Spectrum

Sydney born and bred, fascinated by synthesisers and drums, produces music under the name of Accession with track releases, mixing and mastering credits on Enigma Records.

Worked as a freelance author with UK's Future Music magazine (2000 to 2003), conceived and promoted Sydney's regular TECHNOPHILE club night (1999) as a platform for fresh and established DJ talent and the thrill of showcasing live electronic dance music, plus a decade of experience with live broadcasting with a major Australian television network.

My studio is traditionally hardware: Starting out with a 6-piece Pearl Export drums as a kid, then getting my heard around subtractive synthesis with the Roland Juno 106's alter-ego, the Roland HS-60. Originally hardware sequencing from a Roland MC-505 which was immense fun, especially when teamed up with other gear (Yamaha AN1x and Roland JP-8080 synths). Live performances were a challenge but about as authentically live as electronic sequences-based music can be, with no two shows the same. Around 10 years ago, I was wanting to move to a simplified sequencing, recording and mixing DAW, I jumped across to Pro Tools LE (version 5). Primitive as it were back then, it's been great to grow with it, experience the sheer explosion of plug-in effects and soft synths, and see it become quite a powerful production tool today (currently version 8).

Current Hardware:
- Yamaha AN1x (virtual analogue subtractive 61-note keyboard synth)
- Yamaha FS1R (frequency modulation rack synth)
- Kawai K5000s (additive 61-note keyboard synth)
- Waldorf Blofeld (wavetable plus more table-top synth)
- Roland TD9-K (6-piece, hats, two crash, one ride, all mesh skins, electronic drumkit)
- Novation ReMOTE 37SL (37-note MIDI controller)
- Emagic AMT8 ( 8 port in/out MIDI interface)
- Lexicon MPX 500 (stereo rack effects unit, interfaced with Pro Tools via S/PDIF and MIDI)
- Mackie 1604-VLZ Pro (16 channel, 4 sub group, mixing desk)
- Mackie 802-VLZ3 (8 channel, 2+2 group, mixer)
- Mackie HR824 (2-way, 8.75" woofer + 1" tweeter, 250 + 100 watts per side, studio monitors)
- QSC K10 (2 way 10" woofer + 1.75" compression driver, 500+500 watts per side, PA speakers/foldback)
- QSC KW181 (18" 1000 watt subwoofer)
- RØDE NTK (valve microphone)
- Beyerdynamic DT990 PRO (studio headphones)
- Apple MacBook Pro (2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 15" display, 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200RPM drive, plus several external FireWire drives)
- Digidesign Digi002 Rack (FireWire audio interface)
- Digidesign Mbox2Mini (USB audio interface)

Favourite Software:
- Digidesign Pro Tools 8 (DAW)
- Absynth (subtractive, frequency modulation and granular synthesis)
- Hybrid (virtual analogue subtractive synthesis)
- XPand! (subtractive sample + synthesis)
- Reaktor (every synthesis type under the sun plus effects)
- SoundHack (effects mangler)
- Synchronic (beats mangler)
- Tape-Head (distortion)
- TL Space (convolution reverb)
- Massey L2007 (mastering limiter)
- EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Free (strings, and 'cause they're free!)

Travelled across Australia in a campervan, eventually landing in Perth, working as a retail store manager, married my beautiful wife and now proud dad to one seriously out-of-this-world three-year-old daughter. The 7-year-itch has finally taken over and in 2010 rolled out our plan to venture back across the Nullabor to finally settle in Melbourne... one day! Hey, we're now the closest we've ever been.

With turning dad taking priority over music the past few years, I've been busting to get back into tinkering with tunes, developing orchestral arrangements, and working more with live drums over drum machines in my productions.

Had the enormous honour and pleasure performing drums and percussion for the Albury Wodonga Theatre Company's production of Miss Saigon running for 8 shows in October 2011. In late 2011, joined the Murray Conservatorium Orchestra's weekly rehearsals playing timpani, drum kit and other assorted percussion for performances scheduled throughout the year.

Love also getting out with a DSLR camera, a handful of prime lenses, and snapping stuff.