Population Override KICKS ASS

[BloodScrollBro]

Travis,

Thank you thank you thank you. You posses a special type of kindness and I hereby invent a new word to describe it:
[size=13][glb]Travism[/glb][/size]
 

So, thank you for your continued Travism...

[Musashi]

I am still new to this board, but I would agree with BloodScrollBro.  Thanks Travis.  

[colmatose]

I knew you would love this CD Blood. My only complaint about the cd, if I dare is the last song (...) It\'s too short. I could listen to that riff all day. 90 seconds! What\'s up with that? :\'(

[BloodScrollBro]

C-Tose,
Yeah, it\'s a treat hearin Big B bust out with some good ol\' fashioned blues licks...  
Only thing I can suggest is to check out some Chicago bluesmen like Howlin\' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy for more of that style. (You probably already knew that.) Sure, it\'s not the same as hearing Bucket do it... My impression was that he was just messing around and it happened to get recorded (nice catch, Travis.)  
You\'re right, tho -- it would\'ve been great to hear that go on for another few minutes... also have Pinch come in with an old-time shuffle and Travis burnin\' up some B-3 stylee... (We can dream, can\'t we?)

[BloodScrollBro]

I mastered the record through a pair of Neve eq\'s and a David Royer optical compressor.

Travis -- so you record on the computer with Pro Tools, yes? And then run the mix/signal out from the computer thru the Neve eq\'s & Royer optical compressor... onto a 2-inch deck? Or into another computer?
Hope I\'m not being too much of a pain, with respect to your busy-ness...
The reason I ask is I\'ve been experimenting with many various mastering plug-ins, all computer internal, and not entirely satisfied with any so far. Mastering is a whole different world...
Thanks.

[Travis]

No I fold back into Pro Tools and use plug\'s in on the final out bus like Waves Q10 or L2. I don\'t buy into the problem some people have with bounce to disc. Get your music to sound good while your working on it, properly dither the output and it will sound just as good after you bounce. I find the quality of your sounds when your done has more to do with the quality of the sounds before they ever get to the computer in the first place.

[Musashi]

I find the quality of your sounds when your done has more to do with the quality of the sounds before they ever get to the computer in the first place.

Sounds a little too logical to me...

[djmutter]

from  http://www.dtmgallery.com newsletter:

BUCKETHEAD - Population Override (Ion Records
2020) Featuring our hero Buckethead on guitars &
bass, Travis Dickerson on keyboards and Pinchface
on drums. Commencing with "unrestrained growth",
Buckethead\'s slamming trio get down for mostly
Funkadelic-like groove fest with some great
scorching guitar, Dr. Woo (Bernie Worrell) like
synth and funky drums. From the heartfelt,
laid-back, down-home blues of "too many humans"
to the great title track, which features some
great organ, electric piano & synth work, this is
a most solid and well-matched trio. I dig the
eloquent "humans vanish", a touching requiem for
mankind with some touching electric piano and the
most delicate, melancholy guitar we\'ve ever heard
from our hero. Both Buckethead and Travis do a
great job throughout of layering a variety of
guitars, bass and keyboards in the most crafty of
ways and all the tunes feel like they have a
heart pounding at the center of this cruel world.
There is a constant ray of sunshine breaking
through. I am still a sucker for that tasty
Hammond organ sound and Travis knows how to do it
righteously. Splendid.

from http://www.guitar9.com website:

Population Override is Buckethead\'s collaboration with keyboardist/producer Travis Dickerson, and the tall guitarist states, "The best playing I've done yet!" This may the album for those instrumental guitar fans who haven\'t yet gotten into the chicken fried six stringer, as superlatives such as "soulful", "proficient", "melodic", "blues-fired", "barn-burning" and "biting" apply to the eleven, improvisationally enhanced instrumentals, which differ significantly from the great majority of tracks found on Buckethead\'s discography. Throbbing, groove filled drum work by Pinchface, and some exuberant keyboard riffage my Dickerson make Population Override one of the best picks for people who still have yet to discover what this prolific guitarist can deliver - and a must-have for the current Buckethead faithful.

[BloodScrollBro]

What a great review! Thanks for posting that. Always nice to have one\'s opinions validated...