Gorehog":5yvrvfou said:
i got this cd last week finally and theres great tunes,great playing,great sounds and great production.
Chubtone...how about a gear walk thru...tune by tune?
after all it is RIG TALK.tell us about how u did what u did.
Gorehog,
I think you are being serious in your request. And since I paid you to start this thread to rev up my CD sales and support a second leg of my world tour, I will try and answer to the best of my memory. I finished recording this CD almost two years ago and finished mixing it a year ago. I also did not keep records of what I used because I never suspected someone would ask me.
There were two main guitars that I used, my 1984 Charvel San Dimas that I bought in 1984 when I was 17. I was saving money for a Kramer as I had never ever seen a real Charvel in my life, only read about them in articles with EVH and Rhoads. One day, my other bandmates and I borrowed my friends mom's station wagon and we went from the suburbs into Chicago. Let me tell you that we were all forbidden from going into the city. But we did it anyway, because we were metal! You think Tommy Lee's mom told him he couldn't go to Guitar Center?!!! No WAY!
I played my first Charvel at GC that day and I was no longer interested in buying a Kramer. The Charvel was twice as much. No big deal. I delivered pizza's in that hideous Chicago winter weather in a rusted out 1973 Honda Civic. It just meant I would have to deliver 50,000 more pizzas before I got a Charvel. But I did get it one day. We snuck into the city again that day to go pick one out, just like Jake E Lee would have done if his mom told him no. Here's the Charvel, thousands and thousands of hours playing on it later:
It's the dark purple one with the pointy headstock. It has a Duncan Custom in the bridge and some old Duncan single in the neck. Whatever the neck pickup is, I don't like it. I need to throw a Duncan SSL-5 or Arcane '69 Experience in it:
I also used the candy tangerine one on the far right for all the lead stuff on Long To Touch You. It has an Arcane Brownbucker in the bridge and a Duncan '59 in the neck.
The other main guitar was this Warmoth I put together in the mid 90's. It sounded really cool recorded with just a Duncan '59 in the bridge. I really liked the way it sounded with that lower output pickup for rhythms. It felt and seemed wimpy while playing it but was easier to hear in the mix. i have put together at least a dozen Warmoths since this one in an attempt to find one I like as much and NONE of them have been as good.
The main amp I used was my Mojave Peacemaker with the THD Hot Plate.
Once I got my Splawn Quick Rod, I used it quite a bit for whatever was left to record. All of "Yellow Cake" was the Splawn and the lead guitars on "Long To Touch You" was the Splawn.
With the Mojave, I almost always used a boost pedal. Either a Fulltone OCD, a vintage TS-9 or a made in Japan SD-1. With the Splawn I may have used the SD-1 on the leads in "Yellow Cake"
This is how crappy my home studio was at the time I recorded this. I do have a secret weapon, vintage API mic preamp underneath my desk on top of the rack that I ran everything through. I used
Cakewalk Sonar Producer 3 and
M-Audio Delta 1010 as an interface. My mixing desk is much cooler now and I have big dual monitors. Still have that ghetto sound-proofed cab in the closet though.
And my cabinet (loaded with G12H30's) is barricaded in this tiny "walk in" closet under all kinds of sound-proofing.
The Shure SM57 is under the moving blankets. This is a ghetto sound booth but it works surprisingly well. When we looked at this house, I looked at the garage and then I looked to see if one of the bedrooms had a closet deep enough to turn the cabinet sideways. It did and we bought the house. My kids can deal with the bedrooms with regular closets.
give a rats ass what you used." 
