{"id":6604,"date":"2019-08-07T14:17:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2019-08-14T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:58:49","slug":"tennyson-q-and-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/tennyson-q-and-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Pretty of Tennyson on sampling strange sounds and performing live"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tennyson\u2019s new sample pack is called \u201cDifferent Water,\u201d sharing the title of their latest EP.<\/h2>\n<p>Listening to the sibling duo\u2019s music feels like navigating all types of currents &#8211; the upbeat jazz breakdowns of some tracks contrast the dreamy ambiences of others. Tennyson masterfully craft interesting compositions with equally inventive sound design, due in no small part to creative programming, sampling, and arrangement. To celebrate the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/sounds\/splice\/tennyson-pack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their sample pack<\/a>, we sat down with Luke Pretty of Tennyson to discuss his sound design process, studio setup, inspirations, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To start, can you tell us how you got into producing? At what point did you start messing around with a DAW and experimenting with sound design?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was three years old, my mom\u2019s friend gave me a bootleg CD of ReBirth RB-338 (which I still have). I obviously had no idea at the time, but the program is an emulation of two TB-303s, a TR-808, and a TR-909. I figured out how to mess with the default patterns that it opened with and what most of the knobs did, but I never got \u201cSong Mode\u201d to work. I remember feeling very frustrated. When I gave up, I would load up each of the demo songs. Watching all the tiny knobs move by themselves only made me more frustrated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your current studio setup?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m using Ableton Live 10 on a laptop and some plugins from Pro Tools that I can\u2019t do without. I have the ugliest pair of monitors, JBL 4208s, and a subwoofer that I looted from my dad\u2019s defunct home theater. I used to work underneath a bunkbed, which sounded amazing, but the bed started to drive me insane. So last summer, I built sound panels and bass traps out of rock wool insulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contrast seems to be the name of the game with Tennyson tracks &#8211; grand symphonic sections collide with jazzy breakdowns. How do you approach your mixdowns?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The disparate sections are a result of my boredom with the song, but I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s a great way to convey emotion. Lately, I\u2019ve been experimenting with making songs that stick to one set of tracks.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I\u2019ve been losing my natural instincts about mixing and composition (my brain\u2019s planned obsolescence). I have to replace them with theories by overanalyzing everything. What I\u2019ve learned is that every sound performs a function, and quite often has a wordless meaning, seemingly linked with the part of the brain that tracks objects and their interactions. I think that treating sounds as objects having conversations is the difference between good and bad mixing &#8211; it\u2019s not about sounds being too loud or soft, or where they should be panned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you the type of producer to hone in and spend countless hours on single songs, or do you experiment en masse with new demos all the time? How long does it typically take you to finish a song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I go back and forth between spending a week or two making a bunch of five-second demos and working on the ones that stick. For some reason, I can only work on one song at a time. I use a program called ManicTime which tracks how long I spend on different applications. The last few songs took around 75 &#8211; 100 hours, or 10 &#8211; 14 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve sampled everything from the <em>Arthur<\/em> theme song to the seatbelt warning sound. How much of a part of your creative process is sampling? What are some of the oddest things you\u2019ve sampled?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I use less and less MIDI tracks with every song. I love playing with audio from different sources. Working with imperfect materials is also very liberating. The first time I sampled anything, I was trying to imitate Boards of Canada. I would use 70s TV commercials that you could download from the Prelinger Archives.<\/p>\n<p>I spent last winter streaming on Twitch. A few times, I made music using only samples that viewers submitted. I made bass sounds out of people imitating Minecraft sounds and synths out of Crazy Frog. Because of the streams, I have a huge folder of some of the strangest things I\u2019ve ever heard, which I still use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a go-to synth you use for leads, pads, or basses? Where do you typically source your acoustic instruments and drum sounds?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only synth I\u2019ve ever used is <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/plugins\/97-massive-vst-au-by-native-instruments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massive<\/a> &#8211; I\u2019m convinced you can recreate any sound with it. I\u2019ve stolen so many of my favorite sounds from Aphex Twin, Caribou, and Lapalux. Sometimes, I use Live\u2019s Simpler to make synths by looping microsecond samples (it doesn\u2019t matter what you use when the loop is that small). I use a few Kontakt libraries, including Alicia\u2019s Keys and SessionStrings.<\/p>\n<p>My snare sounds are taken from drum breaks. I use Massive for sharp percussion stuff. I use <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freesound<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/features\/sounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Splice<\/a> a bunch, but most of my percussion sounds are from world music recordings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you consider an essential plugin to your productions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AIRReverb. Every project of mine probably has 50 instances of it. It\u2019s pretty crap for large room reverb because it doesn\u2019t have any pitch modulation, but if the room size is set anywhere from 0 &#8211; 12%, it performs actual magic. It\u2019s what I use to pan in 3D, and also makes the mix sound really clean despite adding a bunch of tiny reflections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your latest EP <em>Different Water<\/em> presents a myriad of compelling soundscapes and textures. Is there a certain layering effect or approach you have for achieving your organic feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The soundscapes are almost entirely made with samples, reversing, re-pitching, and layering samples of bizarre avant-garde projects, string quartets, early experimental electronic music, and world music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about how you break down tracks for your live performances. How do you and Tess approach recreating the complex drum rhythms in your tracks?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The live show now is its one and only iteration. It\u2019s slowly growing and changing, but in a disturbing amount of ways it\u2019s set up exactly like the very first show we played. The first thing I do is mute all the drums and anything non-melodic like rain and white noise. Then, I listen to what&#8217;s left and work out how to play as much of it as possible. I move anything I can&#8217;t play to a backing track group. It\u2019s the same process for Tess\u2019s part, except I have to do a lot more guesswork for what she can handle. Most of the time I vastly overestimate how many arms she has, but I don\u2019t find out until after she learns how to play it somehow. It takes about four days of binge working to set up, and then another week to learn and rehearse the parts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lastly, can you share three tips for new or aspiring producers? They can be creative, technical, etc. \u2013 whatever insights or advice you\u2019d like to share.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Listen to one artist\u2019s music with headphones in a dark quiet room.<\/strong> Make a list in your head of all their tricks and how they arrange sounds and sections. Figure out what their style is. It\u2019s usually just a collection of ideas they keep using in every song.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Practice stealing other people\u2019s ideas.<\/strong> When I get stuck, I go through my music collection on shuffle and jot down any idea that could work. It\u2019s a specific way of listening that takes practice to do well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Compare yourself to others.<\/strong> Figuring out the exact ways in which another song is better than yours is the most useful tool for growth. The worst thing you can be is completely satisfied with yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/sounds\/splice\/tennyson-pack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Get a taste of Tennyson\u2019s breathtaking \u201cDifferent Water\u201d sample pack.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sat down with Luke Pretty of Tennyson to discuss his sound design process, studio setup, sampling Minecraft sounds, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":6606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1692],"tags":[1061,1254],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Luke Pretty of Tennyson on sampling strange sounds and performing live - 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