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Independent musician Galina Rin of rock band Death Ingloria chats to us about recording and mixing, live streaming, and performing live with the RME Fireface UFX+<\/h3>\n
Galina Rin is an independent musician and sound engineer who performs under the name Death Ingloria<\/a>. Based in Crystal Palace, London, Death Ingloria’s mixed-media approach combines comic books with animated music videos and interactive live streams, using online platforms like Twitch and Facebook to connect with her fanbase.<\/p>\n
Alongside her own music, Rin also mixes FOH for a range of live events and London club nights, and works for the Upper Norwood Library Hub<\/a> as an Events & Tech Co-ordinator, where she teaches other local artists the basics of production and live streaming.<\/p>\n
We sat down with Rin for a big chat about her work as a musician and all things streaming, and found out why she chose the RME Fireface UFX+<\/a> for her studio, live and FOH work.<\/p>\n
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Death Ingloria: Live Streaming and Performing with the RME Fireface UFX+<\/h4>\n<\/iframe>\nSee more videos at <a title=\"Subscribe to the SynthaxTV YouTube channel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=synthaxtv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Synthax TV<\/a><\/p>\n<\/center>\n <\/p>\n<h4>How did you get first into a career in music?<\/h4>\n\u201cAt high school I did everything to become an aircraft engineer in the Navy,\u201d Rin tells us. \u201cI did my GCSE\u2019s based on that and was in the Sea Cadets for 10 years. I also learnt to play guitar at school, and there was a one-year music course at my local, so I thought I\u2019d do that for a year, and then I\u2019d join the Navy. And that ended up going from one year, to two years at college, to three years in a music management degree, to touring with a bunch of different bands, to where we are today!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cSo yeah I ended up doing a degree in Music Industry Management and Live Production. I was living in High Wycombe near London, and there was a music venue at the time called the White Horse, which is where agents would send bands if they were going to play the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk\/\">Underworld in Camden<\/a>. So if they were going to play a London show, they\u2019d play a warm-up gig at the White Horse first. Skindred played there, loads of great bands played there.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI did Kings Of Leon\u2019s first UK show there as the Stage Manager. And our sound engineer got caught in traffic, so I ended up mixing the support band. Afterwards I got talking to King\u2019s Of Leon\u2019s Tour Manager, and I was like \u201cI\u2019m a student, I\u2019ll work for free, do you want a helper?\u201d, and he said \u201cYeah, come on down!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cSo I did the drums setup for XFM, we played Metro Bar on that one. And then when Kings of Leon came back and did their next two European tours, I ended up becoming their Drum Tech.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI worked for various other bands after that. Worked at the O2 as a Facilities Manager. I\u2019d kind of done the degree in order to start a band though! So I was doing all this roadie work, but it\u2019s hard to find the time when you\u2019re already working for another band. So eventually I gave up roadie\u2019ing to focus on my own music.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_YouTube_Still_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_YouTube_Still_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" alt=\"RME_Fireface_UFX+_Death_Ingloria_YouTube_Still_Synthax_Audio_UK\" width=\"351\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_YouTube_Still_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg 1418w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_YouTube_Still_Synthax_Audio_UK-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_YouTube_Still_Synthax_Audio_UK-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_YouTube_Still_Synthax_Audio_UK-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>Death Ingloria \u2013 Rock Music, Comic Books & Animations<\/h4>\n\u201cI\u2019m currently the only person in Death Ingloria,\u201d Rin continues. \u201cThe band has gone through many iterations with other musicians, with a number of different drummers and bass players. Eventually I just decided to do the project on my own, as I didn\u2019t want to have to rely on anyone else anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cSo at that point I knew I was going to be on stage on my own, but I figured me playing guitar and singing along to backing tracks wouldn\u2019t make for a particularly interesting live show.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cSo I started thinking about having something on stage that was video-related or animation-related as well. I actually have contacts with the comic book industry \u2013 my mum used to write for 2000 AD in the late-80s, and was the first female to ever write for them – so I wrote a story around my music, and my mum actually helped me write the script so that it made sense to a comic-book illustrator haha!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe then hired Nigel Dobbyn who has done 2000 AD, Judge Dredd, he\u2019s the official Sonic the Hedgehog comic illustrator, and he did the first comic with us, with <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/creativepool.com\/johntyrell\/about\" href=\"https:\/\/creativepool.com\/johntyrell\/about\">John Hull<\/a> doing the animations.