The Little Things in "Cauterize"

[Timotheus]

It's a 2.5 step, so it's probably not a bend indeed. Maybe he used the tuning knobs?

[mockingbird]

Could be a whammy, or a slide :p

[Timotheus]

It could also be some studio magic. I don't think they do whole takes in the studio.

[anguyen92]

Huh, apparently, the effects Mark used at the intro of Fall Again was something that he did from a demo in 2001 or 2002.

“Fall Again” is a strange track—in a good way. Did you always have that ominous reverse delay intro and outro?

I did, yeah. When Creed was breaking up and I was putting Alter Bridge together, I bought a studio and took some engineering courses. I bought a Pro Tools rig and recorded about 10 songs. “Fall Again” was one of them. That intro was me doing volume swells with my guitar. I found this really great preset on a plugin called Atmosphere—it sounds incredible—so I used that for the intro and outro. Actually, what you hear is from a demo I did in 2001 or 2002. We tried to recreate it, but the original demo sounded great, so we just kept it.

http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/2 ... ime?page=3

Also, I want to note the intro that he did for Fall Again was something that reminded me of Metallica's Damage Inc. and it was interesting to see how the songs diverge after those intro. One song just goes ahead and go all straight up aggressive and fury and the other goes into a darkish, somberish, ballad-like sound, but both worked out well.

[Andy92]

That's pretty cool...and really makes me wonder if that really is the same riff he had that was used for Save Me.

[Timotheus]

So the Save Me riff is actually the Fall Again riff and not the other way around?

[coldenscence]

Does anyone else appreciates the bridge part of Arm Yourself as much as i do?... It's definitely the highlight of the whole album for me. The way that Tremonti mellows down that insane riff, the masterful composition of drumming, that "Eastern" guitar solo... It's just magnificent

[AB4Lyfe]

As much as I LOVE that bridge, I would have rather had the song keep charging on.