Image of the Day: Kevin Sheilds Guitar Rig

Just in case you were curious..... by contrast, the Ramones take a more simplified approach (and seem to have one toy missing from the rig above: a tuner. Perhaps one could be hiding in there somewhere).  

via Guitar Geek

Comments

[jmb]

i like how in interviews sheilds always said "there were no real studio tricks recording loveless, just distortion and tremelo." yeaaaahhhhhhh, riiiiiiiiight.

[Kevin]

how come the stack on the right for the Ramones isn't plugged in? is it just there for symmetry?

[Clayton]

Listening to Loveless, most of the "tricks" seem to be subtle mixing techniques and simple effects that practically every guitarist uses. There's some reverse reverb and that sort of thing; a lot of the magic is in his playing, but the real genius of that record is in the mixing and mastering.

I think the thing that Kevin Shields was trying to emphasize in a lot of those interviews was that, in spite of popular opinion, there were usually only a couple of guitar tracks at most on each track, and that the effects were used sparingly.

[Dave the Spazz]

The Ramones traveled with several empty Marshall cabinets which they used for stage dressing.

[Kevin]

Oh, is that common knowledge? Like would Andy Breckman know it? Now I feel like a dolt.

[Parq]

First one to say anything about "eleven" has to do the dishes.

[big kitty]

do these come from some source that documents various guitar rigs?

[doron]

yes... in my haste to post I left that out: http://guitargeek.com

[fugazi vs ozzy]

go to that sit and look up fugazi

[D2]

For a real treat, look up Mascis on there.

[Brian Wandtke]

The Ramones