Kyle Seely

Mentioned in this June 14, 2017 Vintage King interview and this July 28, 2017 Guitar World interview. It was the only guitar Seely used for Need to Feel Your Love.

Vintage King

You guys have a pretty distinct guitar tone that comes across when playing live and on the records. How have you captured that in the studio? What's your process of recording guitars like?

KS: It varies, but basically we double every lead guitar part to give it that beefier almost chorus-y tone. I tracked all of our new record with my Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster. It's got three single coils, so it's sort of a cross between a Tele and a Strat.

For rhythm guitar, we usually try to get a more shimmery clean tone and bury it in the mix a bit. We actually experiment more with rhythm guitar than we do with lead. We’ll add a delay that matches the BPM of the song to make it more atmospheric or add chorus. The balance between the two guitars is a big aspect of our music.

HS: We'll mess around with tones on guitar (mostly for the cleaner stuff) probably too long on some songs, but if we don't then there's a good chance we end up tracking it all again, so I don't know... We used an Empress paraEQ pedal a lot on the new record which I really like, boosting certain parts as we tracked. Pretty sure all the guitars are with a 57 on the 50-watt JCM, at least on the new record.

Guitar World

GUITARS

(Seely) Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Schecter Hellraiser with active EMGs, Gibson SG standard, 1985 Fender Squire Katana

(Palmer) Peavey T-60 1980 natural ash.

AMPS

(Seely) 1982 JCM 800, 2x12 Marshall Cab

(Palmer) Fender Hot Rod Deville II 60-watt 2x12

EFFECTS

(Seely) Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner, Xotic SP compressor, Boss Super Chorus, Boss GE-7 Equalizer

(Palmer) Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner, Electro-Harmonix Soul Food

Mentioned in this July 28, 2017 Guitar World interview, which includes this photo.

But the longer runtime also has the band flexing outside of their comfort zone, whether its Seely chicly conjuring Nile Rodgers’ funky sway on the discofied title track, or ripping into Mick Mars–leaning whammy bar leads on the Sunset Strip–style power stomp, “Turn It Up.”

“We had to reel that one back in a little bit,” the six-stringer says of the latter, saying its Eighties metal edge had to be sanded down slightly to become more than just pastiche. “It’s probably the heaviest song we have. That guitar solo—the Floyd Rose dive bombs, and shit like that—that’s a guilty pleasure of mine. That shit’s sick!”

(...) GUITARS

(Seely) Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Schecter Hellraiser with active EMGs, Gibson SG standard, 1985 Fender Squire Katana

(Palmer) Peavey T-60 1980 natural ash.

AMPS

(Seely) 1982 JCM 800, 2x12 Marshall Cab

(Palmer) Fender Hot Rod Deville II 60-watt 2x12

EFFECTS

(Seely) Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner, Xotic SP compressor, Boss Super Chorus, Boss GE-7 Equalizer

(Palmer) Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner, Electro-Harmonix Soul Food

Mentioned in this July 28, 2017 Guitar World interview.

GUITARS

(Seely) Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Schecter Hellraiser with active EMGs, Gibson SG standard, 1985 Fender Squire Katana

(Palmer) Peavey T-60 1980 natural ash.

AMPS

(Seely) 1982 JCM 800, 2x12 Marshall Cab

(Palmer) Fender Hot Rod Deville II 60-watt 2x12

EFFECTS

(Seely) Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner, Xotic SP compressor, Boss Super Chorus, Boss GE-7 Equalizer

(Palmer) Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner, Electro-Harmonix Soul Food