Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2018 album The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs.
Music from The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
Gear Used On The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (2018). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Jenn Wasner
Roles:
Keyboards and Synthesizers used by Jenn Wasner on The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
Avg price: $1,221.43
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.
Guitars used by Jenn Wasner on The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars
Wasner's H64, gifted by a friend, was used during the writing of The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs and for the recording of Head of Roses, as described in the following interviews. It can be seen in this performance recorded prior March 26, 2021 (at 16:52), this performance recorded prior May 6, 2021 (at 2:33), this performance recorded prior to July 1, 2021, and this performance recorded prior to November 15, 2021 (at 0:16).
Music Radar, "10 questions for Jenn Wasner" by Michael Astley-Brown (August, 17 2016)
2. The building's burning down - what one guitar do you save?
"Probably my '60s-era semi-hollow body Harmony Rocket - because it was a gift from a friend, and because it's old and beautiful and difficult to replace!"
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)
“One of my favourite guitars that I have was a gift from a friend, years ago - it’s a Harmony Rocket, a semi-hollow-bodied guitar from the '50s that is just gorgeous. The song You Of All People has sort of a distinctly different vibe to it and that was something I wrote on the Harmony as opposed to one of the Reverends.”
Guitar World, "Flock of Dimes' Jenn Wasner: 'I'm such a fan of altered tunings. That's one of my favorite things about guitar – the malleability of it'" by Matt Parker (April 7, 2021)
What were you using on the guitar side for this record?
“Well, one of the guitars that I use a lot on this record was actually a guitar that I've owned for a really long time. It is this old, beautiful semi-hollow body Harmony Rocket. It's got the Bigsby tremolo and it's absolutely gorgeous, but it was just never the right guitar for the moment.
[...]
And was there anything else that you leaned on a lot in this record?
“For Price Of Blue, it was like a multitude of guitars! I used Nick's dad's '80s Strat for the lead guitar on the guitar solo. And the Harmony was layered in. And also my Reverend model that they made it for me, I used that a bunch on that – I can't say enough good things about Reverend as a company, I love their guitars.
Reddit, r/indieheads, "hi, I'm Jenn Wasner AKA Flock of Dimes, AMA!" by u/heyitswaz (May 19, 2021), reply to u/ChristmasInJuly
ChristmasInJuly Tell us about your gear (guitar/synth/vocals)! Was there anything essential you used for Head of Roses? Any recording tips/secrets that happened at Betty’s? :)
heyitswaz Guitar-wise, I mostly played my harmony rocket semi-hollow body guitar, and of course my signature Reverend JW-1.