Wye Oak – Shriek
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2014 album Shriek.
Music from Shriek
Gear Used On Shriek
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Wye Oak – Shriek (2014). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Jenn Wasner
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Bass Guitars used by Jenn Wasner on Shriek
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Avg price: $1,044.32
"Now with its transportive fourth full-length album, Shriek, Wye Oak flips the formula: Wasner sets aside her signature axe to hold down the bottom on bass, and Stack takes over the melodic and harmonic duties, triggering layers of synths and electronics that skitter around the periphery." Seen playing a Fender Mustang Bass at 2:09
Software Plugins and VSTs used by Jenn Wasner on Shriek
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Soundtoys EchoBoy Analog Echo Processor
Avg price: $197.80
Used for the synth on "Glory", as related in this January 19, 2017 Soundtoys artist page for Wye Oak.
“Soundtoys have been on nearly every Wye Oak recording ever made. They are fundamental to our sound and our production. Without these tools, we would be a much different sounding band.”
You can check out the song “Glory” off the album Shriek to hear EchoBoy on the drum and synth tracks:
Wye Oak came out with a new album, Tween, on June 9, 2016. In the track “Watching the Waiting,” you can hear Soundtoys plug-ins all over the synth solo (1:50 into the video):
Keyboards and Synthesizers used by Jenn Wasner on Shriek
Avg price: $1,593.16
Used for Shriek and The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, as stated in this May 12, 2014 Vox interview and this April 9, 2018 Music Radar interview, respectively.
Vox, "'I got stoned and took a shower': How Wye Oak writes its songs" by Dylan Matthews (May 12, 2014)
Dylan Matthews: You're starting to work with synths for the first time in Wye Oak in a really big way, and some people at least tend to get very passionate about their gear. Did you? How'd you go about choosing equipment?
Jenn Wasner: Honestly, I've never been the person that is very insistent about the purity of the source. I think if something sounds good and it sounds right and it sounds interesting to me, I don't care where it came from. A lot of the stuff on our record came from beautiful, pristine, gorgeous analog synthesizers but a lot of it's just weird soft synth MIDI shit, too. [...] Going back to what you were asking, as far as synthesizers themselves, I have a Juno 6 that I got a lot of the initial sounds from, but just as many of the sounds came from samples and soft synths and stuff like that. I'm not one of those picky gearheads, to answer your question.
Music Radar, "Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner: 'With a guitar you can make it into anything you want. It’s endlessly variable'" by Matt Parker (April 9, 2018)
“Right now, I have a three-bedroom house and one of the bedrooms is a mini studio, so I’ve got my drum kit, a whole array of synths… On this record, it was mainly my [Roland] Juno-6, and I was using my friend Nick’s Prophet 6 a ton. I have a whole host of drum machines, pedals, etc.
Andy Stack
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Software Plugins and VSTs used by Andy Stack on Shriek
Soundtoys EchoBoy Analog Echo Processor
Avg price: $197.80
Used for the drums on "Glory", as related in this January 19, 2017 Soundtoys artist page for Wye Oak.
“Soundtoys have been on nearly every Wye Oak recording ever made. They are fundamental to our sound and our production. Without these tools, we would be a much different sounding band.”
You can check out the song “Glory” off the album Shriek to hear EchoBoy on the drum and synth tracks:
Wye Oak came out with a new album, Tween, on June 9, 2016. In the track “Watching the Waiting,” you can hear Soundtoys plug-ins all over the synth solo (1:50 into the video):