Slipperman's Recorded Guitars From Hell

[T Gobbs]

Since nobody's posted it yet:

Full text of "Slipperman's Recording Distorted Guitars From Hell (readable Version)"

 

[Blix]

This has been my signature on GS for like 20+ years:
"This person is a guitar player. They have the intellectual capacity of freshly mown grass. Do not ALLOW them to think. That will doom the record." Slipperman

 

[newholland]

hahah- thats hilarious stuff and totally worth a read! its funny how few people actually think about this stuff in reality.

 

[T Gobbs]

Does anyone here have any of the mp3s he recorded towards the end?

 

[2112]

This is an absolute classic.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

And it actually contains some real great recording tricks.

 

[newholland]

id never seen this, but its basically impossible to not like this guy and what he stands for.

 

[Orvillain]

Ahhh I remember discovering that write up yonks and donkeys and dicks ago. More or less was properly formative for me, I imagine similar for @MirrorProfiles and any other ex-Sneapsters ?

Was one of the first times I'd really considered that you don't have to utterly twat-crank the master volume of an amp to get good tones.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

definitely takes me back years. It's crazy to think now how there was an era where this kind of information from the "inside" was almost impossible to access. Sound On Sound/Mix, the Sneap forum and to a lesser extent "the forum formerly known as gearslutz" were about as much as you could glimpse into how the pro's were making records.

With hindsight, for all the good information contained within, there was probably enough bad/conflicting/distracting advice that probably do more harm than good. This write up is kind of that, there's a mix of good, bad, helpful and unhelpful stuff in there that is sometimes perfect, and sometimes going to set you down the wrong path.

Kind of crazy now just how accessible EVERYTHING is if you want to dive deeper. Its all there if you want it.

 

[bucephalus]

utterly twat-crank

I'm stealing this

 

[Sascha Franck]

Too bad the guy died in 2022. RIP.

Fwiw, sorta related: Mixerman's diaries (who worked with Slipperman, IIRC). Incredibly funny (not available for free anymore).

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Too bad the guy died in 2022. RIP.

Fwiw, sorta related: Mixerman's diaries (who worked with Slipperman, IIRC). Incredibly funny (not available for free anymore).

Yup!
His Zen of… books are there. If anyone looks for it.

 

[EOengineer]

Jesus I remember that thread when it was new. Feeling real old. Was def pivotal in my development a better understanding of recording distorted electric guitars.

I guess it’s not a total surprise a bunch of us where on the same path considering how compartmented a lot of this info was in the late 90s and early 2000s.

 

[Cirrus]

Too bad the guy died in 2022. RIP.

Fwiw, sorta related: Mixerman's diaries (who worked with Slipperman, IIRC). Incredibly funny (not available for free anymore).

I have to admit I went off Mixerman - Eric had a forum like 2010-2015, something like that, and it was an absolute treasure trove of experience and advice, good traffic, good ratio of experienced posters to honest novices. One day Eric decided forums were done, and just deleted the whole thing. Basically no warning, gone forever. Felt like a slap in the face to a lot of good people who had given their time freely.

 

[Sleezy E]

I'm stealing this

Never touch another man's twat-crank*

*without permission

 

[Dogboy]

Does anybody know how to find archived episodes of the Mixerman, Slipperman, Aardvark show? I’ve looked, but no luck.