Re: What can Paul Gilbert's Airplane Flanger do for you?
Flangers FTW. Great tracks Joe! Your band sounds tighter than ever and your tone kills on those recordings :fing2:
There's no EQ on the guitars throughout the disc. Cut flat, mixed flat!
There's the occasional high pass filter in at 40-60Hz in a few spots, mostly to reduce the speaker flub & clear out the ultra-bottom end but that's about the extent of it! About the only tweak made to Joe's multiple rigs was moving mics and mucking about with the presence knob on the VHT.
We also didn't use any vibe-replacer on the drums or anything. Not even a snare sample, those are 100% real drums! Those guys played everything themselves... no "toolz" studio magic on this one.
Anyway! That's MY freakin' Airplane Flanger from MY toybox!!!
Nobody ever gets to hear the five or six other junk takes, they only hear the one that lives! And Joe hated that solo when he cut it!!! Wanted to kill it... I thought he was crazy, so did the rest of the band. Then, like two weeks later its his favorite solo on the record!!!
Yeah, well... told you so!
I love the airplane. Pre-ordered that thing and waited months & months for it to arrive with no clue about how it sounded. Figured it was purple, a flanger, and designed by Paul Gilbert... how could I go wrong???
So far it hasn't disappointed. I can get everything from a simple swirly thing through "parked wah" filter matrix tones as well as the Steve Stevens 'ray gun' effects out of that box. Too cool. That's why it got stashed in the chest for his record, I knew there would be a place for it somewhere!
