Watched "Spiritbox" Tsunami Sea Tour in Chicago!

[littlebadboy]

My son treated me to a concert last Friday of one of my favorite current bands, Spiritbox! They performed at the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.





Interesting gear. I wonder what they are:




The venue was beautiful too!






We both had so much fun! Openers were Dying Wish and Loathe, in that order. We only caught the 3 last songs of Loathe because my train ride got cancelled. I was there for Spiritbox anyway. I didn't like the acoustics of the venue, but I was there for the experience anyway, as all concerts that I go to.

To those of you who are not familiar with Spiritbox:

 

[DrewJD82]

Sweet! Glad ya had a good time!!!

Music is pretty much the only bond I have with my dad, so I always like hearing stories like that!

These guys are growing on me. I've had periods where I dismissed them for various reasons but I love a catchy chorus and they've got a few of em! I've heard the guitarist in some podcasts and I appreciate the amount of work he puts into the band and music. I know there's a crazy ass AxeFX preset he uses I've been meaning to download, a dude on the FAS forum made it and posted some vids of Spiritbox dude using it, it's a crazy ring modulator/whammy/noise thing. I just tried looking for it and can't find it, maybe I saw it on FB?

Anywho, in the process I see the dude from Spiritbox has uploaded his own AxeFX presets previously-

Axe-Change - Download Preset - SPIRITBOX LEAD - by MikeSpiritbox

Axechange - Fractal Audio Systems. The official source for presets and cabs for your Axe-Fx. Download presets and cabs, or upload your own creations.

axechange.fractalaudio.com

Axe-Change - Download Preset - SPIRITBOX HEAVY CHUNK - by MikeSpiritbox

Axechange - Fractal Audio Systems. The official source for presets and cabs for your Axe-Fx. Download presets and cabs, or upload your own creations.

axechange.fractalaudio.com

Edit- Found it! https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/ring-mod-lasers-delay-glitch-patch.207852/

Spiritbox dude is apparently using it on "Holy Roller" live.

 

[littlebadboy]

Sweet! Glad ya had a good time!!!

Music is pretty much the only bond I have with my dad, so I always like hearing stories like that!

Yeah, I also appreciate it that he likes listening to what I do. We watched Dream Theater, The Cult, Metallica together!

The guitarist, Mike Stringer, mentioned in the video below that he uses Fractal stuff, and everything is midi triggered so he doesn't have to do the tap dance. The hardware is just there for just in case something wrong happens. So, I guess the band plays to a click, which explains the keyboards sounds without a keyboardist visible on the stage.

 

[DrewJD82]

Yeah, I also appreciate it that he likes listening to what I do. We watched Dream Theater, The Cult, Metallica together!

The guitarist, Mike Stringer, mentioned in the video below that he uses Fractal stuff, and everything is midi triggered so he doesn't have to do the tap dance. The hardware is just there for just in case something wrong happens. So, I guess the band plays to a click, which explains the keyboards sounds without a keyboardist visible on the stage.

Oh yeah, they're absolutely playing to a click and running a decent amount of tracks behind them. I've watched some fan-shot live vids and ther have been times I've been curious how much of Courtney's live vocal is coming out of the PA in comparison to the tracks with those clean choruses. A lot of times you can hear the track and her live vocal and since she's great at what she does it's entirely possible she's just nailing it and they have the production dialed in so well it's indistinguishable from a track.

I saw a vid of Mike recently from a previous NAMM show and if I remember right, he was using the looper in a live setting so he could play the chorus guitar part the first time around and then for the additional choruses he triggered the loop and played something on top of it. If that's indeed what he was doing, that's quite badass and a hell of a lot cooler than playing along to tracks!