- Hello.
I'm doing a bit of a different video today because I'm
still pretty tired from Friday.
I know it doesn't seem like a lot.
People tour and do shows bigger than that
consecutive days for like two months,
and I just did one night I'm like, "Who am I?"
It's something very new for me,
so I'm still kind of
I guess recovering from that.
It was a lot.
It was, everyone was, it amazing,
but there was so much energy,
everyone was so nice to me.
If you didn't know what I'm talking about
I had my first headline on the 4th of May
and it was soldout, and everyone there was so nice to me.
And as soon as I came out everyone was so excited
and everyone was singing along,
and I was really nervous beforehand but
as soon as I got on stage everyone was so kind to me
and I felt immediately calm
and comfortable.
So it was so cool, I'm still exhausted,
but I'm very excited, and ready to do it all over again
in Manchester.
So I don't really have much energy or motivation
to make a mail video or work on a song or something
'cause I just wanna sleep, and nap, and kiss my cat,
so this is like a "studio tour".
I don't know if you can really call this a studio
it's just the corner of my room,
but I've seen a few comments from people who are curious
about what my setup's like.
It's really very simple, I don't have a lot.
I think, shhhh, I have the bare minimum of what I would need
in order to make the kind of music I make,
but it works for me, so, if anyone's worried like
"Aaah, I can't make my own music,
I don't have a million Pounds to buy all this equipment,"
you really don't need anything really big and fancy
in order to make good tunes.
And this isn't even the bare minimum I think.
You can make some good songs with just voice memos
on your phone, and Windows Movie Maker.
You could try, I guess.
But yeah so, this is my setup if anyone's interested.
I'mma leave the details of everything that I've mentioned
in the description.
Enjoy!
Hi. Welcome to Cavetown's studio tour.
As you can see here I have two desks.
One is for my laptop basically,
and anything I need to write down I've used that
to lean on it.
The other one has my speakers and all my equipment
that I don't wanna get in my way.
Right, let's start with the second one
that I mentioned just now.
This right here is my audio interface.
It's a Roland Duo-Captuer EX.
It sounds like a Pokemon card.
It has two inputs and I use it record my electric guitar
and base directly into my software.
Also it's very dusty, I'm sorry.
This is my midi keyboard and you've seen it in
a bunch of videos probably.
It has two octaves on the keyboard part
and some little pads you can use to do beats.
It also has little modulation node and a pitch bend
and a bunch of buttons, I don't know what they do.
This is my little amp.
It's a Yamaha something, I can't remember what exactly
the model is, but it's really good for just playing
in your room, and practicing.
It claims to also be good on stage,
but I've never tried it.
I think this particular amp comes in a few different
varieties, you can get one that's more jazzy, one that's
more clean, one that's more distorted metal sounds.
This one is the clean one.
So it has a bunch of presets, some of which are
a bit more distorted, but most of them are just kind of
clean and mellow and I think it sounds pretty good.
There's also a bunch of effects pre-sets that you can
play around with, reverb and stuff, it's also really dusty,
I don't understand why I didn't clean up
before I filmed this, but,
you're getting the real, raw Cavetown setup right now,
dust an all.
These are my monitors, my dad gave them to me,
they're really old and they're not good.
I don't know anything about them really.
(guitar notes and rumbling)
This is my badger skull that lives on top of my monitor.
I don't actually know if it's actually a badger.
I found it when I was like four,
and then some guy told me it was a badger.
This is my hard drive that lives
on top of the other monitor.
That's it, it's a hard drive.
That's just about it for that desk,
let's move over her to see the other one.
Let's goooo!
This is my laptop, it's a Macbook Pro,
and I just LogicPro 10 to do all of my music.
This is my microphone, it's an Audio Technica 2020-plus
USB microphone; the rubberbands are there because I
actually bought the wrong shock mount and it doesn't fit
so I'm just making do with what I have.
I've used this to record all my vocals and all my guitar,
anything that's acoustic I record with this guy,
and he does a very very good job.
These are my stereo headphones; they're Technics RP-F880.
These are what I've used since the beginning to mix
and master all of my stuff.
I think they sound really good, especially since I looked
them up recently and they're super cheap,
so if you're in the market for some new
stereo headphones whatever, I recommend these.
They're also very comfortable but I somehow managed to
blast out the foam part and the inside.
But they still sound good an they still work so that's cool
They also have a rope wire which I'm a big fan of.
Having a rope wire is really really good 'cause it
stops it from bending and breaking and it lasts
a lot longer so that's a good thing to keep in mind.
This is my pot of picks.
Fig likes to knock them over and play with them at
like five in the morning.
