Boss GT-3 question for Blackheim

jptk said:
Ill spend as much as it takes in order to get the sound I want. It can be hard to find that sound because music shops dont like me going in and trying out every amp they have and still not buy anything:D
Thanks for the link
35 years old!? Thats serious stuff. Ive never heard of an amp lasting so long
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Yeah, 35 something years. Very serious stuff. Mesa Boogie and Fender amps probably also can live that long. As far as I'm concerned, there's still another 35 years in it. It's all wired and soldered etc. by hand and built like a tank.

Definitely try Matamp out, if you can find a shop stocking them. As you can read on page 2 of this thread, Katatonia play custom-made Matamps. They seem to have a new line which feature more distortion, which they're weak on. But the sound! The sound! The Sound! Glorious sound. And they're loud!
 
Hey anders, I was watching the dvd yesterday and I wanted to ask you what's those white things were on the individual patches? Are they white stickers so you can see them better? I also noticed that Opeth did this a few years back, while also covering the boss logo with a green sticker...

Also, what pick-ups are you using in most of your guitars?
 
For My Sweetheart the Drunk said:
Hey anders, I was watching the dvd yesterday and I wanted to ask you what's those white things were on the individual patches? Are they white stickers so you can see them better? I also noticed that Opeth did this a few years back, while also covering the boss logo with a green sticker...

Also, what pick-ups are you using in most of your guitars?
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yes, the white stickers (they even glow in the dark) on the patches are there to help u find where to stomp as it can be pretty dark on stage (misstakes have been done believe me).

pick-ups... depends on the guitar... my "main" guitar (viper 1000 deluxe) has the EMG 81 and damn what a sharp bite! I have various seymour duncans in the others. i'm gettin a new custom main guitar soon which has a special a pick-up. i'll list this all down in my profile section when the new site is launched.
 
I´ve always been wondering if all of you guys with such nice and expensive equipment use it in the rehearsals room or do you play also at home? In this last case do you use headphones or what? I guess the volume must be quite high to hear what kind of sound you get...and if you live in an apartment..well I guess your neighbours aren´t exactely "happy" if you play guitar all the time...
 
I use a Zoom 606...Not the greatest, but without it I wouldn't be able to do any home recordings :p It's my little preamp :) <3
 
Blakkheim said:
actually, that shit is fukkin kool!
at the time we recorded 'last fair deal gone down', we were still at sunlight studio and they have zero computers and it's all analogue tape recorders
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That's interesting. I haven't thought that they still record to tape. Not that I have someting against it, but the tapes are expensive and can cause a lot of trouble. Cutting and copying is more difficult...
Thanks for that info.
 
Unicorn said:
That's interesting. I haven't thought that they still record to tape. Not that I have someting against it, but the tapes are expensive and can cause a lot of trouble. Cutting and copying is more difficult...
Thanks for that info.
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yeah as if i wasnt hard enuff to cut in tape, sunlight's tape recorder's cut function was also broken, so u couldnt cut in anywhere unless there was a long break. if u punched yerself in, it would create a 1 second glitch. so in a way, i'm proud we went the hard way and did all real takes, playing from start to finish and not copying a not nor a beat on that recording. but i guess that's why we were in there for 6 months too....hahah! thank god for the protools system. no turning back now.

yes, those tapes costed a fortune and they only lasted 60 minz or so... luckily, todays masters (being an external hardrive) are gettin cheaper n cheaper.
 
Blakkheim said:
yeah as if i wasnt hard enuff to cut in tape, sunlight's tape recorder's cut function was also broken, so u couldnt cut in anywhere unless there was a long break. if u punched yerself in, it would create a 1 second glitch. so in a way, i'm proud we went the hard way and did all real takes, playing from start to finish and not copying a not nor a beat on that recording. but i guess that's why we were in there for 6 months too....hahah! thank god for the protools system. no turning back now.

yes, those tapes costed a fortune and they only lasted 60 minz or so... luckily, todays masters (being an external hardrive) are gettin cheaper n cheaper.
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You couldn't even punch in?! That's tough. Does Sunlight wants to go on with this technique?
 
Unicorn said:
You couldn't even punch in?! That's tough. Does Sunlight wants to go on with this technique?
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mr skogsberg was ALLERGIC to computers and anything digital. most of the equipment down there was analogue stuff, and the few bits of digital gear was old and early editions. the whole studio had stopped developing from the late 80's, but man, did skogsberg knew his sound or what...
once i brought down some of our own equipment and he just looked at it and said "yer not gonna use that down here i hope" hahah!
...if sunlight would have catched up with the times and thrown out the non working gear, i think we never would have left the place.
 
hey blakkheim remember this:

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discouraged1 said:
hey blakkheim remember this:

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Haha, yeah this one is more on the bizarre side of experiences rather than bad. This shit goes back to 1996 while we were touring for “Brave Murder Day”.
We arrived at what was addressed on our papers as the venue - a little house out on a huge field with nothing else in sight. We got off the bus went into chill and got served some food and stuff.
The whole place just looked like an apartment or something, like when you were coming home to your old folks. We were like, “hey how long is it to the venue from here?” And they just pointed at a little tiny stage located in what would had to be the "living room" where like two sofas and an armchair could fit and they said “you are gonna play there tonight” and that was just hilarious, because we had to sit on chairs on the stage as u can see!!! So it was like a bizarre half unplugged bar club version. I don’t believe anything was mic’d up because I don’t even remember seeing a PA. Once we started playing people that had showed up from nowhere were just standing there in that little room, and the others that couldn’t fit in there were peaking in from the doorways. Some people even had to stand outside the house and peak inside the windows to get a glimpse.
The last thing I remember before leaving the joint was seeing a tour poster with King Diamond telling he was coming there a while after us. I laughed my ass off...

 
ah ah nice anecdote!
I remember I read about this experience somewhere in an interview with Jonas some years ago...was it in Austria? I´m not sure if I remember well...were you at that concert Dicouraged1?
 
Blakkheim said:
mr skogsberg was ALLERGIC to computers and anything digital. most of the equipment down there was analogue stuff, and the few bits of digital gear was old and early editions. the whole studio had stopped developing from the late 80's, but man, did skogsberg knew his sound or what...
once i brought down some of our own equipment and he just looked at it and said "yer not gonna use that down here i hope" hahah!
...if sunlight would have catched up with the times and thrown out the non working gear, i think we never would have left the place.
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Thanks again for infos. I'm really into recording stuff. :)

So, what I also wanted to know. Do you record the guitars for an album in the studio or could you imagine to record the direct guitar signal at home (maybe after the drums were done) and then re-amp in the studio?
Would save a lot of studiotime...
Keep up the good work.
 
Unicorn said:
Thanks again for infos. I'm really into recording stuff. :)

So, what I also wanted to know. Do you record the guitars for an album in the studio or could you imagine to record the direct guitar signal at home (maybe after the drums were done) and then re-amp in the studio?
Would save a lot of studiotime...
Keep up the good work.
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thats what we did on 'viva emptiness' and 'nightmares made flesh'. its killing the studios but saving our buxx hahah! who could imagine back in the 90's u'd sit and trakk yer own guitars in yer living room via a direct signal and then re-amp them while back down in the studio....rulez!
 
Blakkheim said:
thats what we did on 'viva emptiness' and 'nightmares made flesh'. its killing the studios but saving our buxx hahah! who could imagine back in the 90's u'd sit and trakk yer own guitars in yer living room via a direct signal and then re-amp them while back down in the studio....rulez!
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Did you use a "real" re-amp box?
 
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