Look who’s ready for your next gig – oh shiiii it’s the Signaturetone Live Rig, aka the Cowboy/Samurai (anyone into William Gibson?)!
Local live sound guru and all around music aficionado Tim Anderson and Signaturetone have teamed up to offer our services for live album recording! From simple stereo bootlegs to fully mixed and mastered 16 channel studio quality discs, we have your sound covered. Use our contact form to tell us your needs and we’ll make the magic happen at your next gig.
In order: Grapes ‘n Tape, the sound of dynamics crying, and one of the reasons I’ve been posting very sparsely recently (80 breweries + my birthday + biking = oh shiiiiiiii).
Whew. Summer got busy all the sudden, eh? Anyone else getting that? Let’s throw a list out there:
Blue Ox, We Are Legion, Don’t Worry I’m A Doctor – let’s hide from the henious July heat together in my air conditioned Audio Dungeon!
Sweet. All kinds of good stuff coming out of the Signaturetone vault, expect new songs on the player soon. Also, here’s the third installment of a video series on the Our Judgment session put together by the wonderful Rico Roman, you can find one and two back there at those links in blue.
Oh to be young again. Anyways, we’ve got slots open in August and some rapidly dwindling July time, so hit me up on the contact form and let’s make some music, eh?
-adam, busy making you sound like the Champions of Sonics you all are
SO. I’m thinking about adding to Signaturetone’s studio drum collection. Currently we have a really nice Mapex Saturn Pro full kit (10/12/14/16/22), a Gretsch Catalina full kit, a few good snares, and some decent cymbals of various makers and styles. But I have a feeling you’d be ok with more toys…who isn’t?
If anyone reading this has any suggestions about what they’d like to see as a performer and artist walking into our space, hit me up at adam@signaturetonerecording.com. I have a few thoughts, but I’m curious about what would make you the most happy. Tons of kicks to choose from? A wide array of cymbals? Another full matched shell set with different size options? Let me know what you think, drum-divas.
Guitarists need not response – we have you covered (see my geekouts below).
-adam, looking out for the clientelle with the hittin’ sticks
Oh Wisconsin. I miss you. I miss playing horrible basements in Milwaukee, wonderful dive bars in Stevens Point, and my friend’s barn in Wausau. It’s been a long while since I was metaling it up round there, it seems. So I’ll be damned if I didn’t (at my ripe old age of 26) get made to feel like an old man compared to the fresh and energetic young men in Our Judgment from good old Eau Claire WI this weekend. Steve H and I cut the tracks for their upcoming ep “To Be Human” which Steve will be mixing with me on the final mix/master helm. Get ready for some good old fashioned death/thrash/core heaviness soon, I’m stoked on how these guys stepped up to the plate for this one!
Sidenote – guitar players, just buy an Engl Powerball and be done with it. Just like Billy D Williams says “It Works Every Time”.
Marshall JMP MK2 ’79 w/matching Marshall 4×12 w/25w Celestion Blackback’s (aka the best Marshall I’ve ever heard)
Engl Powerball w/matching massive wave of heavy metal from any cab it plugs into
Not pictured here: Fender Bassman 200 watt head, Showman 100 watt head, 4×10 Super Reverb Combo, Peavey 5150 2×12 combo, Matchless Lightning 15 head w/matching 2×12 cab.
Holy hell. What. Um. Man.
Our guitar amp collection is getting out of hand. Every one of these amps is completely amazing in it’s own right, but all together? BOOOOOOOM. You are DONE.
Don’t even get me started on our Ampeg B-15 Portaflex bass head.
Oh Phantom Tails. Rising from the ashes of one of my favorite local acts Plastic Chord, their new disc (freshly final mixed and mastered by yours truly) is a killer mashup of thick synths, banging drum machines, clanging chains, and catchy as hell vocals. Right up my alley indeed. I’m really happy to be a part of this one – go get ‘em gents, subsonic synth Minneapolis like there’s no tomorrow!
SO – come out and see them tonight @ The Nomad World Pub near Cedar/Riverside with Eve and the Apple, check out their new tune in my player, and get ready to hear this badboy on The Current soon. Jea.
It’s only my literal top 4 favorite heavy acts in the city playing at show where one of them is releasing my first internationally credited disc! How much more do I need to say other than see you there - I’ll be the one that knows all the songs (except you, Guzzlemug…soon, though, soon).
Fire up the music player for a killer new jam from singer/songwriter/all around chap Marty Brueggermann, featuring yours truly on the bass. I’m stoked on this one, we got to put the time and effort in to really get some deep textured drum and guitar tones and mix it to a T. For fans of pleasing uppick dub-style rock, killer drumming, and being a pro.
-adam, getting the fat fingers on the tracks whenever’s clever
Attn Bands: Fenderstorm is a sweet name for all your song/album/band needs. Feel free to borrow, just credit me when people tell you how rad you are.
SO – we got Fender. After messing around looking for these for a while we finally decided to…um…stop messing around. I was in trouble three words into that. I’m going to be digging into them to tweak the cabs for studio use asap, but on first listen I’d say anyone needing high wattage clean round tone and doesn’t own quite the right amp for it is in good hands.
Attn: bands pt. 2 - we are already booking pretty hard for May/June so if you want prime dates get a hold of me soon!
I just realized how long it’s been since I updated – woof! A few long weekends and a bunch of work on The Sextons/Subdivider material will do that. Keep an eye peeled for a new information section on the site – we’re expanding into on location recording and in-practice-space preproduction services! Let me know if you’re interested, I’ll have some official info up soon.
Also some smoking live jazz feat. yours truely on the upright tonight and http://www.artistsquarter.com in beautiful downtown St. Paul, 7:00-8:30. It’s getting pretty out there, consider stepping out along with us!
Above: Men With Whom I Have A Comfortable Musical Rapport/Relationship + Studio/Seeger/Sweet Nectar of Cheap Goodness
Whew. I get tired just listening to the new track I posted from Kentucky Beltfight (members of 20 Dollar Love, The Skullcranes, The Ugly Fat Kids, Orange Blank, Kwang, The Summer People, American Penetration, Fatty Acid). It’s like a trucker running dangerous curves all hopped up on blue flake trying to deliver the nitroglycerine shipment to the nursery. It’s DANGER. I’m super pumped on this new project, every band these gents are in get better and better. Here’s hoping the acoustic-y bluegrass aspect will get them some head turns.
Taxes are done. Also in the can: a large mastering/organizing proj for The Devil’s Basement, the aforementioned Kentucky Beltfight disc, the final Korat Grey Band master (delicious dual female fronted smokey original blues, coming soon to the player), some VO editing for threevolts, a mix of a live background track for The New Monarchs (CD release THIS FRIDAY @ The 501) and THIS VERY POST.
