![]() Only I used my old Marshalls, as opposed to brand new ones that I use live. We set up in a big room, and I used almost everything I use on stage. But in order for us to be comfortable we just do what we want. The guys who run the studio and maintain the place, they walk in after we’re done and there are beer cans all over the floor and Pink’s hot-dog smears all over the place. I use two, actually, cos I like to feel it too while I’m playing. All the difference in numbers just means how loud it’s gonna be. See, the thing is, I get the exact same sound out of one or out of six. You actually crank up six Marshall stacks in the studio? Everything all the way up: presence, middle, bass…ĭo you use the same set-up in the studio? Yeah, a voltage generator.ĭo you use any special settings on the Marshall amps? It’s a voltage box or something like that. It’s a box that you plug into the wall, and it has a big knob on it that goes up to one-sixty, and you plug your amp into it. It really makes the amp overload so much that it gets the sound I like.ĭoes this actually plug into the amp somehow? ![]() It really makes the tubes red-hot, you know. It enables me to crank up the voltage higher than the amp is supposed to take. What this box does is it enables me to put one-fifty or one-sixty watts. And I use these things called voltage generators. The cabinets are pretty much stock except I changed the way they look a little bit. They have bigger tubes in ’em and bigger transformers to make ’em a lot louder. ![]() I’ve got six old Marshalls, which have been rebuilt. But tone-wise I just crank everything all the way up, and depending on how you pick you get different tones and stuff. I use a pretty long cord on stage, about a twenty-five-footer or a thirty-footer, and after it goes through the pedals I use an equaliser to boost the line back up. Everything I use is MXR – it’s about all I can afford – mounted on a piece of wood. And I use two Univox echo boxes also, for the end of my solo on Eruption. You know, I use a couple of effects, like an MXR phase shifter, a flanger and two Echoplexes, which change the sound a bit. You only need the one volume control and the single pickup to get all the tone you need? Somebody told me about the Charvel place about their wood – their bodies get much better tones, and stuff like that. I couldn’t get the sound I wanted out of a regular Strat. No tone or fancy out-of-phase switches or nothin’ like that. It’s the one that’s on the cover of the album. Is that the black-and-white striped guitar? Put an old humbucking pickup in it and one volume knob and painted it up the way I wanted it to look, and it screams. So I just bought it from them for fifty dollars and the neck for ninety dollars and slapped it together. I wanted to experiment building my own guitar so I could get the sound I wanted I always wanted a Strat for the vibrato bar, because I love that effect. Mine wasn’t really custom made, it was like a junk neck and a hacked-up body that was just laying around. It looks like a Strat but, there’s a place in San Dimas, California called Charvel Guitars and they custom make ’em. Really simple.Ĭan you describe your guitar a little more? Nowadays I’ve got kind of a home-made copy of a Strat with just one pickup and one volume knob on it. I thought the more pickups it had, the better guitar it was. I’d say I really didn’t start playing guitar and getting into lead guitar and stuff like that until Cream came out and stuff like that, when the heavy guitar thing started to happen.ĭo you remember the first guitar you had? And I said: “Okay, you play my drums and I’ll pick up your guitar.” It went on from there. While I was out throwin’ my papers, he was practising my drums. Originally I played drums and my brother played guitar. And I went out and got myself a paper route and bought a drum set. Well, then we decided to come to the land of opportunity in southern California, and just started getting into rock’n’roll a little bit – the Dave Clark Five and the real early stuff. My brother was six, I think, when he started, and I started when I was about seven. He got Al and me practising piano for concert stuff, classical piano, at like seven and eight years old.
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