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cEvery album is its own sci-fi story from start to finish, and at the end of every album humanity dies out completely. So I explore \u2018the inglorious ways in which humanity can kill itself\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cEvery page of the comic book has its own song and its own video. So the comic book has QR codes on it, and if you scan the QR code that page becomes the animated music video. So you can be listening to the page \u2018come alive\u2019 in front of you.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThere are also stage projections (for the live show) which are completely separate, so there\u2019s two lots of animations for every song. For each album there\u2019s much more going into it than just the music, as for me the whole \u2018album\u2019 is within the comic book. So you have the stage animations, the comic book and the animated videos alongside the music.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIn total I\u2019ve written the scripts for 7 albums so far. The first album was really to get proof of concept \u2013 can I release a comic book, an animated series and an album together, and will anyone care? And thankfully, enough people seemed to care enough to want to hear the next one, so we\u2019ve got the next one coming out in June 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIn terms of influences, anyone who knows Coheed and Cambria will recognise they\u2019re a huge inspiration. I was a massive fan-girl of them during university, I\u2019ve seen them 19 times and had the belt buckle and the hand bag and everything haha.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Performing_Live_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Performing_Live_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" alt=\"RME_Fireface_UFX+_Death_Ingloria_Performing_Live_Synthax_Audio_UK\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Performing_Live_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Performing_Live_Synthax_Audio_UK-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Performing_Live_Synthax_Audio_UK-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Performing_Live_Synthax_Audio_UK-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Performing live with the RME Fireface UFX+<\/h4>\nFor her audio interface, Rin uses RME’s flagship Fireface UFX+, which she’s ended up using across all aspects of her work in audio – from recording and live streaming, to performing live at venues and festivals, as well as mixing other bands and events around London.<\/p>\n\u201cBecause I\u2019m a one-person band, I have my rack which we call Okami. Okami is actually also a character in the comic book, and is my AI-assistant, and the rest of the band! When I play live I run 10 channels of audio, with everything mixed down to the channels that you\u2019d expect a typical rock band to have. So the snare is separate, kick is separate, drums, keyboard, second guitar, backing vocals \u2013 all of these are on separate channels which I send to the FOH desk, so they can be mixed by the engineer for whichever room we\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">“if you can afford it get an RME, it will never let you down”<\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\u201cI also play animated videos when I perform, and I\u2019ve built my own projection screen for that. It can be made different sizes depending on the size of the stage, and the idea was that it can just fit in amongst any band\u2019s gear. So when I\u2019m playing in a line-up alongside other bands, it only takes 5 minutes to set up and 5 minutes to tear down. I can front-project or rear-project depending on what else is on stage, and it all runs from the Okami rack.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cEverything runs out of Logic Pro including the video, along with changing the guitar patches on an Eleven Rack via MIDI, plus all of the track stems.\u201d<\/p>\n“My mix engineer is <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.jamiekingaudio.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jamiekingaudio.com\/\">Jamie King<\/a> – as much as I’d love to do everything myself, I’m happy go to a specialist when I feel the need, so I have a mix engineer and a mastering engineer who I\u2019ll send stems to. I tend to give Jamie double of everything – a version with all of my guitar sounds and effects on it, as well as a version that\u2019s completely dry. Like chips.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RME-Fireface-UFX-Synthax-Audio-UK.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RME-Fireface-UFX-Synthax-Audio-UK.jpg\" alt=\"RME Fireface UFX+ - Synthax Audio UK\" width=\"501\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RME-Fireface-UFX-Synthax-Audio-UK.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RME-Fireface-UFX-Synthax-Audio-UK-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RME-Fireface-UFX-Synthax-Audio-UK-768x219.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RME-Fireface-UFX-Synthax-Audio-UK-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/rme\/madi-aes\/rme-fireface-ufx-plus\/\">RME Fireface UFX+<\/a>, RME’s flagship 188-channel audio interface with ADAT, MADI, USB 3 and Thunderbolt connectivity.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Live Streaming<\/h4>\nWith the Covid-19 lockdown meaning the closure of venues, festivals and live events, live streaming has boomed in popularity over the last year. And no wonder, with platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitch offering such an easy way for musicians to continue connecting with fans during the lockdown (and beyond), streaming has never been more important or accessible. Having poured a lot of energy into finding ways to keep in touch with her audience through the pandemic, we were keen to get Rin’s thoughts on the subject.