The Definition of Beige: Switchfoot has a Reverb Shop

[chuckjaywalk]

Switchfoot, the Christian rock Hum clone the world didn't need or want, have their own Reverb shop now. Bask in the colorless, flavorless pablum. Mmm... tastes like Soylent.

[friendship]

I don't think I've heard them. This thread is now about any pedals Hum used.

[chuckjaywalk]

I don't think I've heard them. This thread is now about any pedals Hum used.

I think they used the DF-2. I know a lot of it was done on the mixing board ala My Bloody Valentine. I just know Hum made perfect music.

[friendship]

I wonder how much of the distortion is amp based. Cool article about their amp setup and tracking routine for You'd Prefer An Astronaut here, though nothing about effects: http://playgroundstudio.com/studio-secr ... ar-sounds/

I like the modulation shit they do.

[jrfox92]

I don't think I've heard them. This thread is now about any pedals Hum used.

Tim's got a Super Chorus, SansampGT2, and a Tube Zone.
Matt's got a Milkshake, PDS1002, DF-2, and Phase 90.

I like that one song by Switchfoot, but everything else I've heard from them was standard vanilla christian rock.
Also, obligatory "fuck JHS".

[Lurker13]

Christian rock - if that isn't an oxymoron, I don't know what is.

[gnomethrone]

My favorite christian rock bands are Sleep and Slayer. Well Slayer is catholic rock but same thing, right?

[kralc]

Damn, I used to listen to Switchfoot all day way back when. I still kinda like it in a nostalgic way.

I remember going to a Switchfoot concert and their supporting acts were some local-ish worship/hillsong band type thing that played for way too long, and a "cool wit the streets" pastor dude. He was american (this was in australia) so he made a homophobic joke about how short the pants afl players wear are. Can't remember the details, just stuck with me as garbagey.

[The Eristic]

I had to teach Meant to Live so many times in the early '00s I still get a little nauseous thinking about it. I did, however, eventually wind up teaching Stars a couple years down the road to a student who'd started lessons as your typical "I jumped up and down a few times at the Skillet concert, it was soooo hardcore!" P&W kiddo (and who is now probably the highest person I know, incidentally), so swings and roundabouts, I guess.

Also, Hank knows what's up.
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[D.o.S.]

Was on a heavy Hum and Failure binge last night. Great tones all around.

[repoman]

I wonder how much of the distortion is amp based. Cool article about their amp setup and tracking routine for You'd Prefer An Astronaut here, though nothing about effects: http://playgroundstudio.com/studio-secr ... ar-sounds/

I like the modulation shit they do.

"Wayne told me how it takes way more passion and courage to be in a band because if the band fails, then you’ve got nothing to fall back on. He also said that if I had a bad record or two, that I could just move on to the next band, with little to lose. That’s also when we told me how the Flaming Lips work like the mafia. He said that either I was on the bus or off of it. He said that I was of course free to choose whatever path I wanted, but if I chose the path of being off the bus or out of the Flaming Lips family, that he would do absolutely everything in his power to ruin me and my career in music. He said that he also wouldn’t tire of it, that he would haunt me as long as I tried to make music, and that any chance he had of saying something negative about me or even worse; denying that I ever offered anything to the Flaming Lips, he would, for as long as he had a voice in the music industry."

wow, Wayne Coyne sounds like a fucking dick

[Kacey Y]

They're a Christian Rock band from the 90's. It's just going to be the a bunch of heavily used Gibson, Fender, PRS and Marshall (with a few boutique brands thrown in) for inflated "collector" prices.

[Invisible Man]

Watched the 'Dare you to Move' video for a refresher. I don't know how I feel. I am horrifyingly sentimental right now because of sleeplessness and my dadcore-ness, but that means that the video got to me, not the music.

It's also really tough to watch beautiful, flinty-eyed surfer brahs gaze into the middle distance for three minutes while rocking out to downtempo rock jamz.

[MechaGodzilla]

wow, Wayne Coyne sounds like a fucking dick

A single picture of the guy tells you exactly that much

[Kacey Y]

Wayne Coyne looks like the kind of guy that ends any relationship with the phrase "You knew what you were getting into when we started this".