how to sound like Battles?

[GingerConor]

hey soz if this is in the wrong part of the forum but i was wondering what pedals wud help me get the battles sound, Line6 DL4 is top of my list at the moment, anything else i shud be looking into, and yes i did search. nothing about the effects they use.

thanks in advance.

Conor

 

[DosiYanarchy]

i've got Mirrored, but havent listened to it yet, when i have ill let you know my suggestions

 

[Chris V.]

You'll need to get a good looper.

He switches bass heads around a lot. When I saw Battles the bassist was using a GK head but decided to swap with the guitarist for an old Ampeg head. There's also pictures on the interzoobs of him using Eden.

 

[GingerConor]

cool, yeah i saw a vid of them playing and in one of them he was using a G&L ASAT. they're nice. i have a G&L tribute L-2000, YAY!!! they use exactly the same pickups.

 

[liquid-dream-ex]

I'm not sure about Pedals, but he has a quite obscure Amp-Rig.

Watching a live-video o can see some Eden WT-Head, a G&K 800rb, an old svt-2, for speakers i can make out a marshall 4x12 cab and some beat-up looking cab for the eden.

There's also a Echoplexx rack-unit.

Found some info on other forums:

line 6 DL-4 and a EHX holy grail

Also, there's a blue boss-style pedal

 

[whoatherechunk]

the blue boss style pedal may be a Boss ps-3. i'm not too familiar with battles but when you say obscure and blue boss pedal, it's most likely the boss ps-3.

 

[asherthemachine]

for one, to sound like them you would have to be them. make your own sound. and two, when i saw them at sasquatch festival he didnt play a bass the whole time, just guitar thru his bass rig. they are incredible live tho.

 

[GingerConor]

cool, yeah i wasnt like trying to be them, just interested in how they get their sound. lol, getting a DL4 real soon. FTW!!!

 

[liquid-dream-ex]

the blue boss style pedal may be a Boss ps-3. i'm not too familiar with battles but when you say obscure and blue boss pedal, it's most likely the boss ps-3.

From the current Boss-Pedals, the Blues overdrive has a color that looks just like in the photos.

I meant obscure in a "not possible to make out which one it actually is" way.

 

[beyondthe48]

could be the boss compressor also

 

[CuticleThorns]

could be the boss compressor also

+1. looks like a CS-3 to me.

 

[nickbear]

awesome band!

ive seen them 4 times and im always blown away.

i cant add much to this thread other than i have seen him use a red digitech whammy bit in songs like atlas.

he does a lot of looping and pitchshifting and plays with reverb and modulation a fair bit.

for the example the intro to race out (last song on mirrored) is played on bass... live he starts playing the bass line which doesnt sound much like race out, then he loops the bassline, speeds it up, plays around with the attack and decay of the notes, pitch shifts it and voila!

 

[thombo]

i believe they have 3 gibson echoplexes wired together so that they are sinked up... i think that this the most crucial part of there sound.
i know dave konopka has a bergantino nv610. he may also have a guitar 4x12 and marshall head.
as they don't use monitors, i believe i read that one of the bass rigs is actually for John Stanier (drums) to get blasted with the loops from the echoplexes.

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

FWIW, I think your band is already doing some really interesting stuff. I wouldn't dilute it with any overt-Battles-isms.

Or hyphenated prefixes and suffixes, for that matter.

 

[Sir Edward V]

Dude... good luck...

Those guys are very... interesting... so many effects and little intricacies... I watched a vid of them... I saw many rack mounted things, keyboards, samplers, loopers, guitars, bass, pitch-shifting vocals.

OK if you want to be like them:
1) spend about 10 years being an effects junkie with a lot of money and tons of free time to spend putting different things together and trying out many many combinations to get everything just right.
2) spend 10 more years getting into keyboards and synthesizers and all that crap.

then you might be on the right track...

I'm just making **** up, but **** it would take a long time to get as good as them at this stuff...

 

[vegas532]

I'm damned near positive that the blue pedal is a standard Boss Blues Driver.

 

[asherthemachine]

the blue pedal was gone when i saw them in portland in september. dl4, holy grail, some red overdive/octave, no idea by whom. and yes, one complete rig is just for the drummer to use as monitors. nuts

 

[judas jedermann]

I really like Battles.

 

[GingerConor]

FWIW, I think your band is already doing some really interesting stuff. I wouldn't dilute it with any overt-Battles-isms.

Or hyphenated prefixes and suffixes, for that matter.

hehe, thanks! yeah, the only song we have on our page is very basic compared to the stuff we're working on right now. We'll be recording again over christmas so keep a look out.

Thanks for everyone giving their input!!lol

Conor

 

[GingerConor]

ME

Dave Konopka

anyone else see the resemblence?

lol

Conor