Re: Bad amp/Good amp.
"ed s" <eshamble@yahoo . com > wrote in message
news:ca871172-92d5-4eb5-855f-10b2e7eeeed9@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups . com ...
> On Apr 22, 5:45 am, "FirstAlternate" <firstaltern...@yahoo . com > wrote:
>> > We had a recording session Sunday at a studio and he brought his
>> > Pignose.
>> > They put a good mic in front of it and it is a totally different amp.
>> > Gets in to Marshall cranked Plixi territory.
>> > One of the best recording amps I ever heard.
>>
>> I'd heard years ago that many of the big guitar sounds were recorded with
>> Fender Champs. I know for a fact from my days opening for big acts that
>> many of the on-stage speaker stacks were not plugged in, in some cases
>> were
>> just empty cabs, and in other cases the visible amps were not used, but
>> the
>> signal fed to a small backstage amp miked into the system.
>>
>> That's why this whole thing is called "show" business.
>
> I'll bet it wasn't Hendix, or The Who, or Zepplin, or SRV.......( its
> just not the same - and that all I have to say about that ) ....ed s.
At least two major rock acts that use small amps mic'ed up behind a huge
stack of Marshalls.
I know that one of them uses a Cornford Harlequin
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.