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Gone Fission · 15th July 2002

Some folks really need to here their amp directly and don't work well with the monitor playback. Any player who uses feedback as a part of their sound needs to be in the same room as a guitar speaker. There are ways of messing with things, though.

Similar to Mike's trick, I remember back when Guns and Roses were still deemed relevant that Slash had some rig contrived for him in the studio where he had his Marshall stacks out in the main room and mic'ed up, but he had his signal split and had one path going to a volume pedal and a Boogie combo (gain structure and response was deemed close enough) right next to him, so that when he needed the feedback, he could bring up the Boogie so it could interact with the guitar. There are lots of different ways to run this sort of thing, but this seemed like an interesting technique.

A different splitter trick, just to get a more interactive sound, is to run one path to one of those 9 volt mini amp things and attach it on or near the headstock. If one of these is cranking enough, it can actually be frighteningly apocolyptic.

Bear

15th July 2002	#12
Gone Fission Gear addict Joined: Jun 2002 Location: Terra Incognita Posts: 494	Some folks really need to here their amp directly and don't work well with the monitor playback. Any player who uses feedback as a part of their sound needs to be in the same room as a guitar speaker. There are ways of messing with things, though. Similar to Mike's trick, I remember back when Guns and Roses were still deemed relevant that Slash had some rig contrived for him in the studio where he had his Marshall stacks out in the main room and mic'ed up, but he had his signal split and had one path going to a volume pedal and a Boogie combo (gain structure and response was deemed close enough) right next to him, so that when he needed the feedback, he could bring up the Boogie so it could interact with the guitar. There are lots of different ways to run this sort of thing, but this seemed like an interesting technique. A different splitter trick, just to get a more interactive sound, is to run one path to one of those 9 volt mini amp things and attach it on or near the headstock. If one of these is cranking enough, it can actually be frighteningly apocolyptic. Bear __________________ Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.