Suit & Tie Guy Live at Knobcon 2012

Published on Nov 26, 2012 by suitandtieguy
"full recording at http://suitandtieguy.bandcamp.com/album/knobcon-2012

Suit & Tie Guy - synthesizers and devices
Maxwell Meador - saxophone
Brownshoesonly - video art projection
Bryan Benting - camera

September 14 2012
Hyatt Regency Schaumburg IL

http://knobcon.com
http://brownshoesonly.com
http://stgsoundlabs.com
http://suitandtieguy.com"

Suit & Tie Guy's "Love on a real train" - analysis (synth nerds only!)

video by Published on Feb 20, 2013 suitandtieguy·34 videos


"This will bore the ever-living **** out of you if you aren't a synth nerd.

And yeah I'm aware that there's a couple sequences in the original I forgot. I only have so much synth. And it's already 15 minutes long.

Final recordings:
http://suitandtieguy.bandcamp.com/alb... [embed below]

Numerology files:
http://suitandtieguy.com/education/lo..."






"This photo nearly got me arrested by the '911 police.' They pulled up in a truck that said '911' on it and then yelled '911' at me and felt me up and threatened to arrest me. then they were distracted by an actual crime about 10 minutes into the interrogation about my dastardly plan to take photos of public transit for my sister's children to look at.

I pointed out to them that railroad photography was the number one most popular subject of amateur photographers in the world. they just yelled '911' at me and told me the 'FBI' was going to visit me. i'm probably on a no-fly list over this bullshit, which is fine because i never fucking fly anyway.

Oh about the music. This is my obligatory tribute to TD. (Completely unlike the rest of my catalogue which is a voluntary tribute to TD.)

Both tracks were recorded as one contiguous take in the studio direct to 2 track and no editing was engaged. No processing other than compression was employed in the computer.
credits released 21 February 2013"

"Careful With That Spirytus, Jeff!" - an Archangel demonstration

YouTube via suitandtieguy — May 11, 2010 — "Here's a quick jam on the Det3 Archangel controlling a Moog Micromoog and my own modular synthesizer, with a CR-8000 lounge machine added for good measure.

I feel the sound on U-Toob is substandard. if you would like to download a 192kbps MP3, it's at:

http://suitandtieguy.com/sounds/2010%...

the Archangel's sequencer is running at 8th notes, the clock output driving the V-trig input of the Micromoog. the A row of the Archangel is controlling the pitch of the Micromoog, the C and D rows are used to control the filter cutoff of the Micromoog via the "CD" output, which alternates between the C and D rows creating a filter pattern twice as long as whatever the current pitch pattern is. the filter pattern is sent through an attenuator so it can be brought in partway through the recording. sequence lengths of 2 to 8 stages are used at various points.

the touchplate keyboard of the Archangel is controlling my modular synthesiser. the gate and pitch outputs are controlling pitch and gate on the modular. the pressure output is controlling vibrato amount and the vertical position is controlling filter cutoff.

voice and vibrato oscillators are Synthesizers.com Q106, mixer is homebrew using a hacked STG Soundlabs Wave Folder PCB as a gain stage, filter is an MOTM-490, output and vibrato VCA is an STG Soundlabs Signal Amplifiers module. ADSRs are based on MFoS PCBs.

clock master is a x0xb0x through the STG Soundlabs Time Buffer, driving the Archangel and the CR-8000. Micromoog delay is a Boss DD-20, CR-8000 reverb is a PCM-80, and the modular goes through the Eventide H3000. everything tracked individually with effects printed to an Alesis HD24 and mixed in Digital Performer.

no spirytus rektyfikowany was harmed or consumed in the making of this video, but apparently someone in the studio while i was making it drank more of it than he should of the previous night."

Suit & Tie Guy vs Oliver's Pizza - Thanksgiving Eve 2019 (Juggable Offense video)

Published on Dec 13, 2019 suitandtieguy

"Every year I play a Thanksgiving Eve gig at a pizza parlor here in Peoria IL called Oliver's. The location has changed but the gig continues.

