I'm hugely in love with the sound of this bass and pedal as a combination - so much clarity, aggression and power. I recorded the main riff from "Icarus Lives!" and overlaid it over the album track to demonstrate.

Dingwall Afterburner ABXXX + Darkglass B7K test

Earlier this year I produced an EP with Sell Your Sky. Vocals are yet to be tracked but the instrumental mix is shaping up well. Drums were recorded at Moles Studio, such a great sounding room.

Sell Your Sky - instrumental sample from upcoming EP

Here's a free one-shot sample of my Ludwig Supraphonic 14x6.5" Chrome-Over-Brass snare, tuned low and ringy to add depth, power and sustain when layered under your natural snare track.

Supraphonic One Shot Sample

Slightly Black Dahlia-style mix to test out the Bare Knuckle Aftermath pickup I just installed in the bridge of my Blackmachine B2. Wanted to get some of that organic squishyness BDM got on Deflorate.

Here's the Axe-FX patch for anyone interested: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/790683/DoubleDM%20Nolly.syx

There is a moderate amount of post-EQ on the guitar tracks though.

Death Metal mix

My buddy Adrian Barnes came to visit from Canada, so we wrote a little ditty (essentially an excuse to get a bit proggy with some rock riffs). The mix is pretty basic, thrown together quickly but I don't want to change anything in case it all comes crumbling down..

There is a tab available here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/790683/Spectres%20-%20The%20Thing.gp5


Spectres - The Thing

This is a comparison clip of the Bare Knuckle Nailbomb and Aftermath bridge pickups playing through a high-gain sound. The guitar used is my burl-top Blackmachine B2, and everything other than the pickups are kept the same between the clips (same strings included). Both pickups are uncovered and have zebra bobbins (for extra safari tone). First up is the Nailbomb, then the Aftermath, then finally the Nailbomb again, but I've turned up the Axe-FX's input gain to compensate for the extra heat of the Aftermath so you can hear the pickup voicing on an equal playing field.
The playing is sloppy and whatnot, I just recorded a take of roughly similar playing with each.

The Axe-FX patch was made by "Soultrash" on the Andy Sneap forum. It is available here: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/rate-my-mix-tone-threads/685949-another-axe-fx-5150-firmware-11-clip.html.
I figured it was a good idea to use a "neutral" sound that I didn't make so the sound wasn't dialled in to suit one pickup over the other.


Bare Knuckle Nailbomb vs Aftermath

Download the preset here - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/790683/Nolly%20Avatar%20Preset.s20.zip

Here's a quick preset I made for the stock S2.0 Avatar kit, it'll need tweaking to fit into your mix, and perhaps you'll want to swap the kick drum out for more metal contexts, but hopefully you'll like the sounds.

Nolly's Toontrack S2.0 Avatar Preset

I finally got around to making a quick test clip of what Toontrack's Made of Metal pack can do. These are by far the best sounding virtual drums I've come across, in every aspect.

Guitars - Daemoness Cimmerian 7 w/BKP Juggernaut into Fractal Axe-FX II
Bass - Dingwall NG-2 into Darkglass B7K, into Two Notes Torpedo Reload DI.

Toontrack - Made Of Metal Test Clip

To purchase this drum sample pack, click here - https://gum.co/TeMD

This is a demonstration of the Alex Rudinger Good Tiger drum sample pack, featuring samples recorded during the Good Tiger album tracking session.
The song is "The Vitreous Man" by In This Temple (https://www.facebook.com/InThisTemple/), mixed by me using the Alex Rudinger Good Tiger sample pack for the drum sounds. All rights belong to In This Temple.

To purchase this drum sample pack, click here - https://gum.co/TeMD

In This Temple - The Vitreous Man excerpt (Alex Rudinger Good Tiger Samples)

To purchase this drum sample pack, click here - https://gum.co/TeMD

This is a demonstration of the Alex Rudinger Good Tiger drum sample pack, featuring samples recorded during the Good Tiger album tracking session.

