I'm shocked, Frankly.

Drew · 12-03-2008, 09:45 PM

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We used a lot of speaker simulators: the Palmer and an old Marshall SE 100 and an SPL Transducer, which basically replaces your speaker bottom: you go from your speaker jack of your amp into one of these things, then right into Pro Tools or whatever you want to go into. About 85% of the guitars were done at home, so that was my system. In the studio we had the Peavey JSX bottoms and some old vintage bottoms I’ve had for a couple of decades, and we would sometimes go back to going direct, or we would use some combination of the cabinets with mics and stuff like that.

I normally have a pretty good ear for this stuff, but listening to it I thought Joe had put aside his Palmer when he recorded his last album. Crazy.

ohio_eric · 12-03-2008, 10:10 PM

Speaker simulation and such has come along way. Of course there are a lot of examples of unlikely suspects providing utterly bad ass tones.

TimSE · 12-03-2008, 10:10 PM

shocking...

Shawn · 12-04-2008, 02:56 AM

I haven't even picked up his new one yet.

BigM555 · 12-04-2008, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawn

I haven't even picked up his new one yet.

Likewise. Everyone said it was utter crap and I pretty much completely forgot about it.

Really should pick it up though. It IS Joe.

Drew · 12-04-2008, 02:58 PM

Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised by the new one. It's no "Crystal Planet," and it follows the recent trend of understated Satriani albums (he only really pulls out all the stops in a few places on the album), but the songwriting is head and shoulders better than his last couple.

Jeff · 12-04-2008, 03:33 PM

I really enjoyed the new one, much more so than Is There Love in Space, Super Colossal, and Strange Beautiful Music.

Drew · 12-04-2008, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff

I really enjoyed the new one, much more so than Is There Love in Space, Super Colossal, and Strange Beautiful Music.

More than those three put together, in fact.

Pete · 12-04-2008, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Drew

More than those three put together, in fact.

I couldn't disagree more.

I really thought Super Colossal had some good material, but I’ll concede that Is There Love in Space and some of Strange Beautiful Music were a bit weak. I still feel that Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock missed the mark on a lot of levels for me.
Let’s face it; Joe has been skating by with rehashed songs for quite a while now and I feel he really needs to change things up on his next album much like he did with Engines of Creation.