Periphery gets props from Guitar Edge magazine

[iekobrid]

" Hey Friends!

With the holiday season upon us, the Guitar Edge staff thought it would be appropriate to give the gift of guitar goodness. What is that, you ask? Guitar goodness involves an enormous selection of guitar tab, top artist interviews and more gear information than you can shake a stick at.

We hope you enjoy this week’s edition of Guitar Xtra. Also this week, we bring you an exclusive Guitar Edge video from Periphery — the band behind one of the most anticipated debut albums in a very long time. The guys run you through their amazing gear and show you why three guitarists are better than two.

\m/ Rock On!
-Guitar Edge[.com] "

 

[Ola Englund]

awesome, they totally deserve it!

 

[Metaltastic]

Finally, someone who realizes it's TC Electronic, not Electronics Cool vid, really interesting compressor/dual noise-gate setup - I never thought of it, but it seems to work great! Gotta say, Misha and Alex's tones both sound pretty scratchy to me (can't say about Jake, since he doesn't play solo'ed), though I'm guessing since this is from the camera mic it's hardly a fair way to judge it. And goddamn they're tight, seriously impressive

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

AWESOME!

 

[Ermz]

I love the tightness. Wonder if Bulb performance nazi'd them. It's good to hear an act that can actually play well of their own accord. Rather uncommon in the real world.

 

[Erkan]

I didn't really understand the compressor/dual noise gate thing. Anyone care to explain that? It sounds useful and maybe it's possible to set it up in your DAW with a few plugins! Seemed to work very well.

 

[Metaltastic]

The idea is basically to make the dynamic range of the guitar signal smaller so the cutoff point of the noise gate can be set higher and faster without killing sustain, and it seems to work! However, they use the Axe-FX for recording, right? Am I the only one who thinks it's a little backwards to use a digital modeler for recording, and massive, complex, power-hungry, and probably less reliable tube/MIDI FX rigs for live playing?

 

[Ermz]

No, I thought the very same thing. Seems entirely counter-intuitive, but perhaps it's about maintaining an image? Most of the guitarists I know with racks of that kind are trying to make a statement beyond just tone...

 

[TheDude]

No, I thought the very same thing. Seems entirely counter-intuitive, but perhaps it's about maintaining an image? Most of the guitarists I know with racks of that kind are trying to make a statement beyond just tone...

Yep. Probably. Also it might be depending on the venues they play, with insufficient monitoring and such. Nice video though.

 

[Metaltastic]

That's a hell of an investment for image, and if monitoring were a concern, they could always do the AxeFX-power amp-cab route...

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Jake's rig is fuckin awesome. I got to fuck around with the TC electronic board that he has and the thing is like a fuckin spaceship.

 

[egan.]

That's a hell of an investment for image

Not to imply that they are undeserving, but what i thought when I watched the vid is "Money doesn't seem to be an issue for this band."

 

[DominikJW]

Wow they played that riff from "Not Enough Mana" at the end, thats like one of my most favourite riffs of all time! Yay

 

[Metaltastic]

Not to imply that they are undeserving, but what i thought when I watched the vid is "Money doesn't seem to be an issue for this band."

Haha, yeah, it's not only investment I was thinking of, but also the complexity and thus unreliability - but hey, I guess it clearly works for them!

 

[JeffTD]

It's not an image thing, it's a tone thing - they're recording the album an apt; I'm sure if they had the means to, they'd record the real rigs - they sound fucking MASSIVE live.

Not sure about the other guys, but I know Jake has a bit of a hookup at Mesa/Boogie, among other places, considering who his uncle is.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

dcool vid. didn't know Van Damme was in Periphery though

 

[AudioPhile777]

Anyone know if/where there is a thread that Misha goes in depth about his clean tones?

Or just details would be awesome too... I fail at searching so I bookmark all relevant info as I come across it. =)

...yeah...

 

[joeymusicguy]

guy on the left does a little head shimmy on the last example

kind of funny haha

 

[KeithTidd]

i figure they use the amps live because they can crank them. The axe fx are better suited in a quiet apartment.

 

[Manicompression]

guy on the left does a little head shimmy on the last example

kind of funny haha

saw that too!! cracked me up, i was waiting for the robot to come next. These dudes are seriously tight. Who is Jakes well connected uncle ??