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How the 360-degree stage format is taking over the electronic music industryWhen Sippy dials in for our Zoom call, another face, from behind her shoulder, stares into the camera. In the corner of her studio, there is a shelving unit filled with stuffed toys she’s received from fans. Sitting right on top is a banana smiling down on her, as if proud to see her excelling in her DJing career.
The Australian bass music producer was gifted the banana buddy during her set at Toxic Summer in Austin, Texas, in August. The stage was set up in a 360-degree format, meaning she was surrounded by fans on all sides.READ MORE: Why Mutek is the perfect festival for music producers with an audiovisual edge
“I turn around and I saw this girl holding [the banana] out to me and she was like, ‘It’s for you!’” Sippy was in the middle of mixing in her reggae-infused dubstep track, The Banana Song, but once the song was lined up, she retrieved the banana and it hung out on the decks for the remainder of her set.
This kind of crowd interaction is one reason Sippy loves the 360 stage. “I felt like a raver in the crowd having fun with my friends,” Sippy says. By being closer and having those interactions she can also read the crowd better, thus leading to a better track selection. “It feels more genuine and all-inclusive. It’s more about the music and how it makes them feel and being really in the moment with it.”
In the years following the pandemic, the 360 format has been implemented in the electronic music industry on multiple levels.
Headlining artists such as Gryffin are embracing 360 sets. He played one to 500 people at the Independent in San Francisco the same night he played a closing set in front of tens of thousands at the city’s major festival, Outside Lands.
This year, Outside Lands changed the layout of Soma, their house and techno stage, from a temporary on-site nightclub to an outdoor 360 stage. Even venues with built-in amphitheatre seats are adopting the format. The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California, hosted a 360-style event earlier this month with Louis The Child, building a stage on the GA floor section of the venue.The most accurate word to describe this trend is ‘renewed.’ 360-style performances (which were first known as ‘in-the-round’) have roots in Ancient Greek theatre. Whether it’s a DJ standing on a circular platform as they chop riddim or a theatre troupe recounting the story of the Trojan Horse, in that format, the performers can engage with more members of the audience, and more members of the audience can be closer to the stage.
“It feels more intimate. In this day and age, when everything can feel so separated, having that real, up-close and personal experience is something that a lot of festival-goers fans enjoy,” Sippy says.
Another unavoidable truth about this day and age is that the entire world exited a global pandemic two years ago. When events were universally disbanded, many DJs lost significant income and the career gratification they got from playing live. Meanwhile, fans and ravers lost their preferred means of emotional release and personal connection.
Now, two years on, following the initial landrush back to events, the intent to reconnect from both artists and fans is causing concrete change throughout the scene.
Louis The Child performing at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California. Image: Andrew Rosas
“Post-COVID, a lot of people missed two or three years of opportunities to form deep, haphazard, fun, friendships. Spontaneous friendships that come from an accidental late night,” says Henry Lu, co-founder of Space Yacht, which promotes roughly 75 global events per year, several of which are 360.
Space Yacht was one early promoter to experiment with 360 stages in Los Angeles, but Lu is quick to mention that he and his team “stake no claim” in pioneering the format. Lu shouts out the Atlanta promoter Define Everything Future (DEF) for making it their thing before them. DEF has hosted 360 events at venues all across the US including The Caverns in Tennesse, Underground Atlanta, and the Florida festival, Suwanee Hulaween.
“Everyone kind of started doing it at the same time,” Lu says, also ensuring he lends credit to a vital catalyst for the popularity of the 360 set: Boiler Room.
Oftentimes, 360 formats are presented as ‘Boiler Room Style’ on event flyers given its history of having fans behind the DJ. While this isn’t specifically accurate, as Boiler Room doesn’t always ensure fans are necessarily surrounding the DJ, the disbursement of the audience was certainly a precursor to 360 sets.
Boiler Room also influenced 360 sets because the streaming format emphasized the idea of focusing on the DJ. Sure, there will be the occasional bystander who makes waves across Boiler Room’s network of 4.37 million YouTube subscribers (like the yellow shirt guy who accidentally stopped the music during Fred Again..’s famous Boiler Room in London). But, for the most part, Boiler Room built its brand on letting people around the world watch DJs in action.Conversely, at the genesis of club culture, not all crowds were there to watch DJs. They were remanded to the dark corners of the club, hidden behind a shroud of smoke, playing music for the crowd to interact with one another. There are still some DJs from the earliest days of electronic music, like Dave Clarke, who shun the fact that DJs are now the centre of attention.