<\/p>\n\u201cI found myself in this odd space, because I\u2019d been wanting to live stream more regularly on Twitch since back in 2019,” Rin explains. “And then when the pandemic hit, I found myself in a position where I was ready to go, but I hadn\u2019t really built my audience yet. So I was able to move around different social media platforms, try different things, help other people, and I ended up becoming something of a ‘Live Stream Production Manager’.”<\/p>\n\u201cI now see streaming as a main part of my plan for Death Ingloria, partly because touring is expensive! And as much as I love playing gigs, I also love the interaction with people online, it\u2019s a lot of fun!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">“I\u2019ve used [the Fireface] as my mixing desk for mixing live shows with other bands, I\u2019ve run London club nights with DJ\u2019s from it… …It just provides everything I need”<\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\u201cI do two types of live streams, the first one is acoustic-based and is just me and an acoustic guitar, and that\u2019s 11am every weekday morning on Facebook. So me and the fanbase get together and have some coffee in the mornings, before going off into our respective days.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAnd then the other show that I do is the full rock band show. So I project the animations around me, which I\u2019m currently evolving into a full green-screen environment. I did one for the recent Virtual Anime and Gaming Con on Twitch \u2013 I\u2019ve done a lot of Comic Cons and Virtual Comic Cons – and the Sci-Fi Weekender, when they had their virtual show at the beginning of lockdown. I played the World Sci-Fi Convention in Dublin last year in real life, and I played the New Zealand version of that this year in \u2018virtual life\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Live_Stream_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Live_Stream_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" alt=\"RME_Fireface_UFX+_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Live_Stream_Synthax_Audio_UK\" width=\"351\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Live_Stream_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Live_Stream_Synthax_Audio_UK-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Live_Stream_Synthax_Audio_UK-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Live_Stream_Synthax_Audio_UK-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe real beauty of how I perform live at a gig and how I do my live streams, is that sound-wise it\u2019s exactly the same. I\u2019m using the same stems as I do for the live show, and I was ready to go with good live stream sound probably a lot faster than other bands who were just starting to get into streaming, because I already had all of the stems ready – I was already playing everything on separate tracks as part of my live shows.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cFor streaming I\u2019m using OBS which has been my saviour! It\u2019s free, it\u2019s open source, it\u2019s what all the kids are using. There are paid models like Streamlabs and Stream Elements, but if you put the time in you can do so much with OBS. I have experimented with using Stream Elements to do a few things – there\u2019s a virtual tip jar that people can put money in and it makes noise, sends automated messages, all of those kinds of bells and whistles – although you don\u2019t necessarily need that kind of stuff for a good show.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cA lot of my songs begin life as acoustic versions, which I actually then test out on the streams and get instant, direct feedback from the fans, before evolving them into full pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h4>Advice for new streamers \u2013 should you use multiple platforms?<\/h4>\nAs an accomplished streamer, we asked Rin for any advice she has for those just starting out.<\/p>\n\u201cStart wherever your audience is,\u201d Rin explains. \u201cIf you have loads of followers on Facebook already then that\u2019s probably the best way to go for you. That being said if you use a lot of samples, like if you\u2019re a DJ and playing other people\u2019s music, then don\u2019t use Facebook due to the copyright restrictions!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s also hard to move an audience off from one platform onto another. Twitch is ultimately the better place for music and fan interaction, but you may not have an audience that are likely to use Twitch. Say if you\u2019re a 1970s guitarist and everyone who watches you are people at an older stage in their lives, then Twitch is probably not the best platform for you. So just go wherever your audience is, at least to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26461 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" alt=\"RME_Fireface_UFX+_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Synthax_Audio_UK\" width=\"349\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Synthax_Audio_UK-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Synthax_Audio_UK-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Galina_Rin_Synthax_Audio_UK-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a>\u201cSome things do work better on different platforms though – Instagram Live is great for interviews for example. If you want to interview other bands and stuff like that, Instagram allows you to have two people on the same stream very easily.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe other thing I do as an artist, is keeping the full band shows on Twitch, because I want the fan interaction – allowing the fans to change the lights and change which animations I\u2019m in at the time, things like that. I live stream on Facebook as well, but I don\u2019t want those daily Facebook shows to appear on my full band page. That way when people visit my band page for the first time, they see the full productions and not just the acoustic shows – otherwise they could end up going away thinking that\u2019s what the band is about.