Studio Technology with Phil Moffa (Butcha Sound)
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NYC-based audio engineer Phil Moffa has earned a god-tier reputation for producing, mixing, mastering, and collaborating with some of the biggest names and labels in house and techno, including Seth Troxler, Anthony Parasole, DVS1, and Hercules & Love Affair. Since 2004, Moffa has been a faculty member at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music in NY, teaching future generations of studio producers. His former students include Michael Keenan, AceMo, and Photay. His hardware-based studio, Butcha Sound in New York city, is home to some absolutely wild toys that help Phil achieve his distinct and exquisite sound, and now he wants to show you how it all works. In this five-day, intensive course on studio technology, Phil will guide you through the complete process of building and working in a hybrid analog & digital studio. Topics will include: mixing boards, patch bays, MIDI connections, outboard effects, synthesis, old school samplers, and more. Come dive into the wonderful world of hardware with one of the best engineers working today.
Course streams October 12th-16th at 6:00 PM PT / 9 PM ET. Classes are recorded and uploaded daily.
Course Breakdown:
Mixing board
Advantages of using a mixer
Channel strip explained
Sound designing, mixing, and recording with a board
Routing to and from gear, interface, and tape machine
Wiring and patch bay
Advantages of patch bay
Normalled/Half-normalled explained
Sketching out a bay for your setup
Balanced/Unbalanced
Wiring it up
MIDI connections and setup
MIDI Interface
Sync
Universal MIDI settings
Getting various pieces of MIDI gear interconnected
Processing: effects and filters
Function of different outboard gear
Connecting effects processors
Multi-tracking effects performances
Overdub recording effects
Samplers/Sequencers/Synths
Octatrack
MPCs - different models pros & cons
Old school samplers
Favorite synths
Integration with DAWs
About Phil Moffa:
Electronic musician, producer, and professor Phil Moffa is also the owner/operator of Butcha Sound Studios in New York City. Moffa has performed internationally for years and has contributed his talents to the creation of hundreds of records as recordist, producer, mixer, and mastering engineer. Moffa is one half of Lost Souls of Saturn with Seth Troxler. In 2019, they released their debut eponymous album on R&S Records to critical acclaim and installed their multimedia piece 'Transmission' in Basel, Switzerland and at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Phil also has collaborated with The Martinez Brothers, DJ Spider, and Anthony Parasole on several records. As a mix engineer, Moffa has worked with DVS1, !!! [Warp Records], Kool Keith, and Hercules & Love Affair, to name a few. Since 2004, Moffa has been a faculty member at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music, teaching future generations of studio producers. His former students include Michael Keenan, AceMo, and Photay. In addition to numerous musical endeavours, Moffa is also a multimedia and installation artist. In 2020, Phil started the Butcha Sound Records imprint to release original works of both his music and art. Moffa is a lifelong NYC resident and vinyl record collector.
