So congrats also to you Mark!

Back to Andrew Wyatt.

He is a solo artist and member of Miike Snow who’ve been at it for quite sometime. We’ve bumped into each other on the gigging circuit several times but I’ve never had a substantial chat with him. I really enjoyed the hang we had in his LA studio. What a wonderful creative zone it is. I recall a little while after this interview, sitting with Bobby, Haxan Cloak in a restaurant and he was telling me just how good a player Andrew is. I started following him on the gram and he’s been posting clips of himself at the piano. I just love the style he has. So much flavour. Makes sense to me now thinking of the way he writes and the harmonic and melodic world he lives in.

We talked a little about his chronology and music but also got good and lost down the side roads of philosophy. My kind of ramble! It gives me great pleasure to welcome to the pod this accomplished master in the game. Andrew Wyatt

The Nitty in EP 69 is all about a dose of clap. Yeah. Make a hand, make many hands and make them clap. Electronically in this case. I attempt to make an 808 clap with machines from scratch.

Thank you to Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley for providing music from the show today. It all comes from their soundtrack to the movie “Below”

Check the whole thing here it’s a great listen!

https://lnkfi.re/VuC8ikOa

I now have a YouTube channel that has a few video nittys on it:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5ueWS6_eXAlWAHVBcecl8w

See you in a Bi (week nat month!)

HOWA EP 68 - LEV PERREY from Universal Audio Apr 29, 2020

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Please welcome the one and only Lev Perrey to the show!

This man is a serious badass.

He’s the Director of Product Management as Universal Audio which is a hell of a gig.

He’s been intimately involved in development of the Apollo hardware and now the fantastic, fledgling DAW they called LUNA.

This is something a little different for the show. It’s amazing to imagine what it REALLY takes to move the needle in the world of pro audio product development.

No one can argue that’s exactly what UA have done. Fascinating man!

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I wanted to alert you to my appearance on the Luna After Hours YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI6pbsJw3ao

I got into making a spontaneous bit of music in Luna live on stream. Good rush!

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I was happy to also be a part of a new “Isolation Choir” free expansion for the fantastic G-Force software Mtron plugin.

They put my voice in the machine!

Good rush :)

https://www.gforcesoftware.com

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Music for this Episode comes from

Joseph Holiday and his project

Snakes of Russia

Tracks featured are all from his new EP

“At home with Lions”

https://www.instagram.com/snakesofrussia

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3gXvuz9NcnlvCFwXVyblhc?si=Ix6H4DbVRhmmO8xB-dwnog

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Big news for me is…..

Video nitty 2 is here!

I really went deep on this

It’s called the sound of one hand drumming

And it’s my attempt to play a real drum kit with a theremin.

Yep.. theremin to bounce convertor

Here’s a strange hacked down bit of audio from that production for you!

Please go and check it out on the hanging out with audiophiles YouTube channel

https://youtu.be/Mn0Va3Kqoko

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Thank you to Universal Audio for kind show sponsorship !

Check out Luna!

https://www.uaudio.com

HOWA EP 67 - WILLIAM FIELDS Apr 07, 2020

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My guest is a master of the dark arts.

A minimalist with a big sound.

A pioneer and a deeply clever chap. He’s an audio visual mash man that’s got tasty taste. A rare combo!

Some may be aware of the music master mind that is William Fields but to those of you that don’t know him he’s very much needing to be on your radar.

I got into a small side road ramble whilst in conversation with Richard Devine on EP 57 and we were talking about limitations in eurorack for sequencing and how he wanted to get into using a computer with algorithmic composition tools to vastly expand the possibilities. I asked him if there was anyone out there making any listenable algorithmic shit and he told me of William Fields and the rest is history.

Get over to Williams FieldsOS page on band camp NOW!

There’s 24 tracks up there that are.. get this. 59 mins long EACH . WTF?

https://williamfields.bandcamp.com/album/fieldsos

Long form expert explorations of a style.

One is called Footwork, another UK Garage and then there's the fantastically bonkers Unconstrained.

It’s mind boggling stuff and I wanted to know what the hell was going on so ...

Stay tuned!

Links to William’s latest releases, both from January:

https://kaer-uiks.bandcamp.com/album/imperfekt

https://shop.conditional.club/album/shackamaxon…

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Music for this episode comes from:

Luke Bace ~aka~ LakeCube

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SoundCloud

BandCamp

Spotify

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Shout outs!

In this time of streaming

I wanted to give a shout out to Divkid for keep everyone informed about goings on with the streams.

https://divkidvideo.com

What did I watch so far?

