All in all this mic works almost boringly well
I visited James at the studio and he was thinking, ‘What have I got myself into?’
It’s hard to come up with an original shape. That’s why the electric guitar, in 70 years, hasn’t changed that much
Whenever I get feedback, it’s always like, ‘Man, that neck!’ It just feels amazing
This circuit they designed is completely silent, but still has that vintage feel
That sorta snappy, funky sound comes from that longer scale length
To really get inside the mind of a player like Mondesir, one has to dismantle the perception that he is exclusively a jazz drummer
There are guys who have put the hours in and can play incredible things regarding their physicality, but I’m not about that, I’m really more about composing on the spot
Being a guitarist is about more than just technical proficiency.
I really love not having a pedalboard on stage any more. I don’t have to think about tap-dancing all over it to change tones and effects
If a record store had a 'recommended if you like' thing, I would hope that it read early '70s Neil Young, Beck’s Sea Change, with a little Nirvana Unplugged
Before you knew it, we were on tour with Bright Eyes and had a management team, booking agent, lawyer, and label interest. It was the most exciting time in my life
Smoking a joint with Neil Young and then learning he loved my band was a pretty tough moment to beat
The general feeling we get from this guitar is that it wants to be played loudly
Terry had come back after 34 years in Australia. We went to a pub and I said ‘Do you fancy doing a bit of drumming?’
My 1965 Fender Precision is a big beast and I was always putting my hand out to eternity to try and grab the end fret
I was taken by Andy Fraser’s bass playing because he left holes; it was the first time I heard bass playing that sparse
The combination of the lively shell material and the dryness offered by the hoops strikes a very workable middle ground, offering full sounding toms with quick attack and shorter sustain
The CraftApp makes tweaking, programming and sequencing much simpler with a better interface and more visual feedback
I don’t want to be a lead player, I don’t want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever
I don’t want people to think 'It’s just that he’s got more talent than me'. I don’t have more talent than you, I’m just working
As a band, you do have to do the thing. When you go to see the Foo Fighters at Wembley they better be playing... No jamming; ‘Yo check out this raga tune’
On the last US tour that we did, we had a lot of intensity and physicality on stage. We’d be doing some jump ropes before the set
I love being able to sit right into the mix - and the Warwick is perfect for that
As was the case with the D-50, the 8-bit sounds could be a bit noisy, with any number of nasty artefacts behind a gauzy haze of cheap reverb.
I love how immediate it is when you have a pencil and can draw in MIDI blocks and change the velocity. It felt a more fluid way to work than making notations.
The bands that I tend to gravitate towards are the bands that threw the dogma out of the window
The S2V sounds mighty fine, and we were impressed by the broad sweet spot
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The filter needs a lot of harmonics to bite into to make it really shine, so saw waves or white noise are recommended
Unfortunately I threw the drum kit over the balcony one day, because I couldn’t nail ‘Red Red Wine’ by UB40
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You have to look at it and say, ‘This is art, this is expression!’ You don’t measure it - it’s not bad, it’s not good - it’s just expression
I never wanted to be famous, I just wanted to enjoy playing and to always find a combination of different sprinklings
The Muscle Memory sessions with Daniel were probably the easiest I’ve had with a drummer
This is a guitar that will suit any playing style and feel easy to play for all kinds of guitarists, but at the same time never feels generic...
My sh**ty 4x12 Marshall cabinet was the perfect amount of destroyed and lived. The aesthetic of that cabinet outweighed its sound
Marty McFly had some great moves, and what an attitude
The Demon-6’s thin-C profile neck, cut from maple with a satin finish, is super quick
My favourite thing is these weird things that happen in circuits that you don’t quite get in software yet. Like the SEM filter, when you patch the band-pass back into the CV and bring the cutoff right down low on just a basic waveform… it’s great.
I’ve seen a lot of posers with the big modular and their back to the audience, then you go around the back and there’s like three wires in it!
The day we stop caring about music and bands will probably be the end of us as a creative force
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I thought ‘What do I do to play fingerstyle on the electric?’ And really the main guy is Knopfler. He’s the best at it
I used it in regular tuning for Fault Line, Some Kinda Ghost, Ain’t No Easy and Devil’s Waitin’
I dig the sound of SGs, they’ve got a tough feel to them that’s different to other guitars
The signal is split into three and comes out of four amps
I don’t do solos, but whenever there’s a line on one string I’ll kick this in as an octaver
They really are beautiful acoustics and they inspire a different kind of approach for songwriting
Despite being a mobile app, Moog’s emulation is easily one of the richest and authentic sounding we’ve tried.
I’m working on my next symphony, which, conceptually, will take place before this one, but I’m thinking more cinematically in terms of stories. I love to listen to music in the dark and to do symphonies today is such a cool, weird thing to be doing.
It’s a scary guitar to be taking out because if something happens to it...
Purists won’t like it, but then, they never do
It possesses a deeper fundamental note that’s present in every aspect of its performance, from tuning to dynamics to choice of head
I can almost imagine BB King saying, ‘Is this the note you are looking for, Mr Malmsteen?’
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Sounding this relaxed in the digital age takes a lot of work
After only an hour of testing them in our studio, we’d already reached for our credit card
I’ll use it for Beat The Devil’s Tattoo and the acoustic breakdown of the show... it’s my baby
Instead of recycling something that’s already out there, try to catch yourself. You can’t escape yourself!
About eight years ago, a crowd surfer fell into my mic stand and the mic flew into my face and broke one of my front teeth
What we have here is a sorted mid-priced electro-acoustic with great build quality and a pleasing tone straight off the peg