Tom Dumont http://tomdumont.com -.. ..- -- --- -. - posterous.com Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:00:00 -0700 Riff tools http://tomdumont.com/riff-tools http://tomdumont.com/riff-tools

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I popped into Grover Jackson's workshop today to have a look at the new guitars he's building. Serious hand-built craftsmanship! These things look and play crazy nice.

GJ2 Guitars

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Chandler Limited designs high-end, hand-made studio gear, but they also just started making these guitar stomp-boxes. The "colored boost" (red) is a live rig necessity for me now. It makes a warm and ballsy drive but also keeps clarity and detail in the high end. The "germanium drive" (blue) creates some low-fi grit and will help my guitar poke into a studio recording mix with character. Nice stuff!
Tom

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My new amp for shredding at home.

It's a Divided By 13 - CCC9/15 with 2 x 12" cab.


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From Left to Right: TCE Flashback, Love Pedal Babyface Tremolo, Malekko Vibrato, Ibanez Flanger, Tone Candy Spring Fever (reverb), Zvex Box of Rock, TCE Polytune.

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No Doubt are in the studio for two weeks tracking a couple of new songs for our forthcoming album. A friend of ours named Spike is in the Producer's chair. I thought it'd be interesting to show you what it looks like, including some of the gear. We're in this place for 10+ hours a day at the moment, so there's plenty of downtime to take pictures. Enjoy!
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A couple of weeks ago No Doubt performed at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC. We were asked to be part of the musical tribute to Paul McCartney, who was one of the honorees this year. We performed a four-minute medley of Beatles songs: Hello Goodbye, All My Loving, and Penny Lane. This was a career highlight for us in so many ways. All of us in the band grew up loving Paul's music, and to perform these songs for Paul himself was mind-blowing to say the least. Not to mention nerve-wracking! And to add to the epicness of it all, this was in the Kennedy Center Opera House, full of folks like President Obama, loads of Senators and Congresspeople and lobbyists and Merle Haggard and Oprah, etc etc. Also I sat next to Florence Henderson at the State Department dinner. She was awesome.

Crazy!

The whole show including our performance will be shown on television on CBS on December 28, 2010 at 9:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT

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Gear: In the spirit of the memory of George Harrison, I had my trusty Hamer Monaco outfitted with a pair of TV Jones Classic pickups, to capture the vibe of an old Gretsch like George used to play. Below is a picture of the guitar, plus the pedalboard my buddy and long-time tech Donnie wired up just for this show. The pedals are: Eventide Timefactor, Malekko Ekko 616, and Boss Chromatic Tuner. I used the Eventide for delays on the Reggae upbeats on "All My Loving" and the Malekko for a slapback vibe on "Hello Goodbye." And then just straight guitar, no effects used on "Penny Lane."

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Today I have some studio gear for you to look at. With the arrival of computer-based music recording and production, the old rack mount outboard audio gear has become somewhat of a luxury now. You can effect your audio in a thousand ways with software plug-ins. Software sounds good and gives you the potential to make great sounding recordings at a tiny fraction of the cost of a real studio. However real hardware audio still sounds better than software to me, you are adding gain and distortion and overtones that make everything sound punchy just like back in the golden days of real recording studios.

You are looking at four items in the photo:
The two silver ones with black knobs are Pultec equalizers. This is a pair of mono units and I use them to pass my stereo mixes through. The design is from the 1950's and they are pretty simple to use. Select a frequency, and then boost or cut it. If you are not an audio person, it's kind of like a fancy set of Bass/Treble controls. These Pultec's use tubes, audio people love the sound of tubes, but it's beyond me to describe how they work. They do get hot and if something goes wrong in the unit, you can usually just replace a tube and you're all fixed up.

Next is the Manley Variable-MU in black with the two big white meters. This is a stereo compressor, and I put my mixes through this in-line behind the Pultec's. A compressor's role it hard to describe, but it basically smooths out the rough audio edges. Proper use of compression can make amateur recordings sound much more professional.

The last unit on the right is the Fulltone Tube Tape Echo. This is actually a guitar effect I covered in my last post. This unit has a tube and makes echo effects using a tape loop. The basic design is based on the old Echo-plex units, and this one is improved in many ways, while still giving that sound that we grew up hearing on countless records.

Okay that's it for today, take care until next time.

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