Gear used during recording of Riot Act

Originally posted by diffstroke
Matt Cameron has used what appears to be either a Yamaha Birch or Maple Custom Absolute...the yamaha website, and a Matt Cameron fan site says birch. Both are lovely sounding super high quality kits. It's hard to say what gear was used to record Riot Act. I've seen photos in the album booklet, w/ Matt using Yamaha...I saw tenclub.com photos of him playing his Ayotte kit in rehearsal...and I also saw some photos w/ a miked up DW kit that might be an older ones he used for some of the tracking. As far as snares and cymbals go...your guess is as good as mine. I do know that Cameron has used and endorsed Keplinger stainless steel snare drums for the longest time. They kick serious ass! The sound is evident on Riot Act...although knowing him and the sound....there are probably a few other snares as well.

You can see the Tony Williams influence a lot in the sizes of the drums Matt chooses. What a monster drummer! All of the kits mentioned above are all very well made and of the highest quality. To say that dw is better than ayotte, or better than yamaha, or orange county is better than all of them--would be incorrect. Matt gets his sound by playing the best drums for HIM. Also, I think that he would agree w/ me when I say that the biggest factor in getting a drumsound given the same relative level of quality in a drum kit (dw, ayotte, yamaha)... is the PLAYER-- that delivers the tone....his/her hands and technique and feel are what matter most.

same with anything skill oriented. I agree. Mike McCready can make a bad chinese Strat sound like God is playing it.

Mike & Stone no longer using those Savage Audio Blitz combos??

I tried out a few of those Savage amps. They're some of the best sounding amps I've ever tried.

If these Trentino amps wound up being the replacements, they must be straight from the gods.

Originally posted by Pacomc79
The Trentino is able to accept virtually any tube much like the THD UNIvalve. Enabling you the flexibility to virtually have any flavor you want in a tube amp.

Damned nice feature... does it auto-bias, or do you need to adjust it?

Originally posted by Pacomc79
same with anything skill oriented. I agree. Mike McCready can make a bad chinese Strat sound like God is playing it.

Oh my god, they make chinese strats??? I need to go buy one!

; )

I'm just trying to be funny, anyways...does anybody know how much one of the trentino's goes for? I'm guessing a grand or two.

Originally posted by WiLL75
does anybody know how much one of the trentino's goes for? I'm guessing a grand or two.

Yeah, for parts, maybe...

Shit, a stock Marshall JTM 45 reissue goes for $1,200. That's a factory-built mass-produced machine-wired job with cheap wood. Single channel, 6 valves, internal manual bias, no FX. The Trentino is a custom hand-built, hand-wired, one-off design with great wood, hand-built chassis, two discrete channels (basically two separate amps) with tremelo and reverb.

I say $4,000 or higher.

Of course, a vintage Fender Vibro Champ goes for $200-400. Not bad in comparison...

Originally posted by WiLL75
I was WAY off. My '73 bassman will just have to do for now, oh how will I make it out there with just the bassman...with it's warm
lovely tone. ; )

Ok so some pedals. then the '57 reissue strat, then the tretino, THEN, finally, years later, a les paul. ; )

That Bassman would be fine for me... is it a 50, 60, 70, or 100? A '57 RI Strat would sound great through a Bassman, especially with my 4x10" Weber-loaded speaker cabinet... come on over, we'll give it a try...

How close is missula to Whitefish? That's where I caught the train to go to NY to see pearl jam...I mean my friend....ok, to see pearl jam AND my friend.

yuppers, that looks like mine. I paid $500 canadian/$300 american for it.

This thread will rise again!

It is a great site, been there many a time. But I know there's new people on here who haven't discovered it yet.