New rig for Fathom Ties....OD100 video

[Mark Day]

Here's a video of a rig I built for Fathom Ties' guitarist Nathan Gignac.

Young, up and coming metal band.
Nathan is using a Suhr OD100se+ with the 3rd Gain and Master mod, Whomp II.

HD versionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xtyNHJKiQ&fmt=22

For more of the band and their debut album:
http://www.myspace.com/fathomties


Mark

 

[carstenlange]

Two questions:

Where can I get ac chords that are cut to length like that or did you do that your self. Would love to find 1 foot 1.6 foot and 2 foot ac chords.

Pedal power AC what is plugged into that? I wonder if plugging the Decimator prorackG would help the EMI noise that thing can add.

No matter if I used the lift switches on the ProrackG, cut the lifts of cables or do any of the tricks Buck Wahler suggets. I still find all my high gain amps are quieter with the prorackG not in the mix, vs when in the mix and bypassed. I think it really needs its own isolated power. I wish the made a power conditioner(that is not huge or super expensive) that had each outlet completely Isolated form eachother. Like a Pedal power II but for rack gear:

I also had too much emi noise when I used pedals in the loops of GCX before the amp. I had to really move my pedals around or attept to position the cables for the pedals a certain way to limit noise, I just gave up on using the pedals in my rack setup. If soemthing adds any kinda a noise I wouldnt keep in setup.

 

[Mark Day]

Two questions:

Where can I get ac chords that are cut to length like that or did you do that your self. Would love to find 1 foot 1.6 foot and 2 foot ac chords.

Pedal power AC what is plugged into that? I wonder if plugging the Decimator prorackG would help the EMI noise that thing can add.

No matter if I used the lift switches on the ProrackG, cut the lifts of cables or do any of the tricks Buck Wahler suggets. I still find all my high gain amps are quieter with the prorackG not in the mix, vs when in the mix and bypassed. I think it really needs its own isolated power. I wish the made a power conditioner(that is not huge or super expensive) that had each outlet completely Isolated form eachother. Like a Pedal power II but for rack gear:

I also had too much emi noise when I used pedals in the loops of GCX before the amp. I had to really move my pedals around or attept to position the cables for the pedals a certain way to limit noise, I just gave up on using the pedals in my rack setup. If soemthing adds any kinda a noise I wouldnt keep in setup.

I cut the A/C lines to the proper length.
The PP a/c powers the Decimator, GCX and the MiniMix.

Mark

 

[jmgman69]

Man that sounds Great.I love it!!!!!!!

 

[carstenlange]

I cut the A/C lines to the proper length.
The PP a/c powers the Decimator, GCX and the MiniMix.

Mark

Do you find the PP A/C is better to reduce EMI or ground loop noises versus just using a regular power conditioner? Why did you choose that route isntead of a fuhrman or something?

 

[Mark Day]

I cut the A/C lines to the proper length.
The PP a/c powers the Decimator, GCX and the MiniMix.

Mark

Do you find the PP A/C is better to reduce EMI or ground loop noises versus just using a regular power conditioner? Why did you choose that route isntead of a fuhrman or something?

There is a Furman power conditioner. I HATE wallwarts and I have had good results with the Voodoo Labs stuff. I have not done a test for EMI, etc however I find the rigs are quiet and the convenience of not having wallwarts is worth it to me

Mark

 

[carstenlange]

How do you power the GCX with the PP A/C, the GCX takes a different type of connector then the barrel connectors that come with it. Did you have to special order one?

 

[Mark Day]

How do you power the GCX with the PP A/C, the GCX takes a different type of connector then the barrel connectors that come with it. Did you have to special order one?

It's a 4 pin DIN to 2.5mm. I made this one but you can order them direct from Voodoo Labs

Mark

 

[Digital Jams]

Super work as always Mark and cool tour before the gain presentation

So that endirol unit, how much work do you do after capturing the audio? Any mastering working going on? Just asking as I am looking for a solution like that.

 

[carstenlange]

Well, I ordered a PP A/C, sucks though. My dunlop rack wah uses 24 vac so I dont think I can power that up with it.

 

[Mark Day]

Well, I ordered a PP A/C, sucks though. My dunlop rack wah uses 24 vac so I dont think I can power that up with it.

The PP a/c has two 12vac ports(series will give you 24v). You can get VL to make a cable for it and it will work for your Wah. Check with VL re: all the units you want to put on this supply, see if it is sufficient, you may wind up having to get 2 PP a/c.

It has 2 9v a/c then 2 more(high current) 12 or 9vac ports. You can only use the 9 or 12 for the hc ports not both on ea port.

I have always put the GCX and the ISP on their own hc port.

Mark

 

[Mark Day]

Super work as always Mark and cool tour before the gain presentation

So that endirol unit, how much work do you do after capturing the audio? Any mastering working going on? Just asking as I am looking for a solution like that.

I use a Creative Vado HD camera and an Edirol R09-HR to record. I bring both files into ProTools (I used to use Garageband but Mac fucked up the AVI compatibility in GB with Leopard ).
I then sync the two files up so the audio matches the video ( a surprisingly easy task). I then kill all the guitar audio on the camera audio file but keep the speaking parts. I use an Waves LL3 Ultramaximizer to boost levels and an Renaissance EQ for low cut and to bring down 12+Khz. I then export as a Quicktime movie (.mov). I used to convert the video so I could bring it into iMovie09 but I stopped doing the fancy title thing....I wish Mac would get off their asses and support the avi files


Mark

 

[Digital Jams]

Super work as always Mark and cool tour before the gain presentation

So that endirol unit, how much work do you do after capturing the audio? Any mastering working going on? Just asking as I am looking for a solution like that.

I use a Creative Vado HD camera and an Edirol R09-HR to record. I bring both files into ProTools (I used to use Garageband but Mac fucked up the AVI compatibility in GB with Leopard ).
I then sync the two files up so the audio matches the video ( a surprisingly easy task). I then kill all the guitar audio on the camera audio file but keep the speaking parts. I use an Waves LL3 Ultramaximizer to boost levels and an Renaissance EQ for low cut and to bring down 12+Khz. I then export as a Quicktime movie (.mov). I used to convert the video so I could bring it into iMovie09 but I stopped doing the fancy title thing....I wish Mac would get off their asses and support the avi files




Mark

Wow, congrats on learning all of that stuff while running your busines at the same time! I want to star tdoing this for my jam band so thanks for the tips!

 

[philb]

It sounds great Mark !

 

[gibson5413]

Sounds good as always. I look forward to your CAE clips. You really have that amp dialed in!

 

[tweed]

Oh my that sounded good


edit: All that sauce coming from the GMajor II?

 

[Mark Day]

Oh my that sounded good


edit: All that sauce coming from the GMajor II?

Thanks and yes all sauce from GmajII

Mark

 

[thenine]

man that sounded great! Your builds are excellent. Whats yer secret to getting that slick tone out of the g-major? mini-mix?

 

[Mark Day]

man that sounded great! Your builds are excellent. Whats yer secret to getting that slick tone out of the g-major? mini-mix?

KILLDRY and Minimix is the trick.


Mark

 

[Jay Strange]

Dude, nice chunky tone right there!! great job and great playing
and great tone!!