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About "Below the Smile" - What Equipment We Use

 

We decided to throw up a list of the equipment we use, for those of you who are curious. If anyone has questions about what specific stuff was used in a certain song, or for a certain sound, drop us an email and we'll let you know. If we can remember.

COREY (Guitar & vocals)
Washburn, Epiphone, Fender, Ibanez, and Schecter guitars
Fender and Carvin Tube Amps
Groove Tubes
Shure, Seinheiser, and AKG mics
Boss, Korg, Dunlop, Electro Harmonix, Digitech, Roland effects pedals

BRYAN (guitars)
Fender, Ibanez, Yamaha guitars
Fender Amps
Zoom, Fender, Korg Pedals
Fender, Martin strings

LEIF (basses)
Fender, Takamine, Peavey, Washburn, Epiphone basses
Hartke, SWR, Gallien-Kruger Amps
Zoom, Arion, MXR pedals
GHS, Martin strings

AXEL (Drums & percussion)
Ludwig drums
Zildjian cymbals
Gibraltar Hardware
Roc-n-Soc Throne
PDP pedal
Evans drum heads
DDrum snare
AHEAD and Zildjian sticks (I'm very disloyal when it comes to sticks. I'm always trying different sizes and brands.
Shure, M-Audio mics

EVERYONE (other gear)
Carvin, Peavey PA/monitors & snakes
Carvin and Alesis mixers
Carvin and Furman power
Art processors
SKB rack units
Ulitmate stands
Lexicon Processing Units
Celestion speakers
Ovation Guitars
iMacs, Logic, KRK& M-Audio Monitors

We have two recording setups, one with Corey in Montana, and the other with the rest of us in Washington. Both rely on iMacs at their core. Corey is using an Alesis mixer as an input device for his recordings, and recording into Logic Express 8. In Washington, we are using a Presonus Firestudio for input, also recording into Logic Express. All of the recording, mixing, and mastering for "Wire Me" was done in Logic, with the exception of one small bit of one song that was saved from a demo recorded in Garageband. Izotope's Ozone plug-in was used for the mastering.

 
 
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