We recently caught up with Death By Audio's Oliver Ackermann and subjected him to our series of random questions for another installment of our Hi-Five series. Read on for Oli's take:
Top five things about running a company
- Being able to make our company what we wish every other company was like. Good quality and lifetime guarantee. Making something real.
- Working with my best friends.
- Doing what I love all the time.
- Being able to help people out and inspire their creativity.
- Make my own hours so I can do other things like tour with A Place To Bury Strangers.
Top five things that tend to interfere with said company
- Paperwork
- Stress to meet deadlines and keep up with demand.
- Cost of living in NY
- Parties.
- Wanting to do too many things.
Top five worst jobs you’ve held
- Waffle House
Top five current pedals you wish you’d made
- Afterneath - Earthquaker Devices. Really really cool sounds. Song inspiring.
- Eventide - Pitch Time Space Cores. So advanced for other effects even to be worth buying is rediculous.
- WMD Geiger Counter - messed up insanity. So many absolutely destructive sounds.
- Snazzy Effects - Mini Ark. The sound is amazing.
- Knas - Ekdahl Moisterizer. Spring reverb unit with killer abilities to blow your mind.
Top five guitar tones on record
- Calico Wall - I'm A Living Sickness. When that guitar comes in, come on. No one ever has the guts to be that ballsy.
- My Bloody Valentine - Soon. Seething goodness.
- The Stooges -1969
- Pussy Galore - Nothing Can Bring Me Down. Rippin guitar sounds.
- Six Finger Satellite - Board The Bus. Sizzling scratch chords cut like knives.
Top five things you find confusing
- People being stubborn
- No gun control
- No health care. Isnt the most important thing about having something is having it? Is the nation not made up of people?
- Men voting on the abortion issue. Its like that comedian talking about fat people. You dont know what its like to be a woman so it aint your conversation!
- Things written backwards.
Top five meals on the road
- Tacos
- Pasta
- Fritos and bean dip, somehow its vegan
- Oatmeal
- Nutz
Top five truck stop impulse purchases
- Kill em all hat
- Nunchucks
- Jerky chaw
- Strobe lights
- "Fido" dvd
Top five worst songs in your music collection
Geeze, they are mostly so bad it’s hard to begin.