This year STG Soundlabs' Minister of Hype Bubba Ayoub did video art with me. Tonight he recorded something similar to his art that night, here is the result. [he uses camera feedback, a Vidiot, a eurorack system, and a couple of video mixers to do this.]

This is only the first set. If you think I should upload the rest of the gig to Bandcamp let me know in the comments. Also let us know if you like this kind of video. Thank you.

Bubba Ayoub: http://www.instagram.com/juggableoffe...
my music: http://suitandtieguy.bandcamp.com/"

STG Dub Massive vs Kenny's Westside Pub - May 5 2023

video upload by suitandtieguy

"My opening set for electronic jam band Chachuba at Kenny's Westside Pub in Peoria IL May 5 2023.

Since I was opening for a high energy (not to be confused with Hi-NRG) electronic jam band, I decided to keep my set as low-key as possible. My personal gravity is extremely strong with ambient dub, so I went with that. I would really like to explore this dynamic more in these circles. Hopefully this gig wasn't the end of it.

Something that has bothered me about my live music over the past 15 years or so is that I have wanted an extemporaneous approach, but the tools I chose were more suited to improvisation than composition, because flexibility is more important to me than structure.

What this means is that with very specific exceptions, I've been playing electronic free jazz for 15 years and the stress level hit a point where I just didn't even enjoy playing any more. I would spend my entire gig having a slow-motion panic attack, terrified that what I was doing was boring and made no sense whatsoever.

I started using a tool called The Force by a brand which used to be a division of a legendary Japanese home audio company but is now in the brand basket of an MI corporation that has many faces. I spent years working with it as a sound design tool but never live, and late last year I threw up my hands in frustration with a Very Complicated live rig I spent years building and chucked it all in favour of this thing ... and I can now do TUNES again. This silly looking, horribly typecast box lets me finally interact with an electronic composition in a way that I could do as a bandleading organist with tight relationships with a drummer and a guitarist.

I have some plans to re-incorporate "electronic free jazz" into my sets but I have to build a new (smaller) live rhythm section and it will require that I design and engineer at least three new products.

In the meantime, I'm pretty happy. I had no music-related anxiety about this gig. All of my visible stress was because my Suburban suffered a transmission failure right after leaving my studio, which delayed me 2 hours, but I still started on time. I also had forgotten how to use the Pigtronix Infinity 3 loopers, because their UX sucks, and they should be ashamed of themselves. I'll be designing my own MIDI controller for them soon which will solve some of its problems but those clowns need to get their act together. I think I wasted the first five minutes of my timeslot trying to figure out why they weren't doing what they were supposed to do. (I cut that part out. It was embarassing.)

Like all of my sets, there is an intro, incidents, and interstitials. This is a tracklist:

0:00 - Intro - Suitscape in Abm
4:00 - National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union (Ebm 70 BPM)
23:00 - Suitscape in Bbm
24:53 - Dub Force Rising (70 BPM Fm)
37:55 - Suitscape in Cm
40:33 - Summertime: Temporary Love (80 BPM Gm)
50:58 - Outro - Suitscape in Dm

I'd like to thank Chachuba for insisting that I open for them, and Kenny's Westside Pub staff for being so hospitable and their owner for being gracious and generous to me. Kenny's also shot and recorded this gig, and livestreamed it. That is so damn cool.

