Digitech® Premieres Scott Ian Black-13™ Artist Series Effects Pedal
(EMI | Posted 2005-09-03)
DigiTech®, a leading manufacturer of guitar signal processors, and a Harman International company (NYSE-HAR), is pleased to announce the introduction of the Scott Ian Black-13™ Artist Series Pedal. Under the watchful eye of Scott Ian, DigiTech has recreated some of Ian’s classic metal tones by applying its proprietary technology called Production Modeling™. The Black-13 Artist Series Pedal furthers DigiTech’s philosophy of developing products designed to supply guitarists with the best sounding, most creative tools possible.
A master of distinctive metal guitar tones, Scott Ian’s career has spanned more than 20 years, covering a range from the full-on metal assault of Anthrax to the hardcore crossover punk of S.O.D. (Stormtroopers Of Death). Now seven of Ian’s signature monstrous tones are available to any guitarist.
DigiTech’s breakthrough Production Modeling was used to reproduce the studio and live guitar sounds, including effects and processing, of Scott Ian. This includes modeling the speaker cabinets, microphones and microphone placements, pre and post effects, and the recording engineer’s production magic. Every aspect of the signal chain has been considered and recreated, resulting in completely accurate models of Ian’s tones.
Scott’s aggressive playing style helped create and define old-school metal, thrash, nu-metal and even rap music genres, and the Black-13 pedal models seven of Scott’s signature tones. Whether used to duplicate Anthrax or S.O.D. songs or for creating completely new music, the tones in Black-13 deliver overwhelmingly heavy crunch and iron-fisted punch. The scorching models available in the Black-13 pedal include:
• “I Am The Law,” with tone inspired by the comic book character Judge Dredd on Among The Living (1987)
• “Madhouse,” rhythm crunch from Anthrax’s classic Spreading the Disease (1985)
• “March Of The S.O.D.,” hardcore tone from S.O.D.’s punk crossover album Speak English or Die (1985)
• “Protest And Survive,” featuring a furious anger-driven tone from Attack Of the Killer B’s (1991)
• “Room For One More,” irreverent tone from the Sound Of White Noise album by Anthrax (1993)
• “What Doesn’t Die,” ultra-heavy tone from Anthrax’s latest album, We’ve Come For You All (2003)
• “Finale,” a wicked tape-delay effect with a healthy dose of pitch shifting featured on Anthrax’s State of Euphoria (1988)
To accomplish the task of recreating this spectrum of crushing tones, DigiTech went straight to the man himself, working directly with Scott Ian to dial in painstakingly accurate representations of his sounds. Four rotary knobs are provided for perfecting each tone: a level control, a Model control for selecting among the seven tone models, and two Control knobs that change functions depending on the model selected — parameters include low- and high-frequency boost/cut, gain, distortion, tone and more. Two outputs are provided, one for feeding a guitar amplifier, and the other for simultaneously feeding a mixer or recorder input. The second output has been specially tailored to reproduce the sound of Scott Ian’s guitar amp in the studio without the need to use a guitar amp.
The DigiTech Scott Ian Black-13 Artist Series Pedal includes a pedal gig bag, Scott Ian Artist Series guitar pick, and a PS200R power supply. Now guitarists everywhere can mosh it up with some of the heaviest sounds ever created. These are the guitar tones that built a legend.
About The DigiTech Artist Series Pedals
The DigiTech range of Artist Series Pedals pays tribute to leading guitarists in all genres of music. At the heart of each Artist Series Pedal is the employment of DigiTech’s proprietary Production Modeling™ via the AudioDNA™ DSP super-chip. This critically acclaimed technology was explicitly designed to help reproduce the studio and live sounds as well as the detailed effects of an artist sound, as heard on their recordings. This includes modeling the speaker cabinets, microphones with their placements, pre/post effects, as well as the recording engineer’s creative magic. This attention to detail ensures that each artist’s signature sound is true to the original, and as sonically distinctive today as it was when they played it. In addition, guitarists can draw on any of the modeled sounds as a starting point, with the ability to create and further develop their own tones using the function control knobs. The current range of DigiTech Artist Series Pedals includes: Dan Donegan, The Weapon™ Artist Series Pedal; Eric Clapton, Crossroads™ Artist Series Pedal; Jimi Hendrix, Experience™ Artist Series Pedal; and the latest addition, the Scott Ian, Black-13™ Artist Series Pedal.
