![]() When you play a part four times, the little idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies-as long as you're a really tight player-add another layer of dynamics to the guitars. Rutan adds, "Rob and I are very proficient at duplicating our performances tightly and that really adds to that wall of sound. "We try to play through each track as far as we can without doing punches, but this stuff isn't easy and we do punch in when it's a tricky part." ![]() 'Red Before Black' was excellent, right up there with 'Kill' and 'The Bleeding', so I have high hopes for this one too. "As soon as you get to the second track, it gets smoother and you can keep going," he says. CANNIBAL CORPSE Gearing Up To Release New Album First Single 'Inhumane Harvest' Streaming. You get a different character and dynamic in the overall tone that you don't even know is missing until you add that second amp in."įrom Barrett's perspective, the hardest part about the quad tracking process is simply getting through the first track. ![]() We'll have guitar tracks three and four around 5 to 7 dB lower in the mix than the main tracks. Then we find a second tone to add in for the third and fourth tracks, and that tone is not really about how it sounds on its own, but what it contributes to the overall sound when combined with the main tone. Rutan breaks down the madness behind the method: "Part of what I like to do is color the four tracks with multiple amps, so we'll start with a defining tone, which will be the main tone panned left and right. Rather than reamping a single performance or splitting the guitar signal to multiple amps to capture several sources in one take, the two guitarists each had to provide four individual performances of every one of the new album's challenging, often tremolo-picked, rhythm parts. The producer is adamant about quad-tracking rhythm guitars, a technique he says is key to creating the brutal wall of chainsaw axes that is Cannibal Corpse's calling card. ![]() Longtime producer Erik Rutan stepped into the guitar chair on Violence Unimagined, marking his first time as a songwriter for the band.Īfter working on five albums with the band, Rutan may have mastered the clandestine art of recording Cannibal Corpse, but that doesn't mean it's an easy gig. ![]() Yes, he’s most famous as the bull-necked singer with death metal juggernauts Cannibal Corpse (heads-up: they have a killer new album, Violence Unimagined, out April 16). George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher is a god amongst men. Stacking Up Corpses: Building the Band’s Rhythm Guitar Sound Stuffed toys, claw machines and Cher Cannibal Corpse frontman George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher is winning at life. ![]()
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