The 'Which Guitar Gear on Which Album?' Compendium

[shredder10]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXvZ9kiCfz8

You can actually figure out quite a few of the gear used here.
OD808, Washburn, Ibanez & Gibson Guitars. No cabs around =(

[10_COURICS_ALONE]

Great list! Thanks for the job

[qwer]

"As I Lay Dying - Shadows are Security

Pickup: Gibson passives from older Les Paul"

- What pickups exactly?

[Sora01]

Guess I'll do an obvious one

Periphery - Self Titled

Guitars: EBMM JP7, Blackmachine b6

Pickups: EBMM: Custom piezo. Blackmachine b6: BKP Painkillers (pretty sure)

Amp: Axe-Fx Ultra: Fas modern amp sim with custom impulse cab sim.

Bass: Line 6 pod xt

[Fragle]

Neaera - Armamentarium

quad tracked, 2 tracks 5150 2 tracks dual rectifier.
guitar used: esp horizon with SD jeff beck pickups (IIRC, definitely duncans of some sort)


Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance

Guitars also quad-tracked. main pair is a zoom tri-metal through a marshall jcm2000 dsl 100, second pair is a pod pro, much lower in the mix.


and an obvious one:

retaliation - seven

quad tracked
main pair: tubescreamer - krank revolution - mesa OS 412 v30 loaded
second pair: tubescreamer - peavey 5150 lead channel - same cab
bass: sansamp psa-1
guitar used: esp ltd mh-400 w/ emg81 pickups.

[Loren Littlejohn]

If Hope Dies: Life In Ruin

Engineer: Jason Suecof
Guitars: Not sure, most likely LTD.
Pups: EMG 81/85
Amps: 5150 sig and Mesa dual rec
Cab: marshall 1960BV and genz benz 2X12
Mics: MD421, 57, and beyer m201.
Primary person recording the tracks: Thad Jackson

If Hope Dies: Siege Equipment for Spiritual Decline

Engineer: Gabe Solomon
Amp: 5150
Cab: "some sort of cab with vintage 30s"
Mics: Dual mic sm57 and beta 57a

[Arterial]

Originally Posted by Sora01

Guess I'll do an obvious one

Periphery - Self Titled

Guitars: EBMM JP7, Blackmachine b6

Pickups: EBMM: Custom piezo. Blackmachine b6: BKP Painkillers (pretty sure)

Amp: Axe-Fx Ultra: Fas modern amp sim with custom impulse cab sim.

Bass: Line 6 pod xt

Didn't they use an ENGL Invader to record?
Also, Misha used a Cold Sweat bridge, Painkiller neck for his Blackmachine.

[Harry Hughes]

Originally Posted by Arterial

Didn't they use an ENGL Invader to record?
Also, Misha used a Cold Sweat bridge, Painkiller neck for his Blackmachine.

No, all guitars are direct with Axe FX amp modeling.
He does (has?) owned an Invader, but was never used for the album.

[Vinny]

Is this thread only for productions that Sneap has been involved in? Or can we add others that Sneap hasn't done? (but still on topic, obviously).

[zer0_c00l]

Dunno if its applicable here but is there some info on Architects - The Here And Now?

[AndrewB]

For the In Flames - Soundtrack to your Escape album, how would they use the Big Muff as a boost? Whenever I try it, it thickens it up, but it sounds too "fuzzy".

[Omar]

Really? Sneap used Livewires and 707s? I always thought he hated 707s and Seymour Duncan livewires, I figured he made Jeff Loomis use the 81-7 and Dave use EMGs.

[JeffTD]

Nope and nope.

[Omar]

Yeah, I knew that's what was in their signature guitars, but artists don't always use their signature equipment on the record. I've always found livewires to be kinda weak, and I've heard bad things about 707s from my seven string buddies.

[FrenchFrog]

Nothing about Fredrik Nordstrom?? I dig his way of recording guitars.
I know he's a fanboy of Engl Savage and double micing, sm57 (Marshall/Engl cab???) but no details about boost. I never saw a TS on photos/vids...
I think he uses 5150 pretty often (maybe to blend with Engl), right?

[FrenchFrog]

I particularly was thinking about Dream Evil's last album actually... but everything is good with the man hehe

[Genius Gone Insane]

I thought pretty much everyone recording live metal amps used a boost these days.

[Joshnano]

Trivium - In Waves (All for rhythm guitars)

Guitars: Gibson Les Paul Custom

Pickups: EMG 81

Boost: Maxon OD808

Amp: Peavey 5150 Blockletter

Cab: Mesa Recto & Mesa Oversized

Mics: SM57 & MD421





Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli


Guitars: ESP

Pickups: EMG 81

Boost: n/a

Amp: ENGL Special Edition & ENGL Savage 120

Cab: ENGL & Marshall

Mics: SM57 Straight to the grill; SM57 45 degree angle

[aytchster]

I'll fill in my band's setup for interested parties!

Benevolent - Divided EP
Guitars: Schecter C-7 Diamond Series, Ibanez AJD Artcore 6 string, Ibanez RG 7 String
Bass: Yamaha RBX 4 string
Amps/Cabs: Line6 POD Farm, and Avid Eleven Plugin
Pedals: POD X3 Live (For wah models)

Hadi

[Noisense]

In Flames - Sounds of a Playground Fading, info directly from Roberto Laghi!

Rhythm guitars were a mix of EVH 5153 and Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier into Mesa cabs.
Leads were a Marshall JMP 2203, he didn't mention what cab, but I believe it's same as the rhythm guitars!

He said nothing about any boosts, but that doesn't exclude the possibility.

[Torgal]

Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition

Amp: ENGL Savage 120
Guitars: Some Schecter Hellraiser V-FR with passive PUs (looks like SD Custom(bridge) and SD JB(neck))
ESP Eclipse II QM STBC fors Lee's solos

Unfortunately no cabs or mics known but due to gary's and andy's preferences an educated guess would be SM57 and some sort of V30 4x12.

documents:

You Tube

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[Mattayus]

After years of ambiguity surrounding this one, I've finally found info right from the horse's mouth about the tone on this album

You Tube

I found a forum post from like 2005, including one from Mark Hunter himself on the old old old Chimaira forum.

It's just 2 tracks of guitar, one left one right, Matt was going into his 5150II and Rob into his 5150, both into Mesa OS, no boosts.

Settings were: pre-10, low-5-6, mid-2, high-9, post-3, res-10, pres-7-8 for the 5150II, and for the 5150 apparently everything on 10

[Rex Rocker]

Originally Posted by qwer

- What pickups exactly?

+1

I wonder what they used to put on those old 70's-80's LPC's.

Current LPC's have 490R/498T, right?

[plague_rider]

Originally Posted by Mattayus

After years of ambiguity surrounding this one, I've finally found info right from the horse's mouth about the tone on this album

I found a forum post from like 2005, including one from Mark Hunter himself on the old old old Chimaira forum.

It's just 2 tracks of guitar, one left one right, Matt was going into his 5150II and Rob into his 5150, both into Mesa OS, no boosts.

Settings were: pre-10, low-5-6, mid-2, high-9, post-3, res-10, pres-7-8 for the 5150II, and for the 5150 apparently everything on 10

Wouldn't Andy have reamped this??

[Mattayus]

Only just noticed this! ^ sorry man!
Well no, since it was a Colin Richardson mix! And he didn't reamp, as far as I'm aware.