During the pandemic, EQD Production Manager Jeff France built an amazing and amazingly complex basement wall-sized audio/visual/gear behemoth for a musical and video project. It features numerous pedals, mixers, samplers, and 11 televisions and VCRs. Yeah, really, VCRs!
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We've teamed up with Sweetwater (the world's leading music technology and instrument retailer) to show how well pedals work with synths and in electronic-based music and in-the-box productions.
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The Afterneath has a bit of a reputation as an ambient player's dream or a tiny chaos machine, but if you only have space for one reverb on your pedalboard ... get a bigger pedalboard!
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The very-much-in-demand bassist talks to EarthQuaker Devices about her current touring rig, traveling during a pandemic, and the pressure of performing on television way past her usual bedtime.
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Guitarist Nels Cline has a musical career that spans 40 years and reaches into many genres and styles of music and more than 200 recordings as a bandleader, sideman, and guest.
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“This is a historical place and people should know the history of it,” says Different Fur Studios owner Patrick Brown.
It’s true -- the discography of the San Francisco-based recording studio reads like a list of the most influential albums of all time.
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“It’s not musical and I like that,” says Justin Pearson.
For more than a decade Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Retox, Head Wound City) and Joey Karam (One Day as a Lion) have attacked eardrums and melted faces with their deconstructed avant-grindcore assault as members of the Locust. We recently met up with Justin and Joey at an undisclosed Los Angeles locale to concoct some Plague Soundscapes of our own…
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I wanted to move away from home, get a BMX bike, and a Moog. Those were the two things that were on my list, and those were the first two things that I did.
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It’s been fifteen years since Fugazi last performed, but their improvisational impulses remain intact in the Messthetics, a jazz-inspired group led by virtuoso guitarist Anthony Pirog and featuring Fugazi’s unmistakably muscular rhythm section of bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty…
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