Ibanez Tube Screamer: Electric Touch Guitarist's Pedal Selection Not The Least Bit Shocking
You know what the great thing about new bands is? The gear keeps getting older, but they stay the same age. Untested dance-punk youngsters Electric Touch rely on a lot of tried-and-true gear for their sound, like Guitarist Christopher Leigh's Ibanez Tube Screamer, which he literally never turns off. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants.
I tell ya, the kids these days, what with their retro-fixations and their British accents. Oh, wait, one of these dudes is actually British.
CHRISTOPHER LEIGH: Tube Screamer, it's always on. [LAUGHING] I just keep the Tube Screamer on, and I got to really -- The way I settle my pedals is that I got the Tube Screamer on all the time, and it's -- I got two split signals like an undertone rolling through, and that's where my other overdrives come in and it's usually one or the other going on and it has to compress -- sustain and compress it. That's just the best pedal.
I had a friedn back in Houston, and he's an amazing guitar player, and I saw him play, and I was like, "How do you get that tone?" and he just picks up the pedal and I was like, "That's it."
Well, I think it's, you know, we just create -- You know, we got a lot of -- You know, we embrace a lot of new technology as well, you know, with computers and stuff like that but I mean it all comes from the guitar. I mean you listen to our album and you think it's all synths and stuff you'd do on keyboard, it's really just dry guitar that is just messed up.
PATRICK OGLE: So, you're manipulating it?
CHRISTOPHER LEIGH: Just manipulating a guitar. Everyone is pulling their hair out in the studio, and we do a lot at home, so when we get to the studio, we just lay it down and leave so we don't have to waste too much time there. Whatever they have in the studio really and whatever fun effects, whatever sounds cool, you know. It's just, you know, we don't really have a formula to anything except whatever we think sounds good and where we think, "That sounds cool. Let's leave it." And sometimes you make those decisions that you have to kind of keep, you know, or you can't go back but, you know, I mean once you hear it, then you know it, you know. It's just like when you pick up an album and you really dig that album and you really dig that album, you know you like it. Sometimes the album cover -- You can't judge a book by its cover but I picked up Green Day's Dookie that way and that's the reason why I play guitar. It's because of that band. I've seen them live. It just blew me away. I've been playing ever since then. I think the day after I got a band together, and we played, [SOUNDS LIKE] then it was the right way for me to go.
PATRICK OGLE: Right away?
CHRISTOPHER LEIGH: Right away.
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