Ed DeGenaro
Experienced
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Don't work with guys like Michael Wagener thenI love my FAS gear but still think amps are cool! The wood, tolex, chassis, electronic bits and... yummy, vacuum tubes....The tone! I think the kids must pay their dues and learn their way around gear at their own leisure/interest. Wanting to have your own gear on a record is understandable. Sometimes those items combined (instrument/amp/pedal) are what inspired the song in the first place!
If the studio doesn't have the capability of recording their preferred instruments maybe the client should look elsewhere. I'd appreciate suggestions to try different gear but would be pissed off, for example if someone wanted to impose for me to use the guitars or amps of their choice.
Being vehemently "anti-digital" or "anti-analog" are just two sides of the same coin. Just being devil's advocate here.
As for me, I'll be using exclusively my XL and/or AX8 for any and all of my future guitar/bass recordings in an effort to try to stay one step ahead and sound better than those "retro-analog-hipster" kids! (Which, IME, there aren't as many around, unlike those tech savvy kids that get killer tones with their Pod Farms and Bias Fx and an iPad, watch out for those trouble makers, LOL)