Equipment List - Recording Insight

Equipment List - Recording Insight

Oi.It's Gus.

If you've made it to this page then it's safe to say that you're looking for some content from us here at The Unravelling. And being the generously, accommodating motherfuckers that we are, I figured a couple of tidbits with regards to our recording style - equipment we use - and thought processes behind the making of this music might be interesting for some of you. So here we go:

Equipment:

Guitars:
Gibson SG Gothic
Gibson Les Paul Gothic
Epiphone SG Gothic (I'm partial to the Gothic Series I guess)

Amps and Effects: Line 6 POD Pro rack unit
Line 6 Flextone 3
Line 6 Gear Box Gold Edition(we're living in modern times - I'm sorry but tube amps have never been there for me so fuck'em)

Bass:Line 6 Variax Bass(Mostly use the Fender Precision Bass setting - It gives an awesome low end chunk almost like the perfect marriage between Paul D'Amour and Justin Chancellor's bass tone. At least in my deluded world that is but neither of these guys ever used a fucking Fender bass so I'll have to say that it just 'sounds cool' to me.

Drums:No drummer!I use drum samples from the following companies:http://www.drumsondemand.com/http://www.betamonkeymusic.com/(We beef them up with BFD samples when we can though - Steve has a knack for coming over and radically altering my weak ass drum tracks for the better. So thats a little something that you have now learnt about the infamous Steve Moore - he secretly has suppressed drumming aspirations)

DAW: (Digital Audio Workstation)
Pro Tools (It's the industry standard so why dabble with anything else - learnt how to use it at a lil place called OIART - check it out)

Before I go, here's a great piece of advice for any aspiring recording engineers and home studio enthusiasts (that I didnt make up) I heard it from a guy called Mark Vogelsang. He probably doesnt even remember telling us this but I sure do - "Spend the time not the money"What I got out of this was the following:Even though every time we open any music magazine and see all this fantastic shit that we pine for - we should always strive to master the gear that we have already.

Learn it, practice on it, use it constantly teach yourself how to get the most out of it and make your songs sound as good as they can. As your budget increases so will the quality of your equipment but your greatest strength will be your ability to harvest the best results from whatever gear you're using. Pretty cool huh?

Have a good one.

Gus
www.theunravellingmusic.com