{"id":11669,"date":"2014-05-27T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T00:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/?p=11669"},"modified":"2015-02-25T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T02:35:21","slug":"marty-friedman-releases-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rolandus.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/marty-friedman-releases-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"Marty Friedman’s New Album – Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"

Win an Autographed BR-80 Digital Recorder<\/h2>\n
\"Win<\/a>

Win a BR-80 Digital Recorder autographed by Marty Friedman<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Marty Friedman<\/a>\u2019s music career reads like a boxing champ\u2019s intro<\/a>. It includes playing with hit bands like Megadeth and Cacophony, multiple Grammy nominations, film, television, and more. To celebrate his latest accomplishment, the release of his new studio\u00a0album – Inferno<\/em><\/a>, we\u2019re giving away an autographed\u00a0MICRO BR-80 Digital Recorder<\/a>. According to his interview in Guitar World<\/a>, Inferno<\/em> is the most intense writing and playing\u00a0that he has done so far.<\/p>\n

CONTEST: BR-80 Autographed by Marty Friedman<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ends June 31, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n

\"BR-80<\/p>\n

Marty and the BR-80\u2026<\/em><\/h2>\n

In Marty\u2019s experience, if you stick a simulated sound in the right place within a mix it could be just as good or even better than just using the amp tone. Marty uses the BR-80 Digital Recorder like the GS-10<\/a> and GT Effects Processors<\/a> \u2013 for the preset sounds. As an example of his use of simulated sounds Marty referenced his guitar solo in the song \u201cViper\u201d off his Loudspeaker<\/em><\/a> album in which he\u2019s dueling with Steve Vai<\/a> using the GT processor. Marty explained that simulated tones tend to stick out more than using an amp on top of another amp on top of another amp, which makes an engineer\u2019s life in the studio a lot easier.<\/p>\n

Inferno\u2026<\/em><\/h2>\n

Marty\u2019s Inferno<\/em> has taken more planning than anything he\u2019s ever done as he aims for it to be a landmark in his career. In an interview with BOSS\u2019 Gary Lenaire, Marty passionately explains what this record means to him.<\/p>\n

I wanted to take the intensity of everything I\u2019ve ever done and kick it up about a thousand notches, it is absolutely the sickest thing I\u2019ve ever done. Whether that\u2019s good or bad, I don\u2019t know. It is definitely not commercial; it\u2019s definitely just me being as sick as I could possibly ever be. Everything that people probably would hope that I would have done will be done in spades in this record. \u2013Marty Friedman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Undertow\u2026<\/em><\/h2>\n

To our delight and to the fans in attendance at the 2014 NAMM show, Marty gave us a preview of Inferno<\/em> with his performance of \u201cUndertow\u201d in\u00a0our\u00a0booth.<\/p>\n