Walkthrough
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Monstrous distortion from a guitar innovator
We teamed up with guitar innovator and prolific composer Joey Santiago (lead guitarist, The Pixies) to create a library of beautifully distorted filth — the bedrock of The Pixies' epic sound – with extra warped content from the Spitfire team. Joey's signature sounds and playing styles created using his enviable guitar, pedal and amp collection will provide you with endless inspiration, while Spitfire's technology will enable you to make each sound your own.
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Treasure trove of sounds
Recorded in LA, re-amped in London and mutated in Edinburgh, this library is a well-travelled treasure trove of the coolest sounds you’re likely to find in any sample library.
Joey Santiago Guitars contains a variety of multi-sampled guitars, recorded and performed by Joey through his fabled board and his much-toured amp rig, re-amped back in London’s legendary Pool Studios. In addition to multi-sampled virtual instruments, we also captured hours of Joey's shredding, gating, twisting and distorting, turning it into raw materials for new sonic adventures.
Joey Santiago
Choose your preferred amp, and use our popular Mercury Synth and eDNA engines to take our work and make it your own. Designed to inspire all musicians, from media composers, to producers in every genre, from rock to pop and electronic, wanting to harness the sound of a guitar legend in their work,.
Following on from our work with rock god drummers Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Matt Sorum (Guns n Roses) and Roger Taylor (Queen), a legendary rock guitarist was our next logical step. One of the most inventive and influential guitarists of a generation and a composer in his own right, Joey Santiago knows what goes into creating virtual magic. Santiago describes his playing style as 'angular and bent', while MTV's Laurel Bowman stated "Santiago's sonic plough was the key element in the Pixies' monstrous presence".
Spitfire decamped to a vibey space in East LA, rigged up six amps and Joey’s extraordinary pedal board via the finest valve and ribbon mics into a rare vintage Neve console. The aim was not to create a ‘virtual’ guitar — although there are multi-sampled instruments in the library — but to create an environment where Joey’s rich sound world could be captured authentically.
Features
- 6 different signals; 4 amplified signals including Joey's own Marshall JCM800, Fender Vibrolux, and a Selmar and 2 different room perspectives.
- ‘Individual Plucks’ - All sounds played by Joey himself, through a selection of hand picked pedals. 18 different presets that give you they real Santiago guitar sounds.
- ‘Santiago Sounds’ - 35 different sounds created by the man himself through his vast collection of pedals all in the Mercury engine to add additional FX options.
- ‘Gigantic Mutations’ - 49 loops crafted from various sections of Joeys playing, housed and warped within Spitfire’s eDNA engine.
- ‘Radiant Pads’ - 150 sounds curated into 125 different presets, with a metallic edge. All in Spitfire’s eDNA engine.
The overview panel
This is the main interface for melodic instruments. Its default view displays all available playing techniques, has a simple microphone mixer and includes the main feature controllers.
General controls panel
This view allows further in-depth control of the instrument, showing all available signals and feature controllers, as well as the ability to purge techniques from memory to reduce system usage.
The Ostinatum
In this view you can add notes to a pattern sequencer, select which key it triggers on and then play for instant ostinato creation. It’s like an arpeggiator on a synthesiser.
eDNA engine
This interface houses our own sample-synthesiser engine. You can use it to combine two sounds and modulate between them with envelopes, filters and wobbles per sound, as well as a gate sequencer and a selection of go-to FX.
Mercury Synth
This ingenious user interface features a range of organic sounds and specially curated warped sounds. All of the controls are assignable to your control surface, giving you the ability to instantly make our sounds your own.
What's Included
Joey Santiago Plucks
Individual plucks
- 2 note bends
- Accidentals
- Alt bridge
- Back bridge
- Bright and tight
- Clean mutes
- Clean santiago
- Harmonics 1
- Harmonics 2
- Harmonics 3
- Mellow fizz
- Muted plucks
- Phased furr
- Snap fizz
- Soft bridge
- Soft fuzz
- Western trems
- Where is that pluck
Santiago sounds
- Bass pulse
- Bouncing bass
- Crunchback
- Delay sync
- Descending sine
- Detuned murmurs
- Disorganised trems
- Ebbs and flows
- Feedback to stutter
- Flick squeaks
- Guitar noodles
- March down to sub
- Mental spin down
- Noise machines 1
- Noise machines 2
- Noise overtones
- Nonstop
- Pick trem
- Plug in bath
- Pure filth
- Screaming loop
- Space decay
- Squeaking clouds
- Subtastic
- Sync out of sync - chords
- Sync out of sync - hits
- Sync out of sync
- Timed shunts
- Tremulations
- Underwater chugs
- Various fx 1
- Various fx 2
- Wahts that
- Wall of noise
- Whistling feedback
Gigantic mutations
- Alien cello band - mw is tight gate
- Alien cello band 2 - mw is white gates
- Alien morse - mw smoothers
