Sunday, June 20, 2010

Worthy quote: Anders Bjorler (The Haunted/ At The Gates)


"In the past I experimented a bit with pedals, but it got too much. It was always in the way of making the show somehow. Too many extra things to concentrate on. But I don't think you need much more than to plug a guitar right in & just mess about with what's there, let the fingers do the work. This is my motto on guitar playing I think: If it sounds crap without effects- no effect in the world can help you."

This is not a call for everyone to ditch pedals & plug straight through but a reminder of the working fundamentals. The truest tone you can achieve is not having any pedals to come between your instrument & the amp. If you have to employ pedals, chances are, you prefer hearing your tone that way. You don't mind the compromise, in fact, you embrace it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Anders is an underrated guitar-king-composer. And on top of that, he's a nice bloke. Anders rules!

Kim Larsson/Eremonaut

subversion.sg said...

i just look up to him as one of those people who have lots of focus when getting the job done.