
The result was the band’s latest record, the darker “Strange Little Birds” featuring many first- and second-take vocals from Manson. Twenty years down the line, Garbage is “free to do whatever we want,” he said. Her voice is just synonymous of who we are as a band.” “It’s the nature of how we play and how Shirley (Manson) sings,” Vig explained. And I think it’s for better.”įor example, Vig said, he’s been working on a radically new mix of a Garbage track but it doesn’t ever really change the personality that comes through. Even if we try to not sound like us, we still end up sounding like us. Samples feature recorded drums, processed by the seminal rock producer in his own GrungeIsDead home studio. We’re very lucky as a band that we have a similar vision. Native Instruments has launched Butch Vig Drums, a Kontakt library with heavily processed drum sounds ready to be deployed in your productions. In Wendy Schneider’s 2016 documentary The Smart Studios Story, we learn that as a teenager, Butch would. But his production career began long before that. “There are sensibilities that we share in music, in art, in food and whatever. You know Butch Vig as the drummer and producer of Garbage, or the producer of such mammoth 1990s recordings as Nirvana’s Nevermind or the first few Smashing Pumpkins releases. None of us are virtuosos but we all have a certain style how we play.



“It comes from the nature of how we interact together and how we play as musicians. I was getting tired of recording guitar, bass and drums, says drummer and producer Butch Vig, speaking of the period in 1994 when he reigned as the hottest record maker on the planet, having helmed not one, but two genre and era-defining smashes, Nirvana’s Nevermind and the Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream. Producer/Drummer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Garbage, Foo Fighters) joins Dave and Herb at the Avid booth at NAMM 2015Get your copy of The Pensado Papers: http://bi.
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“We have a strong sonic identity, and I’m not even clearly sure how to define it,” Vig said last week. He is a key component in the band’s sonic footprint, from his production techniques and creation of electronic beats in his Madison, Wisconsin, home studio to his songwriting contributions.
