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With a moniker like Royal Blood, you might expect to find a death metal band spewing lyrics both loud and incomprehensible. But the band’s name is a bit deceiving and Tuesday night’s jam packed late show at Mercury Lounge revealed just two British bandmates on stage. In lieu of a traditional lineup, Royal Blood is minimally just a bass player and a drummer. But to scoff at their makeup would be just as foolish as making assumptions about their style based solely on their name- for Royal Blood is an inventive and downright awesome burgeoning live act, poised to explode on the music scene.
There was scant available room to move inside of the standing room only space, a surprise considering that this was officially the band’s first live show played in New York City. (They performed at Williamsburg’s Glasslands just one night prior). Formed in 2013, the garage rock duo was incredibly tapped to open some one-off shows for overseas for Arctic Monkeys toward the end of the year, coupled with a highly buzzed about show at South by Southwest just two months ago. Their reputation to date has continued to lend credibility and a good amount of hype to a rapidly ascending band with seemingly just a year of experience and just a four song EP under their belts thus far.
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Shortly after 11pm, the band- fronted by vocalist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher- began a blistering but abbreviated 45 minute set that showed but a glimpse of their musical prowess, meshing a variety of different styles despite only two instruments, in each of their eight songs. For artists who are virtually unknown, it’s easy to draw comparisons based solely on sound to more established acts, but rather than make those parallels, perhaps it’s more appropriate to plainly state that Royal Blood’s utterly inventive style simply evokes the best parts of rock music- namely infectious riffs and pummeling drum beats- with a bluesy and raw garage vibe that’s all their own.
Though you can currently hear the band’s first single “Out Of The Black” on whatever is left of rock radio, which fans in the house went bonkers for, the opener on this night- “Hole” – as well as the unreleased “Loose Change” were equally as eye opening. Fans in the know meanwhile went wild for “Little Monster, ” but really there wasn’t much time for letting up as the duo rarely wasted time between songs and rarely acknowledged each other. Every note was timed with precision and the performance even in a venue this small showed a band with far greater expertise than their time together would indicate. Before the band returns to the states and begins playing much larger venues, do yourself a favor and download Royal Blood’s newly released EP right away. Just don’t forget about where you heard about them first.
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I have to admit, the first time I heard them play I thought there had to be some backing tracks going on behind the scenes. The notion of a two-piece sounding huge didn’t seem plausible, but it really is. Royal Blood sound massive. Not just ‘two-piece big’, but they have a sound to rival any other band.
With Ben Thatcher on drums (also sounding MASSIVE), Mike Kerr takes up bass and vocals, and with a truly smart rig achieves an incredible sound that fills in the gap that most guitarists leave bare.
Understandably so, Mike has always been relatively secretive about his rig. After all it’s one of the things that makes this band so special. That in our opinion just makes it even more intriguing, and one we couldn’t resist looking into.
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The thing that makes Mike’s sound so interesting is the combination of bass and guitar tones he manages to get from one instrument. Obviously, there’s some smart work going into the rig to make it all happen, but clearly, the choice of guitar is key.
Notably, the use of short-scale basses certainly helps out with the tone, but with such a requirement for a drive, the pickups have also got to be considered, as has the general feel of the instrument for such an energetic performance.
Taking a look at a heap of videos, interviews and photos online, we can see that the mainstays of Mike’s collection are as follows.
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Fender Starcaster Bass – a stunning bass guitar complete with F holes. Mike’s choice has a lovely black finish, but he’s also been seen playing a beautiful pearl white version too.
Gretsch Electromatic G2220 Junior Jet II Bass – A mainstay of the Royal Blood lineup since the very early days, the Gretsch is clearly a workhorse that just keeps going and going. What’s really surprising is the price as a new one will only set you back £312.
Manson Mike Kerr Custom Bass Guitar – Given the unique nature of Mike’s sound, it was only really a matter of time until he got a signature guitar made up. It’s not clear exactly what custom items the Manson Mike Kerr features, but it certainly looks the part.
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Fender Deluxe Jaguar Bass – A classic base, and one of our favourite-looking instruments. It’s not used as frequently as the Gretsch and Starcaster, but hopefully, it’ll get out more on the next record and touring cycle.
This is where things start to get pretty clever. From what we can tell, there’s a massive part of Mike’s sound coming from splitting the signal via a series of guitar and bass amps, and then combining the sound to get that amazing raucous guitar tone whilst maintaining the lower end.
If you listen to any live performance, you’ll notice a really clear definition between the ‘guitar’ tones and the bass notes. In our opinion, this is the really clever part, and probably also the part of the sound that makes people assume there’s a backing track playing the bass.
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Taking a look at Royal Blood’s set at Reading in 2015, and doing a bit more research online it seems that the mainstays of Mike’s amp set-up are as follows:
What’s really interesting here is that the Bassman heads were really chosen for the drive channel, having struggled to get a great overdriven bass sound from just pedals alone.
The supersonic combos are then added in to provide the guitar sounds, which when mixed in with the bass amps sound absolutely massive.
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Given the nature of the whole rig here (splitting bass vs. guitar), it’s always going to be key to have the right mix of bass amps and guitar amps. Sadly this makes it a little harder to emulate the sound on a tight budget, as we think you’ll struggle to truly get it right with only one amp.
Following on from the foundations of the rig (guitars and amps), there are a lot of clever things happening on the pedal side of things. It’s also the hardest part of the rig to work out, as besides trying to analyse videos and photos, there’s not a huge amount of information online about what pedals Mike uses, and more importantly how he uses them.
At first glance, Mike’s pedal board actually appears to be pretty straightforward. It’s certainly not huge. However, the really interesting thing for us is how the pedals are used to split the signal, and try to work out what sits on the guitar side of the chain, vs. what sits on the bass side.
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From what we can tell, the Electro-Harmonix POG’s play a pretty central role. If you’ve never played around with the POG2, it’s an excellent pedal that allows you to add an octave, or shift the tone up and down by an octave. Given that there are two of these on Mike’s board, it would make sense that he’s using one to shape both the guitar and bass tones.
In terms of splitting the signal out, the Boss LS-2 Line Selector provides so many options for splitting and combining signals. At the end of the chain, we suspect the Palmer Triage Amplifier Selector does the job of sending the signal out to the different amps.
For those who have tried combining amps, you’ll understand the need to remove the earth hum created by
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