SCAR SYMMETRY

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Get the Helix preset that contains our live guitar tones here: http://www.patreon.com/scarguitar "Will you ever share Scar Symmetry's Helix preset that you use on stage?" is a question I've been asked numerous times. Scar Symmetry has used Line6 gear for our live guitar tones since 2008 when we got our hands on a couple of POD X3 Live units. It's so incredibly convenient to have ALL of your guitar sound (beyond your mind, your hands, your instrument, strings, pick etc) in one very portable device! For our 2016 tour in North America, our soundguy Igor Stolarsky (currently the FOH for Animals as Leaders) who also was a firmware developer for Line6 brought a couple of the then kind of new Helix rack units for us to use. It was a Scar Symmetry headline tour, and our three support bands (Arsis, Shattered Sun and Painted in Exile) all brought amp heads and 4x12 cabinets, but after the first couple of shows everyone was so impressed with how great the Helix sounded that they all ended up using them - making the changeovers so much faster and more convenient! A couple of years later, Line6 released the downsized version of the Helix, the HX Stomp. This little fella used the same software as its big brother but had less processing power - which didn't matter to us since we don't need to use complex reverbs and pitchshifters. It is small and incredibly light making it very convenient for touring on a budget. The only thing that bugged me was that you only get three snapshots per preset... and we need four. Luckily Line6 later released the HX Stomp XL which features the coveted FOUR snapshots per preset and the XL version has been what we've used since! So without further ado... Here's THE Helix/HX preset that we've been using on stage for the past couple of years. An early version of this preset was made by our guitar tech (and former touring bass and guitar player occasionally filling in for Kenneth or Jonas back when they were still in the band) Fredrik Groth, so credit to him for setting up the basic structure of the blocks, choosing the amp and so on, though I've done some major reworking of the preset to its current form. The preset consists of four snapshots and here's how we use them: Snapshot 1: mono rhythm tone panned to one side - when both Stephen and I play rhythm, we both use snapshot 1. His HX Stomp XL has the exact same preset - we just switch the cables on the outputs to invert the panning on his device Snapshot 2: stereo rhythm tone - we're using a short delay to offset left from right, a simple but effect way of creating a doubling effect, emulating two players playing the same part. When one of us plays a solo or clean part, the other one switches to snapshot 2 in order to fill out the stereo field and to have the rhythm parts stay approximately the same volume-wise. Snapshot 2 is considerably louder than snapshot 1 and that is because it is meant to sound like two guitar players each using snapshot 1 playing the same thing. Snapshot 3: lead tone - doesn't need much explanation 😊 Snapshot 4: clean tone - we don't use clean tones all that much but for example during Stephen's solo on Morphogenesis, I use snapshot 4 A NOTE ON INPUT VOLUME: We use wireless guitar systems live, and for whatever reason, the output from those are a tad bit weaker than if we were to plug straight into the Stomps via cable. These snapshots might therefore feel a bit "hot", too much gain etc if you're using a cable so you might want to adjust the input gain somewhat.

Watch and learn as Per Nilsson opens up the mix project for the closing track from Scar Symmetry's new album The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph) - the title track itself, XENOTAPH! 👽 Check out the new album: https://scarsymmetry.bfan.link/xenotaph Get your hands on some merch: https://www.scarsymmetryofficial.com/shop The song Xenotaph features the huge, fan-sourced THE ULTRATERRESTRIAL CHOIR! With the help of our friends at GEAR GODS, we provided our fans with a placeholder piece of music on top of which they could record themselves singing "Xenotaph, unbound" several times (some did 50 takes or more!!!). The band members themselves and friends and family of theirs also recorded hundreds and hundreds of tracks, and after stacking all these performances the result was a choir built from THOUSANDS of vocal tracks!

Set your reminder now and join us for the premiere of our new video 'Xenotaph" on @NuclearBlastRecords youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XscNVozMgo 'Xenotaph' is part of Scar Symmetry new album 'The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)' out now : https://scarsymmetry.bfan.link/xenota... Subscribe to Scar Symmetry : http://bit.ly/subs-scrsym-yt Follow Scar Symmetry : Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/scarsymmetry Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/scarsymmetry Website : https://www.scarsymmetryofficial.com Created by Wayne Joyner & David Letelier

Order your copy of The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph) : https://scarsymmetry.bfan.link/xenotaph.yde 0:00 Chrononautilus 05:00 Scorched Quadrant 10:09 Overworld 13:58 Altergeist 20:12 Reichsfall 25:26 Digiphrenia Dawn 30:58 Hyperborean Plains 36:06 Gridworm 41:17 A Voyage With Tailed Meteors 46:06 Soulscanner 50:16 Xenotaph #scarsymmetry #newalbum

New album The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph) out on June 9, 2023 via Nuclear Blast Records 👽 Check the second part of this video on @thehaloeffectse channel : https://youtu.be/WtRLNzv1wx0 💿 Order & listen the album at https://scarsymmetry.bfan.link/xenotaph Here's a casual hang with The Halo Effect's Niclas Engelin and Scar Symmetry's Per Nilsson, shot the day after their Stockholm show supporting Meshuggah at Annexet! If you wonder why Per looks a little bit pale, he was getting increasingly ill during the day and broke out in high fever in the evening - he was bedridden for the next week as he as well as several other members of the touring package came down with covid. Niclas miraculously didn't get ill; his immune system must be as powerful as his riffs! 🔥