i'm sure some of you have heard of this band, Anterior. Well, i like the 5150 tone on this one, its on the hi-gain side of things but i was trying to go for something similar recently and was curious on how this was tone was done on the "this age of silence album".
i emailed tim hamill (producer/engineer) for the album, nice guy btw he responded but an hour after i emailed him, was happy to share his experiences and this is the response i got:
"The guitar sound on that album was a Jackson super fin with an EMG humbucker. That went on to a Peavey 5150 Mk I fitted with JJ tubes with a stomp box noise gate in the FX loop (Cant remember what it was but it had a chrome finish and it said 'Decimator' on it!). That was fed to a Marshall 4X12 cab and miked with an SM57 very near the centre of the cone this was used as the main sound. Also mixed in was a Sennheiser 421 at a 90 degree off axis to give a bit of a fullness. I also put up an AKG D112 on the edge of the cone this was used very little for a bit of bass end. All those mics were summed together on an SSL E series board. That went onto a Court 31 band graphic EQ and 2.5K slightly notched out just to remove a bit of the harshness from the tone. The album was recorded on Nuendo (on a Mac) at 44.1K at 24 bit. Sorry it's a bit detailed, but most of the sound came from the amp set up. I can't remember the settings on the amp but the gain was very high!"
so thought i would pass this on for some insight.
i emailed tim hamill (producer/engineer) for the album, nice guy btw he responded but an hour after i emailed him, was happy to share his experiences and this is the response i got:
"The guitar sound on that album was a Jackson super fin with an EMG humbucker. That went on to a Peavey 5150 Mk I fitted with JJ tubes with a stomp box noise gate in the FX loop (Cant remember what it was but it had a chrome finish and it said 'Decimator' on it!). That was fed to a Marshall 4X12 cab and miked with an SM57 very near the centre of the cone this was used as the main sound. Also mixed in was a Sennheiser 421 at a 90 degree off axis to give a bit of a fullness. I also put up an AKG D112 on the edge of the cone this was used very little for a bit of bass end. All those mics were summed together on an SSL E series board. That went onto a Court 31 band graphic EQ and 2.5K slightly notched out just to remove a bit of the harshness from the tone. The album was recorded on Nuendo (on a Mac) at 44.1K at 24 bit. Sorry it's a bit detailed, but most of the sound came from the amp set up. I can't remember the settings on the amp but the gain was very high!"
so thought i would pass this on for some insight.
