Electro Musician Robert DeLong Shows Off His Tricked-Out Rig
Released on 09/18/2015
Yo, what's up?
I'm Robert Delong.
I'm a live electronic music performer,
and I'm going to show you how my rig is put together.
Here we go.
This is the Gibraltar Rack
which holds all my electronics.
Each piece is one fully labelled,
so I know exactly how it goes together.
It's like Legos, except more expensive.
Kind of when I realized I was maybe nerdier than the rest
was when I gotten into programming
at a pretty young age.
The QBasic, it's like a simple MSDOS programming language,
and I'd make text adventures
♫ Waiting on the phones to ring and wake us up again
♫ Lost inside a dream with halls that never seem to end
♫ Falling from the ceiling, I keep crawling on the floor
♫ Can't avoid the feeling this has happened all before
♫ I stumble out of my home
This right here,
is a beautifully made a keyboard mouse combo with usb hubs.
This is how I control my computers.
This is actually made out of a cutlery container.
♫ So don’t you wait up for me, I'm leaving with the light
♫ Don’t wait up for me, I've got a restless mind
♫ Trying to pull ahead,
This right here it's a little road worn
but this is a custom piece made by livid.
As you can see knob, sliders,
and some big arcade buttons and stuff.
This is just a midi controller
that no one else in the world has one like this.
Which is for better or for worse I have it.
This right here is a flight simulator joystick.
One of the game controllers
that I've repurposed and hacked
so it can be a midi controller to control music.
These are all just stock controllers
that are usb or bluetooth.
Can turn whatever signals that are coming into your computer
into something totally different.
It's like some really basic scripting.
♫ I'm looking out every now and then
♫ If I'm leaving my home
♫ I don't know when I'll be back again
♫ So don’t you wait up for me, I'm leaving with the light
This guy right here, my favorite piece of equipment
is called a midi fighter.
It's got some arcade buttons on it which is cool.
The coolest thing about it to me
is that it's got a gyro in it
so you can move things around
and kind of assign how that changes the sound.
The last thing I have is my wheel.
Probably a 15 year old piece of racing hardware.
These are the brains of the operation.
This is a Presonus mixing console
which actually acts as my converters for the computer.
It's two mac minis right there
and that's what connects to all this stuff
to make the magic happen.
♫ I've got a restless mind
♫ So don't you wait up for me, I'm leaving with the light
♫ Don’t wait up for me, I've got a restless mind
These right here are my microphoness or vocals.
One of them is my main vocal mic.
The other one I have it on effects.
My main microphones runs through an analog preamp,
a Neve 1073.
If anybody's an audio nerd
they would know that all your favorite albums
have been recorded through a 1073.
Everybody from Nirvana to Tom Petty to me.
♫ I've got a restless mind
I'm Robert Delong.
I just played my tune Don't Wait Up here for Wired.
Hope you like it.
Starring: Robert DeLong
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