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American musician and record producer
Musical artist
Kurt Ballou (born February 1, 1974) is an American musician and record producer based in Massachusetts , best known as the guitarist for hardcore punk band Converge and for his prolific recording and production work at his own GodCity Studio.
Early and personal life [ edit ]
Kurt Ballou started playing saxophone in elementary school.[1] baritone saxophone , bassoon and bass clarinet . Ballou was accepted to join the Hartford School of Music , but he opted to study aerospace engineering instead.[2] Slayer tapes around the age of sixteen.[1] [3]
He is a vegan [4] straight edge lifestyle.[5]
Since 1990, Kurt Ballou has played in the metalcore band Converge. From 1996 to 2000 Ballou played in the hardcore punk band The Huguenots. From 1996 to 1999 Ballou and Stephen Brodsky played in the rock band Kid Kilowatt . In 1998 Ballou established GodCity Studio. From 1999 to 2002 Ballou and Ben Koller played in the hardcore punk band Blue/Green Heart.
God City Studio [ edit ]
In the late 1990s, Kurt Ballou was working as a biomedical engineer when his then-project got cancelled. Instead of selecting a different position within the same company that he had worked with for six years, Ballou opted to receive a severance package which he used to build his own recording studio.[6] [7] Jacob Bannon (of Converge) has stated, "Nothing gets by him—it is inspiring to watch him work."[8]
Established in 1998, God City Studio is located in Ballou's home state of Massachusetts. One of the earliest recordings from the studio was Cave In 's Until Your Heart Stops
Ballou has stated that collaborating on Jane Doe [9] [9]
In 2005 Ballou remixed and remastered Converge's Petitioning the Empty Sky and When Forever Comes Crashing . Ballou has stated that because of the quality of [Converge's] recordings has improved so much that the original recordings were "becoming distracting".[10] Jane Doe You Fail Me No Heroes metal and hardcore bands, including Genghis Tron's Board Up the House Torche's Meanderthal Disfear's Live the Storm Darkest Hour's Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora [11]
One reason that motivated Ballou to get in to the studio side of music was to have "maximum control over Converge's music." He further stated, "When we were starting out, no one wanted to help us anyway, so if we didn't take control, nothing was going to get done."[12] Ken Andrews , Martin Bisi , Fred Drake , Steve Albini , and Don Zientara .[12]
Equipment [ edit ]
Guitars commonly used : GodCity Instruments guitars, Wild Customs The Savage One w/ EMG P85 bridge pickup, First Act Custom Sheena Guitar w/ EMG 81 bridge pickup, Warmoth Custom Jazzmaster W/ EMG 89 bridge pickup, First Act Custom Offset-Horns Double-Cutaway, Rickenbacker 650A w/ EMG 81 bridge pickup.
Amps commonly used : Orange OR50 head, Sparrows Sons overdrive std (aka Sparrow amp), Bad Cat Black Cat head, Bad Cat Lynx head, Marshall 1987x Plexi Reissue, 1978 Marshall 50-watt JMP 2204, Ampeg V-4 head, Guild Thunderbass.[3]
Speaker Enclosures commonly used : Emperor 6x12 cabinet (2 ), Marshall customized 4x12 cabinet w/ four "Eminence vintage 30 clone" 12-inch speakers, Marshall 8x10 cabinet w/ stock 15-watt Celestions.
Effects commonly used : Providence Stampede Distortion, Boss GE-7 Graphic Equalizer, Akai Headrush, Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run, Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay, Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal , TC Electronic Polytune, Boss Noise Suppressor, TC Electronic Mimiq.
