Tristan Cassel-Delavois is a talented multi-intrumentalist who works with a number of acts and writes and produces his own material. He is also a big RME fan and kindly sent us these pics and words telling us about his set up.
“My journey with music started at the age of 8 with the violin which eventually gave way to singing and playing guitar once I hit 15 and couldn’t stop listening to rock music combined with the beach boys and the Beatles. After college I moved to London to study at the musicians institute.
The established artists I have worked with include Tricky, Tim Minchin, MJ Cole but I have always enjoyed being in bands and creating live shows whether for myself or for others. Now as a musical director, musician or audio programmer the tools I use revolve around Ableton Live for software and RME sound cards for hardware.
The Tricky show we are running this year relies more than ever on an innovative use of samples and loops so I settled on an RME Fireface UFX combined with an RME ADI-8 DS Mk III for the main laptop. This allows us to split stems out to the guys out front, record shows easily if we need to directly to the UFX and probably the most important feature is Totalmix FX.
The drummer and I both have iPads that wirelessly communicate with Totalmix via the Touch OSC app so we can control our own in-ear mixes during the gig. This is particularly important as the show is never the same twice and the songs can be in any order and be broken down into almost any structure at a moments notice as Tricky directs the music on the fly throughout the entire show. Pretty much anything can happen onstage so it is really important to have reliable and well built equipment and the addition of the after sales support from the RME guys via their forums is second to none so you feel well looked after.
We also have a backup Laptop running the same show with a Babyface and a stereo mix of the samples and loops so that if the power supply blows for any reason onstage we can switch to the battery powered setup.
The stage is set for Tricky’s live show in Bulgaria
For my own live shows and other smaller projects I use an (RME Fireface) UCX as my show needs to be a lot more portable but it still gives me the option to split backing stems out if needed or supply in ear mixes to a few people.
When I’m off the road I’m working on several different projects at once. Original projects include my own and the dance collective Bear Nang. This year I have started composing for film/tv and having edited sound to a short film last year I’m now composing/editing and mixing the music/sound design for an upcoming short film called Dive that has Film London support.”