We got a chance to catch up with long-time Maxon user Erik Rutan of the band Hate Eternal and he gave us a tour of his studio, Mana Recording Studio in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Eric Rutan seems to have made good use of his money building his own studio. I wonder if he made a lot of money with morbid angel to start all this? He looks like he has a lot of joy in his work.
Dont really get into death metal,but now I know why I've always been interested in hate eternals sound.... Rutan knows exactly what hes doing.. thnx for the video...
I've been listening to this band since King of all Kings and i remember seeing them for the first time in Berlin together with Dying Fetus back in 2002, if i recall it correctly. Dying Fetus were great, but i have never listened to Hate Eternal before and they just blew my mind at this concert. The energy and the stil all together were pure hatred - unbelievable for me at the time. And they still got it. Seeing Rutan being so relax, he just a great guy and musician.
AWWWWWSOME!!!! When I was recording at MANA in 2011, Erik and I went to go purchase the picture frame since Phoenix amongst the ashes had just came in the mail that same day on vinyl
Awesome. Thank you a million for posting this. Really appreciated. Long life and mighty well wishes as always to Master Erik Rutan. Long Live Hate Eternal. The new album devastates. Thank you, Godlykeinc. You rule.
I've always honestly felt that Rectifiers blend extremely well with JCMs. I think that's why Boogie released the Stiletto series, which was essentially Mesa/Boogie's take at a Marshall on steroids.
What Hate Eternal did on the last album is fucking incredible. IMO this the prime example of how pure real Death Metal should sound like. For me No.1 in metal this year (still waiting for the new Swallow The Sun triple album though). The time has come to get the T-shirt :) Greets from Poland
They mustv had a separate mic recording the audio(I would hope) and then lost it somehow so the only audio to use was the onboard camera mic which on an SLR would be shocking and it is shocking.
Re-amping is good for guitar tones when trying to discover which cone or mic sounds the best in my opinion. But he's right, it's good to have the direct just in case. He has a lot of great gear, like the LA-610 is amazing!
When he talked about the Marshall cab it reminded me of a story. I had bought a Marshall jtm60 combo and brought it home and my wife says it's beat up and old... I paused and said back to her that I like that it means someone loved it enough and it sounded good enough for someone to actually play it.
+rafael antonio charles thorne I think he used an Ibanez 7 string on Domination, but he definitely used the explorer on the older stuff when they played live.
Only been to a studio once. But i was unbelievably adamant on using my own amp. They always say tone is in the hands. Wrong. Feel is in the hands. Plug wayne static into scott ians rig. Gonna have yhe anthrax sound, but its gonna feel like static x.
The thing I'm wondering about is Bands going to record they use what he likes I don't get that if I was in a band go to the studio I would use what I like and what sounds best for the band not what the soundman likes that's why a lot of these bands they all sound the same because you're in the same studio
Not to be a douche but I hate when people tape up a cab to mark where the sweet spot for the mic position is--why not use a few little discrete dots with white out or something so it doesn't block any air from the speaker and look like ass.
How would you conclude such negativity about him? Have you heard his solos on the first Hate Eternal album and perhaps the Morbid Angel Track "inquisition" ?
