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93.3 San Diego Interview 20/10/08 (Interview) posté le mardi 21 octobre 2008 16:25
Radio KIIS FM 20/10/08 (Interview) posté le mardi 21 octobre 2008 16:25
Radio KISS FM 17/10/08 (Interview) posté le mardi 21 octobre 2008 16:22
Tokio Hotels latest success album produced with Pro Tools (Interview) posté le lundi 06 octobre 2008 10:13
The
buzz about Tokio Hotels second album “Zimmer 483” is at its peak in
Europe. The band has taken France almost overnight and had a safe
position in the top five album charts for more than 5 weeks with their
German album. They score high in Poland and Scandinavia as well and
sell out the largest local venues.
Who is involved with the production of Tokio Hotel?
Patrick Benzner: We
are a team of four producers in different areas, two of us are working
with music creation and songwriting for the band: Dave Roth and myself.
Manfred Faust has supervised the recording session and done the mixing
of the album.
What did you want to change after the first album?
Patrick Benzner: The main thing we were desperately looking for was a system that does not crash the computer any more (laughs)!
On
the first album of Tokio Hotel we were working on a Pro Tools Mix
system in combination with a sequencer software as front end. For the
new album we decided to switch to Pro Tools completely, including the
Pro Tools software. We were looking for a more comfortable way of
working with audio files and just needed a few days of Pro Tools
tutorial to get going.
Manfred Faust: After getting used to Pro
Tools I can’t imagine working with different software any more; it
consumed so much of my time and energy. Of course you can achieve what
you want with many different tools. It’s just the question how fast or
how annoying it is (laughs). Pro Tools really helps me to be very
relaxed in the studio!
What does your Pro Tools setup look like??
Benzner: We
have four HD3 systems in our main studio or small vocal recording
studio and zwo other studios where we usually just do edits or small
overdubs.
Faust:All systems
have 16 inputs and 32 outputs, all signals are finally routed to an
analogue mixer. For sounddesign I’m only working with plugins though.
What
I like most is the reliability of Pro Tools! There are no accidents and
random errors like in other software seqeuncers. Pro Tools just exactly
does what I want.
Which functions in Pro Tools help you most in you daily studio work?
Faust: All
of them (laughs)! Seriously, here are some examples: The session import
function is purely ingenious - it helps me building up a session for
mixing in no time at all. It just takes a few seconds to import the
whole effects of my last mixed song into a new session!
And we use
Beat Detective a lot. What I like most is how detailed I can adjust
Beat Detective for different tasks and material. When I think about how
I used to do my drum editing before... Grouping in Pro Tools is a
fantastic feature as well. We also use Vocalign a lot to tighten some
of the chorus lines or enhance the comprehensibility of the vocals.
How has the guitars been recorded?
Faust: We
record the guitars already amped and blended with different amps. Of
course we are also working with Ampfarm and Sansamp on the recorded
direct signal of the guitars to get different flavours of guitar
sounds. In Pro Tools we do the fine tuning with EQs, compressors etc.
And the vocals…?
Faust: The
signal chain for vocal recording consists of Brauner or Neumann
microphones and a Manley Voxbox which is directly recorded into the 192
interface. For mixing in Pro Tools I use a combination of plugins and
hardware inserts, which integrate my analogue outboard gear perfectly
in Pro Tools. The automatic delay compensation is a gift from heaven in
this regard and works perfectly fine!
I often use Waves plugins on
the vocals, especially the SSL ones, but I also like the UAD plugins. I
also use the DigiRack plugins a lot and feel they are underrated a bit
sometimes. They do a good job, don’t eat up all your resources and are
a great tool for creating specific sound colourations.
Which reverbs do you use?
Faust: As
hardware we still use our Lexicon 480, the rest is done by plugins,
especially TL Space. But especially for guitars I like D-Verb, which is
very dominant in the mix.
Could you imagine mixing in Pro Tools completely?
Faust: It
actually happens more and more. Especially if I need 100% total recall.
This is extremely important in my daily business where I don’t have as
much time as I do when I mix Tokio Hotel. The mix engine of Pro Tools
sounds really good and in my opinion much much better than in other
sequencing applications.
Interview: Ingo Gebhardt
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Interview sur une radio Américaine (Interview) posté le jeudi 21 août 2008 11:48
Short recap of the most important things:
- They will have 2 weeks holidays this year
- Bill & Tom wanted to have the day off at their birthday but
they
won't because it's not possible with their schedule this year
- They are very pleased that they could show all the critis
who
said 3 years ago DDM would be their only hit, that they were wrong
- after the US tour they will lock themselves in the studio and
work on
the new album. There will be no TV shows and no interviews in
that
time. Bill says he needs the time off to clear his head, because
he
can't concentrate on working on the new stuff, while he's
still
perfomring the old songs every night
- The tour in the US is more Rock 'n' Roll lifestyle that in
Europe, because of the atmosphere of the small clubs and
because
everything is busier due the tight schedule. That thight schedule
also
leaves no room for sex & drugs.
Georg says the time for drugs & sex is long gone. Tom
says
they never did lots of drugs anyway (o_O lol ), only boozing from
time
to time... and he has less sex in america than Europe, because
there is
less time. He still enjoys the tour thoug.
source:http://www.tokiohotelus-forum.com
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Petite récapitulations des choses les plus
importantes:
- Ils vont avoir deux semaines de vacances cette année
- Bill & Tom voulaient avoir leur jour de congé pour leur
anniversaire mais ils ne le feront pas car ce n'est pas possible
avec leur calendrier cette année
- Ils sont très contents de montrer que les gens qui disaient il y
a trois ans que DDM serait leur seul succés avaient tort.
(elle est française ma phrase ? XD. Bref, j'pense que vous avez
compris)
- Après l'US tour, ils vont
s'enfermer dans le studio & travailler sur le nouvel album. Il
n'y aura pas d'émissions de télé & pas d'interviews à ce
moment-là. Bill dit qu'il a besoin de rafraichir sa tête, parce
qu'il ne peut pas se concentrer sur les nouveaux morceaux, alors
qu'il fait toutes les vieilles chansons chaque soir.
- La tournée US est plus Rock'n'Roll qu'en Europe à cause de
l'atmosphère des petits clubs et parce que leur emploi du temps est
plus chargé. Ce programme très chargé ne laisse pas de place pour
le sexe & les drogues.
Georg dit que le temps pour les drogues & le sexe est parti il
y a longtemps. Tom dit qu'ils n'ont jamais eu beaucoup de drogues
de toutes façon, seulement boire de temps en temps... & il a
moins de sexe en Amérique qu'en Europre, parce qu'il a moins le
temps. Il apprécie toujours la tournée
cependant.
