The first time I ever met Chris Liebing was at ADE in 2011. The first question I asked him was how Tommy Four Seven designed his kick drums, he told me it’s amazing what you can make with the tap of the table, clearly pointing to advanced sound design techniques. We caught up with him before his show at District 8 in Dublin to discuss sound design, technical set up and how he learned his craft.

Firstly, how did you first get into the technical side of music production and where/how did you learn your craft?

That was back in 1994, about a year after I started solely DJing electronic music and techno. I was very interested in producing my own music, as I thought and still think that creating your own music to play it out was the next logical step after becoming a DJ. So I got together…