Anyone got any info on the production on Pornograffitti?

[Mattayus]

For an album released in 1990, that tone is fucking ridiculous. It's so clear and crisp, raspy and aggressive, but creamy and smooth on the leads too. Anyone got any info on Nuno's chain back then? I think he was rockin the TriAxis for a while but I dunno about back in the 90's (was the Triaxis even about back then?).

Anyway, sick album, about one of the only things classed as 'hair metal' that I can get on with Extreme and Winger! Love'em

 

[Flat Fifth Fury]

That was his Washburn N4 into an ADA MP1 with a Macintosh tube poweramp. Not sure of the speaker cab but that was the standard rig that Michael Wagener plugged everyone through at that time including Skid Row and White Lion.

 

[crillemannen]

Check over at Gearslutz, i know i read quite allot about that cd in some thread there

 

[Notuern]

ADA MP-1 baby! :Smokedev:

The setup for the guitar sound for the EXTREME sessions as well as the first SkidRow album and White Lion's "Pride" album (in most cases, not on all tracks) was a Furman PEQ-3 into an unmodified ADA MP-1 (version 1.0, still got it) going into a McIntosh transistor poweramps (2100) into an original Marshall cab with 4x G12H (30W). The mics were, if I remember it right: Fostex M11RP Ribbon, Countryman lavalier and possibly a SM57/58 going into John Hardy M-1s and from there via a mono buss into a UREI 530 EQ and a BBE 802 then to digital tape (Mitsubishi 32 tack) Most of the sound came out of Nuno's hands, though

 

[Mattayus]

Holy Christ. Thanks dudes! It really is a sick sick tone, I'm really digging tones like this lately, even for really heavy stuff. I'm starting to favour clarity and definition over heaviness and "size" per se.

 

[MetalJonesy]

He-Man woman hater.... what a riffff!!!

 

[phatfil]

He-Man woman hater.... what a riffff!!!

no doubt man! my fav track on the cd. they're all good, though. i put some serious mileage on the tape when it came out.

Nuno is a fuckin' awesome player. i'm sure a major part of that tone is his excellent technique.

 

[dale_a_smith]

^^^^^^ +1

Nuno is an insanely good guitarist, and the N4 is a great looking/sounding guitar.

love that album..

 

[Notuern]

He-Man woman hater.... what a riffff!!!

Fuck you.. now i have to learn that god damn song.

 

[guitarguru777]

N4 + ADA MP1 it was the Michael Wagener staple in the late 80s early 90s. I seriously think the ONLY band he did without that thing then was Stryper.

 

[guitarguru777]

He-Man woman hater.... what a riffff!!!

+10000 first sone I learned off that CD. Those little legato / muted rolls witht he left hand are such a bitch!

 

[ahjteam]

 

[ahjteam]

Fuck you.. now i have to learn that god damn song.

http://www.911tabs.com/tabs/e/extreme/he_man_woman_hater_tab.htm

N4 + ADA MP1 it was the Michael Wagener staple in the late 80s early 90s. I seriously think the ONLY band he did without that thing then was Stryper.

Master of Puppets (edit: I take it back, he only mixed it)

 

[Notuern]

http://www.911tabs.com/tabs/e/extreme/he_man_woman_hater_tab.htm

Thanks, but no thanks.
Never read a tab in my life, and i never will.

 

[Djabthrash]

Anybody listened to the Rebel Meets Rebel album (with Dimebag, Vinnie, Rex) ?

It reminds me a lot of the Pornograffiti album, both songwise (especially the riffing) and production-wise (guitar tone, big reverbey drums, ...), just in a more modern and redneck/cowboy-ish way.

Also i feel that some of the Suicidal Tendencies albums (esp. when Trujilo joined and had his funk influences) have a similar vibe in terms of playing/production.

Well i guess that's what people refer to as "funk metal".

 

[ahjteam]

Never read a tab in my life, and i never will.

the guitar pro tabs also have notation

 

[guitarguru777]

Just posted this in the "80s guitar sound thread"

and here is the info on Nunos tone on Pronografittit which to me is the the shit! Best tone to come out of the hair metal genre!
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-...s-guitars.html

 

[ahjteam]

the link is broken, here are the fixed ones:

All the Stryper albums from Soldiers on were MarkII C+ with a MXR 10 Band EQ as a Boost. Y&B Attack was a 100w Marshall

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/57550-question-michael-wagener-guitar-stryper-albums.html

The real trick to Michael Wageners tones back then was this:
http://www.coutant.org/m11rp/index.html

and here is the info on Nunos tone on Pronografittit which to me is the the shit! Best tone to come out of the hair metal genre!
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/51393-q-michael-wagner-about-nuno-bs-guitars.html

edit: and the broken link that wagener linked to as fixed is http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/16642-extreme-pornograffitti.html

 

[ahjteam]

btw, has anyone made a MP1 emulator?

 

[MetalJonesy]

Fuck you.. now i have to learn that god damn song.