[ATTACH=CONFIG]197105.vB5-legacyid=7184[/ATTACH]Vancouver, BC – Our Lady Peace is one of Canada’s best known post-grunge bands and has held this distinction for over a decade. The band’s other claim to fame is their highly successful long distance relationship and willingness to try the new and different.
Guitar player Steve Mazur: “At this exact moment OLP is just coming off touring for our last release, Curve, so we are in a writing period. We write all kinds of ways, separately and together, and being split up between Los Angeles and Toronto, fly ideas around through email and stuff.”
One of the ways Mazur keeps things creative is by working in his own home studio. His choice of gear includes the increasingly popular 500 series format. “It was how I started up my home studio and more and more great stuff keeps coming out for that format, so I’ve just stuck with it. The flexibility and expansion it allows for is attractive to me and there seems to be less of a commitment when using 500 series stuff-you’re not stuck with some big, expensive hulking unit if you decide that you want to change it up or aren’t satisfied.” Mazur also likes the portability of the format: “I’ve taken my lunchbox to a session at someone else’s studio if they had less than great preamps or compressors. It only makes me sound better and my job easier!!”
Having recently picked up Radial’s EXTC 500 (guitar effects interface), Mazur had this to say about his experience with the gear: “I had been running tracks out of Pro Tools and processing them through stompboxes. The results were hit and miss but I loved the tweaking factor of it. I was somewhat aware that the signal impedances weren’t exactly correct but didn’t think there was much that I could do about it, then I heard about the EXTC 500. So great!! Now the tracks are always at proper impedance to the pedals and the whole phase flip for different pedals is genius. A lot of pedals that I didn’t think were compatible for track processing are now all in play. I don’t see how I lived without it now!”
Mazur is also a fan of his Radial Tonebone Switchbone (AB-Y guitar amp switcher) and his Tonebone Twin-City (buffered AB-Y with Drag™ load correction) for his live performances.
Our Lady Peace has upcoming live dates on the Canadian east coast including a performance on the nation’s birthday July 1st in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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