Shuttle Run ‘Contact’ Music Video Features Synth-Controlled Spaceship

Collin James Diederich of Shuttle Run shared their music video for Contact.

The sci-fi themed video features a space station set, with controls that may look very familiar to Synthtopia readers!

Here’s what Diederich told us about it:

The command council in the video was made by our band member Steven Stoll and we used our instruments built into it as a set piece. It features a BeatStrep pro, DrumBrute, Modular, Dark Time, QuNexus.

The screens in the command station displayed video created with an LZX video synthesizer, an oscilloscope, video mixer, and a camera. We used tracks of the song as a way to modulate the LZX and have parts that could sync up to the song.

The command console was suspended from the ceiling – that would have been the end of the band if that fell!

He adds that the track was recorded independently of the video, but was done as a live take, with minimal overdubs, because they wanted it to represent how they perform it live.

Technical Details:

Diederich shared these details about the production of the song:

Sandra Yau = Vocals
Oktava 219 into a Avalon 737 with an effects loop out to a Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man. There was also a spring reverb involved in the mix.

Kahuna Smalls = Bass
Fender Jazz Bass D.I. through Avalon preamp.

Steven Stoll = Guitar/Keys/Backing Vocals
Fender Rhodes Seventy-three clean through a 70’s Traynor 18” bass amp. Fender telecaster running through vox stomplab 1G amp modeler, fulltone overdrive, way huge echo-puss analog delay, and fulltone 2B boost. Sequential Prophet-6 for 4:12 to end of song.

Collin Diederich = Modular, Percussion, Keys
6U modular creating a synth line and all percussion sounds sequenced with an Arturia BeatStep Pro and a Keith McMillen QuNexus for live transposing. Pedal board consisting of: 2 Moog MF-104m, Electro-Harmonix Small Stone, Ibanez Flanger FL5, Eventide Space. Sequential Prophet-6 for synth.

7 thoughts on “Shuttle Run ‘Contact’ Music Video Features Synth-Controlled Spaceship

    1. Thats an impressive set, especially as an indie/diy project.

      Are you going to keep a rig set up like that? It actually looks like a fun setup for jamming together, and getting into the mindset for what you’re doing.

      1. Unfortunately we had to take it down. We built this in a wood shop studio living space. We had this up all summer with 2 of the band members living in the same place with no where to live for the summer.

  1. The show Dark Matter used Launchpads as starship controls 🙂 And Star Trek Enterprise (however terrible that series may be) had some DJ mixers as part of the starship (the kind with the graphic EQ instead of 3 band).

    WE ARE THE FUTORE

  2. Great stuff. I hope some of the designers get to see this really creative use.

    If Diederich could work out the rigging, that thing would would look great on stage. Especially if the band was on a rotating platform. 🙂

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