Talk About Your Junk with Jonathan Pearce of The Beths
Malcolm X Abram
Jonathan Pearce was kind enough to show EQD some of his junk, his recording methods, and what he’d ask of the Gear Genie.
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Show Us Your Junk! Ep. 30 - Jonathan Pearce (The Beths)
Malcolm X Abram
Jonathan Pearce takes us on a guided tour of his recording space filled with plenty of junk, including a Thunderbird 50 Fountain Amp head, a rare New Zealand-produced amplifier, and his beloved '78 deluxe Les Paul Gold Top.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 29 - Pierre de Reeder (64 Sound / Rilo Kiley)
Uri Garcia
Ensuring those who step into this recording facility are able to enhance their inspiration, Pierre de Reeder has stocked 64 Sound with a serious arsenal of dreamy studio gear.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 28 - Bobb Bruno (Best Coast)
Uri Garcia
Bobb Bruno plays all sorts of instruments and his gear collection reflects that. Heavily. Basically an entire wishlist of hard to finds, studio rarities, really rads, and just plain oddball music equipment.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 27 - Ed Rodriguez (Deerhoof)
Uri Garcia
DIY recording engineer, natural experimenter, tinkerer, multi-instrumentalist, mad scientist... the list goes on. Ed Rodriguez has been feeling his way through the musical universe for quite some time.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 26 - The Guitar Shop NYC
Uri Garcia
The Guitar Shop NYC is home to luthiers and string makers but most importantly, people who are passionate about what they do. This joint oozes with hand made quality goods and good vibes, a true "boutique" in every sense of the word.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 25 - Sylvia Massy
Uri Garcia
Sylvia Massy has been engineering and producing sessions for longer than most of us have been acting like we know what we’re talking about. Sylvia was kind enough to guide us through Studio Divine in this episode of EarthQuaker Devices Show Us Your Junk!
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 24 - Joel Hamilton (Studio G)
Uri Garcia
Joel Hamilton takes us on a tour of Studio G in Brooklyn New York, home to a generous amount of impossibly rare studio gear.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 23 - Steve Albini (Shellac, Electrical Audio)
Uri Garcia
Steve Albini has recorded hundreds upon hundreds of bands spanning three decades. He has probably engineered one of your favorite records. His organic, non-meddling approach requires dependable and versatile recording equipment. With all of this great studio equipment, there had to be some oddball pieces floating around that he could dig up. Don’t worry, he will show you some of it.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 22 - Robert Carranza (The Solar Powered Plastic Plant)
Uri Garcia
Robert Carranza has spent most of his life discovering how music works, and the last 25 years in the recording industry learning lessons and discovering what is important to him. Producing records for Jack Johnson, Marilyn Manson, Mars Volta and Los Lobos, and winning four Grammy awards are just some of his juicy career accomplishments.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 21 - Phil Manley (El Studio, Trans Am, Life Coach)
Uri Garcia
You may know of Phil from his far-out bands Trans Am and Life Coach; but what you may not know is that this guy is also the owner of a historic diamond in the rough recording studio located in San Francisco, California.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 20 - Ready Player Juan
Uri Garcia
Bassist Juan Alderete (the Mars Volta, Deltron 3030, Marilyn Manson) takes us on a guided journey through the musical oasis of Los Angeles packed with killer gear, pop-culture references, and cameo appearances by Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails), Tim Lefebvre (David Bowie), and Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos).
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 19 - Money Mark (Beastie Boys, Beck)
Uri Garcia
Enjoy a peek into the studio of a natural inventor; someone whose collaborative temperament blurs the boundaries between electronics and music.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 18 - Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth)
Aaron Rogers
In thirty short years, Sonic Youth produced one of the largest and most stimulating bodies of work of any American rock band…
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 17 - Kurt Ballou (Converge, God City Studio)
Aaron Rogers
“I’m interested in how a new tool can inspire a new artistic creation. When I get a new pedal, I’m like, ‘Oh wow! I can figure out what this thing does,’ and I spend all this time tweaking knobs [and] learning the pedal, but maybe in that process you come up with a new riff, and that riff becomes a new song, and then that song takes on a life of its own.”
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 16 - MATMOS
Aaron Rogers
Since 1997, MATMOS have pushed the boundaries of what would soon be called “intelligent dance music” beyond the natural limits of self-contained software and circuitry by using found objects…
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 15 - Patrick Brown (Different Fur Studios)
Aaron Rogers
“This is a historical place and people should know the history of it,” says Different Fur Studios owner Patrick Brown.
It’s true -- the discography of the San Francisco-based recording studio reads like a list of the most influential albums of all time.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 14 - Ross Robinson (KoRn, Slipknot, At the Drive In)
Aaron Rogers
Producer Ross Robinson brings life to the dead. Dubbed the “godfather of nü-metal,” his raw, unvarnished production on albums by KoЯn, Slipknot, and Sepultura redefined heavy metal by stripping away the glitz and glamour of hair bands still partying on the Sunset Strip in favor of a new sound marked by anger, intensity, and honesty…
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 13 - Dan Joeright (Gatos Trail)
Aaron Rogers
If you’re opening a recording studio there are two things you should know:
Location is everything.
Great drum sounds are also everything.
Dan Joeright’s Gatos Trail Recording Studio in beautiful Yucca Valley, CA has both. Housed within an antique barn surrounded by spellbinding desert wilderness, Gatos Trail is a destination for artists like synth-pop phenomenon Twin Shadow, bass-and-drums bashers Big Business, noise rock brutalists Unsane, and nebulous post-punk group The Mekons…
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 12 - Vox Recording Studios
Aaron Rogers
“Anything that resonates, it sticks with you. Then you’re like, ‘I have to have it’ because it’s like a beautiful dream.”
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