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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:16 pm
by IroniaSudby
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.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:42 pm
by dots
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. . .
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:44 pm
by Bacchus
Who the fuck's this noob?
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:51 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
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!!
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:03 pm
by Freddy V-C
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...
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:08 pm
by Doog
I guess the point being that it may be his own personal pedal, which is pretty odd considering how rare they are.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:08 pm
by timhulio
This guy borrowed the Whammy without asking.
![Image](http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/whitestripes-vonbondiesfight.jpg)
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:09 pm
by Doog
rofflz
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:23 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
ha, ok. i get it. i thought the guy was perplexed that other people use the HP. i didn't realize it was his.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:55 pm
by ChrisFFTA
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.
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:47 pm
by Mages
well for a pedal that's so much part of his signature sound, ya know... he might have more than one.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:17 am
by aen
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.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:36 am
by endsjustifymeans
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."
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:17 am
by ChrisFFTA
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.
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:32 am
by Mages
hmmm, ok. no offense meant, was just making a point.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:55 am
by ChrisFFTA
Mages wrote:hmmm, ok. no offense meant, was just making a point.
just pulling the piss mate... no offense taken!
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:57 am
by Doog
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.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:05 am
by stewart
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!
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:17 pm
by Dingus
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.
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:18 pm
by endsjustifymeans
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.