Ariel Posen: “Dynamics are the most important thing.”
Wong Notes
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4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
The roots-guitar innovator talks about controlling his sound, when to play large or small amps, using overdrive and compression, mastering slide, building community on social media, and the overall role gear plays in defining his distinctive tone.
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I'm feeling good today. I'm feeling great. I just got back from an amazing Europe tour. It's insane. Huge rooms all sold out. I felt so loved and I'm so grateful for everybody that came out. It was such a blast and I had such a |
| 0:24.7 | great response from the people that came. Band was on fire. I'm feeling good. I've got a bunch of new |
| 0:31.4 | YouTube videos that are out that are really fun. I put out one of my live shows, like a kind of |
| 0:36.4 | portion of my live show at First |
| 0:38.2 | Avenue on YouTube. And I'm in the middle of my season of Corey and the Wong Notes, which is my |
| 0:43.0 | variety show on YouTube. Check it out. A lot of fun things. I have some new singles out and a new |
| 0:49.5 | album dropping Friday called Power Station. It's a banger. |
| 0:55.5 | Check it out. |
| 0:57.0 | Today on the show, we have a great friend of mine who's an insane guitar player, |
| 1:03.2 | Ariel Posen. |
| 1:04.4 | I first met Ariel at NAM a few years back or something. |
| 1:08.4 | I was just hanging out, walking around, |
| 1:11.5 | and I happened upon the Sir Guitars Amps and Petals booth. |
| 1:16.5 | And one of the cats there was like, hey, do you know Ariel Posen? |
| 1:20.6 | I was like, no, I don't. |
| 1:22.7 | He's like, he's dope. |
| 1:24.0 | You guys got a jam together. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm like, all right, he's dope. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, let's jam. I'm down. |
| 1:29.0 | So get a couple guitars, sit down, start grooving. Dang! I can still feel that E7 groove in my |
| 1:37.6 | head right now. Ariel is an absolute incredible musician. We've become great friends since then. |
| 1:44.0 | We've written some tunes together. |
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