Kaleido interview

Kaleido – comprised of Christina Chriss (vocals), Joey Fava (drums), Ronnie Rosolino (rhythm guitar), Cody Morales (bass), and Zach Bolling (lead guitar) – is a fresh, modern-day Detroit incarnation of rock ’n’ roll. Their upcoming debut full-length album EXPERIENCE, scheduled for release on 19 May 2017, is straight, unadulterated, feel-it-in-your-soul rock with flourishes of pop, R&B, punk, and funk undertones … and hooks that last for days.

Named “Best Band in Detroit” by Real Detroit Weekly in both 2013 and 2014, and having won two Detroit Music Awards in 2015 (“Outstanding Rock/Pop Group” and “Outstanding Rock Recording” for their second independent EP Unbreakable), they’ve since taken their show on the road, lighting up stages on the Vans Warped Tour and at Rockstar Uproar Festival, Summerfest, and the CMJ Music Marathon, and they’ve opened for Aerosmith, Slash, Kid Rock, The Offspring, Evanescence, Halestorm, Ace Frehley of Kiss, Twenty One Pilots, Pop Evil, Alien Ant Farm, and countless others. Right now, the band is getting ready for a national tour with Seether that begins on 2 May.

Kaleido frontwoman Christina Chriss checked in with LEWITT and talked about their upcoming new album, touring the States, and the role LEWITT microphones continue to play.

[LEWITT] You’ve just recently recorded your new album, so could you tell us a bit about how LEWITT microphones were involved?

[Christina Chriss] I love LEWITT, and I use a couple of different mics by them. In the studio, I’ve been using the LCT 940. It’s got a clarity to it that’s just beautiful, and it also has such a really warm and fat sound. It really picks up all the personality and quirkiness in my vocals, and it also makes them sound super-crisp – I love that about the mic! Actually, one of the things that we love most about the LCT 940 is that you’re able to blend the solid state FET-side with the tube-side and dial in the tone yourself. Our guitar player Ronnie does most of the recordings of my vocals, and he blends a little bit more towards the tube side … so yeah, one of the coolest things about the mic is that you can play with your sound like that.

[LEWITT] Can you tell us something about the studio where you recorded the new album?

[Christina Chriss] We recorded our new album EXPERIENCE at a studio in Plymouth, Michigan called The Pipeyard with Josh Dillan, and he uses a lot of LEWITT mics in his studio. We hadn’t noticed that when we first went in there, but then I started talking about LEWITT with him one day, and he told me that we’d actually been using lots of different LEWITT mics during the whole recording process. I thought it was really funny and cool to find out about that after the fact.