Is the e530 used in the songs on your myspace? Sounds greaatt ( songs and production
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The songs on our MySpace are from our debut album
Dark Fiber which you can listen to in its entirety and purchase at
Backmask.com. We recorded the album in 2006, and the guitars were quad tracked through my 6505+ head into my Mesa 4x12 cabinet, with an Audix i5 mic and a Neve 1081 pre. I didn't have the ENGL yet and wasn't doing impulse stuff yet at that point.
For the our second album that we're currently working on, I'm using my ENGL e530 direct into my Firepod, then running it into some impulses I made myself. I've discovered that all of the speaker impulses I've tried are flawed, and sound phasey and weak. After some research and experimentation, I discovered a better technique for making impulses of guitar cabs, so I'm actually going to release a product through my newly formed software company, Kazrog LLC, which will be a collection of impulses released as an affordable download, with more impulse packs being released every few months through the website I am setting up for it. Starting small with this, just as Slate and Toontrack originally did in the drum sample business, but I have some goals to grow the product line over time into some other areas of music production software and tools. But for now...
Hearing is believing, and I've made a couple quick clips one night while writing a new Backmask riff, slightly sloppy playing as I had a couple of glasses of wine and I'm a total lightweight geek, but it shows the difference between my impulses and a popular impulse that people are using:
Absolutely zero processing, just the guitar direct into the ENGL, direct into the Firepod, direct into impulses, double tracked with two performances hard-panned. It sounds even better quad tracked, but this is just pre-production after all...
The impulses you hear in my clip were created from the same Mesa 4x12 oversize cabinet I used for
Dark Fiber, hence the rather thunderous tone. With some quick EQing you can roll of some of the extreme cabinet rumble and get it dialed in just right with plenty of mids and highs - and that's just one of several impulses I made of that one cabinet, and there's more cabinets to come.
So... getting lots of cool stuff going at once. I've always thought it's cool how much Meshuggah gives back to the musician community and we'd like to do the same thing in our own way.
