“Something for grandpa to listen to, and something for the younger listener, too.” “I wanted to give some variety,” Patrick said. The album, which will be available as a physical release on CD, is the culmination of decades spent making music, and it shows different facets of Patrick’s songwriting. However, not every track on “Sonus” is a hard-charging stomper. The result is rock music that sounds invitingly warm and unapologetically like rock music. “Sean’s got a voice for rock like nobody I’ve ever met.” Smith said. He said that getting Patrick’s vocals high up in the mix was also a priority. “It’s all just real guitars, real tube amps, real tube microphones, mixed through a lot of tube gear,” Smith said. However, odds are overwhelmingly good that your favorite classic rock guitar solo was played through a tube amp. Once upon a time, they were the only means for amplifying the sound of an electric guitar, but today solid-state, hybrid and digital amplifiers are alternatives with respective niches, defenders and detractors. Tube amplifiers are revered in many audiophile circles for their tone. “Everything you hear is amps, real tube amps, turned up loud.” There’s no synthesizers or sampled instruments or drum samples or anything like that,” Smith said. “Everything you hear on the record is analog.
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