Dwarfcraft at Albini?

IroniaSudby · Post by **IroniaSudby** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:16 pm

Dave wrote:Hi All, This is Steve Albini of Big Black and Shellac fame!!!!!!!!111!!!!! I'm using Dave's Shortscale account because I was so excited to see this thread I didn't have time to set up one of my own. I'll gladly accept any pedals you swell chaps build so please mail them directly to Daves address and he'll bring them over at our next poker and virgin roasting party.

Thanks

Steve "Sphinctre Mouth" Albini

This is all true, because im Steve Albini useing Iron's account just to confirm it for you guys!!!

Dont forget to send those pedals.

Post by **dots** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:42 pm

Dave wrote:Hi All, This is Steve Albini of Big Black and Shellac fame!!!!!!!!111!!!!! I'm using Dave's Shortscale account because I was so excited to see this thread I didn't have time to set up one of my own. I'll gladly accept any pedals you swell chaps build so please mail them directly to Daves address and he'll bring them over at our next poker and virgin roasting party.

Thanks

Steve "Sphinctre Mouth" Albini

haha damn. . .

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:44 pm

Who the fuck's this noob?

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:51 pm

ChrisFFTA wrote:
hotrodperlmutter wrote:you're surprised who puts the perc's out for others to use?
que? not short I catch yr drift? I am saying i am surprised he lets other suse his holy grail pedal.

why would he have anything to do with it? it's not his design, his trademark, or anything else, other than integral to his sound.

that's like saying:

i can't believe jack white let's other people use the whammy for solos!!

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:03 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:
ChrisFFTA wrote:
hotrodperlmutter wrote:you're surprised who puts the perc's out for others to use?
que? not short I catch yr drift? I am saying i am surprised he lets other suse his holy grail pedal.
why would he have anything to do with it? it's not his design, his trademark, or anything else, other than integral to his sound.

that's like saying:

i can't believe jack white let's other people use the whammy for solos!!

But other people using whammy pedals is different from if Jack White let other people use his own whammy on their recordings...

Post by **Doog** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:08 pm

I guess the point being that it may be his own personal pedal, which is pretty odd considering how rare they are.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:08 pm

This guy borrowed the Whammy without asking.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:09 pm

rofflz

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:23 pm

ha, ok. i get it. i thought the guy was perplexed that other people use the HP. i didn't realize it was his.

ChrisFFTA · Post by **ChrisFFTA** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:55 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:ha, ok. i get it. i thought the guy was perplexed that other people use the HP. i didn't realize it was his.

yes. its albinis studio right? thus i made the assumption it was his HP... and given the history and attachment to albini i am surprised he lets it out as part of the studio.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:47 pm

well for a pedal that's so much part of his signature sound, ya know... he might have more than one.

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:17 am

Decent single coil + bassman pushed hard = albini shellac tones. The HP is really just dressing on the salad. He didn't even have a HP for
Big black. If Fredo, light rail coyote or hurb ever co
E around they can tell you I got the archetypical shellac sound from a vintage jag and a bassman 10.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:36 am

when he does use it, he uses it sparingly.

Per his own words, "I only use it when I don't feel like playing guitar."

ChrisFFTA · Post by **ChrisFFTA** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:17 am

Mages wrote:well for a pedal that's so much part of his signature sound, ya know... he might have more than one.

ya know, like, ya might be right ya know.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:32 am

hmmm, ok. no offense meant, was just making a point.

ChrisFFTA · Post by **ChrisFFTA** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:55 am

Mages wrote:hmmm, ok. no offense meant, was just making a point.

just pulling the piss mate... no offense taken!

Post by **Doog** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:57 am

Not to endlessly readdress a particularly hoary old topic, but I really reckon it's a marriage of all the odd things about his setup; an aluminium guitar, usage of metal picks, both a Bassman and a solidstate preamp-poweramp setup running into PA speaker cabs featuring HF horns, plus a feed from the latter to the PA for extra fizzy clankiness.

I think if you added any OD pedal to that, it'd sound pretty clanky.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:05 am

i had a dream last night that someone gave me an old harmonic percolator for free. just remembered when i looked at this thread title. how queer!

Dingus · Post by **Dingus** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:17 pm

aen wrote:Decent single coil + bassman pushed hard = albini shellac tones. The HP is really just dressing on the salad. He didn't even have a HP for
Big black. If Fredo, light rail coyote or hurb ever co
E around they can tell you I got the archetypical shellac sound from a vintage jag and a bassman 10.

I personally think the old aluminum neck Travis Bean he uses does something I really enjoy to the sound. Not that I think you guys would be into them, but The White Octave/Criteria used/use Travis Beans and there is a certain metallic tone about them I really enjoy.

I also recently saw sleep-metal band Isis at Bonnaroo and the whole band was using Travis Beans.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:18 pm

Dingus wrote:
aen wrote:Decent single coil + bassman pushed hard = albini shellac tones. The HP is really just dressing on the salad. He didn't even have a HP for
Big black. If Fredo, light rail coyote or hurb ever co
E around they can tell you I got the archetypical shellac sound from a vintage jag and a bassman 10.

I personally think the old aluminum neck Travis Bean he uses does something I really enjoy to the sound. Not that I think you guys would be into them, but The White Octave/Criteria used/use Travis Beans and there is a certain metallic tone about them I really enjoy.

I also recently saw sleep-metal band Isis at Bonnaroo and the whole band was using Travis Beans.

Isis uses EGCs not TBs. Albini has an EGC now as well... as does King Buzzo, Duane Dennison, and seeeeeeveral others.

Albini has really had that same sound since Big Black and he didn't use aluminum neck guitars back then. He had a double cut tele in those days. I think all you really get out of an aluminum neck is retarded awesome sustain and maybe a bit brighter attack.