Satriani Interview

[Jimmy James]

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazin..._Wormhole.aspx

The new record is really really good.

[pickslide]

Definitely going to get this album. I really like this statement from the interview:

"We both plugged into some Marshalls that we had and we thought, “We gotta go back to playing Marshalls!”

[freedom's door]

Thanks for the link- i also found it interesting (though not surprising) that he's done with the JSX and back to Marshall.
Surprising to read that he records a lot of the guitars direct, then runs the recorded track through amps when mixing...

[cram]

cool. thanks for the link.

[metallica86]

I hope I can see he play If I could fly and Soul of distorion at live !!!

[TubeStack]

Originally Posted by pickslide

Definitely going to get this album. I really like this statement from the interview:

"We both plugged into some Marshalls that we had and we thought, “We gotta go back to playing Marshalls!”

I recently had the same experience. There really is no substitute.

[TubeStack]

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Have you stopped using the Peavey JSX amps completely?

I haven’t used the JSX amps since the Chickenfoot tour started over a year ago. We did that first club tour through the U.S. back in May of last year. When I got back, I met Sammy at his studio. We both plugged into some Marshalls that we had and we thought, “We gotta go back to playing Marshalls!” We knew what Chickenfoot really needed. He was playing is own Crate model before that. Just like that, the two of us switched to Marshall. The next week we flew to Vienna and Marshall had a bunch of amps waiting for us. Then I started trying to figure out how to use the JVMs, and I’ve had a lot of fun with those amps. They’ve been really amazing sounding on the Chickenfoot tour, and they wound up having a great presence on my new solo record.

They’re so articulate, which is so unusual when you’re looking for an amp that can handle lots of levels of gain. The engineer Santiago Alvarez at Marshall figured out a way to get them to be big and ballsy. They have a way of being very articulate, which really helps me out when I’m trying to concentrate on phrasing. I want people to hear every little nuance of my picking.

I saw you on the Chickenfoot tour right after the switch. Your sound was a lot more rugged.

It was much bigger. There’s no substitute for turning up loud and using an all tube amplifier. The EQ was passive, whereas the JSX had an active EQ. Part of the problem I had with Peavey is that after the amp initially came out, the changes that I wanted to see made to the amp were way too slow in coming. During the production of the Chickenfoot album we were working on a 50-watt head, and there was just no progress. It was grinding to a halt and I was wondering, “What is going on with you guys? How come there isn’t an engineer working on this stuff for me?”

If an artist is going to endorse a product, they have to get support from the company. If they don’t, then they give up too much by always having to play this thing that their name and face are attached to. Peavey makes a lot of great things, but at the time it seemed like the engineer they had was not really responding to me or the other artists enough. I either needed to not be endorsed by somebody, or go to a company where they really did want to help me out quickly, and make changes as changes were needed.