“Now it’s deeply embarrassing for what people see to be a DJ. There’s so much light on stage. They’re all dancing. I’ve got nothing against people dancing, but the performance is more important than the music,” Clarke said in an interview with MusicRadar.
Since the rise of EDM, the idea of DJ performing has become more associated with the culture — Steve Aoki throwing cake into the crowd; Diplo rolling around in an inflatable ball during Major Lazer sets. Now, with 360 sets, some DJs are leaning into performance more than ever.
“Having gone through the stage where DJs were put up on a big stage like superstars, now DJs are part of the club. That’s not gonna go away,” says Lexi Capt, who DJs under the name CAPTNNN. “So, the idea of the 360 set is the compromise of not having the DJ in the corner, having them be on the same level as the people, but also not put on a pedestal where no one can reach them.”
Capt runs an event series called Dekadance, based at Forever Good in London. It’s a former car garage that’s been converted into an art gallery and event space. For Dekadance parties, Capt sets up the decks in a true 360 pattern which allows the attendees to dance but also fully explore the gallery while the music is playing (there are vintage cars in the gallery that guests can use for photo ops).
MK performing at Outside Lands. Image: Alive Coverage
For a 360 set to work, the venue is the most significant factor. Sippy’s Toxic Summer set in Austin was at The Concourse Project — essentially a raw warehouse space. It was easy to build a stage in the centre and adjust the sound so that everyone could dance and enjoy the music.
After the ball she had in Austin, Sippy shifted four venues on her Gremlin Mode tour into the format, so some venues can accommodate it. But in less amenable spaces, complications show up.
Lu remarks that certain venues like Sound Nightclub in Los Angeles (where Space Yacht produces a significant portion of their events) are too small and their sound infrastructure is too integrated into the venue to make it work.
In other venues with more permanent infrastructure, building a stage in the centre of the room drastically decreases the amount of floor space available for attendees, lessening the number of tickets a promoter can sell which in turn lessens the revenue.
“There’s no clear argument, better or worse. It’s now simply something I look at as like a staging option,” Lu says.
When implementing the format, Lu likes to consider how it will enhance the attendee experience. For example, Space Yacht hosted a 360 dubstep show because he thought it would be cool for the DJs to be surrounded by headbangers.
Louis The Child performing at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California. Image: Andrew Rosas
When Another Planet Entertainment (APE), the promoter responsible for Outside Lands, shifted the format of Soma, an important factor in that decision was that when the stage was similar to a nightclub, attendees would spend hours waiting in line to see some of the DJs (just like a real club). After the change, there were no lines at all.
The new style couldn’t offer the same club-style rave experience as something indoors, complete with lights and lasers. It also wasn’t a literal 360. Due to the space allotted per the festival’s grounds, the majority of the crowd was still front-facing while a smaller portion filled in alongside and behind the DJ. But overall, the format allowed more people to enjoy the music together throughout all three days of the festival.
“Dance music has always had a greater community than other genres. There’s much more of a social aspect,” says Nick Barrie, a talent buyer for APE. “ The DJ in the middle of everyone speaks to more of that community, allows more of that vibe, and more of that culture of we’re all doing this together.”
Right now, many in the electronic music industry are adapting 360 stages; major festivals, small nightclubs, and mid-size events. If there was ever time to gift your favourite DJ a stuffed toy, this is it.
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#alternative #piano #pop #iblisalexander #eldiaenquetevi #2024s #remastered #versionBest reverb plugins 2024: Our favourite free and paid-for reverb pluginsReverb is often pivotal in crafting a professional and three-dimensional sounding mix. From the original spring, plate and chamber reverb techniques to hardware algorithms and captured impulse responses, there are many different techniques to add depth to your audio.
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As a general rule, most plugins either fall into the algorithmic or convolution categories. For the former, the quality of the programmed algorithms is an essential marker for how the effect sounds, and for the latter, it’s the variety of the captured impulse responses.
