Olmsted BRDCSTR preamp used heavily on latest Sigur Ros album Kveikur

Above: the BRDCSTR in Somers’ outboard rack, left side, third from bottom

Thanks to reader EL for reporting that Sigur Ros’ engineer Alex Somers made mention of his Olmsted ‘BRDCSTR’ preamp in the Sept 2013 issue of AudioTechnology magazine. The context was a thorough piece written by Paul Tingen on the making of Sigur Ros seventh studio LP “Kveikur.” According to Somers, “When recording (Sigur Ros Vocalist) Jonsi, I used a Neumann U47… we mostly used a really cool preamp made by Preservation Sound.”

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Below is the actual BRDCSTR that Somers used.

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Ron Rochondo says:

07/09/2014 at 3:59 pm

Very cool!
Chris says:

07/23/2014 at 5:57 pm

That's awesome! Jonsi never sounded better!
BigBoutte says:

08/04/2014 at 11:45 am

.....and then added distortion. Oh my. In the sixties when I was playing in a small rock ensemble the guitarist had a new fuzz pedal. That bewildered my father. He said "I've spent my entire career trying to achieve as clean a signal as possible and now you're creating distortion on purpose." He was an RCA Sound Contractor.