Rivers of Nihil's Brody Uttley and Adam Biggs perform "Airless" from their latest album "The Conscious Seed of Light" out now on Metal Blade Records. All guitar and bass sounds were recorded DI and run through either the Metal Amps EZmix pack or the Andy Sneap EZmix pack for EZmix 2. All drums are EZ Drummer plus the Metal! EZX pack.
Guitar signal chain:
Ibanez RGD2127z w/ Seymour Duncan Pegasus/Sentient - Presonus AudioBox 22VSL- Cubase 5
Bass signal chain:
Spector Legend Classic 6 w/ SSD EMGS - Presonus AudioBox 22VSL - Cubase 5
Metal Amps EZmix Pack:
Metal Amps EZmix Pack comes with a collection of 50 guitar and bass tones based on IRs and modeling of some of the most well known high gain amps and speaker cabinets of the past decades. All presets were custom-made by renowned engineer Jocke Skog and designed to cater to a broad use spanning all the fragmented genres in classic and modern metal.
"After having spent 20 years looking for the perfect guitar tone and recorded IRs for as long as I can remember, I have a pretty good idea where to start, what to avoid and what to look for. I am confident that anyone into thrash, death, black, djent or any type of metal in between will find several tones that sound absolutely right."
The pack focuses primarily on rhythm guitar and bass tones. Each setting comes with a set of user-adjustable parameters, allowing you add more or less of its unique characteristics to tweak and customize the preset into your own custom sound.
From the several hundred IRs that were recorded for this session, Jocke boiled it down to the 50 absolutely stand-out ones and delivered a collection of guitar and bass tones that will cover your fundamental needs in anything related to producing great metal guitar and bass tones. All in one package.
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Andy Sneap EZmix Pack:
This expansion for EZmix 2 was personally designed by British superstar producer Andy Sneap. It focuses primarily on guitar and bass tones but also includes a selection of settings for lead vocals, background vocals and drums. Over the last couple of decades, Andy's mixes have seen him rise to international fame, lent him work on albums by some of the biggest names in modern metal and overall, his skills have had an instrumental role in shaping the sound of metal as we know it in the new millennium. Andy's discography reads like a who's who in recent metal history and includes the likes of DevilDriver, Saxon, Testament, Exodus, Accept and Killswitch Engage, to name a few.
The included guitar and bass tones were emulated and EQ-matched against the source material from some of the most noted productions in his extensive catalogue. The end result presents a jaw-dropping similarity and gives you a multitude of options for bass guitar as well as clean, rhythm and lead guitar. Add to that Andy's custom settings for various lead vocals, background vocals and drums and you'll have a set of extremely powerful audio shaping tools that will add a new dimension to your songs.
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Metal! EZX:
What happens when you put a massive, all-new drum recording in the hands of three of the most in demand producers in modern metal, let them bring it to their own studio environments and equip them with an unparalleled set of audio shaping tools? You not only get a collection of nine custom drum kits -- you get a rampant battery armed for complete audio destruction. A nine-headed behemoth that leaves nothing but rubble behind. Nothing.
The Metal! EZX is based on a new drum recording engineered by Daniel Bergstrand in Norway's highly unique Tanken Studio. The raw material was then individually remixed by Mark Lewis, Jason Suecof and Daniel Bergstrand himself into nine drum kits tailor-made for metal. Between them, these three producers have worked with some of modern metal's most influential acts as well as those pioneering today's multifaceted scene: Meshuggah, In Flames, Trivium, Whitechapel, DevilDriver, The Black Dahlia Murder, God Forbid and Dimmu Borgir, to name a few. The Metal! EZX also comes with a versatile collection of grooves and fills performed by Soilwork and metal drummer extraordinaire Dirk Verbeuren.
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All instruments recorded by Brody Uttley
All video shooting and editing by Paul Chrismer
Rivers of Nihil: / riversofnihil
Metal Blade Records: / metalbladerecords
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Seymour Duncan: / seymourduncanpickups
Ibanez: / ibanezguitars
Spector: / officialspector
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