Pedal To The Metal: Death From Above | House Of Strombo

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There’s a lot of beautiful noise being generated by these two dudes. Jesse, the man behind the shreds and keys of Death From Above, reveals the blueprint of their tones.
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[@7hillumi]

my favorite band of all !

[@brentwoods7450]

I have no clue what Jesse is talking about when he goes over his gear, but I love to hear him explain the sound

[@josh0eater0of0happy]

Brent Woods I feel the exact same way

[@F1emingo]

Holy shit, that's how he gets such a wide stereo sound in recordings. I thought that on DFA records he would record 2 bass parts and pan them left and right, but that's just a chorus pedal, damn!

[@justintanner5261]

Same! That's how I was doing my covers, but that changes a lot knowing it's a chorus.

[@wingracer1614]

I know this is a 3 year old comment but just wanted to say that he's not really using the chorus. He just uses it as a splitter basically. He didn't have an AB box at the time to do the dual amp setup but he had that old stereo chorus so he uses the standard mono out to go to one amp and the stereo out to go to the other amp. He has an AB box now but that's actually to switch to the synth which he also runs through the bass amps.

[@nouveaumanifesto]

​@wingracer1614 you can very clearly hear chorus in the earlier recordings. it just isn't a LOT of chorus. it's a little bit.

[@dinnorita]

I aways come back to this video whenever I'm looking for a good tone reference. Jesse is such a genius when it comes to that, and his riffs He really knows how to make the most out his gear

[@markwullenschneider195]

Bass and drums where awesome 2nd time seeing live been about 8 years .the other night! Glad to see things getting back to normal;) denver fan keep it up y’all

[@coleemmersonhallman5329]

I see Jesse finally got it to say JFK

[@PineappleStickers]

Cole Emmerson Hallman i was just about to comment exactly this!

[@MVenk]

I'm playing a show in about 1 month and need to learn as much as possible since it's only me and the drummer. So here I am.

[@finleywaye]

how did it go? :)

[@MVenk]

@@finleywaye it went great lol

[@runnersdialzero1244]

I can't believe Jesse knows what headroom is.

[@dut5725]

Ah yes, my black and white receptors really enjoyed this video.

[@cookiecookies2870]

So who disliked this, why? You shouldn’t

[@a1d5]

this is amazing.. lmfao 100db not even hooked up to the pa?!

[@spentfromnz]

Okay so his Morley ABY has the "A and B" locked with a cable tie, and looks like it is just used to switch "A or B" for bass or synth. Then it seems it's the Ibanez CS9 Stereo Chorus that's actually splitting the sound to the two amps. So my question is, how is ground loop hum not an issue?

[@spentfromnz]

As for the Octrons, looks like they both have Oct Down turned all the way off, then amp one (F800G) has Dry at 100% and Oct Up at ~80%, while amp two (450B) has Dry at ~80% and Oct Up at ~70%.

[@boyman7823]

@@spentfromnz he didnt use any octaves until the last album, id say those octrons are there to shape the harmonics of the distortion and give some texture at most.

[@CODY_MUSIC]

Trying to get this sound with a basic amplifier EQ and a bass overdrive and a big muff is a bitch but you can still get a beautiful dirty DFA sound at least

[@l.alcacer1063]

Thanks god! a musician! not a technician!

[@mattadams4001]

A Gibson Grabber for $325?!

[@wingracer1614]

Pre Nirvana, you couldn't give away a Gibson bass.

[@marcdonaldson7951]

@@wingracer1614 2001 would be post nirvana though?

[@wingracer1614]

@@marcdonaldson7951 Yes, so? 1990 they were worthless. 2001 they apparently were worth 325.

[@in_the_pines]

@@wingracer1614 pre Nirvana that's about how much he would have paid for a new one