Anybody see Kevin Shields guitar set up

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:44 pm

Wait isn't Mother's Milk a RHCP record?

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:46 pm

Yeah. Good Frusciante stuff on there, though.

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:03 am

ipressrecord wrote:According to Loveless, his gear consists of a Mackie 32x8 buss mixer and 4 ADATS with 26 tracks of ego-centric shoegaze guitars, an 8-bit sampler with a stereo out for drums, one track of bass, a track of M1 keyboards, and two vox tracks. All faders are at zero except for the drums and vox, which are set to -18dB. And it's mixed down to uncalibrated DAT.

i was listening to loveless last night and actually thought the guitars on the first song needed to be LOUDER.

linus · Post by **linus** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:32 pm

In defense of MIDI cables in guitar rigs:

My guitar rig I used live was 16 vintage guitar stomp boxes on shelves in a rack all patched into a Digital Music Corp, GCX and controlled by a Ground Control. TS808, triangle knob Big Muff, Script Dynacomp, Roland Space Echo, Mutron Octave Divider, Interfax Harmonic Percolator, Lexicon Jamman, Lexicon Vortex... All sorts of cool stuff.

That rig let me have whatever crazy combinations I wanted at the push of one button. Before that it sometimes looked like I was trying to put out a fire on the front of the stage when I was making transitions.

To be honest 90% of the time the setting I used was complete bypass, or just a Dynacomp, or just the TS808.

At 16 rack spaces high it was no longer practical once I stopped playing big gigs but it was a real pleasure. I still have it intact in my studio and it gets used whenever I track guitars.

And not quite as shoegazy but I LOVE the band 'House of Love' from the same era. I'm listening to "Audience With a Mind" right now. They have lots of atmospheric guitar stuff going on too.

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:24 pm

Guys and girls... the My Bloody Valentine and MIDI cables comments were in jest.

I am a big Slowdive fan... Souvlaki especially.

Rodgre · Post by **Rodgre** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:56 pm

linus wrote: And not quite as shoegazy but I LOVE the band 'House of Love' from the same era. I'm listening to "Audience With a Mind" right now. They have lots of atmospheric guitar stuff going on too.

Wow! The other House of Love fan! Nice to meet you. I think Babe Rainbow is up there with my top 10 favorite records. Not Top 10 best albums ever, but my personal favorites.

Roger

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:01 pm

ipressrecord wrote:Guys and girls... the My Bloody Valentine and MIDI cables comments were in jest.

I think we should continue to defend MIDI guitar rigs anyway.

ashcat_lt · Post by **ashcat_lt** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:05 pm

Got two words on the whole MIDI cable thing: "the Edge"

And then some more words: I can't think of any other way to connect my Roland GI-10 to my Korg M3R.

Clytor · Post by **Clytor** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:16 pm

+1 Slowdive

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:11 pm

+1 Loveless...

...just on principle...

sigh...

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:31 pm

+2 Loveless

Seriously.

I'm Painting Again · Post by **I'm Painting Again** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:19 pm

I always liked "Isn't Anything" better than "Loveless"..

"Thorn" is my favoraveritest song of their "You Made Me Realise" EP..

0xeneye · Post by **0xeneye** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:26 am

They're touring (just a bit...)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/n ... nion-shows

My Bloody Valentine:

06-20 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-28 Manchester, England - Apollo
07-02 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland

tdbajus · Post by **tdbajus** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:55 am

Is it just me, or does guitar geek seem to always be wrong. I mean, on just about everything?

I checked out the Ira Kaplan (one of my faves, btw) rig, and while I'm not sure what pedals he uses, pretty much every show i can remember seeing with him playing since Painful he used a Deluxe and Super.

Didn't Shield use AC30s? I think I remember reading about him recording stuff for Loveless with 2 AC30s pointed at each other, tremelos out of sync, with an omni in the middle. I could be wrong though.

I've looked up a couple of rigs that belong to people I've played with, and every one of them had the wrong amp listed, though...

Trick Fall · Post by **Trick Fall** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:38 pm

Rodgre wrote:
linus wrote: And not quite as shoegazy but I LOVE the band 'House of Love' from the same era. I'm listening to "Audience With a Mind" right now. They have lots of atmospheric guitar stuff going on too.
Wow! The other House of Love fan! Nice to meet you. I think Babe Rainbow is up there with my top 10 favorite records. Not Top 10 best albums ever, but my personal favorites.

Roger

Wow two other House of Love fans?!

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