We'd already paid for the plane tickets, but we were going to be gone for the month, so I figured that I needed to raise about $3,000. I really wanted to go to Europe with my girlfriend, just backpacking around. "Why is this $8 soldering iron not doing a good job?"īlowtorches! Plumber's solder! I started building effects pedals in 2001.
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Now I could teach someone how to solder really well in two minutes, but I had no one to guide me. It took maybe a year just to teach myself how to solder. I would read books and not understand a word of it, but eventually pieces started to fit and make sense. I did check out a few forums, went to libraries, ordered books, and got tons of hands-on experience by pulling things apart. This was before a lot of the Internet craze. Then, in high school, my friends and I'm self-taught, through books. I was like, "What is this crazy stuff?" I started stealing his records: Dead Kennedys, The Misfits, Minor Threat, and The Ramones.
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I wasn't really into music, but when my brother got his driver's license he drove me around playing the Circle Jerks as loud as it could possibly go. I listened to my parents' music, like Bob Dylan and The Beatles, and typical stuff, like Madonna or Billy Joel. We would just go hang out at graveyards, abandoned battlefields, or down by the river. It's one of those towns where, as you grow older, it becomes really small. You're originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia? You might think that all of this fascination with decay Ackermann might be a tough interview, but he remains one of the most positive and optimistic people you'll ever meet. The shop cranks out an impressive number of well-made pedals that have found their way into the hands of artists as diverse as The Edge, Jeff Tweedy, Trent Reznor, and Kevin Shields. Yet there is a method to the madness, and everything seems to be in its right place.
Gear stacks the walls, which are covered in stickers and silkscreen test runs. The walls are lined with enough guitars, in various states of customization, repair, and decrepitude, to shame the members of Sonic Youth.
So it's appropriate that Death By Audio HQ, also a venue and recording studio, looks like an electrical engineer's take on Road Warrior. Woe to the band that hits the stage after them. Live shows are heady, strobe-fueled and impossibly loud sensory-overloading events, designed to bring on hallucinations.
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Coming full circle, these sounds find their way into his current band, A Place To Bury Strangers, a three-piece that includes bassist Dion Lunadon and drummer Robi Gonzalez, who have been making post-apocalyptic noise rock for over a decade. Whereas his contemporaries seemed to be on an endless search for the ultimate Tube Screamer clone, Ackermann cut new sonic paths, unapologetically stating that his stompboxes weren't for everyone, catering instead to players wanting to summon more excruciating tones out of their guitars. First making a name for himself with the band Skywave, he soon after founded Death By Audio, a homegrown effects pedal company that was on the leading edge of the boutique effects boom. Nobody exemplifies the embracing of this lifestyle better than Oliver Ackermann. Bands rarely find themselves coddled anymore and have to make things happen for themselves, for better or worse. As old doors close, others are opening, offering creative control, DIY tools, and diversification options. With the music biz shifting, daily talk amongst musicians mainly revolves around the subject of adaptability.
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