Ryan Webb

About Ryan Webb

RYAN WEBB | Guitars/Vocals

Ryan, the founding member of WEBB, started out singing covers for many years in different countries. You name it, he’s sung it! From Metallica to UB40, Judas Priest to Robbie Williams, John Denver to Radiohead, Shaggy (yes, he literally sang both parts by Rik Rok and Shaggy). The list of tracks he covered was almost endless, and eventually stopped when one rather drunk customer asked why he couldn’t sing Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’! Well, for one reason he hadn’t prepared the backing track for it…there were plenty of other reasons though!

Although he had always been drawn towards heavy music, he initially wrote songs that crossed different genres. This has changed his music-style quite considerably over the years, from pop-rock, to classic rock, and he has now found the sound that has always been in his DNA, progressive metal.

Ryan spends much of his time in his own studio, always looking into new mixing techniques, new kinds of technology and checking out what other mix engineers are up to. He began mixing his own material when he realised that it was the only way to get the sound he really wanted, having tried out a couple of engineers without much success.

On lovely hot sunny days, you won’t find Ryan anywhere outside if he can help it…unless he’s performing an early slot at a festival. He prefers being in a darkened room!

LIKES : Watching films that have a proper ending, Horror films, Darkness (not the band, although they are good) The UK, Being organised, JD, Makers Mark (which he’s only just been introduced to), Guinness and Tequilla – not always at the same time though!

DISLIKES : Fake people (especially those that let you down), Dickheads (are they the same as fake people?), Waiting for anything, Being late, Buying bottles of sambucca where the pourer doesn’t work and sambucca gets spilled everywhere (such a waste!), Being bored, Bright sunlight, Untidiness.

INFLUENCES : Gojira, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, David Gilmour, to name a few!

LIVE | RECORDING | GEAR : Schecter guitars, Solar Guitars, Ibanez, Fractal Audio Axe FX, Line 6 Helix, Seymour Duncan pick-ups, EMG pick-ups, Fishman Fluence Modern pick-ups, Sustainiac, Ernie Ball strings, GHS Fast Fret, Sennheiser mic, Line 6 wireless guitar system, Shure PSM300 in ear monitoring system, Behringer XR18, iPad Pro, Hercules stands.

STUDIO : Pro Tools Studio, Cubase Pro 13, Universal Audio, Genelec studio monitors, IK Multimedia MTM, AppleMac Pro, Slate Digital, Steven Slate Drums, Beyer dynamic headphones DT770 Pro & DT900 ProX, DaVinci Resolve Studio, Shure SM7, Slate VMS ONE + ML1 mic.

PLUGINS : Waves, Sound Toys, Universal Audio, McDSP, Sonnox, Fab Filter total bundle, SSL complete bundle etc..