Re: Four amps at once

["terry o'brien" <anomalousdisturbances@hotmail.com>]

FYI,...you may want to check this site out. Here's the link for Brian 
May's 
set-up (well sorta - only has one set of three amps). There could be more 
info in there if you root around.  ....T

http://www.guitargeek.com/layouts/display.php3?id=409


>From: Chris Richards <kohntarkosz@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Four amps at once
>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:34:06 -0700 (PDT)
>
><<Brian May uses or used, three banks of four Vox
>
>   AC-30s each, which he'd switch between, so
>there may be some info regarding this in regard
>to his
>set-up.  -Best of luck...
>
>I think each bank of AC-30's had 3, not 4 amps in
>it, but I'm not sure, I'd have to check one of my
>old Queen videos.
>
>What he'd do is feed his guitar into a delay unit
>(originally a customized Echoplex, but I believe
>he later upgraded to a digital delay) set for a
>second or so of delay, with the feedback set for
>one repeat. He'd feed the dry output into one
>bank of amps, while the wet output was fed into a
>second delay unit, set up the same way as the
>first. From the second delay, he'd feed the dry
>signal (which was in fact the wet signal from the
>first delay), into a second array of amps, while
>the wet signal went into the third bank of amps.
>
>What this allowed him to do was to play
>something, and have it repeat back twice,
>allowing him to do live harmony riffs and counter
>melodies onstage, without overdubbing. Dunno if
>this would be considered looping or not, but an
>excellent idea of what he did can be heard on the
>Live Killers version of Brighton Rock (he did it
>on the studio version on Sheer Heart Attack, as
>well, but that solo is very short).
>
>The advantage of using three amps (or three banks
>of amps) was that it prevented things from
>getting muddy sounding. Each part was very
>distinct and clearly heard because no new parts
>were coming out of the same amp. And of course,
>one could pan the individual amps so that, say
>the original came out of the center of the mix,
>first repeat hard left, second repeat hard right.
>
>
>Now, how he was able to run multiple amps in each
>bank, I don't know. Eventually, he started using
>a pedal board that was built by Pete Cornish, so
>I imagine that from that point on, he could have
>(and probably did) use a splitter that Pete built
>(if memory serves, Pete sells these, along with
>other things, on his website). I suppose if you
>had the cash, you could at least have Pete build
>you what you want, you'd get the best quality,
>best sound, etc, and it'd be indestructible on
>top of that.
>
>I recall that Whirlwind used to make a four way
>splitter, it was a rack unit. They had an
>optional footswitch unit tha went with it. You
>could also use it the other way around, to sum
>four seperate inputs (you could, say, plug four
>guitars in). Dunno if they still make it though.
>
>And of course, you could simply buy three A/B/Y
>boxes, plug your signal before the amp into box,
>then run each of the outputs into one of the
>remaining boxes, and leave all three set on Y,
>and PRESTO! Four outputs!
>
>=====
>May you never thirst!
>The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris
>
>"What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James 
>Earl 
>Jones
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