Kurt Ballou

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Kurt Ballou is the guitarist from Massachusetts-based band Converge. Aside from his role in Converge, he is the recording engineer and owner of Godcity Studio.

[edit] Equipment

• Guitars commonly used: First Act Warmoth Custom Jazzmaster W/ EMG 89 bridge pickup, Custom Sheena Guitar w/ EMG 81 bridge pickup, First Act Custom Offset-Horns Double-Cutaway, Rickenbacker 650A w/ EMG 81 bridge pickup.
• Amps commonly used: Bad Cat Black Cat head, Bad Cat Lynx head, THD Flexi head, 1978 Marshall 50-watt JMP non-master volume head, Ampeg V-4 head.
• Speaker Enclosures commonly used: Emperor 6x12 cabinet (2), Marshall customized 8x10 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, Line 6 MM4, Boss DD-5 Delay, Boss Pitch Shifter/Delay,Boss Heavy Metal, Boss Metalzone, Boss Tuner, Boss Noise Suppressor.

[edit] List of selected recording projects

• Carry On - A Life Less Plagued (2001)
• pg.99 - Document #8 (2001)
• Orchid -"Chaos is Me" (1999)
• Eden Maine - The Treachery Pact (2002)
• Suicide Note - You're Not Looking So Good (2002)
• Beecher - Breaking the Fourth Wall (2003)
• Embrace Today - Soldiers (2003)
• Since By Man - We Sing the Body Electric (2003)
• Scars Of Tomorrow - Rope Tied To The Trigger (2004)
• The Great Redneck Hope - "Behold The Fuck Thunder" (2004)
• Converge - You Fail Me (2004)
• Sex Positions - Sex Positions (2004)
• Champion – Promises Kept (2004)
• Beecher - This Elegy, His Autopsy (2005)
• Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky (Remastered) (2005)
• Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered) (2005)
• Transistor Transistor-"Erase All Name and Likeness" (2005)
• Seventh Star - Brood of Vipers (2005)
• Modern Life Is War - Witness (2005)
• Rise And Fall - Into Oblivion (2005)
• Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World (2005)
• Doomriders - Black Thunder
• Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (2006)
• The Hope Conspiracy - Death Knows Your Name (2006)
• Converge - No Heroes (2006)
• Betrayed - Substance (2006)
• Gaza - I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die (2006)
• Birthday Boyz - the bro cycle ep
• Blacklisted - Peace on Earth, War on Stage (2007)
• The Freezing Fog - March Forth To Victory 2007
• Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor (2007)
• Seventh Star - The Undisputed Truth (2007)
• The Ghost of a Thousand - This is Where the Fight Begins (2007)
• Animosity - Animal (2007)
• Coliseum - No Salvation (2007)
• Swarm of the Lotus - The Sirens Of Silence (2005)
• Samsara - The Emptiness (2007)
• I Hate Sally - Don't Worry Lady (2007)
• 108 - A New Beat From A Dead Heart (2007)
• Kruger - Redemption Through Looseness (2007)
• The Casual Lean - Swears (2007)
• Disfear - "Live The Storm" (2008)
• Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God (2008)
• Elysia - Lion Of Judas (2008)
• Genghis Tron - Board Up The House (2008)
• Torche - Meanderthal (2008)
• Transistor Transistor-"Ruined Lives" (2008)
• Stray From The Path - "Villains" )(2008)
• Misery Index - Traitors (2008)

[edit] External links

• Airbornmag.com Interview (December 2007 Interview with UK-based music/sports website Airbornmag.com)
• First Act website (includes a page on his custom "Sheena" guitar)
• AMP magazine website (Kurt contributes an article to this page, entitled "Tech Talk")
• Kurt's Rickenbacker 650A review (Harmony Central)