Pendulum – In Silico
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2008 album In Silico.
Music from In Silico
Artists on In Silico
Gear Used On In Silico
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Pendulum – In Silico (2008). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Software Plugins and VSTs used by Rob Swire on In Silico
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AmpliTube 2 was used for Perry ap Gwynedd's guitar on In Silico, as stated in this June 2008 Sound on Sound interview.
Guitarist Perry ap Gwynedd has seen his role in the band grow since Hold Your Colour, and the instrument is now central to Pendulum's sound. On the new album, the guitar sounds were created using IK Multimedia's Amplitube 2 and TC Electronic's TC Thirty plug-in. "There's a lot of guitars in there, and our guitarist was a bit pissed that we wouldn't record an amp, to begin with. We wanted to keep it software-based, just because you don't really know what sort of sound you're going to end up with. For what it is, even including a guitar in the first place is going to throw our fans off like nothing else, so for us to have that sort of last-minute 'That doesn't sound right, let's use this...' We just use them as walls of sound alongside the synths. They don't tend to feature by themselves too much at any point. With one of the tracks we tried to do a guitar solo as Aphex Twin might have done it, which I liked the idea of. The brilliant thing about our guitarist Perry is that you can have nothing in mind and he'll go 'OK, just leave me here for 10 minutes,' and he'll come up with something that is better than the entire tune you had before."
