Kerry B - studio blog from the studiodog

[sunkissed]

glittercop.blogspot.com/

Mr. Mark Tulin [...] will [be] playing a 1963 Fender Jazz bass through a 1963 Ampeg Portaflex flip-top bass
amp [and] Billy is playing a 1961 Les Paul Junior Special through a Sound City Studio 20 amp, truly amazing sounding.

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Hey Brendo (or anyone who may know) you seem to know a fair bit about music equipment and all that, can you give us a walk through in regards to the equipment they're using and the difference between analog and digital recording? If you've got some time haha!

[brendo]

analog v. digital... basically analog sounds better, because of the way the tape reacts to audio - you can push it a little harder and it compresses nicely, or back off and it's nice and clear.


the sound city studio 20 is a home stereo styley amp, 20w dual el84. probably rewired for guitar, el84's are usually jangly/chimey/dirty, which is all fun stuff.

oh and the portaflex, the B-15 is a very versatile studio rig, for just about any style of music, any room, any bass, any player etc.

[brendo]

Reading through their drum mic pick list now, and wow, I actually own some of those mics and have used several more of them.

Pretty much every microphone he's listed is a "classic". Surprised he put the 47 on floor instead of kick, but then he's already got three mics on the kick.

[sunky]

Great video update from Kerry, Mike, Mark and Billy: www.twitvid.com/6E5F1

Answers the big questions of "will Billy get bored with this project" ...

[Josh]

yeh, loved that question too! Julie and i talked about that topic in LA over dinner once... heh.

[siamese]

The new clip up is a massive letdown! Billy playing? no its just the doll

[sunky]

I thought it was funny, took me back to the Vieuphoria days.