Originally published in Mix magazine · May 1999
Kevin Shirley interview (excerpt)
Interview1 min read
Are the guitar sounds on Dream Theatre's Falling Into Infinity mostly Just coming from the amp?
Well, John [Petrucci] is an incredible guitar player, and very few people can do what he does. I just mixed a Liquid Tension Experiment album, and John's playing is amazing. On Falling Into Infinity we used different techniques to get different sounds, but there were no studio effects really; all of the sounds originated at the amp. We'd just try to get different sounds at the source. You should have seen it when he was in there: We had about ten Mesa/Boogie amplifiers in combination, a whole wall of Boogies, and we just tried different amps all the time. We tried small ones, big ones; it was really a lot of fun.