Colin Benders (great modular techno)

Kieran Hebden who did a fantastic Boiler room streamed set and raised

$10,365 for the Global Food Banking Network

https://www.foodbanking.org

Here’s that set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXQi77eOdEY

Andrew Huang put together his march earnings and gave to

@DirectRelief for their efforts in the pandemic. He raised $6541.70!

I made some new stuff:

Grab my companion pack to follow up on the marvelous work of @Hainbach101

Find the samples here :

https://jamielidell.bandcamp.com/releases

They are Free or donate as you like…

I’ve been so pleasantly surprised by the response. Thanks to all of you for grabbing it! I hope it brings you some funk!

It’s still very much available.

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So sad to hear about Bill Withers. It’s just one that weighs heavy on me. What a singular talent, what an example of a pure soul.

The honesty just shines through in his work. Hit me hard. RIP Bill.

I felt inspired to try and make my own humble tribute to the man.

I reached out to my friend in hiding, Chancey and he immediately had bass and guitar recorded for the song.

I’ve actually since had my neighbour across the street, Rob Burger add some additional keys

There MIGHT well be a special guest making a string arrangement in a month. Fingers crossed.

I’ve been really moved by the speed of response out there to this idea. Everyone’s been amazing.

Here’s the video of the song:

https://bit.ly/2Re8Tax

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Today’s nitty is a first for this show. After 134 weeks of making this thing I’ve gone and made a video for the nitty. A viddy nitty if you will.

It’s a tear away from the recent sample pack video I made. A few people liked the motor piano clip so I figured I’d try an expanded idea emerging form that little seed.

I have been trying to keep productive in my evenings which is when I get to work.

I apologize for the slackness getting this show out but I’ve been trying to get my head around lots of things im no good at!

My wife is an incredible visual artist. She’s long been a professional photographer so we have lots of good cameras in the house but its definitely HER world.

Anyway after the sample pack vid I started the journey on the video making road.

VIDEO HERE!

https://youtu.be/po7vPCa-t8E

First of many hopefully!

Thanks for joining me folks. Likes, Camera, nitty!

HOWA EP 66 - LIDO Mar 17, 2020

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Ack. Not a great time. We've a delayed show coz I had the tummy troubles and now we should all be inside sheltering from this bastard of a global pandemic. Don't be stupid. Stay IN and wait this shit out please. We can break the curve if we stick together and hopefully antivirals will be along soon to mitigate the symptoms before the vaccine shows up. ANYWAY I don't need to add to the viral news. I'm sure you've all heard it all by now. Let's get .. on... with ...

The show! what is it ?

For your entertainment and pleasure I bring you a chat with Norwegian artist Lido. Phone hangs are gonna be the way for a bit. He's an easy going follow of 27 and already has a lot under his belt. He's already worked with big names like Chance the Rapper, Banks, Disclosure and many more. Great drummer, keys player, singer, arranger, producer. He's a man with many hats. Big hats y'all!

Great to have him on. He's got a new song coming 25th March called "Postclubridehomemusic" should be a goodie.

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In the nitty I get on speed. MIDI vs Gate/Cv who wins?

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Music from today's show comes from Mark Hadley. He's a serious badass. His most recent record is called, rather aptly "The Future is the Question"

find it here

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please send musical submissions and inquires to lidellmakeswaves@gmail.com

BYE!

HOWA EP 65 - ALLEN STONE Feb 24, 2020

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We go back me and Al.

Yep, I was the producer on Allen’s 2019 album, Building Balance so we spent a long time in the studio making sounds and singing whee songs. It’s a pleasure to have him on the show to talk about something a little different. We explore advice to up and coming artists from his perspective. He explains his evolution from solo hard head into a team player and why that’s his preference for the long game. He’s been on the road and working super hard for many years now and he’s always thinking about how to keep it moving. Good stuff!

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I’m happy to have been a GUEST on another pod recently. The good fellows at ESOTERIC MODULATION had me on. Ben Wilson (div kid) and Ed Ball are excellent hosts. It’s a great show for those into the outer worlds of sound and art process. Most glad I made it on. Had a blast! Here’s a link to that episode:

https://www.esotericmodulation.com/episodes/016-an-audiophile-hangout

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Music for the show comes from France via an artist called Nacara. If you dig it, dig in more here!

http://www.nacaramusic.com

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In the nitty I get into the famous CIRKLON sequencer (albeit in a rather basic way)

Thanks to Mark at retro gear shop here in Nashville for the loan! Check his store! Absolutely bonkers gear…

https://retrogearshop.com

My idea is to create generative questions and answers. It worked!