- Atmospheric alien bridge - mw filter
- Atmospheric alien bridge 2 - mw filter
- Atmospheric alien bridge 3 - mw filter
- Bang and drone - mw is white gates
- Bass synth loop mw is all kinds a s--t
- Broad bandwidth - mw tightens gate
- Broken cyborg whale - mw is cool
- Broken cyborg whale 2 - mw is cool
- Cyborg cicada - mw is cool
- Cyborg mating call - mw is tight gate
- Cyborg queen mating call - mw is tight gate
- Cyborg whales - mw verbs and filter
- Descending complaint - mw is duet
- Descending cross rhythm waltz - mw cool gate
- Descending cross waltz - mw cool gate
- Descending cross waltz 2 - mw cool gate
- Descending cross waltz 3 - mw cool gate
- Descending cross waltz 4 - mw cool gate
- Descending cross waltz 5 - mw cool gate
- Driving force - mw is much filth
- Driving force - mw tightens gate
- Driving force 2 - mw is much filth
- Dulaing white noise gens - mw is cool
- Fat bandwidth - mw is stereo perspective
- Gigers alien panic - mw filter
- Gigers alien panic 2 - mw filter
- Harmonic series tremified - mw does stuff
- In the matrix engine room - mw filter
- Industrial piece - mw is subtle intensity
- Joey cafe orchestra - mw is much coolness
- Largest laptop glitch - mw filter
- Largest laptop glitch 2 - mw filter
- Middle c is best - mw is white gates
- Pink panic mw is lpf and glitch gate
- Pink panic mw is lpf
- Punchy one - mw is much filth
- Punchy one 2 - mw is much filth
- Pushy number - mw is shaker
- Rusty millers wheel - mw hpf
- Rusty ticker tape machine - mw gate
- Space station auto destruct warning - mw
- Tape looper - mw is lots of stuff
- Tremmed harmonic series - mw is perspective
- Tremmed harmonic series 2 - mw is perspective
- Tremmed harmonic series 3 - mw is perspective
- White noise glitcher mw is saturation n dry
Programmer patches
- Programming patch - Joey Loops
Radient pads
Programmer patches
- Programming patch - radiant pads
- Absolute pad
- Almost unmanageable - mw filters
- Amazing as octave drone - mw filter
- Amazing as octave drone 2 - mw filter
- Amazing low octaves held - mw filters
- Amongst the clouds atmos
- Angelic pad
- Anomalous pad
- Anxiety pad
- Apprehension atmos
- Atmos
- Awesome muted harmonic series - mw filters
- Azure pad
- Bi-tonal post apoc - mw light n deep
- Blackhole atmos
- Broken feedback pad
- Broken machine atmos
- Calamity atmos
- Celestial pad
- Close organ distant pad - mw gate
- Composure pad
- Concluding pad
- Concussion pad
- Consciousness atmos
- Contempt pad
- Death at joshua tree 1 - mw eq
- Death at joshua tree 2 - mw eq
- Delicate pad
- Digital waves atmos
- Dissonant pad
- Dissonant pluck pad
- Dist harmonium - mw filters
- Dist harmonium plus underbelly - mw filters
- Distant drone - mw ground loop
- Distant organ - mw opens a bright stop
- Distant whistle pad
- Distorted gorecki - mw filters
- Drone atmos - mw filters
- Drone atmos and organ - mw filters
- Electric growth pad
- Emaciated pad
- Enormo pad - mw gate eq n pan
- Enormo pad 2 - mw gate n eq
- Envisage pad
- Escalation atmos
- Exponential pad
- Finality pad
- Fleeting pad
- Floating pad
- Flutter atmos
- Focusing pad
- Gently undulating - mw filters
- Good when played deep - mw filter
- Granulated pad
- Great with clusters - mw filter
- Harmonic series harmonium - mw filters
- Harmonium pad
- Haunted pad
- Hollow atmos
- Imbued pad
- Impending pad
- Impressive drones - mw filters
- Impressive drones 2 - mw filters
- Impressive drones 2 bassier - mw filters
- Impressive drones 3 - mw filters
- Inspirit atmos
- Internalised - mw eq
- Light and beguiling - mw rusty ticker tape
- Losing altitude atmos
- Lost in space atmos
- Massive sea of refrigerators - mw stutter
- Meager atmos
- Metallic atmos
- Metallic meditation - mw eq
- Metallic meditation 2 - mw eq
- Metallic w deep undertones - mw filter n stutter
- Mettalic stillness - mw filter n gate
- Morphed pluck pad
- Muffled hope atmos
- Muted chorale pad
- Muted harmonium pad
- Muted organ pad
- Not quite right epic - mw filters
- Not quite right up close - mw filters
- Not quite right up close 2 - mw filters
- Only ywo notes needed - mw filter n gate
- Organ atmos - mw is modulation speed
- Organ distant pad - mw filters
- Otherworldy pad
- Outpost - mw interferance
- Outpost 2 - mw interferance
- Pad
- Pluck pad
- Quiver pad
- Ready for launch atmos
- Really lovely pad - mw does good stuff go slo
- Resonating pad
- Reverse feedback pad
- Ring pad
- Serenity pad
- Shiver pad
- Soaring pad
- Sombre pad
- Something distant - mw lihgt n deep
- Something magic - mw filter n gate
- Soundscape with male voice - mw gate
- Space odyssey
- Staggered growth pad
- Stagnant atmos
- Stillness pad
- Super slow mettalic - mw light n deep
- The depths of space atmos
- Thx1138 cluster pad - mw interferance
- Tinnitus pad
- To earth atmos
- Transcendental pad
- Truly special - mw brings on rusty ticker tape
- Twinkle pad
- Uncertain atmos - mw filters
- Uncertainty pad
- Underwater atmos
- Very distant - mw filter
- Voices atmos
- Washed away pad
- Whale song atmos
Amps & mics
- A1 - Marshall JCM800 - Cleaner (Royer R121)
- A2 - Fender Vibrolux (Beyerdynamic M201)
- A3 - Marshall JCM800 - Dirty (Royer R121)
- A4 - Selmar (Shure SM57)
- R1 - Room Small (Royer R122)
- R2 - Room Large (Earthworks)
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