Andrew Savage

It's interesting that you bought both.

It's because I got really into offset guitars, and I wanted to have that offset for multiple songs in multiple tunings. I got back into the Boss Metal Zone MT-2 pedal on the record we just recorded down in Texas. People associate it with metal bands, but you can do a lot with it, like get great feedback.

It sounds like there are guitar loops, feedback loops, and such. Is that just the way you tracked it?

Feedback loops? Nothing is looped. But Austin and I used [MXR] Blue Box [octave fuzz] pedals, so that gives it a uniformity. It might give the impression that it's one piece from which we're pulling, because it reduces it to this robotic sound. But there were no overdubs; it was all live. There wasn't any editing outside the mixing phase.

In the Pitchfork Music Festival 2013 video of Parquet Courts performing "Stoned and Starving," Andrew Savage is seen playing a Squier Affinity Series Telecaster Special Electric Guitar, identifiable by the Squier logo visible on the instrument.

Seen in this KEXP video.

What mics were you using for vocals?

I pretty much do all my vocals on a Neumann U 47. Johnathan [Schenke] told me that one's best for my voice and I've always trusted him since. For the Parquet Courts record we just did in Texas, I ended up doing a lot of the vocals on a handheld Telefunken mic [M80]. I was able to get into the vocal part a bit more just by having something in my hand.

You can see the Boss OD-3 at 5.07

What mics were you using for vocals?

I pretty much do all my vocals on a Neumann U 47. Johnathan [Schenke] told me that one's best for my voice and I've always trusted him since. For the Parquet Courts record we just did in Texas, I ended up doing a lot of the vocals on a handheld Telefunken mic [M80]. I was able to get into the vocal part a bit more just by having something in my hand.

From a BBC6 Music live session during their fall U.K Tour, 2016.

Savage is shown using one live

In the live performance video of "Human Performance" at The Bell House in NYC, Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts can be seen playing a Fender Lead II.

Andrew can be seen using a blue Fender Mustang in this live performance

the amp is used throughout the whole set. it can be seen very clearly @04:29.

As seen on this performance

Used in the song "Before The Water Gets Too High" from the album Wide Awake. A. Savage speaking to NPR: The first instance of dub influence on this record. That strange sounding instrument you hear is called an Omnichord and it was made by Suzuki as a user-friendly musical accompaniment instrument. Sean helped me record the original demo for this one in his barn, with me on Omnichord, late one night in Pennsylvania where he lives (yes that’s right). A few days later [guitarist and singer] Austin [Brown] laid down the bass line. It’s a pretty gloomy song, warning about a potential apocalypse scenario that we are all constantly distracting ourselves from. — A. Savage

You can see it at 20:17 in this live at Rough Trade video.

At 5:07 you can see the tuner.

I asked Andrew what distortion he was using after a gig in 2016 at the Wardrobe in Leeds. I mistakenly thought it was a fuzz, he told me it was this and it had two options, loud and fucking loud.

The pedal can be seen on the far left side of this photo https://survivingthegoldenage.com/parquet-courts-flywheel-arts-collective_23052797294_l/

Andrew Savage can be seen playing a Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster when he opened for Lux Prima at Kings Theatre in November 2019.

In the video titled "A. Savage - Live at Rubber Gloves, Denton, TX 4/4/2024," Andrew Savage is visibly using a Music Man 115 Sixty-Five 2-Channel 65-Watt 1x15" Guitar Combo as his amplifier during his performance. The video was uploaded by Daniel Kirby on YouTube.