The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

[AndrewB]

I decided to listen to this album yesterday... and goddamn. I'm blown away by the whole mix. Everything is clear and defined. The guitar sound is simply incredible.

Does anyone have any info about how this was tracked/mixed? I seem to remember hearing that Butch and Billy used an unholy amount of guitar tracks, and it certainly sounds like it, but I have no idea how one would go about mixing all those tracks together.

 

[hogan666]

Maybe this could help:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-butch-vig/398145-1993-smashing-pumpkins-siamese-dream.html

I remind reading that Billy used a lot of Ehx Big Muff.

Still love this Album. It's one of the albums I listened the most beeing 15 Years old.
Good times.

Cheers

 

[SentencedToBurn]

big muff, jimmy chamberlin, butch vig. hard to sound bad

 

[Sloan]

also i think corgan was very fond of the fender blender.
see also 'creamy dreamer'

 

[raisedfist]

Second the fender blender. That pedal was the 90s - Smashin Pumpkins and Weezer blue album. GAS

 

[bryan_kilco]

Amazing album, one of my all time favorites. Every single time I hear any track off this album, it brings me back to being 15 years old, smoking pot, playing guitar, and this sort of time-less feeling....like it will forever have a special place in my heart for some reason.

I heard they did 40+ guitar tracks on the song "Soma", but not all playing simultaneously.

 

[The spark]

Wasnt there a fair helping of Marshall JMP1 on that album? And ADA MP1 on Gish?

 

[Star Ark]

That was the best time for recorded music. So much money and time for the artists to make huge sounding albums

 

[bryan_kilco]

http://www.spfc.org/band/equipment.html

 

[dale_a_smith]

http://www.spfc.org/band/equipment.html

haha.. That list for Billy Corgan is pretty much no use at all for anyone wanting to sound like Smashing Pumpkins. Its just a list of all the best music gear ever produced..

 

[bryan_kilco]

Right? haha

Also, slightly off topic, but......wtf ever happened to SP? They released crap after Mellon Collie and then reunited with a different chick bassist and no James Iha? Then....poof, gone again?

 

[SentencedToBurn]

Right? haha

Also, slightly off topic, but......wtf ever happened to SP? They released crap after Mellon Collie and then reunited with a different chick bassist and no James Iha? Then....poof, gone again?

you should probably read up on billy corgan from the break up of Zwan forward. He has been a head case pretty much. and the break up of Zwan (which had at least a couple members of SP, Iha and chamberlin i think) was not pretty.

 

[badmotor]

I seem to remember him saying that he used his big muff into his JCM800 with KT77 tubes alot on that album.

 

[bryan_kilco]

you should probably read up on billy corgan from the break up of Zwan forward. He has been a head case pretty much. and the break up of Zwan (which had at least a couple members of SP, Iha and chamberlin i think) was not pretty.

I had that Viewphoria dvd(actually, I owned the VHS) and I seem to recall the rest of the band seeming a bit weird in that. Almost like, pissed, because Billy was sort of the "boss" and didn't he retrack all James's and D'Arcy's parts for Siamese Dream himself?

 

[AndrewB]

I had that Viewphoria dvd(actually, I owned the VHS) and I seem to recall the rest of the band seeming a bit weird in that. Almost like, pissed, because Billy was sort of the "boss" and didn't he retrack all James's and D'Arcy's parts for Siamese Dream himself?

Yeah, I think he did guitar and bass for their first two albums.

 

[colonel kurtz]

Right? haha

Also, slightly off topic, but......wtf ever happened to SP? They released crap after Mellon Collie and then reunited with a different chick bassist and no James Iha? Then....poof, gone again?

dudes are back together and just dropped an album like 2 weeks ago!

 

[badmotor]

Back together as in 'Billy got some more ring-ins to join him'.

 

[Trevor Marks]

I still think Melloncollie is the best rock album ever recorded. Soo good

 

[crillemannen]

Such a crappy band. Call that singing?? Must be one of the most overrated bands ever. Gonna check out this album for the production though. Was fun reading over at GS, pretty ambitious to say the least haha

 

[Machinated]

:O?!

give them time man, they are fucking awesome. mellon collie is such an incredible album. + alan moulder and flood involved.