every week every now and then, i answer some questions.

Anonymous asks:

I was just wanting to know whether you can buy the shirt with the waterfalls print on it. Cheers

you asked for it, you got it.

now available in a range of colours, styles and sizes at my redbubble store. only $35 australian, plus postage. redbubble is a design-your-own online t-shirt store, and i’m reassured by the fact that (i think) they are based in collingwood. thanks to leigh for the hot tip.

i’m gonna be adding more designs in the next few weeks – i’ve got a lot of odds and ends around that might make good t-shirt designs, if you’ve ever seen anything i’ve doodled, drawn, assembled, and wanted it on a t-shirt, make a request. no worries.

Lee asks:

hey just curious do you use much in the way of analog synths? are you using glockenspiel in chasing waterfalls?

all the synths i use are virtual, they are all ‘in the box’ ie on my computer. i don’t own any analog synths, which often surprises people. my dad had a yamaha dx7 and a dodgy casio, which i spent some time with as a kid, but i don’t use them now. when i say “spent time with as a kid”, i don’t mean i was like a child dx7 prodigy – what i mean is, there’s a VHS somewhere of me as a 5 year old wearing big sunglasses and miming to the hot new single “money for nothing.” that was around the extent of my involvement with my dad’s “music room”.

i am a software kind of guy. some people are gear fetishists, they want the hardware – to them i say, good luck with that. my studio is in my lounge room and my bank account is always close to empty so… its probably for the best that i’m not a gear nerd.

primarily, in terms of virtual synths, i use ableton live’s inbuilt synthesisers, and also the arturia moog modular v which is a really fun and pretty authentic moog emulator. plus a whole raft of plugins and effects to warp and change the sound, obviously. i mostly use ableton’s native plugins. lots of EQ, reverb, and ping pong delays.

oh yes. glockenspiel on chasing waterfalls. i’m curious to know where you think you can hear the glock??

send your questions to asktim@iamfauxpas.com. i’ll quote your first name on the blog unless you request anonymity.