RSR282 – Kurt Ballou – Recording Heavy Guitars at God City Studios in Salem MA - Recording Studio Rockstars

RSR282 – Kurt Ballou – Recording Heavy Guitars at God City Studios in Salem MA

"Witch" distortion pedal rocks the most? Kurt Ballou from God City Studios in Salem MA talked about designing guitars and distortion pedals, the challenges of going fulltime with a recording studio, winning a Grammy for engineering High On Fire and more!

My guest today is Kurt Ballou is a Grammy-winning producer, engineer, mixer and studio owner in Salem MA with extensive production credits on some of aggressive music's most successful albums. In addition to his studio work, Kurt is the guitarist in ground breaking hardcore/metal crossover act CONVERGE.

Kurt's studio, God City Recording, was constructed in 2003 and contains the finest analog and digital recording equipment available. God City has hosted bands such as Grammy winner High on Fire, American Nightmare, NAILS, Darkest Hour, Code Orange, Four Year Strong, Converge, Russian Circles, Torche, Cave In and many more.

Kurt also designs guitar pedals and guitars under the name God City Instruments where you can get the heaviest guitar distortions and fuzzes pre-built and ready to use or build your own with ready-made PCB boards and kits.

Thanks to Brian Murphree for the introduction.

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