To purchase this drum sample pack, click here - https://gum.co/TeMD

Alex Rudinger Good Tiger Samples demonstration

Snuggles is my side project with Misha Mansoor. Here's a new track we haven't posted up before, hope you dig!
Special thanks to Leo Dorsz for lending me his awesome Mayones Jabba Special HH bass guitar - what a monstrous sounding instrument!


Snuggles - Tenzing Norgay

Thought I'd revisit this clip with a new mix - http://soundcloud.com/nolly/the-heavies

The Heavies 2.0

Got inspired while giving my Dæmoness some TLC earlier. Love how brutally aggressive this guitar sounds.

Brutal Modulation Idea

This is a brief test with a custom Alnico V Black Hawk 7 bridge pickup installed into my Dæmoness 7-string. It's pretty much the purriest pickup I've ever heard! I'm planning on repeating the same clip with a ceramic Black Hawk 7 to compare the two magnet types. 

This zip file contains the guitar DIs for both the Alnico and Ceramic Black Hawk, along with a drum and bass backing track so you can evaluate the pickups through your own rig of choice and hear them in context.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/790683/Nolly%20-%20Alnico%20VS%20Ceramic%20Black%20Hawk.zip

Alnico Black Hawk 7 test (DI's and backing track included in description)

This is a brief test with the Ceramic Black Hawk 7 bridge pickup installed into my Dæmoness 7-string, in comparison with the custom Alnico V version demonstrated in this clip: http://soundcloud.com/nolly/alnico-black-hawk-7-test

To my ears, the comparison exemplifies the difference in character when moving between an Alnico V and Ceramic magnet - the Ceramic is distinctly tighter and more refined with a brighter top end, where the Alnico V is richer and bigger sounding, with more of what I describe as "purr".

This zip file contains the guitar DIs for both the Alnico and Ceramic Black Hawk, along with a drum and bass backing track so you can evaluate the pickups through your own rig of choice and hear them in context.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/790683/Nolly%20-%20Alnico%20VS%20Ceramic%20Black%20Hawk.zip

Ceramic Black Hawk 7 test (DI's and backing track included in description)

Here's a short clip of the new 5150 III Red model on Axe-FX II Firmware 6.01. I used my signature ViK Duality 7 for guitars, Dingwall Combustion for bass.

ViK Duality 7 + Axe II 5150 III test

Made a new mix from scratch this afternoon, came out sounding kinda Killswitch-y.

KsE - Take This Oath cover

Hi guys,
I recently got a Pearl Ultracast 14x6.5" and made some samples for my own uses. I've decided to share them with you all for free too. You'll have to cut them up yourselves and I'm no drummer so apologies for any inconsistent hits. I did 4 each of extra-soft, soft, medium, hard, and rimshot hits. 
Top mic used was an SM57 through a Chandler Germanium pre, the bottom mic was a Charter Oak SA538 through an Audient pre. I've added some compression and light EQ but you may well need to take it further for use in your mixes. 

Enjoy!

Free Snare Samples(!) - Pearl Ultracast 14x6.5"

Here's the same MIDI as the Metal Foundry test, this time using Metal Machine so people can hear the differences between the kits. Metal Machine is a lot more polished to my ears, and is of course partly processed to begin with.
I used the Ludwig kit, with the Black Beauty snare and default cymbals.

