Slow and droning is kinda their thing though. Breathy vocals, Abe slamming the drumkit. In the best ways slow and droning can be. White Pony is elite heavy sexytime music, Adrenalin and Around the Fur are young band taking baby steps into their own heavy nu while showing glimmers of their own thing and where they will ultimately go.
Great summary.
A friend of mine has the Uber Synergy module, and I agree, while it does the heavy thing so well, and I don't play metal or heavy music, it also does the lower/mid gain thing extremely well, IMO, and if I were to go to Synergy, I'd have no problem using just that module.
Abe is super underrated imo. I kinda throw him in with the drummer from Live where he doesn't stand out unless you are listening for it.
Agree! I have a big Helix as well and IMHO it’s by far the best user experience in that world and I love its effects. That said… I have an HX One for my traditional boards for the poly capo mainly. All the other “digital capos” suck hard and that includes Fractal and QC and the Digitech Drop
Of course White Pony is a classic. The later albums in no particular order Saturday Night Wrist, Koi No Yokan, Diamond Eyes, and Private Music are all great IMHO
He’s an amazing drummer and I would even venture to say he makes the band way better rhythmically. I don’t think I’d like them as much if it wasn’t for him.
yeah agreed. There are no "bad" Deftones albums tbh. They all range from really good to great.
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I honestly don’t use many effects at all, and mostly it’s stuff I sprinkle in, like chorus, for my own enjoyment more than anything else, so, I’ve thought quite a bit about using a minimal board, with an HX One for poly capo, but unfortunately, that is cutting it down a little too much.
I was kinda confused about that as well.
Honestly, based on that video I wouldn’t expect him to have much awareness of the finer points of the devices. The Helix was more than likely just the first piece of gear he tried that had something gapless and he just ran with it.
