We’ve reported not too long ago on main guitar stars who’ve gone totally digital onstage – howdy, Mark Knopfler – and now Sons of Apollo’s Bumblefoot has stepped as much as reveal that in relation to recording, he doesn’t hassle with guitar amps in any respect.
In a current interview with Premier Guitar, the man born Ron Thal was requested what his amplifier setup seems like for residence recording functions.
“This can piss off the purists,” responded the ‘Foot. “My guitar, plugged into my pc, and both an IK Multimedia AmpliTube or a Line 6 Helix Native.
“Ampless.”
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Bumblefoot’s Sons of Apollo band mate, Billy Sheehan, additionally gave a shout-out to the Helix, and defined that when the band tracked their new album, MMXX, “It was all direct.”
Sheehan stated, “I used the Helix and an Ashly Audio compressor. The Helix has been wonderful for doing tracks. If anyone calls me, I seize it, put it in the automobile, get there, and get every little thing we want – it’s actually been great.”
“Typically in a session, I’ll plug proper into the console, add just a little EQ, probably a contact of compression, and play like that – relying on the session, of course. For Sons of Apollo, we would have liked a extremely grindy, pounding, horrifying bass tone. I’m actually happy with the method it got here out.”
Bumblefoot additional elaborated on his gear strategy by explaining, “I’ve been a Line 6 man for 20 years, since the POD 2.0. Whenever you discover the proper impulse responses to make it really feel such as you’re shifting air, you’ll be able to actually get some good stuff taking place.
“And with the variety of touring I do, which is so various – sooner or later I’ll be doing a guitar clinic, the subsequent day I could be enjoying at an enormous pageant with a band, the day after that could be an acoustic present, or some variety of one-man storytelling night – it’s nice having all of your sounds there.”