Ask The Producer: KiNK (Electronic Beats TV)

We continue Telekom Electronic Beats TV’s Ask The Producer Series with a new episode featuring KiNK. Strahil Velchev has become one of Europe’s best known house and techno artists over the past decade, and is particularly recognised for his unique live shows. Hailing from Sofia, Bulgaria, his releases on Ovum and Running Back, alongside those on his own Sofia Records label, brought him to the world’s attention, and made him one of the most popular producers and live performers. So, as a known gear head, who better to ask about all things tech?

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Note: This video was filmed by KiNK alone in his studio with two Mobile Phones, so please excuse the picture quality.

0:00 Intro
0:27 Do you try to get your tracks as close to completion on the day you make them or do you hop back and forth between projects?
1:56 How do you make your shakers so goddamn sexy?
3:21 How do you make sure that your live set sounds good in a club?
5:02 How do you protect yourself from hearing loss when producing and playing?
6:24 How to turn a good loop into a good track?
7:32 Do you apply effects directly on each channel of your track or via the send return bus?
9:14 What are you three favourite effects plug-ins?
11:18 Which is your go to bass synth / VST to use in tracks?
12:13 At what point do start writing your bass-lines in your tracks?
12:40 How much do you think social media is the key to being successful in the music industry?
14:07 How much of your set is improvised and how much of it is pre-recorded material / planned changes and track changes etc.?
17:04 Which artist(s) influenced you in the past and who influences you today?
18:01 Is studying synth patches / sound design important to you?
19:25 If you had to choose only one synth, which one would it be?
20:21 What do you find most important when it comes to learning a new synth?
20:50 What advice would you give to young aspiring artists during this pretty difficult time?
22:13 What is your favourite drum machine?
24:02 What are your go to VST / Hardware for stabs, chords and pads?
25:39 How do you manage your hardware?
28:09 Please name your top five tracks of electronic music for babies / kids.
30:15 Do you make atonal songs or do you pick a scale?
32:18 What is your best advice for making electronic dance music to someone without any music training?
33:05 How do you set up live for zero latency?
34:14 How do you connect your gear with Ableton?
35:27 What is your most used mixing plug-in / trick?
36:12 What is your favourite piece of modular gear?
37:05 What is the one piece of vintage gear you wish you could own?
38:02 What are your favourite effect processors?
39:39 Which bit of audio technology do you feel will be the next leap forward for improvisational artists like yourself?
40:17 Do you use a tape recorder?
41:57 Do you mix and master on your own?
43:00 Which piece of gear do you recommend to start switching from DAW to DAWless production?
43:50 Do you use any hardware samplers?
46:00 Do you recommend expanding the TR-8 with the 7X7 drum pack?
46:26 Do you always use USB multitrack with the TR-808 into Ableton and then stereo out to pioneer mixer?
47:25 How do you approach work-life balance?
48:08 Do you use special preamps for recording synths?
48:22 Which was the first synth you bought?
49:23 How do you record external gear with MIDI coming from Ableton without latency?
50:18 While playing live, how do you EQ your tracks ?
50:42 What happened to your own self made tool?
50:54 How do you approach a new instrument?
51:28 What is the most important thing in a KiNK type of song?
52:06 How did you get started with music as a career?
52:50 What amount of groove / shuffle do you recommend to add to the drum machine?
53:22 How do you create your magic with any drum machine?
54:00 Questions provided by....
54:15 End

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