Studio Favorites: Appolo Noir

Apollo Noir is a French producer, mixing engineer and live performer known for his cinematic blend of post-rave alternative electronic music and sharp sound design. Since his 2017 debut album A/N on Tigersushi Records, he released several solo albums, collaborated with many artists and founded recording studio "Studios Noirs". Winner of the Inouïs du Printemps de Bourges and member of SHAPE Platform, he continues to push boundaries through live shows including new collab with visual artist Saou TV and creating immersives sound piece for NIKE during Paris 2024 Olympics.

Bliss Tides

“This is Tides from a French company called Bliss.It's a multi delay effects processing machine, which is very, very nice and unique.You can go from subtle things to crazy deep effects, Otakarish style for sound design.It's an amazing tool.As you can see, that's very easy.There are plenty of, uh, very cool presets in there.”

Squarp Instruments - Hapax

“Here is my drum track.It's super easy, it's super fun, super convenient, easy to transport.That's it.”

FabFilter - Saturn 2

“This is Saturn 2 from FabFilter.It's an overdrive distortion multi-effects unit.It's very nice to use on a single instrument or a mix bus to add some warmth, but also to do crazy effects, multi, uh, filtering with the LFO.It's very nice for electronic music, but all kind of genre I think.I use it most of the time of, on every project I produce.”

Slate & Ash - Cycles

“A VST from Slate and Ash called Cycles.It's so easy to use and very nice sounding.You can sample your own stuff very easily and turn it into real mixed stuff or, uh, into more granular, um, kind of processing effects.It's so easy to use, very satisfying.It sounds super cool.The effects are wonderful.It's a unique and very inspiring tool to use.”

Soundgas - 636E2

“It's a stereo preamp from Soundgas 636E2.It sounds gorgeous on everything.I use it everywhere from a single track to a complete mix bus.You can go from very subtle to extreme overdriven signals.It's gorgeous.I love it.”