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Check Out a Sample of Pulse Rite Bullet Vibe's Music
Pulse Rite bullet Vibe was a fun band to work with...they really enjoy themselves in the studio and are deeply appreciative of what I do for 'em.
We laid down backing tracks (drums, bass & rythm guitar) until early afternoon, and in hindsight I realize that the music I was hearing at that point was only half of the picture. The real "twist" would happen later on when their lead guitar dude showed up. More on that further down the blog.
They brought lots of food and beer and there were lots of breaks to eat, drink, and touch goats.
I'd been working on an isolation booth (two actually) built into a utility trailer in order to house loud amps OUTSIDE the studio so I could maintain comfortable floor space and isolate very well. I figure I can even rent the damn thing out and I can take it with me if I move and still have good iso. Anyhow, I busted ass the day before to get it to a point where one side would function well enough for the rhythm guitar player (Howie—also the singer), and it ended up working and sounding fantastic.
Howie lays through a modified early 70's Bogner tube PA head, which had a tone that reminded me a great deal of my Valco head.
Vocals were done with the mightly SM-7B as so often works out on punk stuff, and shoved through my Neve 1272 clone preamp and my trusty Valley 610 compressor. The 610 also accounts for that humongo Bonham-esque drum sound we got on the sample track. One ribbon mic out front with a ton of compression slid in under the regular drum mix.
So then their lead guitar guy Neumann shows up and starts laying down these amazing tracks over Howie's power chords and all the songs just came to life. He's got a distinctly eighties way of playing rythm guitar (tone, too!) that reminds me a lot of Steve Stevens, The Edge, or the guy from The Fixx. It's those cool dissonant compound chords layed in repetitive polyrythmic patterns over the chord changes. That's geek-talk but if you listen to the track you'll get what I mean. His stuff really added new life to the songs.
Check Out a Sample of Pulse Rite Bullet Vibe's Music
Pulse Rite bullet Vibe was a fun band to work with...they really enjoy themselves in the studio and are deeply appreciative of what I do for 'em.
We laid down backing tracks (drums, bass & rythm guitar) until early afternoon, and in hindsight I realize that the music I was hearing at that point was only half of the picture. The real "twist" would happen later on when their lead guitar dude showed up. More on that further down the blog.
They brought lots of food and beer and there were lots of breaks to eat, drink, and touch goats.
I'd been working on an isolation booth (two actually) built into a utility trailer in order to house loud amps OUTSIDE the studio so I could maintain comfortable floor space and isolate very well. I figure I can even rent the damn thing out and I can take it with me if I move and still have good iso. Anyhow, I busted ass the day before to get it to a point where one side would function well enough for the rhythm guitar player (Howie—also the singer), and it ended up working and sounding fantastic.
Howie lays through a modified early 70's Bogner tube PA head, which had a tone that reminded me a great deal of my Valco head.
Vocals were done with the mightly SM-7B as so often works out on punk stuff, and shoved through my Neve 1272 clone preamp and my trusty Valley 610 compressor. The 610 also accounts for that humongo Bonham-esque drum sound we got on the sample track. One ribbon mic out front with a ton of compression slid in under the regular drum mix.
So then their lead guitar guy Neumann shows up and starts laying down these amazing tracks over Howie's power chords and all the songs just came to life. He's got a distinctly eighties way of playing rythm guitar (tone, too!) that reminds me a lot of Steve Stevens, The Edge, or the guy from The Fixx. It's those cool dissonant compound chords layed in repetitive polyrythmic patterns over the chord changes. That's geek-talk but if you listen to the track you'll get what I mean. His stuff really added new life to the songs.
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