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cSo I\u2019m using multiple platforms for that reason, but that\u2019s not necessarily going to be the right move for every musician out there. It\u2019s also difficult because everything changes so fast! This lockdown has been amazing for tech companies \u2013 Instagram has exploded, we all know about Tik Tok, and Facebook has moved fast to try and get the gaming industry to use Facebook more as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAnd then people are now having problems with Twitch, getting DMCA notifications about using copy-written music in their streams, which Twitch never really seemed to do anything to police in the past. And people have lost years worth of streams as a result, so everything has its problems, and the changes can happen very quickly. What was okay yesterday might not be okay tomorrow, so if you\u2019ve never done live streaming, my advice would be to pick a channel and get to know it really well before you move on to other platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Upper_Norwood_Library_Hub_Crystal_Palace_London.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26465 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Upper_Norwood_Library_Hub_Crystal_Palace_London.jpg\" alt=\"Upper_Norwood_Library_Hub_Crystal_Palace_London\" width=\"385\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Upper_Norwood_Library_Hub_Crystal_Palace_London.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Upper_Norwood_Library_Hub_Crystal_Palace_London-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Upper_Norwood_Library_Hub_Crystal_Palace_London-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Upper_Norwood_Library_Hub_Crystal_Palace_London-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a>Teaching Live Streaming at the Upper Norwood Library Hub<\/h4>\nThe Upper Norwood Library Hub in Crystal Palace is the current home of Death Ingloria\u2019s daily live streaming setup. The library runs a variety of community projects, offering education around technology (including live streaming, which Rin heads up), as well as providing an invaluable service during the lockdown to locals, keeping them clued up on which supermarkets had stock of key items!<\/p>\n\u201cBefore the lockdown I was working regularly as an Event Manager, putting on gigs at London nightclubs, as well as doing the sound and lighting for gigs here at the Upper Norwood Library hub. Then the lockdown happened, and so suddenly for me everything became about streaming.”<\/p>\n\u201cWhen the lockdown first happened we had a team meeting, and I walked into the office and said \u2018right, we\u2019re live streaming!\u2019 So on that day we did our first stream – a singing class with a local choir – and from then we\u2019ve had all sorts of community projects on our screen.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIn terms of reliability it\u2019s never failed. And I\u2019ve had it in festivals and dirty venues and all over the shop”<\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had kids reading for other children – children reading children\u2019s books to children! We\u2019ve had people teaching fitness and cooking, we\u2019ve had all sorts. We do a daily show called the library lunch where we bring on people from the local community, and during lockdown we\u2019d tell folks which businesses were open, which supermarkets had eggs and toilet roll in stock, all of that kind of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve also done animations for west end musical performances \u2013 on Halloween we had stars of west end musicals come and do Halloween songs in front of a green screen, and we animated them into rocky horror show surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAnd now we\u2019ve received Arts Council funding to help pay local artists, bringing music as well as poetry to our live stream channel. So we\u2019ve been able to help keep local artists afloat as well, and put some money into new equipment such as a camera and a camera switcher (Blackmagic ATEM mini pro). We\u2019ll also have an assistant position soon, which will be focused on teaching audio and video editing to the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26463 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg\" alt=\"RME_Fireface_UFX+_Death_Ingloria_Synthax_Audio_UK\" width=\"349\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Synthax_Audio_UK.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Synthax_Audio_UK-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Synthax_Audio_UK-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RME_Fireface_UFX_Death_Ingloria_Synthax_Audio_UK-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a>Why RME Audio?<\/h4>\nWith the RME Fireface UFX+ at the heart of Rin’s audio setup, we asked what first led to her choice of interface.<\/p>\n\u201cBack in my Kings of Leon days I met a fella called Mick, he was the guitar tech for Biffy Clyro. And he told me, \u2018if you can afford it get an RME, it will never let you down\u2019. And it\u2019s remained my workhorse since then! Thanks RME!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI think I was lucky that someone told me about RME before I really started putting everything together, because this is essentially the workhorse that built Death Ingloria. I couldn\u2019t have played my own shows without it, and it does everything that I now find myself involved in. I\u2019ve used it as my mixing desk for mixing live shows with other bands, I\u2019ve run London club nights with DJ\u2019s from it, and of course we use it for live streaming here at the library. It just provides everything I need for all these different jobs, and whilst it\u2019s over-specced for my own band\u2019s needs, you really want something you can trust will just work.