New TFK guitarist, Ty Dietzler, wrote us about using Rocktron noise reduction in his setup. He uses the Hush Super C rackmount, the Guitar Silencer Boutique Series Pedal, and the Rocktron On Tap Universal Power supply.
Ty said "the really interesting thing to me about the Guitar Silencer pedal is that you can mix the "hush" function with the gate. I love that I can dial in the gate just enough to clean up all the line noise from my amp, and then use the "hush" knob to kind of texture the amount of nuances in my playing that are still picked up. It's a brilliant pedal; definitely "technology for guitarists".
He continued, "I plugged the Hush Super C in after that, and it was the same thing. I could dial in the amount of nuance (pick attack, string noise, scrapes) and still gate the line noise hard. I do a lot of choppy, articulate, start/stop picking, so having the gate in there really makes things sound sharp. I'm going to use the Guitar Silencer on my pedalboard, for all of our fly dates; and I've put the Hush Super C in my rack next to my power conditioner for touring. I'll never leave home without these."
Thousand Foot Krutch (TFK) is a Canadian Christian[5] rock band formed in 1997. They have released five major studio albums: Set It Off (2001), Phenomenon (2003), The Art of Breaking (2005), The Flame In All of Us (2007), and Welcome to the Masquerade (2009). Lead singer Trevor McNevan and drummer Steve Augustine are also members of their own side project band called FM Static.
Trevor McNevan began the band in Peterborough, Ontario, a city northeast of Toronto, where he went to high school. Joel Bruyere, born in Brantford, Ontario, was McNevan's childhood friend who had moved away but remained in contact with him. Drummer Steve Augestine is from Hamilton, Ontario. Trevor's first band was Oddball, which featured Dave Smith on guitar, Tim Baxter on bass and Trevor's good friend, Three Days Grace's Neil Sanderson, on drums. Oddball recorded only one album, Shutterbug, which was released in 1995. McNevan is the founding member of TFK (along with original guitarist Dave Smith), formed in 1997 in Peterborough, Ontario. McNevan came up with TFK's name "symbolizing the point in our lives that we realize we can't make it on our own strength". He has written and released 6 albums with Thousand Foot Krutch to date and another three with his side Project FM Static.
TFK has worked with producers Aaron Sprinkle (Mae/Anberlin/MxPx), Gavin Brown (Three Days Grace/Billy Talent/Thornley), Arnold Lanni (Our Lady Peace/Finger Eleven/Simple Plan), and Ken Andrews (Beck/Chris Cornell/Pete Yorn/Tenacious D) on their last 3 Tooth and Nail-released records.
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