Drum processing with Depeche Mode

Kerry Hopwood is the Live Programmer/Musical Director for Depeche Mode. When it comes to staging a live DM show, theres no cutting corners. Kerry puts it simply: We need to use tools that work. In concert, Kerry and Depeche Mode rely on Ableton Live as an integral component of shaping the bands drum sound. In this movie, shot at a concert in Berlins Olympiastadion, Kerry discusses the advantages that Live offers for on-stage sound processing.

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Music

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• Depeche
• Mode
• Ableton
• Live
• Suite
• Kerry
• Hopwood
• Drum
• Drums
• DW
• Olympiastadion
• Berlin
• Effects
• Christian
• Eigner
• Question
• of
• Time

[2ElementHH]

Whats the name of first song?? min 1:05

[AbletonInc]

@2ElementHH "A Question of Time". You can find it on the album, Black Celebration.

[hatala1]

I was the pilot that carried all the Depeche Mode gear for the 6 shows of the South American portion of the Tour of The Universe. I met Kerry and spent some time talking to him. Very nice, genuine and humble fellow. I spent lots of time talking with Christian Eigner as well, he is a great drummer and very nice person. We talked a lot about drumming and his own music since I am also a drummer. Good peoples.

[dougstermw]

very clever stuff, i saw them in glasgow secc in dec '09 and christian is an amazing drummer.

[Xhumedcorpse]

Used to go to ITeC collage (London road, Gravesend) with Kerry, who was always pleasant 6 humourous. Great to see he has a great job!!!

[tatsareover]

@TheAnanda9new nice one...that would be something really amazing...lets sabotage the comps then...

[TheAnanda9new]

@tatsareover Maybe than... they (DM) have Plan B:"Singing UNPLUGGED" (for a while) with the Crowd! I guess real DM Fellows will keep this (special) moment longer in their minds than other Gigs ... who knows ?!

[tatsareover]

@Copiophonica i see....i thought the drummer was a machine too.....:P

[Copiophonica]

@tatsareover The other computers they had there were probably back ups just for that situation. there is still a live drummer though, they could definitely carry on without the subtle electronic filters on the drums :P

[tatsareover]

i wonder...what about if in the middle of the concert the computer crack down like mine?????

[Moforize]

nice to see the extent to which Live can be used! I have to say I personally think the inbuilt effects are generally quite poor and wondering why they do not use something like a few waves plug ins going through ableton to enhance the drums?

[mistara1]

@depeshak06 I'm sorry, but maybe you are right. Alan Wilder is amazing musician. He is amazing drummer too. The drums in Devotional is in my opinion the best sounding live drums in history. Every snare is so deep. The punch is amazing, every beat is at it's place, nothing unnecessarry.

[theHackerOfMayhem]

@anokah i mean both in compination,as software based instruments,work perfect and sound perfect, too. (: a friend use cubase 5 which is awesome also.Im not so familiar with vstI's btw..

[anokah]

@theHackerOfMayhem What the hell does Cubase 4 have to do with audio quality? The UFX is sweet though :P