EQ Magazine - September 2007 - (Page 28) RUSH a Fender Telecaster, an old Musitronics Mu-Tron III envelope filter, and a little 18-watt Marshall combo. Then, for the prechorus, we used a goldtop Les Paul and a Budda 45-watt combo. The main riff was the Telecaster and the Budda. For the choruses, we used the Les Paul and a Marshall JMP45 combo, and, on the bridges, we used the Les Paul through one of Alex’s Hughes & Kettner amps. The album really was about constructing layers of different guitar tones.” To make tone play easy, all of Alex’s amp heads and pedals were set up in the control room, and the speaker cabinets were positioned in the studio’s Great Hall — which measures 50' x 35' with a 45-foot cathedral ceiling. Two Little Labs PCP Instrument Distro amp splitters simultaneously routed the signals from six different heads to various speaker cabinets, which were all miked with a Shure SM57 and a Neumann U47 FET. Both mic signals were submixed to a mono track, and Raskulinecz assigned each amp to its own channel, which, during the mixdown process, allowed the band to pick and choose which guitar sounds they wanted for each song, or each section of a song. “We would literally mix and match, says Raskulinecz. “We’d say, ” ‘Let’s listen to the Marshall.’ ‘Okay, let’s listen to the Budda.’ ‘Now, let’s listen to the Hughes & Kettner.’ Or, we’d audition a combina- “THE TAURUS PEDALS ARE ON ALMOST EVERY SONG — WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT HASN’T HAPPENED SINCE 1985’S POWER WINDOWS.” —NICK RASKULINECZ tion of things. I’d say, ‘I really like the top end of the Budda, and the bottom end of the Marshall. Let’s hear those two together.’” For Geddy Lee’s vocals, Raskulinecz opted to put a Soundelux 251 in front of the singer, running into a Martech MS-10 mic pre and compressing with an “old, crusty dbx 160XT” ripped straight out of Lee’s live rig. 28 EQ SEPTEMBER 2007 www.eqmag.com http://www.eqmag.com
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Fly Ben and Vesper Kaiser Chiefs Toolbox Ozma Porcupine Tree Rush The Software Power User Guide Guitar Trax Bass Management Key Issues Drumheads Vocal Cords Mix Bus Cheat Sheet Chameleon Labs TS1 and TS2 Primera Bravo Se Disc Publisher Roland MC-808 Magix Samplitude Professional 9.1 Massey Tape-Head Big Fish Audio Revolucion Reggaeton Sonivox World Beats Sony Pocket Diva Adobe Audition 2.0 Cakewalk Sonar 6 Room with a VU: J Street Recorders, Sacramento, CA EQ Magazine - September 2007 EQ Magazine - September 2007 - (Page Intro) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - (Page Cover1) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - (Page Cover2) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - (Page 1) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - Contents (Page 2) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - Contents (Page 3) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - Talk Box (Page 4) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - Talk Box (Page 5) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - Sounding Board (Page 6) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - Sounding Board (Page 7) EQ Magazine - September 2007 - Get Cape. 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