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIn terms of reliability it\u2019s never failed. And I\u2019ve had it in festivals and dirty venues and all over the shop, and it\u2019s always just worked, it\u2019s been great. Sound-wise I\u2019ve never had any problems – I\u2019ve even had people tell me on live streams that it sounds like there\u2019s a full band playing, but it doesn\u2019t sound like a dodgy live stream band!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h4>Using TotalMix FX for audio mixing and camera latency<\/h4>\nAll RME interfaces and sound cards feature TotalMix, RME’s comprehensive, DSP-based routing and mixing software, offering the same kind of flexibility usually reserved for a hardware console. For her live streams, Rin also told us about an interesting use she’s found for the built-in Delay\/Echo FX section.<\/p>\n“TotalMix is my mixing desk, I use it on every job,” Rin tell us. “I find the reverb is beautiful, and being DSP-based it\u2019s great for live streaming. I use the reverb all day long!”<\/p>\n\u201cBeing able to mix on the same console that you\u2019re controlling all of your streaming elements with is worth its weight in gold. I\u2019ve also used the echo function to get around the latency problems between cameras – when I started off using my camera switcher I needed to run a channel from the UFX straight into the switcher, and that created latency. So the way I worked around that was to use the delay\/echo on TotalMix FX, using only the wet signal at 2ms to combat the latency.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h4>What\u2019s next for Death Ingloria?<\/h4>\n\u201cWe were due to have an augmented reality theatre production for this next album, which would have been out in August, with the show to follow in September. Due to the lockdown that\u2019s obviously not been able to happen though, so the whole album has been put back until June next year, mainly because my mix engineer Jamie has been so busy, he couldn\u2019t give me a new slot until Februrary 2021!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cSo we\u2019ll be releasing the second album next year, but what we\u2019re going to do instead is have me performing inside the comic animations. So I\u2019ll be in a full green screen \u2013 and I promise it won\u2019t be cheesy! And the audience will be able to change the images as they pop up, they\u2019ll be able to interact with the lighting, so essentially we\u2019ll be creating live music videos which will never be the same twice, because the audience gets to pick what things happen and when.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">“The [TotalMix FX] reverb is beautiful, and being DSP-based it\u2019s great for live streaming. I use the reverb all day long!\u201d<\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\u201cSo that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on as Death Ingloria at the moment – we\u2019ve got an app developer for Twitch helping us to do that – so from now and until then we\u2019ll be putting the new album together.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAnd then here at the Upper Norwood Library Hub we\u2019ll be continuing to build up the community live streaming aspect. We also offer \u2018Zoom-desks\u2019 for folks who want to get away from their kids, their dogs and their partners, and have a little peace and quiet on their zoom meetings, we offer all of that as well. We\u2019ve also had the community around us donating technology, including soft boxes and a second green screen, so we\u2019re super busy with lots of community projects!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\nOur thanks to Rin \/ Death Ingloria. To find out more about her work, visit her website at <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.deathingloria.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deathingloria.com\/\">www.deathingloria.com<\/a>, or say hi to her on <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/death_ingloria\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/death_ingloria\">Twitch<\/a>.<\/p>\nTo find out more about the Upper Norwood Library Hub, visit <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.uppernorwoodlibraryhub.org\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uppernorwoodlibraryhub.org\/\">www.uppernorwoodlibraryhub.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nSee the full range of <a title=\"RME Audio Interfaces at Synthax.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/rme\/firewire-usb\/\">RME Audio Interfaces<\/a><\/p>\nSee the full range of <a title=\"RME Audio Soundcards at Synthax.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/rme\/pci-express\/\">RME Audio Soundcards<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6579\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RME-Logo.png\" alt=\"RME-Logo - Synthax Audio UK\" width=\"150\" height=\"29\" \/>If you\u2019d like to know more about any of RME\u2019s audio interfaces, soundcards, AD\/DA Converters or microphone preamps, give us a call on <a>01727 821 870<\/a> to speak to one of our team or to arrange a demo. You can also <a title=\"Get in contact with Synthax Audio UK\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/contact-us\/\">contact us here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body>\n<style>\np { font-size: 110%; } \nhr { margin: 5px 0; }\n<\/style>\n<\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent musician Galina Rin of rock band Death Ingloria chats to us about recording and mixing, live streaming, and performing live with the RME Fireface UFX+ Galina Rin is an independent musician and sound engineer who performs under the name Death Ingloria. 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