Walking Through Weval's Live Setup

Looking over an established artists live setup is always an intriguing experience - and these rig run downs always shine new light (often emanating from a discoball) on live performance. Weval are an electronic duo from Amsterdam, made up of Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers - who each have their own station within the live setup, which is powered by Ableton Live. Find out how it's hooked up - featuring a Neuzeit DROP and UDO Super Six - here, more details below... 

Weval's analog and digital array enables Harm and Merijn to bounce improvised ideas off each other in their sets, with Live as the brain that links it all together.

00:00 - Intro 00:17 - Harm's Setup 01:43 - Live looping 03:13 - Drum machine clock from Ableton Live 04:17 - Synths & MIDI 05:08 - Audio routing 05:31 - Developing the live show over the years 06:54 - Session View or Arrangement View? 07:47 - A live show inspired by house parties 09:05 - Secret microphone 10:20 - Merijn's Setup 13:15 - Controller mapping 16:42 - Merijn's demo of setup 18:09 - What's the Weval signature sound? 19:55 - Unpredictability, control & experimentation 20:34 - The most important button 21:08 - Outro

Our most recent rig run down is with AK/DK straight after their performance at the Brighton Festival:

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Weval website: https://weval.net/

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