Slow Club - Developing Our First Studio

Slow Club are a London-based duo signed to Moshi Moshi. Theyve released two albums, toured internationally and played with the likes of KT Tunstall and Florence and the Machine.

We visited Charles and Rebecca, who have recently been developing their first proper home studio setup, to talk gear/recording:

Charles: Weve just got a Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 - its nice to have good quality stuff going in [to the computer] and its made a big difference having nice mic pres. Also, having more than two inputs is really cool.

Rebecca: It opens up quite a lot of doors for us because were not techhy - whereas before wed have to knock something up on GarageBand to then go and demo elsewhere, now we can record to a high standard ourselves very easily.

Charles: Previously weve just used poor quality samples and then had to re-record/time-stretch them. Now we can try out different ideas and know that we can keep them to confidently use in the future. It means recording can become a continuous process alongside writing/production, where were using good quality gear from the start.

Weve also begun to experiment with Ableton using a Novation Launchpad - the layout in User 1 mode is good fun and an interesting extension beyond a typical MIDI keyboard.

Slow Club are currently working on new album and touring.

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https://www.slowclubband.com

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