NEW JESU RECORD STREAM.

[D.o.S.]

Streaming on the forky pitch.

http://pitchfork.com/advance/228-everyd ... hich-i-ca/


Let the digitally modeled amps consume you!

[skullservant]

Gotta also listen to this when I get home
All hail digiamps

[Achtane]

LINE SIX IS MY LIFE

[Seizurema]

Wait. Digitally modelled amps?

[D.o.S.]

Wait. Digitally modelled amps?

On the Jesu album, the guitars were 90 percent DI, using POD. This was one of the two big things for me on the Jesu album, the other being AmpliTube. I used those extensively, much more so than micing up a Marshall [guitar amp], which is ironically what I spent virtually all my career doing in Godflesh.

What I used quite often with the POD was putting the signal head of the POD into an Avalon compressor. I have a big Avalon vacuum tube unit; I put my vocals into it, and I quite often run my guitars into it as well. Obviously, the Avalon alone costs about as much as my G5. It warms up the signal and boosts the frequencies, and it sounds like it’s got multiple pre-amps on it. I also use a Joe Meek compressor, one of the larger, more expensive ones; not one of the tiny ones. Putting those in a chain with the POD gives me so much more control over the tone than I ever had with micing up a Marshall. For me it’s a lot more exciting: it’s not only convenient, I’m really happy with the tones I get. I’m spending even more time working on these tones for the next Jesu record. And there’s no looking back. I do not go anywhere near mic placement at all.

I’ve never banged my head so much against walls as with which mic to use and where to place. I never worked it out. With Godflesh, it was like one day I could turn on the studio, have the Marshall in the bathroom, with an SM 58 about three inches above the cone, and it would sound amazing, and I thought, “wow. That’s the tone I’m looking for.” Shut down the studio, come back the following day, turn it all back on, nothing has moved whatsoever, and the tone is shit. And I’d just be like, “what is this all about? Did I not warm up the Marshall long enough? Is it this? Is it that?” I was so fed up of going through the chain. There were so many Godflesh records that were made where, to be honest, I just put up with it. I got used to it being an approximation of what I wanted. Now I don’t have to put up with that anymore. It’s tweakable at any stage. I can even record the guitar clean, then loop it back into the POD, and change the tone in the mix.

Prior to the Jesu album, my guitar tone had always been talked about as being very specific. And ironically enough, people are talking about the Jesu tone, too, but it’s via POD! People often think that you press a pre-set patch (on the POD) and everybody sounds the same. And a lot of people that I’ve talked to – even musicians that I’ve worked with – as soon as I mention that I’m using a POD and recording DI, they go, “oh, my God....” Do you know what I mean? Like, it’s horrific. Like, “what the fuck are you doing?” And then they listen to it, and they’re like, “shit, that sounds like it’s coming out of the amp.” And I’m like, “yeah, [the POD] is not just a bank.”

oddly enough the one I use is the same as the amp I use live, the Marshall JCM800. And it’s that patch that I’ve tweaked to fuck with all the internal EQ and compression and limiters in order to boost it.

My big problem with the POD is that the sound is thin. But I’ve found that once I’ve got it into the Avalon or a lot of Waves plug-ins, I’m boosting it up to around 150-200 Hz, and then I’m adding more compression to contain that, and then I’m adding a limiter... I’m doing a lot, but I still think the basic tone is great, and nine times out of ten it’s better than fumbling around with a Marshall and a mic for like, three weeks or so.

http://www.maelstromzine.com/ezine/inte ... 39_196.php

[Ugly Nora]

Sounds quite different from the Jesu I know (I only have their first album). Is this how their other stuff sounds (less soul crushing than the 1st album)?

[D.o.S.]

Sort of. You should check out Conqueror.

http://hydrahead.bandcamp.com/album/conqueror

[More_Divebombs]

Love Jesu. This sounds interesting so far. Bit of a departure from previous stuff. Very melodic. Digging it.

My favourite Jesu release is Opiate Sun. For a record that is just recorded by one man, Opiate Sun really does sound like a live cut in a room with a few mics and minimal overdubs. That guitar sounds huge.

[D.o.S.]

WHY ARE YOU AT YOUR BEST ON EPS JBROADS?!!!!!