Also, I am contractually obligated to mention periodically, but not constantly, that I am a Hammond USA company artist. They make great stuff like the XK-1c I'm playing at this gig and if you're using anyone else's products for digital Hammond sounds you should probably re-evaluate your choices. I have been playing vintage Hammond consoles since 1998 and ever since I got the XK-1c I haven't felt that hole in my electronic music that existed before, where I had no connection to my roots. I could write paragraphs about this but I need to go to bed.

http://chachuba.bandcamp.com/
http://kennyswestside.com/
http://hammondorganco.com/
http://suitandtieguy.com/"

Waldorf Blofeld & XT Wavetable Deathmatch

suitandtieguy · Wavetable Deathmatch

"Microwave XTK in one channel, Blofeld in the other."

via Suit & Tie Guy:
"i had both of these instruments, the Waldorf Microwave XTk and the Blofeld, in my studio at the same time for a few days and decided to do a proper shootout of their pure wavetable sounds.

people can argue about their UIs, features, and filters until they're blue in the face for all i care. IMHO the Blofeld wins on all of these things, especially on filter quality, user samples, and actual playability of endless rotaries. however my issue was that what i want out of a PPG-derived wavetable synthesiser is the best current approximation of the raw 8-bit sound of the Wave Computer 340/360 instruments.

straight up i don't think either of these things totally nail it under scrutiny.

that said, comparing them to the old PPG stuff on pure wavetable terms is a bit like comparing the x0xb0x to a TB-303 ... yeah side-by-side you might be able to tell a difference but when it comes down to brass tacks they both sound great in a mix. i would definitely say there's more of a difference between these two wavetable synths than there is between the x0xb0x and the TB-303.

so anyway here's 38 minutes of rawdog wavetable madness, midi-synced for your pleasure. the first three and a half minutes are a patch i duplicated on the Blofeld based on a MWXTk patch i had made and liked. the rest of the time is spent blowing through wavetables on a single osc patch.

on the Blofeld i was able to completely bypass the filter. on the MWXTk i was not, i had to set the Fc high enough with not just the cutoff knob but also the envelope so that the filter had no effect on the sound. i was not happy about this, and i prefer the Blofeld's option to shut it off.

one channel is the Microwave XTk and the other is the Blofeld. no i'm not saying which is which for at least a week. please be my guest and make sweeping golden-ear generalisations about how one channel is garbage and the other is so perfect. that would be great.

full-res wav downloads are enabled on this. please take advantage if you're serious: http://soundcloud.com/suitandtieguy/wavetable-deathmatch-mix"

One thing to note is the Blofeld allows you to pick a separate wavetable for each oscillator, while on the XT they share the same selected wavetable; you can of course offset each oscillator independently on each synth.

NAMM: STG NAMM Sale

via suitandtieguy on Muff's.
http://stgsoundlabs.com/
"OK guys it looks like i'm going to 'Nam, and i'm going to ask you to pay my way there. usually there is more planning in these decisions, but i'm prone to getting "on the jazz" at times so this should be no surprise.

From now until Sunday any Moog-format modules are 10 percent off with free shipping in the US.

If you want the discount, email me what modules you want with the subject line of "2010 WINTER NAMM: ON THE JAZZ" to ERWILL ATCHA SUITANDTIEGUY DOTDIDDLY COM and i'll send you a Paypal invoice.

this offer lasts until i check my email when i get back from LA. you won't get a response from me until Tuesday probably, so just hang loose or sit tight or whatever you feel comfortable doing."

STG Synthesizers.com format system

STG Synthesizers.com/MOTM format system from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

"Hanging out with with Eric (suitandtieguy) and Surachai today playing around on the STG MOTM format system. Awesome sound!

stgsoundlabs.com/"

Update via suitandtieguy in the comments: "technically there's no MOTM format in there, it's all Syntthesizers.com/Moog format.

there _is_ an MOTM-490 behind a P-L/LPF faceplate though. it's the "Lawsuit Lowpass Filter" LOL"

Peoria Itoo Hall - March 2018 (Juggable Offense video) by Suit & Tie Guy

suitandtieguy

Bandcamp DL below. It's free, but any donations will go to The Synth Freq.

"Peoria IL has a a very strong Lebanese population, dating to the Ellis Island era of American immigration, who are as integrated as they are proud. Their roots go back to a town in Lebanon called Aytou, and have a club called the Itoo Society which maintains a hall for their meetings, but is also rented to third parties for special events.

