lapsteel wrote:Fantastic. Delightfully heavy. Thanks for this work!
You post your rig yet?
Thanks a lot! So, LET'S TALK RIG AND RECORDING!
I played all guitar, bass and keyboards. The drums were also played on a keyboard, then fixed up in the sequencer. All tracks were recorded, mixed and mastered in Propellerhead Reason 8.
The guitar's a beaten up Aria Pro II RS Wildcat, an 80's Matsumoko-guitar I got for $200. It's tuned to C standard. The bass is also a Japanese 80s thing, a Greco Pegasus. Quite hard to find information on but I love it to death. All amps are amp simulations (I know, right!?) by Kuassa. The general set-up is Cream for one guitar track, Vermillion for the other. They're always panned pretty hard left and right for some extra width.
Pedals varied a bit during the recordings, the only constant one was the BAT Quantum Mystic. There's also quite a bit of Pharaoh Supreme and DOD Boneshaker. For example, I believe Heracleion used the Boneshaker feeding into Quantum Mystic for the left panned guitar and Boneshaker feeding into Pharaoh for the right. The track Rungholt is a bit different, got a pretty gnarly fuzz sound from the Dwarfcraft Eau Claire Thunder that I'm still not quite sure how I dialed in. Love it though. There was feedback involved.
The more ambient parts generally had a Blackout Effectors Mantra LE fed into DOD Phasor and Digitech Obscura. Sometimes with some software delay/verb, sometimes not.
Drums were Ryan Greene Alt Drums, a kick ass sample library. Beyond that I used a bunch of Reason's stock devices (SSL-modeled channel strips etc.) and some third-party plugins, dynamics and EQ primarily.
I think that's about it!