Whether you’re looking to place a drum kit in a realistic room or shoot your vocal to the Moon in a vast and unusual space, we’ve selected a wide range of reverbs for you to check out.
FabFilter – Pro-R 2Pro-R 2 is the sequel to FabFilter’s original, much-loved reverb. The plugin features the same well-designed GUI with understandable controls such as Distance, Brightness and Space, and it has a unique Decay Rate EQ that lets you intuitively tweak the decay time for different parts of the spectrum.
This version ups the ante and adds Vintage and Plate algorithms alongside the original’s smooth and natural Modern style. There’s also a Thickness control to saturate and compress the reverb tail, built-in Ducking and Auto-Gate features, a Freeze button, support for surround and Immersive Audio, extra output settings for each Decay Rate and Post EQ band, and an improved preset browser. Plus, an innovative Impulse Response import function that can turn IRs into algorithmic presets.
Read our full Pro-R 2 review here.
Key features:Price: £144 (also available in several bundles)
Type: Algorithmic (Modern, Vintage, Plate)
IR import functionality, built-in ducking and auto-gate, great GUIGet this plugin at Plugin Boutique.
Valhalla – SupermassiveValhalla DSP makes a range of affordable, high-quality reverb plugins, including the revered VintageVerb, which you’ll find in many a producer’s toolkit. For this round-up though, we’ve chosen the exceptional Supermassive, which also happens to be free.
It’s just been updated to version three and now includes a huge 20 different reverb modes to choose from, which all have varying settings for attack, decay, density and repeating delays. These can be tempo-synced or left free-running, with various controls for Delay time, Warp, Density, modulation, low and high cut EQ, Mix and Width.
Although Supermassive can do shorter and more traditional reverb sounds, it excels at gigantic spaces with long, swelling waves echoing out into infinity. It’s an absolute wonder for sound design and creating atmospheric beds from anything you throw at it.
Key Features:Price: FREE
Type: Algorithmic (20 reverb/delay modes)
Highly characterful algorithms for creating large epic spacesGet this plugin at Valhalla DSP.
ModeAudio – AirspaceOn the surface, ModeAudio’s Airspace looks like a fairly simple combination of convolution and delay, but it has a vast and creative impulse response collection that turns it into a sound design powerhouse.
You get two Convolution engines, with a stereo delay in the middle. Although the Convolution sections are labelled Colour and Space, you can load any of the 450+ IRs into each. These include a range of authentic recordings taken from a cathedral, a nuclear reactor, a submarine, and a chocolate factory, plus vintage digital, spring and plate reverb hardware, found percussion, analogue drum machines, an upright piano, experimental SFX, and textural loops.
You can stretch the IR size all the way up to 500%, which is awesome for crafting long, ethereal drones. There are useful controls for shaping the IR’s envelope, alongside an EQ section, and there’s also a stereo delay for added depth, with filters, time and pan modulation, and a recursive pitch-shifting effect.
Key Features:Price: £60
Type: Convolution (450+ IRs) + Stereo Delay
A sound design toolbox filled with varied IRs that excels at creating deep and ambient soundsLearn more at www.modeaudio.com
Soundtoys – SuperPlateIt took five years from the release of Little Plate for Soundtoys to finally bring us its big brother, SuperPlate, but it was worth the wait. SuperPlate gives you the option of five different emulations, meticulously captured from vintage hardware units like the EMT140, Goldfoil EMT240, and Stocktronics RX 4000. Each brings a different plate flavour to the table, which can be further tweaked with three preamp options, modulation controls and a simple, built-in EQ.
The feature that really stands out, though, is the Auto-Decay function. Where other reverbs often have ducking effects that work by pulling down the volume, SuperPlate instead reduces the decay time. This works wonders on faster passages, as you still get a thick reverb sound, but the tails are much tighter, which results in a more prominent signal.
If you like the sound of plates, then this one is a no-brainer. Especially if you already own the Soundtoys bundle, as the upgrade cost is fairly cheap.
Read our full SuperPlate review here.