Discography [ edit ]
Production work [ edit ]
With Converge [ edit ]
With The Huguenots [ edit ]
The Huguenots (1998) (EP )
The Huguenots / Sevenpercentsolution (2000) (split with Sevenpercentsolution)
Discography (2007)[13] [14]
With Blue/Green Heart [ edit ]
With Kid Kilowatt [ edit ]
As an additional/guest musician [ edit ]
Year
Artist
Album
Contributions
1998
Cave In
Until Your Heart Stops Guitar, percussion, vocals
2000
Supermachiner
Rise of the Great Machine Guitar, saxophone, electronics
2000
Garrison
A Mile in Cold Water
Slide guitar
2002
Nationale Blue
A Different Kind of Listening
Melodica
2002
In Pieces
Learning to Accept Silence
Harmonica, melodica, slide guitar
2002
Curl Up and Die
Unfortunately, We're Not Robots Vocals
2004
Old Man Gloom
Christmas Guitars, drums, drum programing, vocals
2004
Last Perfection
Drawing Conclusions
Guitar
2004
Suicide Note
Too Sick to Dance Forever
Guitars, vocals
2005
Mi Amore
The Lamb
Guitars, solos
2005
New Idea Society
You Are Awake or Asleep
Drums
2006
Kahoots
Fourteen Ghosts
Saxophone
2007
Animosity
Animal Saxophone
2007
Pygmy Lush
Bitter River
Saxophone, melodica, slide guitar
2007
Coliseum
No Salvation
Keyboards
2007
Trap Them
Sleepwell Deconstructor Guitars
2007
The Casual Lean
Swears
Guitars, vocals
2007
The One AM Radio
This Too Will Pass
Drum engineering
2007
New Idea Society
World Is Bright and Lonely
Guitars
2008
Genghis Tron
Board Up the House Toy drums
2008
Verse
Aggression
Drum engineering
2008
Torche
Meanderthal Guitars
2008
Pygmy Lush
Mount Hope
Percussion
2008
Trap Them
Seizures in Barren Praise Bass, guitars, noise
2008
Clouds
We Are Above You
Synthesizer, saxophone, guitar, slide guitar
2009
Supermachiner
Rust Guitar, saxophone, electronics
2009
Rise and Fall
Our Circle Is Vicious Additional percussion
2010
Trap Them
Filth Rations Glockenspiel
2011
KEN mode
Venerable Slide guitar
2011
Des Ark
Don't Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker
Space bong
2012
High on Fire
De Vermis Mysteriis Guitar
2013
Oathbreaker
Eros/Anteros Guitar
2014
Trap Them
Blissfucker Guitar
2014
Old Man Gloom
The Ape of God Guitar
2015
Sweet Cobra
Earth
Guitar
2015
The Armed
Untitled
2017
Full of Hell
Trumpeting Ecstasy Bass
2017
Mutoid Man
War Moans
Guitar
2017
All Pigs Must Die
Hostage Animal
Guitar
2017
Chelsea Wolfe
Hiss Spun Guitar
2017
Wear Your Wounds
WYW
2017
Examination Of The...
The Whitest Of Elephants Slide guitar
2018
Baptists
Beacon of Faith
Vocals, soundscapes
2019
Crowhurst
III
Drum programming
2019
SECT
Blood Of The Beasts
Guitar
Awards and nominations [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
General
Specific
^ a b Gardner, Josh (July 22, 2010). "Kurt Ballou (Converge) talks gear and guitars" . MusicRadar Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
^ Miller, Liz (November 23, 2009). "Converge Rock Compassion: A Q&A" . VegNews . Retrieved May 21, 2016 .
^ Wedge, Dave (October 18, 1999). "Straight-edgers just say no" . The Sun Chronicle . Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
^ Borthwick, Andrew (November 14, 2005). "Kurt Ballou / Converge interview" . LambGoat . Retrieved September 16, 2010 .
^ Bennett, J. (December 2009). "A Cut Above" . Decibel 62 ). Philadelphia , Pennsylvania: Red Flag Media Inc.: 69–74. ISSN 1557-2137 . Archived from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2010 .
^ Bennett, J. (December 2009). "A Cut Above" . Decibel Philadelphia , Pennsylvania : Red Flag Media Inc. pp. 69–74. ISSN 1557-2137 . Archived from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2010 . {{cite magazine }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
^ a b GodCity Music (June 28, 2015), The Making of Jane Doe at Berklee College of Music archived from the original on December 21, 2021, retrieved May 18, 2017
^ Lee, Cosmo (June 22, 2006). "Kurt Ballou – Interview – Stylus Magazine" . Stylus Magazine the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2011 .
^ "New Converge – 'Dark Horse' . Stereogum . August 25, 2009. Retrieved September 15, 2009 .
^ a b Lee, Cosmo (June 22, 2006). "Kurt Ballou – Interview – Stylus Magazine" . Stylus Magazine the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2011 .
^ Parker, Rob (February 27, 2008). "Review: Discography " . LambGoat . Retrieved September 6, 2010 .
^ "Discography, by The Huguenots" . The Huguenots . Retrieved December 26, 2016 .
^ "Blue/Green Heart" . Iodine Recordings the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2010 .
^ Köke, Linda (April 26, 2018). "Heavy Music Awards Announce Their 2018 Nominees" . Genre is Dead! . London . Archived from the original on April 10, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021 . And the nominees are...
^ "Metallica, Architects, Gojira among Heavy Music Awards 2018 winners" . Music Week Archived from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021 . The full list of winners
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