Bulb - New heavy song "Light" (Petrucci 7 string, podxt)

[bulb]

Sup dudes

so i after having neglected my EBMM Petrucci 7 string for a while i played it and remembered how awesome it sounded haha, it inspired me to write this little clip, so here ya go!

the song is called "light"
and you can hear it on myspace at
http://www.myspace.com/iambulb
or on soundclick at
http://www.soundclick.com/bulb

enjoy!

 

[Deadstar]

nice tone as usual.. i think rhythm guitars should be more present though

 

[bulb]

haha that can be easily arranged

 

[Deadstar]

Thx god it is huahaha

 

[fuge86]

awesome!!!
can u share some hints about effecting the guitars on pc? I mean, what plugins do u use to make pod sound incredible?

 

[Aaron Smith]

Really awesome dude. I like everything I've ever heard from you and or Periphery, but this song has some parts that I especially like...that slow groovy thing that starts around 0:53 is extremely cool sounding.

 

[Ericlingus]

what do you tune your 7 strings to? Your stuff sounds awesome btw.

 

[Ice Man]

what do you tune your 7 strings to? Your stuff sounds awesome btw.

Sounds like drop Ab to me.

 

[bulb]

thanks a lot guys!

awesome!!!
can u share some hints about effecting the guitars on pc? I mean, what plugins do u use to make pod sound incredible?

honestly dude its just eq, i dont like compression on guitars or anything like that, so its just eqing the guitars to sit well and not fight the drums or the bass, its A LOT of fine tuning mostly and still a work in progress...probably always a work in progress really....

oh yeah and good call IceMan it is Drop Ab indeed!

 

[mintcheerios]

Sounds great.

 

[jauernis]

What are you using for bass (what is your chain)? Also if you are using pod xt for bass sound what settings? Thanks sounds sweet!

 

[bulb]

bass im afraid to admit is fake bass because im lazy, its just a dry clean guitar track pitchshifted an octave down and then some eq to "disguise" it i guess, does the trick though haha!

 

[tongar]

Great stuff as always bulb! I can't believe how HARD you pick those strings, ultratight playing there mate!

 

[KeithRT99]

i really like your rhythmic approaches to each section. I'm dying to hear more of your songs/periphery songs with vocals on them. i have icarus and juggernaut on my mp3 player, constantly having to listen to those 2 songs over and over.

 

[Josh Burgess]

awesome as always... I love your stuff, man. I downloaded absolomb and coldemark and listen to them all the time. might have to download this one too

I'm getting all my recording shit set up soon. About to buy a new desktop PC and I think a presonus firestudio. Drums will be steven slate drums 2.0 and guitars and bass will be direct recorded with the fractal audio axe-fx. We're going to be going for a tech/prog metal thing in the vein of sikth, protest the hero, btbam, etc.... I'm pretty excited.

I might have to try that pitchshifting clean guitar for bass thing... if it sounds good, that'd definitely be easier. heh

 

[Ericlingus]

what pickups do you have in that guitar? The Drop Sonics? I know you use the M7 or 8 pickups. How much do they cost?(just the bridge,not set). How do they compare the EMGs? Do you double track or quad track?

 

[MetallyGuitarded]

That's some great stuff man. Makes me feel like I should go play a cheap acoustic on the street corner... I'm not worthy!

 

[bulb]

what pickups do you have in that guitar? The Drop Sonics? I know you use the M7 or 8 pickups. How much do they cost?(just the bridge,not set). How do they compare the EMGs? Do you double track or quad track?

its the stock pickups but the non d-sonic model, to be quite honest with you the pickups in this guitar are among my favorite ever, up there with the lundgren, the d-sonic series however i was definitely not a fan of.
lundgrens if you can buy them individually are about 200 a pop or so, and they are djentier than emgs and have the passive response which i like.
i double track on recordings.

 

[Ericlingus]

thanks. Have you tried the Dimarzio D activators? I just ordered one for my bridge.

 

[bulb]

yeah i tried it in the Xiphos 6 string, they are high output but they feel like active pickups and werent really the kind of sound i like personally