This time, it was a dubstep show.

I had been booked for it, assuming that I would be closing and prepared a set of house music. I showed up and discovered that I was in fact now the opening act, so after hearing the old dub on the PA during speaker tests (which I'm only to assume was because the sound guys heard the word 'dub' in 'dubstep show'), I improvised the loneliest and most alienated set of retro-90s Laswell-style ambient dub I've ever played.

Video by my Lebanese-American friend Bubba Ayoub (AKA Juggable Offense), who prepared this specifically for Thanksgiving 2020.

Bandcamp download at https://suitandtieguy.bandcamp.com/al..."

Novation Circuit as MIDI looper (first impression) w/ Suit & Tie Guy

Published on Mar 28, 2018 suitandtieguy

"Went a little nuts with the idea of using the Circuit as a MIDI looper now that it's had a few system updates. Kudos to Novation for maintaining a product for years now and constantly improving it.

I was told by a few people I left a few things out so I'll do another video like this when the Mio4 gets here.

At some point I'll even do videos about my own stuff!

Brought to you by TASCAM and Hosa."

Muffwiggler 2/22/2010 STG Preparations

YouTube via donaldjasoncrunk

"a short film documenting our preparations for the February Muffwiggler gathering put on by Xart studios & trash_audio. song is "Chillicothe thug lyfe" - beats & chorus by STG, hot flows by me. you can see us making schwag & giveaway stuff, visual aids, world's second shittiest eurorack cabinet and the STG logo banners that didn't quite turn out how i wanted them to."
See this post for some video of the events.
Don't miss On The Jazz with the STG Team
http://www.suitandtieguy.com/
http://stgsoundlabs.com/
http://muffwiggler.com/forum/

Some fun trivia: For those wondering what Muff Wiggler is, Muff's Forum has become THE forum for boutique modular gear. Users and manufacturers are active on the forum and many manufactures have their own sub-forums. It is run by Mike McGrath and originally started as a blog back on November 23rd of 2006. The first time I announced Muff Wiggler was back on December 4th, 2006 in this post. Prior to that I put up two posts featuring Mike, one on July 10th, 2006 and one on July 18th, 2006. Note in the modular world there are boutique manufacturers that sell pre-assembled modules, some that sell both modules and kits, and then those that design modules and provide schematics and instructions for the DIY crowd. I think the crown for the longest/oldest running company would be PAiA, who just started selling module kits again. Note Muff's forum has a DIY section, however the bulk of DIY seems to be on the electro-music.com forums along with probably the biggest Clavia Nord Modular forum.

the first minute of Blade Runner on Sub37 and Kronos

Published on Jun 16, 2016 suitandtieguy

"Just like it says on the tin. Figured out a way to ape the CS80 ribbon sweep during the opening credits of Blade Runner. Use legato exponential glide, long release, play staccato, legato down to a low note to make it sweep while in the release stage.

Korg Kronos used for a taiko preset. reverb is a layer of Lexicon PCM80 "Tiled Room" and Alex "Large Hall" with their decays cranked up pretty high."

Robot Apocalypse (featuring the Time Divider) - New from STG

YouTube via suitandtieguy — May 21, 2010 — Jonathan Snipes of Captain Ahab (http://captain-ahab.com) is such a remarkably enthusiastic STG Soundlabs Time Modules user that when he emailed me and said "I hear you're working on a clock divider module that runs off the STG Sync Bus ... please let me know when i can have it" I couldn't help but just go ahead and mail him my own prototype. (don't worry, i built another and yes he paid for it)

Jonathan was so happy to be able to extract all sorts of different rhythmic clocks driven by his TR-808 that he made this video showing off the Time Divider driving all sorts of aspects of his modular synthesiser and gave it to me to post up here in my U-Toob account.

we've still got a couple of firmware sniggles to deal with, but here is the 97 percent operational Time Divider being used in the composition of a track which Donald Crunk declared "hot as shit" when he heard it, and I'm inclined to agree with him.

