1. How have things been for you as a creator / creative since the lockdown? What have you been working on?

I think most of us, including me, had it difficult because of this pandemic. Creative wise, at the start of the pandemic, I was hoping that the lockdown, and the spread of the virus, would end immediately, then everything got worse from there. I had a hard time making music, from planning, to making things happen, all the things I had to do were pretty much improvised. But there's a certain flow to working things out during a pandemic like this. I got the hang of it eventually. It sucks, but I can do my work.

 

2. Are there any new things you would like to try out or start working on this year?

I really want to try recording my own samples now. I've been seeing a lot of producers just pulling out random percussive objects and making it their own sounds to own, and sell. It's really interesting, right now I really want a drum kit, and a bunch of other percussion instruments I can tune to my own liking, and record samples with.

3. Tell us about your work and creative space. What is your current set-up like at home? 

My setup at home is mediocre at best. I have 2 Yamaha HS5 (which were generously donated by my good friend Jave Maceda) for monitoring audio, and 2 display monitors for music production. My room, which is also my studio, is not acoustically treated. My windows are big, and you can hear all sorts of stuff. A lot of people would say it's not ideal to make music in an environment like this, but I beg to differ. Heck, I don't even have a door for privacy. Most of my audio recordings are midi, so it doesn't matter if it's noisy outside, but when I need to record vocals, I mostly do them at night when everyone is quiet. 

4. Given the chance, how would you like to set-up your space?

I wish to have better seaming for my windows, since it's a 2 way sliding window, it's hard to block the noise coming from outside. I would also need some acoustic foam dampeners so the sound doesn't bounce around my room, and of course a door. 

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5. What Noiseless product do you think will greatly help with your current set-up at home right now? 

A VoxGuard DT would do the track for recording samples, and vocals. That would help me a lot with lessening the ambient noise around my room, and really capture all the transients I need for recording my own samples.