Key Features:Price: $149
Type: Algorithmic (EMT140, Goldfoil EMT240, Audicon, EcoPlate III & Stocktronics RX40000)
Unique Auto-Decay ducking function, three preamp options with modulation and simple EQGet this plugin at Plugin Boutique.
iZotope – AuroraAurora is iZotope’s intelligent reverb that helps create cleaner-sounding mixes. There are six reverb types to choose from, all powered by Exponential Audio’s legendary algorithms. These include Hall, Room, Chamber, Plate, Ambience and Cathedral, with additional controls for Pre-delay, Decay, Width, and Tone.
What sets Aurora apart is its unmasking feature. This will dynamically react to the incoming audio and carve out space in the reverb signal to make sure your instruments, drums or vocals remain focused and clear. The GUI shows the frequency spectrum of the ducked audio so you can see which areas are being attenuated.
You can also control the attack, release and sensitivity to fine-tune exactly how the ducking is applied. Having all these tools in a single plug-in can greatly speed up workflow, and it’s a quick and easy way to get less muddy-sounding mixes.
Key features:Price: £49
Type: Algorithmic (6 different algorithms from Exponential Audio)
Built-in unmasking automatically removes muddy frequencies from the reverb signalGet this plugin at Plugin Boutique.
Strymon – BigSky PluginIf you’re familiar with the world of effects pedals, then you’ll no doubt have heard of the BigSky reverb by Strymon. The pedal has been around for 10 years, but due to its popularity, Strymon has finally decided to make the excellent algorithms available in plugin format.
There are 12 Reverb Machines in total, including traditional sounding Room, Hall, and Plate settings alongside the more unique and beautiful sounding Bloom, Cloud and Shimmer. Some of these use a range of pitch shifting, and reverse techniques, making this a very creative and flexible reverb plugin. As you select each algorithm, you get access to its specific controls for further tweaking, which gives the plugin an advantage over the menu diving required on the pedal version.
It’s also worth noting that Strymon has added an Infinite Sustain and a Freeze function to the plugin version, which can be used for creating larger textures.
Read our full BigSky plugin review here.
Key Features:Price: £198
Type: Algorithmic (12 modes)
Notable features: A large number of different sounding, creative algorithms now available in one pluginGet this plugin at Thomann.
sonible – smart:reverbSonible is one of the companies at the forefront of innovative, AI-based plugin design. Its smart:reverb plugin is a source-adaptive effect that can listen to your audio and create a custom preset to perfectly complement the source. You simply select an instrument from a drop-down menu and then click a record button to listen to a short portion of the track. The tailored preset can then be edited to your liking.
The controls are a little different to a traditional algorithmic reverb, with time-based graphs for controlling the Decay, Spread and Density, and an X/Y pad that lets you morph between Intimate, Rich, Natural and Artificial parameters. There are also controls for Width, a ducker (called Clarity), a basic EQ, and Freeze and Infinite buttons.
It may not be the best-sounding reverb in this list, but it has an excellent knack for getting sounds to sit well in the mix with minimal editing.
Read our full smart:reverb review here.
Key Features:Price: $129 (also available in several bundles)
Type: Algorithmic (X/Y pad morphs between settings)
Unique time editing, AI adaptive preset creation can help generate presets in secondsGet this plugin at Plugin Boutique.
Cableguys – ReverbShaperOur next entry is the ReverbShaper, which loads into Cableguys’ excellent ShaperBox plugin and includes unique envelope-based editing features.
It’s a convolution-based plugin that comes with 127 varied IRs, plus the ability to load your own. You have more traditional controls for the decay time, width and pre-delay, and a Size slider that resamples the impulse to make it longer or short, whilst also affecting its pitch. The fun starts when you begin editing the volume of the reverb using the tempo-synced LFO tool, which has flexible drawing tools to create simple swells or complex, gated rhythms.
There’s also a graph to edit the Send signal, so you could just highlight a single snare in a loop to send through to the reverb, thus saving time with fiddly automation. On top of this, you have an envelope follower and audio or MIDI triggering, plus low, mid and high bands to split the IRs and controls. It’s probably the most creative tool on offer here, and also one of the cheapest.
Key Features:Price: €39 / $39 (or €89 / $89 for full ShaperBox 3 with 10 effects)
Type: Convolution (127 IRs)
Notable features: Draw your reverb tails, envelope follower, audio triggering, multi-band functionalityGet this plugin at Pluqin Boutique.