I'm not entirely sure what the Time Divider is doing here, but I'm hearing a lot of rhythmic intervals happneing against the TR-808 that simply would not be possible with anything other than the Time Divider or a rack full of extremly hard-to-find Garfield Mini-Docs.

the Time Divider will be available soon from STG Soundlabs (http://www.stgsoundlabs.com/) and not too long after from Analogue Haven (http://www.analoguehaven.com/)

Thank you very much, Jonathan."

Update: description via jonathan:

"Here's a vague description of what's going on:

808 as master clock & drum sounds (obviously)

bassline:
two q106s into stg post lawsuit filter - pitch is from voltage ministore, rhythm is an envelope to the filter cutoff triggered by dotted 8ths from the time divider

bell-like delayed nonsense
q106 into stg sea devils filter into time machine, pitch from voltage ministore

sonar ping sound
stg time divider sending 8ths to motm 730, with vc division modulated by slow lfo, so the ping happens essentially randomly, but always on 8th notes

bitcrushed percussive hihat sound
stg time divider retriggering a long envelope controlling the clock rate of a cgs digital noise module every half note, with a vca controlled by another envelope @ 16ths (also stg time divider)

all the melodic sounds use a modcan-b quantizer

the vocoder is just an motm 310 into a roland svc-350""

Radiophonic One (x2)

Published on Jan 21, 2019 suitandtieguy

Monday Night Dingo Dance

Published on Dec 10, 2013 suitandtieguy·40 videos

"Caleb Condit vs Australia in the STG Soundlabs studio."

weirdseq

Published on May 18, 2013

STG Pulse Matrix http://suitandtieguy.com

Eric Says...

Eric Says Fuck You by suitandtieguy
"this started out as a demo of sequencer summing and the Synthesizers.com quantiser but turned into a track honouring the vacuum tube synthesisers made by the American company Metasonix, which were not used to make this piece, and their colourful inventor Eric Barbour.

instruments: STG Soundlabs/Synthesizers.com modular, Juno-60, Eventide H3000SE, Korg ESX-1 with Oberheim DX samples and onboard reverb."

via brian c

"An unexpected kiss at elevation 636 (preliminary mix)" - STG and Andrew Crook vs STL 2011

YouTube Uploaded by suitandtieguy on May 2, 2011

"This is a preview of the new album I'm almost finished with called Jefferson County Blues. It's a bit of a travelogue of a trip Andrew and I made to St Louis to see Sound Tribe Sector 9. The track is a preliminary mix of a track off of my new album.

It was a very dark and stormy night as we lead into STL. So stormy that we actually avoided a group of tornadoes which ripped through northern STL. Some of the damage of which is depicted in this video.

Andrew Crook was the man with camera most of the way through. He is Minister of Cultural References and Director of Photography for STG Soundlabs."

Update: the gear:
"Bass: modular (2 Q106 -> Sea Devils Filter -> Signal Amplifiers) into Eventide H3000SE
Nasal pad/lead: Fizmo arpeggio
Arp xylophone type sound: modular (Mankato -> Wave Folder -> Signal Amplifiers) into Lexicon PCM-80
Drums: TR-808"

The Rhythm of Time - Mini Documentary Featuring Knobcon & STG Soundlabs' Suit & Tie Guy

The Rhythm of Time from Schmüdde on Vimeo.

One of the best in the business.

Update: you can find The Rhythm of Time website with a cool little programmable online sequencer here: http://rhythmoftime.xyz

http://knobcon.com
http://stgsoundlabs.com
http://suitandtieguy.com

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

a glimpse into modular performance - The Changeless Mover

Published on Jun 14, 2013 suitandtieguy·37 videos

"James Marck and Suit & Tie Guy are currently at work on an electronic ballet based on the signature theological work of the father of natural rights using primarily modular analogue synthesisers.

In this video composer James Marck operates the filter and envelope controls during the take of a part."