He also likes to stare at my mouse when it's moving around
on the screen and sometimes he tries to catch it.
D'you think that's why they called it a mouse?
'Cause like cats, they catch mice.
This is my pinboard and it has a bunch of pictures and stuff
I've collected over the years 'cause I love memories.
There's also some paintings that I've done on my wall.
This one is of my favorite Animal Crossing character.
This is a box of wires.
This is a bigger box of wires.
I don't know what most of them are for.
This is my sock basket.
This is where I keep my leads.
Fig likes to play with those, too.
These are my pedals and I don't really understand them
but I love them.
Right now I have a looper, reverb, chorus, and a tuner.
This is my cajon and the pedal I have for my cojan
So I can play it while I'm sitting on it.
This is the wall where I hang up all my instruments
(whispers) and my snake.
This is one of my four ukuleles and this is my cat (laughs).
This is my electro-acoustic guitar and I bought it
from my friend, actually one of the band members from Ugly.
I bought it from him.
It's pretty good, it needs fixing,
but that was not his fault.
This is my beautiful bass, that I got for my
16th birthday, I think?
And this is my beautiful Telecaster,
that my parents managed to pull me out of school
to go and pick out.
This is my favorite uke, and it's my favorite for the
sole reason that it has this little fishy guy
on the fretboard.
These are my bongos that I rarely use.
And that's it, that's the end.
Thanks for watching.
I hope that was interesting, or something.
I'm sorry everything is really dusty and nasty.
It's not beautiful.
I don't have a beautiful setup.
It just, everything, it works.
It doesn't need to be beautiful.
Before I go, another big thank you for everyone who came
to the show last Friday.
One of the craziest nights of my entire life.
It feels like it happened right now, like a second ago,
but also feels like it never happened.
I think... I did, I think I did a good job.
I think I did alright.
Yeah.
So I'll see you on the 21st in Manchester
if you're coming to the Deaf Institute.
To everyone who's asking if I'm gonna be meeting people
at any of these shows, yes, all of them.
Unfortunately I wanna say sorry about the last show
in London, we had such a rush at the end because
I didn't realize how long it took me to do my set.
We had like 10 minutes before we had to get out
and the security were getting antsy and people wanted
me out and stuff which is really disappointing,
I really wanted to hang out with everyone,
'cause I hate that kind of thing that you have at
conventions where it's like you line up for like an
hour and then it's like,
"Hi! Take a picture, hug, quick, bye, next person,"
that's just so fake and awful and stressful for
everyone involved.
I hated that, and I never wanted to have to do that,
I'm gonna make sure in the future that we have
a decent enough time for me to have a quick chat
with everyone, rather than just being like,
"picture, bye!".
'Cause it's not just for you to get a picture with me,
it's for me to meet you as well and get to know you,
and I don't really think feel like I managed to do that
very well at this last gig.
We'll I'm gonna try my very best to make sure we have
more time at the end to just hang out, and it's not
gonna be stressful, okay?
I don't want my gigs to ever be stressful.
I hope no one felt stressed on Friday.
Hopefully it was a good wholesome environment
and that's what I'm aiming to achieve every time.
Yes, afterwards at these other shows, hopefully I'll
be at the merch stand, just chatting with people and
signing things if you want and just having a good time.
Just hangin' out.
I don't like to feel more important than you guys. (laughs)
'Cause I'm not.
We're all the same.
If you follow my Twitter and Instagram you'll know that
I had some shows announced in the US for this coming
summer and there was only four, so unfortunately
they all sold out before I even got a chance to mention
it in a video four everyone, but luckily we've added
two more shows, so hopefully those haven't sold out
before I post this video, otherwise I'm gonna be pissed off.
They're both on the west coast, because I already had
three on the east coast,
so we're kinda balancing it out a bit.
I'm gonna be playing on Thursday the 16th of August
in San Francisco at the Bottom of the Hill.
I'm not just playing at the bottom of a hill,
the venue is called Bottom of the Hill,
and it's also at the bottom of a hill,
but I'm not just playing out in a field that's on a hill.
So I was already playing in LA at the Moroccan Lounge
on the 24th of August, we've added another one on the
25th of August, the very next day, the very same place,
Moroccan Lounge, LA, Cavetown is playing there.
So those two shows, tickets are available right now,
there's a little in the description box,
and you can click that, hopefully there's still some
available when I post this.
I'm going to be coming back to the US, don't you worry
about it, I'm gonna be booking some new shows there
very soon, so keep your eyes peeled, your ears peeled,
and your bananas squealed.
(claps) That's all I have to say.
Thank you for watching.
Check out my last video, it's an original song,
some people might not have gotten the notification.
Ugh that's it, thanks.
Goodbye!