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Well, Noturnall is here at the Georgian Guidestones,
in the United States.
And we have come to portray
something that served as inspiration for our third record, "9",
for an interesting reason.
These mysteries that surround human beings,
and when a certain group of people
come together in favor of a set of ideas
for changing the world.
That's exactly what our band does, is what we've got here:
some commandments, so to speak, from a group of people
who believe in the Age of Reason,
and those guys didn't want to be identified,
we can't know who settled these rocks.
The guy's name is R. C. Christian,
and it says to be a pseudonym.
Much is speculated about who were those people.
This tech label says they are people
who pursue the Age of Reason.
That's exactly what Noturnall seeks inside music.
And here at these stones, which inspired us in that matter,
there's this case of an age mostly driven by reason.
There are several commandments,
all of them are quite reasonable,
commandments that one is likely to agree with mostly.
But there's one that draws attention,
the first one, a shocking start:
We should not maintain humanity
above 500,000,000 inhabitants.
Considering we are currently about 7,000,000,000 people worldwide,
imagine what these guys have in mind
so that the world shouldn't exceed 500,000,000 people.
There are four plaques,
with a central one on top holding them,
eight different languages saying these commandments,
and there is also several geographic features.
They wanted to do something similar
to the Greek and Egyptian people,
who had this thing.
For example, the hole on the center of this rock,
you can check over the Sun as it reaches solstice.
Then you have the spots
where the sunlight passes and draws
where the Sun is going through the year
so you can tell the month you're in.
It's a totally enigmatic monument.
It's really...
a jaw-dropping thing.
You have to be here to realize
what is this feeling
that you get around here.
And of course, these are granite rocks,
they retain energy in a way that is different from other rocks.
Just by being here, you get this freak sensation.
We made some live sound here today,
with IK Multimedia equipment.
We decided to caputre it for real,
in order to try to bring into your house
what we felt when we were playing here.
It was really amazing,
one of the most unique feelings I've had in my life.
Well, we are here in the first episode
of a five-episode series from Noturnall with IK Multimedia.
I'm Fernando Quesada, Noturnall's bass and acoustic guitar,
and I'm here today to talk about
the mobile studio and mobile recording,
which works as a studio you can take everywhere.
In our case, we are traveling with Noturnall around Tennessee,
the cradle of rock and country music,
where we're shooting five videoclips
in some really cool touristic and historical spots.
We're also going to talk about these touristic spots,
the history and culture of country, blues and rock music.
And of course, we'll talk about how we made these records
since it's something different from the usual,
to be able, without socket, electricity and all of that,
to record more than 10 channels like we did, with drums included.
Our formation was drums, two acoustic guitars,
one of the songs had an acoustic bass,
plus lead vocals and two backing vocals.
That's a list of several channels,
to be mobile recorded.
And for that, we've got equipment from IK Multimedia,
which is today's most enabling brand for this kind of recording,
not only for the hardware we have here,
but also for the software and applications,
whether for iPad, iPhone, as also for computer.
You may see I'm using both laptop and iPad,
and I also use iPhones when recording.
I'll explain on this first episode a little about the setup
that we chose for these recordings,
so we can understand what equipment we'll use,
and if you've got a band, if you're an artist
and intend to go out there making your own records,
I'm sure this is the best choice
for the quality and the functionality
in your recordings.
So, let's introduce our setup.
Here I'll talk about interfaces,
about microphones,
softwares and appications,
supports and monitors, OK?
Basically that's what we use on a complete recording.
We've got the laptop here, which we use as our workstation,
so we take everyting we recorded from other devices
and place them inside a DAW.
The monitors, as you see we are in-house,
when we travel to make a mobile record,
usually we are hosted in a hotel, a house or apartment,
and we are able to set it up as a little work base,
where we can use it like a home studio,
for organizing the ideas after we are back from recording,
backup files, listen to how it sounds and so on,
so you organize things the best you can.
Here I've got the iLoud monitors,
they're from IK Multimedia too.
These ones are considered the smallest monitors
with the best studio definition currently available in the market.
They are really good monitors,
they've got a very good volume for monitoring
and checking the quality for real.
And when in mobile recording, for mixing and mastering,
you can also use them as your reference.
I'm using a computer for this.
Here I've got an iPad,
this iPad here has Amplitube running.
Amplitube is one of the applications we use
both in recording and mixing.
An iKlip, which is a holder to these iPads, sometimes to iPhones.
This one is for iPad, we use it while recording,
also from IK Multimedia.
And here at the center I've got the keyboard.
This keyborad is nice because it's also an interface,
it fits in that category.
In our case, Juninho played with it
and recorded straight on his phone, using SampleTanke,
which is a virtual instrument app also from IK Multimedia,
and plugged it directly in his phone for recording
both MIDI and Audio by using this one,
which is the iRig Keys,
one of the interface keyboards from the brand.
So, basically this is what we used here
in our entire recording:
iLoud reference monitors;
applications such as SampleTank and Amplitube,
which we used both in iPad and iPhone;
the controller keyboard, already as interface;
microphones - lapel, XLR and condenser,
for the acoustic guitars;
and the interfaces,
Pro Duo, HD2 and Pro I/O,
which enabled us to sum enough channels to record drums,
two acoustic guitars, acoustic bass,
and three vocals.
So, in the next episodes, you'll check out
how was the plugging of all this equipment,
and get the best out of your sound.