BLAZE

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

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As Live As It Gets / Blood And Belief / Silicon Messiah / Blaze

 

[dill_the_devil]

I've been listening to As Live As It Gets at work for the last couple of days, and a question occured to me - when mixing live albums, is the crowd noise compressed/EQ'd/panned or anything?

 

[kev]

Is Blaze really the Messiah!

 

[kaomao]

yep it is!

 

[kaomao]

Blaze fan no 1
His Maiden era sucked a lot, but I love everything he has done as a solo artist!
He put so much love into what he does, even when performing in front of 50 persons as happened a lot of times over here.
I may say that andy duties made his records really shine!

 

[grimace]

Silicon Messiah is one of my favorite albums.

I think his maiden days are a bit shoddy because harris was writing all these songs like "verse chorus verse chorus chorus chorus chorus chorus bass solo chorus chorus." Some of that X factor and Virtual XI seemed to drag on and on.

But Messiah really leveled me when I first heard it!

 

[kev]

I really dont think that Blaze sucked in Maiden. Although it was a very different slant on Maiden i did actually enjoy it heaps, and I'm an enormous Maiden fan! Something else funny, the first maiden album i heard was actually Virtual XI and it's what got me into them! Then no. beast came and i was quite blown away

 

[Machinated]

Only just got round to checking some of these out, pretty hard to find! Really fucking awesome production on these CD's.

 

[Caveman Ninja]

Silicon Messiah was my first experience of Andy Sneap... I like all the Blaze albums a lot, especially Tenth Dimension.

 

[kev]

Andy if you're ever bored, can you recall any juicy nuggets of info surrounding the time recording with Blaze?

 

[CLParrish]

just wondering what mic, pre, and comp you used for the blaze recordings. thanks.

 

[aramism]

this is the most random thing but i totally remember hearing "hollow head" very late at night on a local radio station (eddie trunk rocks) and i was like whoa this sounds so cool. it was one of the first times ever i noticed production value. i found some stuff online, heard about andy sneap and then found blaze, and subsequently, arch enemy online. the rest is history as it lead me to start listening for production, and eventually changed my life and inspired me to start doing what i do.

 

[kev]

Listening to silicon messiah again lately. Marshalls?

 

[slaven22]

Listening to silicon messiah again lately. Marshalls?

As I remember from other threads, all Blaze albums are Mesa boogie dr(those that Sneap mixed).

 

[kev]

As I remember from other threads, all Blaze albums are Mesa boogie dr(those that Sneap mixed).

Cheers man!

 

[Firaxis]

I always thought Blood and Belief was XXX, sure Andy has said it somewhere.

 

[slaven22]

I always thought Blood and Belief was XXX, sure Andy has said it somewhere.

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/andy-sneap/234283-blaze-blood-belief-guitar-tone.html


Here, Andy says it was boogie.

Well, this thread was on my mind, but I see now, he didn't mention other 2 albums.

 

[Diego Rugiero]

I'm listening Silicon Messiah right now, very good tunes and Andy did a great work as well.