Tech
Erol Alkan shares his studio secrets
The Phantasy boss talks us through making his new tracks ’Spectrum’ and ‘Silver Echoes’
Vermona DRM drum machine; Korg MicroKORG; Roland SBX-1 sync box; Roland TB-303
Doepfer Dark Time sequencer; Deltalab Effectron digital delay; Trident Fleximix
Genelec 1031a active monitors; Digital radio. “I’ve rewired this to mix down through”; Yamaha NS10 monitors; A lamp; LCD Soundsystem Bose speakers. “I used to mix down through these until I blew them up”; LG monitor with a Giorgio Moroder screensaver
Mustapha SSL 4000 home-made compressor; Mixing desk pulled from a theatre, hand-built in the 1960s; Chandler TGI mini mixer
UAD LA-610 pre-amp; Axon midi keyboard; MXR flanger; Chandler PSU; 1950s valve PA mixer, modified to be a distortion unit; Schlumberger EQs; Alesis 3630 compressor
Revox tape machine; Roland Boutique Series Juno / Jupiter
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