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The Guitarist's Toolkit – June '15 Ex. 7

Keeley Blues Disorder, Super Rodent & Angry Orange Demos | First Look
Keeley Angry Orange, Super Rodent, & Blues Disorder Demos | First Look

Three new flexible, combination gain machines offer a slate of overdrive, distortion, and fuzz sounds from rambunctious to raging.

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The Red Hot Longhorn brandishes a pair of high-impedance, high-output Danelectro pickups.

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Steve Albini in the control room at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago.

Photo by Kevin Tiongson

Words of wisdom from the legendary engineer, proprietor of Chicago’s Electrical Audio, World Series of Poker champion, and, in the band Shellac, the compass for brutal guitar aesthetics.

“All day every day, we’re grinding it out,” says engineer Steve Albini of his team at Electrical Audio, the Chicago studio he built and has run since 1997. “We’re constantly in session, constantly under fire.”

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