Against the Clock is a series on FACT TV where we give an artist 10 minutes in the studio and see what they come up with. You can watch all the past episodes here.
This time, it’s the turn of Boy 8-Bit. Since debuting in 2005, the London-based musician has released on Mad Decent, Studio !K7, Turbo and more, applying his sample-based approach to electro, techno and more. For his Against the Clock, Boy 8-Bit asked his fans what he should base his track around, and the answer was, er, a pan-pipe cover of the Moonpig jingle.
Even better: Boy 8-Bit’s giving out the mp3 of what he made, and the FL Studio project file so that viewers can add to it themselves. You can grab those here and here.
Some notes from Boy 8-Bit:
The project was made with FL Studio 11.0.3.
Plugins used in the extended project (All free):
Tromine Z – A 909 Style kick added to layer up the drums a bit:
http://marvinpavilion.ojaru.jp/en/sound/vst.html Togu Audio Line Tal Reverb 2, 3 and Tal Dub 2 – Fantastic stock effects (PC & Mac):
http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products/tal-dub
http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products/tal-reverb Camel Crusher – Free saturation plugin, used to fill out a few sounds
http://www.camelaudio.com/camelcrusher.php GMulti – For mono-ing sub (Doesn’t affect sound)
http://www.gvst.co.uk/gmulti.htm Voxengo Span – Great Spectrum Analyser, doesn’t affect sound
http://www.voxengo.com/product/span/
