Dave Mech live @ Club Basis full set

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Hey gang, hope you’re doing well.

Here’s a brand new live performance I recorded at club basis in my home town. On SoundCloud you can listen to the full set and on YouTube I uploaded part of it.

Dave Mech live at Club Basis Utrecht 2025

Hope you enjoy this one. 13th of December I play at about blank Berlin again. Maybe see some of you there ?

And let me know if you’ve any questions about the set / setup. Happy to answer them.

Cheers

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nice and consistent set! :+1:

my questions:

  • what are the tasks of the DT1 and DT2? which one has more priority/importance?

  • how do you clock all the machines?

  • what do you control with the faderfox?

  • where ist oto boum located in the chain?

  • how many channels are used on the dj mixer?

  • is there any use of the analog fx on the syntakt for external input processing?

  • do you work with any external send effects/pedals?

  • whats your gainstaging approach on the elektron boxes?

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Thanks!

Both more or less equal. The Elektron boxes each have self contained grooves / patterns in them. I arrange live , mix and morph and I layer stuff together from each of them. As a side note, I didn’t use syntakt much in this set.

Syntakt is the master clock in this set. From the top of my head: ST clock to midi merger. PC4 to midi merger. Midi merger out to DN2 and DT2 1, DN2 midi thru to DT2 2.

Mod matrices of both DT2’s and DN2. This gives me nice macro controls for each pattern

Mixer out goes through boum which is used in parallel (dry/wet mix at about 10 o’clock). Boum out goes to IMC. IMC out goes to venue’s (stage) mixer.

All of them. The return channels are used for the microcosm and OTO bam. The elektrons have their own channel. This gives me a lot of control of the overal sound through EQing and the summing of this mixer is really really lovely.

Nope. I use the FX block as a sound design tool for grooves made within Syntakt. It’s really a vital part of what makes syntakt so interesting to me.

Yes, the Microcosm and OTO Bam are used for the aux sends on the mixer.

This requires quite an elaborate answer., but in short I make sure that each elektron’s output is the same and the patterns within each elektron as well. This way I can focus completely on arrangement and blending stuff together through playing with faders and the EQ, and of course controling whatever I want on the elektron instruments themselves and the macro controls on pc4. I mostly use EQ on the mixer to make sure multiple spectral bands can blend together nicely. The Boum and IMC squence and saturate to glue everything together after that.

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