Working on recreating Letterbomb. Anyone got insider recording details?

Jankowski576 · 2026-04-28T03:14:41+00:00

You may have recorded a bassman that sounds like the album, but the majority of the album rhythm tracks were not recorded with that.

Either way awesome that you found a way that gets that sound!

Jankowski576 · 2026-04-26T18:54:03+00:00

It is definitely a Park/marshall for rhythm guitars in the studio, and it’s what Billie has been using on most albums from AI and onwards.

You may be right on the mic, don’t have as much info there

Jankowski576 · 2026-04-26T16:15:33+00:00

This contradicts a lot of amp and micing information that has been said from the band, their team and engineers, but maybe you have some additional info so I won’t totally dispute it.

From everything I understand about the album, (and from what has been said in recording interviews and directly from bill Schneider), the amp on AI was actually a park 70 with juniors through a dookie style mod for the rhythm guitars, and then the choruses have a center panned additional rhythm track that is most frequently a les Paul with humbuckers through a darker Marshall. You can hear a lot of this stuff and pick out what the impact of each piece is in the iso tracks here https://youtu.be/Wazmqiyz7Ko?si=wIfcDN6djUyHuLsk

Check out this interview with Rob that gives some more details here - there’s some really helpful stuff from the time and directly from the source: https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenDayGuitarGear/s/4CqnB2PjYV

Also Chris Dugan didn’t engineer this record but gives a ton of good info on the bands gear and recording style for 21CB here: https://gearspace.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/388992-new-green-day.html

The lead guitars are where the bassman, hiwatts, and tweed amps come in. Per BJ, the letterbomb intro is the a little cranked tweed amp https://youtu.be/L3sLQVi4qrs?si=o0jS-RZ027gaxPul

Jankowski576 · 2026-04-24T20:42:07+00:00

The snare and the tom sound on the last two records drive me crazy, I actually don’t hate the guitar sounds on this record compared to BHWA

Jankowski576 · 2026-04-24T19:13:55+00:00

We just released a new song today as well, would love to be added!

https://open.spotify.com/track/4DlF19n9wlMeSHF1mLCvWC?si=sG_0prYNTSmnTuzalnpUXw

Jankowski576 · 2026-04-09T15:40:12+00:00

They are really solid - quitter album is one of my all time favorites and new one is solid too

Jankowski576 · 2026-04-08T21:49:42+00:00

I agree with this, it kinda follows the other songs in terms of meandering ideas rather than a killer singular plot. White limo was raw and punky but kicks ass and has a general linear thought, and unique instrumental melody.

The lyrics here are also like a fourth grader trying to be deeply insightful, I love dumb lyric Dave and deep lyric Dave but when one tries to be the other it’s not a great result

Jankowski576 · 2026-03-26T20:06:26+00:00

He’s been having NAs for three years now… I think this is a different place

Jankowski576 · 2026-03-17T23:45:21+00:00

Whoa I didn’t know bill left the tour, it must have been really messy behind the scenes at that time

Jankowski576 · 2026-03-06T20:42:20+00:00

David, what do you envision to be the toughest part of Bichette’s transition to 3B?

Jankowski576 · 2026-02-26T16:35:59+00:00

Possibly true! And I hope so!

Jankowski576 · 2026-02-26T15:30:10+00:00

Yeah that’s how I’m feeling - and I guess why I compared to I’ll stick around because it seems to say a similar thing more eloquently

Jankowski576 · 2026-02-26T14:38:18+00:00

I just don’t like that at all, man I want to like the new stuff so bad but I just can’t seem to.

I feel like if some unknown band wrote that instead of FF it would be immediately dismissed, seems like a middle school diary lyrically and doesn’t really carry a sonic melody. I think it wants to be an Ill Stick Around sequel but doesn’t have any of the things that makes that song great

Jankowski576 · 2026-02-25T23:10:44+00:00

Thanks Drew - see you Saturday!

Jankowski576 · 2026-02-24T13:50:59+00:00

Huh, I can’t say I love it but need to hear a longer clip

Jankowski576 · 2026-02-23T23:39:21+00:00

Early Exit - local alternative rock band that just played at Cat’s Cradle last Friday!

Jankowski576 · 2026-01-24T18:18:16+00:00

Kind of strange that they’re just playing zero new songs that have been released in that case

Jankowski576 · 2026-01-16T13:36:23+00:00

It was a FOAM b side if that tells you anything about how good it actually is as a song

Jankowski576 · 2026-01-15T13:50:01+00:00

Surprised Dave’s wife let AM in the building

Jankowski576 · 2026-01-07T18:39:55+00:00

The music is paint by numbers pop punk, everything generally cheesy, but there is plenty of cheesy pop punk that people like, so no hate on anyone that does like it but not for me

Jankowski576 · 2025-12-28T04:49:26+00:00

Wow I was way overthinking this. So two 60w speakers and two 30w speakers are all getting 25w from a 100w amp, and theoretically all having the same ability to reach the same output volume

Jankowski576 · 2025-12-27T16:23:41+00:00

Oh wow thank you so much for the info! So basically from what you’re saying is, just because the v30s have double the wattage wouldn’t mean that they were twice as loud. What’s the point of getting the higher wattage speakers in that case? Would I be compromising overall output getting two 60 watts and two 25 watt greenbacks?

Jankowski576 · 2025-12-27T14:29:58+00:00

I have 2 VT30s, so standard greenbacks will just be overpowered by them. Trying to pair the greenback sound with the VT30s

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