Metal Machine Test (Meshuggah-Electric Red)

Messing around with the B7K in Fat mode, with one of the Dingwalls. Sounds so good! Ignore the playing it was just a one-taker to demonstrate the tone, my fingerstyle really isn't that great haha

Darkglass B7K - Dirty Rock

Here's a guitars-only clip of my signature ViK Duality 7 playing some metal rhythm. I love this thing, it's such a tight and articulate sounding guitar, but with a lot of body and "soul". There's no post-EQ on this clip, it's completely raw

ViK Duality 7 - Metal Rhythm

Want to have a go mixing this track? Check out this competition I'm running - https://www.facebook.com/events/186990728105868/ 

I produced Days On Juno's debut EP over the summer, and never publicly posted anything from the session. I was really happy with how this track came out, check out/download the rest of the EP for free at http://daysonjuno.bandcamp.com/.
https://www.facebook.com/DaysOnJunoUK

Days On Juno - Colours [Original Mix]

As soon as I heard the massive-sounding snares in Toontrack's new Rock Solid EZX (recorded by Randy Staub) I wanted to try them in a heavy mix context. I made this drum mix based around that idea, blending my favourite kit elements from the Avatar, Metal Machine and Metal Foundry packs in there too.

Toontrack Rock Solid Snare test

Hi guys,
Here's a quick mix done with a new guitar tone I dialled in with the firmware 9.01 update. It's the first riff from my band Periphery's song "Racecar".

Axe-FX II FW9.01 Test - Racecar (Periphery)

Here's another test with the exact same guitar tone as the previous Racecar test. This is more what the tone was designed to do - big traditional 5150 sounds.

Axe-FX II FW9.01 Test 2

Songs from my Snuggles side-project with Misha "Bulb" Mansoor.

Snuggles - Uncle Bubbles

Here is a DI clip of my new Dingwall Afterburner 6-string bass, to demonstrate its amazing growl and clarity even down to the low F# of its bottom string. The pickup setting is the bridge and middle coils in series for a fat, punchy tone. I recorded direct through my Audient MiCO preamp with some light compression. No further processing was done to the DI. All parts played with fingers. I've uploaded this as a .wav so you can download and run through your own rig of choice.
The second half is me jamming on Karnivool's "Simple Boy", all credit to them for that.

Dingwall Afterburner ABXXX 6-string DI test (Low F#)

This is part one of an epic two-part track on Of Glaciers' debut album "Heart Museum", which I mixed. Check them out on Facebook here - https://www.facebook.com/OfGlaciersOfficial

Of Glaciers - Enlightment I: In Question

The tones on Andy Timmon's CD Resolution are some of the best that have graced my ears, and I ever since getting the Axe-FX I've been meaning to give a proper shot at nailing it (I tried soon after getting the Axe and it got positive feedback but in retrospect it was a long way off). Anyway, without further ado, here is me hacking a couple of sections from two tracks from Resolution (Deliver Us and The Prayer/The Answer). Go easy on me - it's been a long while since I last tried playing these tunes and these are just quick one-takers done without a click.
Guitar is my Blackmachine B2 with Bare Knuckle Mules.


Andy Timmons' Resolution tone-test

Around summer 2013, I started writing some rock songs with former Funeral For A Friend drummer Ryan Richards for a bit of fun. The intention was to find a vocalist and put some material out but with our hectic schedules we haven't gotten around to that part of things just yet. That said, I'm really happy with how this came out and wanted to share it rather than keeping it sitting on my desktop gathering dust, hope you guys enjoy! 
We recorded this at Moles Studio in Bath, with Ryan's incredible Pearl Masterworks drum  kit he used mainly on FFAF's "Tales Don't Tell Themselves" album. Guitars were tracked with my wonderful ViK Hollowbody Caprice into a Diezel VH4 (kindly loaned by Paul of Zilla Cabs), through my Zilla 4x12 cabinet. Bass is my Dingwall Afterburner 6-string through a Darkglass B7K.

Ryan + Nolly Song 1

Hi, I'm Nolly. I play bass and occasionally guitar in Periphery. Misha Mansoor and I operate as a production duo - Top Secret Audio. If you're interested in employing either or both of us for production, mixing or mastering work, send an enquiry to topsecretaudio@gmail.com

If you have any questions, I'm most likely to respond if you ask them through my Formspring account here:

http://www.formspring.me/NollyPeriphery

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