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William Hesser Recordings

About Me

My buddy Chris Ryan and I share the space at Dead City Sound . All of my recordings and clients are on this page, everything on the Dead City Sound page is Chris's. In other words if you'd like to work with me, get in touch with me, here.
I charge 25 bucks an hour to record and mix. We record into various outboard mic pre's, through a 002, into pro-tools. We have plenty of different mics to record anything you've got, any way you want to do it: live (everyone at once), or track-by-track, or anywhere in between.
I have a few different guitars, basses, amps, and pedals that anyone is free to use whenever they record free of charge. Just let me know if you need anything specific before you come in so I can make sure to have it up there. The list is always changing, but some gear that is almost always around is....
Hawkins 'Classic 50'
--handwired 50w British voiced no master volume EL34 guitar amp,
incredibly loud, (hearing is believing)
Hawkins custom high gain 50
--handwired 50w SLO/hotrodded Marshall style 6550 guitar amp
Hawkins Bass Face prototype
--handwired all tube 2 channel bass/guitar preamp
--SVT style preamp with Superbass style tone circuit
--sound amazing with the following poweramps..
VHT 2150 (vintage, original circuit)
--hand built 100w 2 channel KT88 guitar poweramp
Peavey Classic 120
--120w all tube guitar/bass poweramp
Ampeg V6-B
--240w vintage monster bass amp
Fender PA-100
--100w all tube 4 channel guitar/bass/anything amp w/reverb
Ampeg 810
Ampeg V4 cab
--vintage 4x12 guitar cab
Sanford and Sonny Bluebeard Fuzz
--handwired fuzz w/full range eq
--ultimate bass big muff style high gain fuzz pedal
Creepy Fingers Sugar Boost
--boost pedal with tone control, super crisp extra preamp gain
--handwired by Brad Davis
Analog Man Beano Boost
--treble/full range boost, cleaner, less fuzzy than the Sugar Boost
--hand built, point to point, mod'd for use with bass
Dunlop Rotovibe
--rotary speaker/chorus pedal w/expression pedal speed control
Morley Pro Phaser
--vintage phaser w/expression pedal
Mountain Sound orange squeezer clone
--classic compresser pedal with extended low end, built by yours truely
Guyatone Flip Echo
--tube delay pedal
Boss OC-3
--octave pedal
Boss PQ-4
--vintage parametric eq pedal
Furman PE-1
--vintage guitar preamp/parametric eq

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/08/2006
Band Website: this is it
Band Members: me
Sounds Like: Abolish the Weak
Alec Ross
All Hands on Deck
Altus
A Man Born Blind
Arcadia Crisis, The
Ardor
As Eden Burns
As the Cancer Spreads
Beretta Fiesta
Bonnie Kills Clide
Bottom Feeder
Coya
Crowsfeet
Curtains
Death or Eldona
Defending the Kingdom
Depleted Resource Records
Dogshit
Dwell Records
Epiphany
Even the Throne Will Fall
Fight Pretty
Framed
Gates of Acheron
Ghosthunt Records
Ghost Town Electric
GNP Records
Gyste
Harlots
Hawkins Amplification
Humanicide
Into The Midst
JonBenet, The
Justin Platt
Last Minute Fix
Leavers
Lie and Wait
Living Shred
Lockdown
Mammoth Grinder
Name Your Cliche
Old 300, The
On My Side
Perilous Fight
Portrait of Dorian Gray
Richard Gass
Ripping Apart
Sleeping With Giants
Stephen Chavez
Stone Church
Takes, The
Thee Armada
This is the Concierge
This Years Tiger
Through Novembers Eyes
Torsectomy
Vasu
Willowtip Records
Words of War Records
Wormhole Records
Year One
Record Label: a small handfull
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Studio Open Again

Alright so it's been about three months since Ike and the studio is finally back up and running. Chris and I have been up there in all of our free time fixing it back up and I'm glad to say that it's ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:05:00 GMT

Good news vol. 2

Last night a guitar and a bass were stolen out of my car in the heights. The guitar is a brown Gibson faded SG special with a cream colored pickguard. It has grey Rio Grande humbuckers, an aftermarket...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:31:00 GMT

no more studio

For those of you that haven't head, during hurricane Ike the celings at Dead City caved in. The majority of the important gear is safe with the exception of some guitar pedals, microphones, and all of...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:47:00 GMT

Renovations

So im fancyin up the studio. Im currently putting in a new iso booth and eventually ill be putting some new acoustic treatment and false ceilings in both live rooms and just fixing things up all aroun...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 17:01:00 GMT