Phil Speiser – The Liquid 2This list has seen some pretty cutting-edge tech, but The Liquid 2 is arguably the most futuristic of the bunch. You can type in a text prompt for the type of sound you’re after, such as “bright 3-second plate reverb with a tight stereo delay”, and the built-in AI will transform it into a preset. You can also be a little more abstract, or even request the sound of your favourite artist.
If you want to refine the sound further, you can open up the Advanced tab, which gives access to the inner workings of the reverb and delay. This also includes built-in distortion and vintage settings, pitch shift, a Ducker effect, a Tail Designer, Gate controls and even a 3-band dynamic EQ section. There are also a bunch of presets included.
It’s a fascinating and unique way of building a mix that could be useful for those starting out, or anyone who wants to quickly experiment with different ideas.
Key features:Price: £89
Type: Algorithmic + Stereo Delay
Use AI prompts to craft instant presets, then tweak and edit with Advanced modeCheck out this plugin at www.philspeiser.com
LiquidSonics – Seventh HeavenLiquidSonics brings the coveted Bricasti M7 hardware reverb to life in this high-quality reverb plugin that captures the natural, lush, smooth and transparent sound of the original. It manages this through LiquidSonics proprietary Fusion-IR technology, which tracks the behaviour of a reverb through its early reflection through to the final tail stage. This results in a more evolving sound compared to a more traditional static IR snapshot. Although it’s based around convolution, you then get the ability to tweak a range of parameters as though you are editing an algorithmic reverb.
The full Professional version includes over 230 multi-sampled Fusion-IR presets, 32 selectable early reflection patterns, full surround support, an internal ducking effect, and a five-band oversampled master EQ. It has an exceptional sound that sits well in the mix, and the range of different captured algorithms makes it highly versatile.
Read our full Seventh Heaven Professional review here.
Key Features:Price: $69 Seventh Heaven, $299 Seventh Heaven Professional
Type: Convolution (over 230 Fusion-IR presets)
Unique technology manages to capture the high-quality evolving sound of the hardwareGet this plugin at LiquidSonics.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 809: Pi4J – Stable and Boring on the Raspberry PiThis week, Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Frank Delporte about Pi4J, the friendly Java libraries for the Raspberry Pi, that expose GPIO, SPI, I2C and other IO interfaces. Why would anyone want to use Java for the Pi? And what’s changed since the project started? Listen to find out!
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RSSApple Music is selling a coffee table book charting its top 100 albums of all time – for $450You might remember earlier this year, when Apple Music published a list of the 100 best albums ever made. While such a list was always going to be subject to opinion, the streaming giant listed The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as the best record ever made.
Now, Apple Music has unveiled a companion coffee table book with the list in full, but at $450, it’ll cost you almost as much as buying all 100 albums on Apple Music itself.READ MORE: Fans reacting to Tyler, The Creator’s new album Chromakopia are getting copyright strikes – but he’s working overtime to reverse them
The book is limited to 1500 copies and is produced by French publisher, Assouline. According to the product page, the book is designed as a high-status piece. The white-linen cover is protected by a “custom-designed translucent acrylic slipcase etched with the Apple Music logo”. Both the edges of the pages and the logo on the spine are a lustrous gold. Each copy is hand-marked with a specific number of the 1500 total, emphasising its exclusivity.
Inside, much of the contents are the same as the digitally released list, with top-ranking albums like The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Thriller, Abbey Road, Purple Rain, and Blonde detailed alongside commentary.
One new piece of content that can only be found in the book is a foreward from Apple Music’s Creative Director and legendary radio host, Zane Lowe.
Apple Music began sharing this list on May 13 and concluded nine days later. Despite being attached to the name of the popular streaming service, the selection was not based on data such as streaming numbers or playlist placements. The list was curated by the Apple Music team and also received input from artists representing a wide variety of eras and genres, including Maren Morris, Pharrell Williams, J Balvin, Charli XCX, Mark Hoppus, Honey Dijon, and Nia Archives.
“[The list is] a love letter to the records that have shaped the world music lovers live and listen in,” reads the description of the book.
For more information, head to Assouline.
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